Girl groups aren't really my thing. I was never really taken by Girls Aloud, the Sugababes have long since lost their spark, and the Pussycat Dolls are merely Nicole and her glorified back-up dancers. When the Saturdays came along, I was sceptical, yet they were slowly able to ebb away at my doubts and after a string of hits, I was compelled to buy their album. It really knocked the air out of my lungs. I was expecting that aside from the singles, it would be a distinctly average set of songs, but astonishingly, their debut is impeccably strong and full of wall-to-wall pop gems. There is something about this group that I find irresistible. Just looking at the stunning ...  Read the complete review

Girl group, The Saturdays just seemed to arrive on the scene unannounced. Two of the girls had previously been in the mini S Club group S Club 8 but otherwise they just seemed to appear from nowhere. Although they were formed in 2007, chart success didn't arrive until 2008 when their debut single, If This is Love made the top ten and the debut album Chasing Lights soon followed. Notably, the girls had supported Girls Aloud on their 2008 tour and it's therefore not surprising that their look, sound and popularity are generally credited to Girls Aloud. Chasing Lights is a pleasant enough debut. In a chart dominated by novelty acts, rock legends and ...  Read the complete review

The girl group is a tried and tested formula for pop music. Results can be mixed - anyone who spent the 90s in Australia will recall a particular horror known as Girlfriend - but the UK currently rejoices in the possession of not one, not two, but three shiny and bouncy girl groups capable of producing damn fine tunes. The most recent addition to the party are The Saturdays, five not remotely ugly young woman with shady pasts in bands such as S Club Juniors. Frankie, Vanessa, Una, Mollie and Rochelle, for it is they, bring you pop in primary colours, big dazzling rainbows of sunshiney splendour in three minute musical form. Their debut album 'Chasing Lights' ...  Read the complete review

I decided to buy this CD as part of the 2 for £10 deal in HMV, alongside another CD which I can't remember the title of now! I'd heard of The Saturdays when they supported Girls Aloud on tour last year, and thought I'd give their CD a try. Who are The Saturdays? The Saturdays are a British girl band, producing music for the pop genre. They came to fame in 2008, and the five members are Frankie, Vanessa, Una, Mollie and Rochelle. They are signed to Fascination Records, which is a branch of Polydor. Frankie Sandford found fame in 2002 as a member of S Club Juniors (which later became S Club 8). According the the band's website, she has been ...  Read the complete review

On a certain forum I used to post on the hype around The Saturdays was huge and very undeserved from the moment they flashed their glossy outfits to the public. Bearing in mind that large numbers on the very same site treat Britney Spears and Girls Aloud like they're some kind of royalty who change the face of the planet everyday and deserve to be treated as Gods or something... The Saturdays are the latest girl group to explode onto the music scene having landed four top ten singles so far and a gold selling album in the form of the reviewed record here - 'Chasing Lights'. The fact that two of the five girls are S Club Junior cast offs and one of ...  Read the complete review