Pussycat Dolls On Tour // Doll Domination Tour // Reviews

Reviewed by Liverpool Daily Post
Venue: Liverpool Arena, 6th February 2009

Review: Pussycat Dolls at the Liverpool ECHO Arena
Feb 7 2009
IT IS not often that a warm-up act upstages the actual stars but Lady GaGa gave it a really good go with the Pussycat Dolls last night.

There to support the all-singing all dancing Americans, at the Echo Arena, music’s latest blonde sensation stormed her way through half a dozen tracks, including her recent Number One, Just Dance, ensuring the 10,000-strong crowd was more than ready for the main attraction.

And what an attraction that was.

As the chorus of female screeching (I have never seen so many glamorous girls in one place) reached its zenith, the Dolls appeared on stage astride personalised motorbikes.

Clad in their usual raunchy kit of bra tops, hotpants and lashings of sequins the five-piece kicked off the show with mission statement track Taking Over the World before launching into one of their biggest hits Beep.

From there it was high energy pop, pouting, prancing and pyrotechnics all the way for just over 90 minutes.

All the big hits were there including I Don’t Need a Man, Stickwitu (corr,), the ballad I Hate this Part and their recent saucy number When I Grow Up, while their biggest hit Don’t Cha and the super-sexy Buttons were particular highlights.

With just a couple of percussionists on stage and most of the music coming from backing tracks, the show was much more about the look and the performance than the singing and there were some periods when the girls were not singing at all, just gyrating.

But you would expect little else from a band that was a burlesque cabaret act until the record companies saw their money-making potential and threw in some songs.

The only low point in the show came halfway through when lead singer Nicole Scherzinger (now almost as famous for being racing champion Lewis Hamilton’s better half) stepped aside to let the other girls take the spotlight briefly with their own solo turns.

Sadly it only served to highlight why she sings all the songs.