Girls Aloud micturate over One True Voice!

I think the Cheeky Girls have added teh dreaded sleigh bells to their song.

OTV's song reminds me of something, I just can't quite pinpoint it.

"Pop band Girls Aloud have taken a small lead in the battle of bands created by ITV1's Popstars programme, unofficial sales figures show.
The girl group's single Sound of the Underground is about 8,000 copies ahead of their rivals' single, Sacred Trust.

The two bands were chosen by viewers of the ITV show and released debut singles simultaneously.

Midweek sales figures suggest Girls Aloud have sold in excess of 30,000 copies.

HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo said : "First day sales around the country show Girls Aloud have delivered the first blow in the race for the Christmas number one."

The girl group are favourites to come out on top after bookmakers switched their predictions for the coveted Christmas chart prize.

Simon Dornan, spokesman for Virgin Megastores, said: "As predicted the girls have taken an early lead after first day sales and the difference in sales between the two singles is wider than expected.

"The girls have produced an original record which appeals to both boys and girls alike, and not just teenagers either."

The groups will spend the week campaigning for fans' allegiances with a string of public appearances and publicity stunts.

The boy band's song is expected to fall slightly short and take the number two spot.

The top three records in this Sunday's chart could all be products of the Popstars programme.

Transylvanian twins Monica and Gabriela were laughed off the programme when they auditioned for the girl group.

But a track written by their mother, Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) released under the name of the Cheeky Girls, is number three in the charts and expected to take the number three spot."

it reminds me of a cross between the flying pickets' "only you" and go west's "king of wishful thinking".

the Girls Aloud appears to be based on a combination of Puretone's 'Addicted To Bass' and Las Ketchup's 'Aserje' - but the end result isnt as good as either really - and i find the title predictably contemptible, but perhaps that was their intention

plus it will be a slow week as always with the first of the year

SOTU is, as MC said, terrific. Hopefully No. 1 later today.

I don't know the other records to which you refer.

THE CHEEKY GIRLS LIVE IN RYE! I GLIMPSED THEM LAST NIGHT!

Sound of the Underground = [Britney's] The Beat Goes On + S-Club Junior's New Direction ???

Not if you heard any Bandana

Cheryl = goddess
Kim-ber-leh = nearly goddess. (That Yorkshire accent!)
Sarah = the jury's out. She looked good in the Rivals progs, but I'm not sure about her image now. I reckon she'll leave first.

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A civil servant is being prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act for a blog in which he allegedly details the kidnap and murder of Girls Aloud.

The case of Darryn Walker, 35, is being seen as one of the most significant on censorship since Lady Chatterley's Lover.

It is expected to be the first test of the law since pornographic material became widely available on the internet.

Walker is accused of posting the article on a fantasy porn website.

It allegedly described in detail the kidnap, mutilation, rape and murder of Girls Aloud members Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh.

Headlined 'Girls (Scream) Aloud' it is said to have run to 12 pages.

The website has a foreign host but prosecution is possible because the alleged author was identifiable as a British citizen living in the UK.

The Internet Watch Foundation, which polices obscene material, was alerted to the article last year.

A case was then brought by Scotland Yard's Obscene Publications Unit after consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service.

Most inquiries under obscenity laws have involved pornographic images in magazines or on DVDs.

In the coming weeks Walker, of South Shields, is due to appear at Newcastle crown court charged with publication of an obscene article.

He has already appeared before magistrates, where he was granted unconditional bail.

The 1959 Obscene Publications Act makes it illegal to publish material that tends to deprave and corrupt those reading or viewing it.

Yes, "Darryn Walker", you...

Nice watch.

the sun are to serialise the sordid tale all next week, michael winner already interested in the movie rights.

was sol campbell mentioned at all?

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Dunno why dude just didn't publish the story on his Fluxblog site, tbh.

Nice mid-stride is-that-guy-pointing-a-camera-at-me photo that

Wait, you can be *prosecuted* for fan fict now?

::goes home and shreds hard drive::

With fans like him, who need enemies, oy!

Has he got someone's boobs in that bag?

Could see this one being a comments box classic

he said, posting a comment in a box

Sobering to be reminded that I started the first Girls Aloud thread on ILM. And now I'm the only one who doesn't like them. I'm not sure whether that is a sad or happy ending, nor for whom.

Still, the Dirty Pretty things are splitting up.

That's the band, not a description of Girls Aloud.

cue wasn't aware they had formed zing

Well, I wasn't aware they had actually issued their second album non-zing.

Dirty Pretty Things slash less good than Libertines slash, therefore FAIL. I mean WIN.

They were only the band Babyshambles could have been

At the end of the day, poor old Carl Wayne would have been better off staying with the Move.

But then he might never have got to marry Miss Diane off of Crossroads

Nor indeed sing regularly on Pebble Mill At One.

(sigh) yes, that's very true. If he'd stayed, "Beautiful Daughter" would have been a massive hit (even if it seems somewhat creepy thesedays), and we'd have been spared the Jeff Lynne years. And ELO, damnit.

(cue Geir)