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Pick at the pops: 29 October 2007

Robbie Williams and Brian McFadden

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Our weekly round-up of the weird and wonderful world of pop music...

Since we’re nerds as well as gossips, we’ve been tickled this week by the rumour that pop goddess and this year’s supreme comeback queen Kylie Minogue will be playing the Tardis in the Doctor Who Christmas special. Call us naïve, but surely she’s a little, um, petite to play a big wooden box? No doubt the “wooden” bit won’t be so much of a stretch… Oh, hang on, doesn’t the Tardis theoretically have the power to change into whatever shape it fancies? So a little Australian is presumably no great effort. Don’t know how David Tennant’s going to get in her, mind you. Ahem.

Sorry, yes, music – that’s what we’re here for. Nicky Byrne from Westlife (ok, nearly music) has mischievously suggested that Robbie Williams should end the man-band’s unenthusiastic search for a fifth member and join the Irish lads on their comeback tour. He also quipped that Brian McFadden could join Take That – a horrific Wife Swap spin-off. There’s a trick being missed here: Robbie and Brian should spare their respective bands and form a duo! It’d be like Robson and Jerome, only worse! Hold the Christmas No.1 – we’re coming...

Speaking of boy-bands, the Backstreet Boys have … wait - this just in from Backstreet Boy Nick Carter: “We were never a boy-band. We always thought of ourselves as a white vocal harmony group. Maybe things started off a little boy-bandish, but after a while you shed that.” Well, let us know when you do, Nick.

One band never ashamed of their teen idol roots are Duran Duran – mainly because they’re stubbornly refusing to let them go. Not only are the chubby pop rockers collaborating with current King of Cool Justin Timberlake – like Embarrassing Dad trying to come “clubbing” with you – but they’re also whipping up the same controversy they caused 26 years ago. Just like 1981 Top Five hit ‘Girls On Film’, the video for forthcoming single ‘Falling Down’ makes liberal use of semi-naked models and has been banned. Learn some new tricks, you old dogs.

Matthew Horton

Picture: PA Photos

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