It is common practice for many publications not to use the first person in reviews. Most of the reviews on this website follow that formula, but not this one of The Saturdays at the Colston Hall last night. Because Mollie King looked at me standing in the stalls. She looked at me and waved. The gorgeous, blonde, long-legged, former GB skiier Mollie King looked at me. Me!
I’m sure that most of the crowd are telling their friends the same thing this morning, for when they weren’t singing, Frankie, Mollie, Una, Vanessa and Michelle (in the order Flo Rida gives them in the intro to Higher, their first song of last night’s set), spent a lot of time waving to their fans.
But Mollie definitely looked at me, although my friend Phil who was standing next to me claims that she was actually looking and waving at him. Phil may be a part-time model, but Mollie (right, singing) only had eyes for me.
Before The Saturdays appeared on stage, they did a special version of Duck Sauce’s Barbara Sreisand over the PA, substituting in the names of lucky audience members.
Then the girls were introduced by name on the big screen, and there they were in very sparkly dresses for Higher, showing every inch of leg.
This was a slick and sharply choreographed show. One moment the girls were all sat next to each other on a bench, another they were holding bunches of balloons for Just Can’t Get Enough, the official single for 2009’s Comic Relief appeal.
During costume changes, we were entertained with videos of the girls on the big screen, much of the footage from their ITV2 fly-on-the-wall documentary series.
But it was on stage where the real action happened, when not looking at me Mollie dedicating the tender Here Standing to her grandparents in the audience, and a middle section of Rhianna numbers including Love the Way You Lie and What’s My Name.
They finished dressed in black leather dresses with three of their best songs, Forever Is Over, Missing You and Ego.
Mollie (below, centre) was too busy receiving her plaudits to give me a look goodbye, but she definitely waved at me earlier in the show. Me, me, me!



