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Magic goes on


10/11/2006

AS proven by their walk-out on Top Of The Pops last year, after presenter Richard Bacon labelled them "a big, fat melting pot of talent", The Magic Numbers may be jovial, happy-go-lucky types, but they also have a dark, militant side to them.

And so it proves furthermore with the release of a second album Those The Brokes, released earlier this month.

Loosening up their one-dimensional image as a feelgood, summer festival pop band, it's an album which transplants the Magic Numbers into darker, more - well - wintry environs, charting broken romance with a lyrical world weariness.

All is not as magic as it once was.

Nonetheless, it's the band's own unashamed ability to uplift which made them (after the infamous Richard Bacon incident) such the defining sound of summer 2005.

Their single Forever Lost became a summer anthem, while the band's own decidedly un-rock 'n' roll image as bearded, self-effacing, peace lovers endeared them to the public and celebrity fans like Brian Wilson.

It's in the live arena where the band's sense of fun and feelgood really shines through, right down to them performing their own unique version of Beyoncé Knowles' Crazy In Love.

The best summer pop band around might be entering their winter of heartache but this is a band for whom spring is always just around the corner.

They play the Apollo tomorrow (Saturday)

DAVID SUE


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