Posted at June 25th, 2009 Under News

Another show review:

HELLO, my name is Paul, I’m 37, and I like McFly.

There, it’s out now, and I feel better for it.

Surely, I’m getting too old to be liking Tom, Danny, Dougie and Harry and their teenager-type music.

But no, it’s just so damned catchy; song after song just gets right in your head and it’s buzzing about there all day.

Take their latest album, Radio:Active. It’s crammed full of those pesky, catchy little blighters… and most of them were showcased at this brilliant forest gig on Saturday night.

One For The Radio kicked it all off in front of the four thousand or so gathered in a clearing in the atmospheric pine forest surroundings.

This had been the first single off Radio:Active, the album which McFly gave away free in the Mail on Sunday last July.

It was subsequently expanded and released in the shops too in September and any one of its 13 tracks would have gone down a storm on Saturday.

Everybody Knows and Do Ya were next, before we were transported back in time for Obviously (a No.1 single in 2004) and Transylvania (from 2007).

The brilliant Corrupted and Falling in Love brought us bang up to date and this was breathless stuff.

The crowd was loving it, and so were the boys, who always seem to be having such a good time.

There’s absolutely no question of them going through the motions. Unless they had played Going Through The Motions (off Radio-Active). Which they didn’t.

No, they were loving it, taking plenty of time to interact with the throng, which was displaying signs of genuine hysteria.

Knickers were thrown on stage (really) and weeping young girls were being hauled over the barriers at the front; one of them being kissed by Danny on her tearful way out. One suspects her life will never be the same again.

I wasn’t the only 30-something there, this was a family night out with plenty of parents doing daddy and mummy dancing.

For some reason, Danny revealed he liked wet wipes… cue a packet being hurled on to the stage. Only parents carry wet wipes.

We were off again into Room on the 3rd Floor, That Girl, Down Goes Another One, Star Girl and the anthemic POV (that stands for Point of View, fact fans).

The theme song to the new DFS advert was next (All About You), followed by The Last Song, which wasn’t quite.

Tom grabbed a brush to do a spot of enthusiastically acclaimed floor sweeping, before the boys launched into a high-energy encore featuring what I reckon is their best song, Lies, and what everybody else seemed to think was their best song, Five Colours in Her Hair.

Nearly 90 minutes of fun in the forest, there’s surely nothing wrong with liking McFly!

Paul Hindle, thisisnottingham.co.uk