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16th September 2001 Safe and Sound - The Kittens were caught up in last week's horrors, as they were filming in New York at the time of the attack. They are safe and well. They were filming a video there. Apparently. That might well have been for the next single, You Are, the final single from Right Now, which is scheduled for sometime in October. Apologies, but I don't really feel like writing any more at the moment, as much due to how I'm feeling as anything (not specifically due to Tuesday, but the reactions it has evoked. I refuse to agree that retributive violence will solve anything, and the politics of terrorism extents way beyond Tuesday. However, this site is not the place to discuss it.). I'm a bit busy trying to get on with work type things (like getting a full time job) The Seal of Approval - The Shrine has received it's rubber stamping
from Trish (AK messageboard moderator), featuring in her new column, Kitty
Chat, as an approved fansite. She reviewed the site with the following
wonderful comments: 5th September 2001 (UPDATE) Someone at virtuetv.com made a bit of a hash and put the Kittens SB
performance up as coming soon. Apparently they did so in error, and have
removed it now. Apologies from me for any misguiding information on here.
It should happen some time, probably soon. In meantime I'll mail the man
responsible and have a word. And in case you want some tips on what happened in advance of the webcast here's my review of the whole thing: Shepherds Bush Empire (17/08/2001) Review - A weird night to find yourself in Shepherds Bush. On one side of the Empire queuing for tickets are yesterday's men, the Britpop Oasis fans of the 90's. On the other, trying to get in, are the Britpop kids of 2001, The Kitten fans. AK have suddenly found themselves top of the UK pop pile and the place is packed with a mixture of teens, mums, twenty-something couples (plus slightly bashful partners of both sexes) and blokes who fancy the Kittens. After the Village People/Spice Girls predictability of Girls @Play, the covers come off (literally) and the anticipation builds until it is unleashed, with the swooping string intro to Right Now. The band hit the groove, the male dancers seem a bit surplus (but a nice touch anyway) and the girls bound on whooping and a hollering like school kids. Tash, all glamour puss curls, Lil, in rather school ma'am plaits, Jen, city sass as ever. The set unfolds pretty much as expected, with the singles liberally sprinkled. Follow Me, punchier than usual, with more groove, ditto Hippy and Get Real. Turn Me On is looser than on record and suffers a little, as do the new songs such as You Are and Tomorrow & Tonight, where the girls' voices end up carrying the band some of the way. It's left to See Ya and I Want Your Love to unlock their spiky, playground taunt hearts and western lust to really catch the essence of the Kittens. Throw them in with a thoroughly bizarre choice of cover, in Kim Wilde's Kids In America (cue much bafflement from all fans, younger ones have never heard it, older ones remember it/fancied Kim Wilde), and its almost school disco time all over again. But then there are the moments that crystallise the evening: Lil's aching beautiful rendition of Strangers that sends shivers down the spine; the deafening roar that greets Whole Again and Eternal Flame; and everyone singing along, word perfect to the two number one singles, lighters aloft and loving every slightly daft minute of it. Oh, did I mention Brian Dowling turned up, as did several others from BB (Bubble, Penny)? But we were only ever there for one thing that amounts to no more than two simple words in juxtaposition: Atomic Kitten.
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