Orson - Ain't No Party
Apparently there's ain't no party like a party going in Orson's house. Which, if it's true, is going to leave the former member of S Club 7 feeling pretty fed up, seeing as up until now there ain't been no party like an S Club party. Now, upsetting S Club 7 might not be the most dangerous thing you could ever do, particularly weedy Jon, but it's a shame that the party that Orson is having has no room for "Tina doing her thing" or "Jo, she's got the flow". That would be like party-squared, or summink.Course, if you did go to the kind of house party where they played nothing by Orson songs from start to finish, it would probably get a little wearing after the first hour or so. Not that there's anything massively wrong with the band's beefed-up pop rock thing, unless your personal idea of hell is a Maroon 5 who drink a lot of coffee and stay up late.But they really do only have the one sound, with minor variations according to rhythm. So, after 20 minutes on the living-room-carpet- dancefloor, you'll feel like you've danced to the same song, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, sometimes with the tiny trilby balanced on your nose, sometimes...no, ALWAYS with the tiny trilby balanced on your nose. That thing isn't coming off, ever.On the plus side, there are maracas, which are another of the list of ChartBlog-approved instruments/noises which always make songs better (next to the tambourine and fingerclicks), and there's a "doo-doo-doodle-do" guitar-and-voice twiddly thing going on which has been stolen entirely from Jimi Hendrix's 'Crosstown Traffic', therefore facilitating clever DJ mixing from the one song to the other ('Crosstown Traffic' is a stone-cold party classic, see).Which means that Orson's claims to being able to throw a pretty wild shindig might not be that wide of the mark, although it is a little worrying to hear men of their advanced age singing excitedly about mum and dad being out of town. You could believe it of S Club, perhaps, but not Orson.You don't think his mum forces him to keep that hat on in case he gets a chill, do you?