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Steps: Wembley Arena, London

Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 22 December 2001

EXACTLY 70 PER cent of this audience are fluffy pink deely-boppered weeny-poppers. About 20 per cent are benignly smiling mums and dads. And the remaining 10 per cent are chaps of the same-sex persuasion, wearing spangly cowboy hats and ironic grins. And everyone is getting on splendidly. Ye gods! Does the Daily Mail know about this?

Total word count of piece: 366

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