Good new girl groups are far and few between. While we may have loved Sugababes back in the day and Girls Aloud are still owners of our heart, for everyone of them there's also been a Clea, a Mania and a Frank. Now, more than ever since the time of Spice Power, new girl groups are trying to make it, with Red Blooded Women being one name in a long list.
Put together by Mark Pattison, a former journalist for Popjustice, you'd expect them to be sassy, edgy and poptastic and it seems they are just that. We caught Carly, Candy and Liz at one a small London gig at Water Rats last night playing to an excitable crowd in an excitable manner. There's no faux graces or stage school wide eyes about these three, instead you're kind of transported to the world of the Spice Girls before they were famous with cheeky on stage banter, flirting with the audience and leader of the gang Liz becoming your new best mate.
As The Saturdays make the first girl group chart stamp of 2008 with their Yazoo sampling 'If This Is Love', Red Blooded Women somehow manage to choose the same band to sample on opening track 'Colour Me Dirty'. Typical of their sound, it's big, brash and oozing with 80s synths much like debut single 'You Made Your Bed', complete with 'With Every Heartbeat' style breakdown. Our favourite song had to be cheeky PWL homage 'Keep up The Attraction' dedicated to Banarama and built with mischevious dance routines.
We have to be honest here, but we're not entirely sure that all vocals we heard tonight were live. They were a bit too perfect, still we're not talking about anything serious and chinstroking here, just pure unashamed pop calculated for dancefloor perfection.
Check them out online here and download a megamix of their forthcoming album here.
