JADE at Mighty Hoopla review: Already the stuff of main pop girl legend

JADE at Mighty Hoopla (Image: Mighty Hoopla/Corinne Cumming)

“It’s no Saturdays megamix…” quipped Jade Thirlwall onstage at London’s Mighty Hoopla yesterday, after an energetic, top-tier Little Mix medley that sent Brockwell Park into meltdown. A stand-up comic couldn’t have scripted a better, more perfectly contextualised joke: no shade to the Saturdays, of course, whose back catalogue is near-unsurpassed in quality. It’s just the world-conquering, 10-year-spanning oeuvre of Little Mix is simply unparalleled.

In less capable hands, this whistle-stop store of the band’s best moments – ‘Sweet Melody’, ‘Touch’, ‘Shout Out To My Ex’; she earlier performers fan favourite ‘Wasabi’ in its entirety – all reworked so as to sound fresher, but with the lightest of touches so as not to taint their essence, might have overshadowed the rest of the

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