tonedeafandunplugged: Review: Oxegen !011

Oxegen 2011 - FridayReview by Aidan Cuffe and Kev Meagher
Photos by Peter Neill

Forsome reason, we were anxious about reviewing Oxegen this year. With aline-up jam packed with pop acts like The Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce,the revere was that we would be the old fogeys at the game while the youngwhippersnappers performed musical hop scotch down the front.

Oh No They Didn't! - Don't mime, Cheryl: You're no Aretha, but you .

The miming controversy that attended her performance on The X Factor last Sunday did Cheryl Cole no favours. On a point where the show`s motley crowd of youthful wannabes and older hands are asked to talk their hearts out every week, she was made to see shallow as she apparently lip-synched parts of new single Promise This, a call set to top the charts this weekend.The damage to Cole`s artistic credibility was not only significant.