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Lily Allen: Somerset House, London

Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, July 2007

AT ONE POINT towards the end, bless her, Lily Allen looks like she's going to cry. She's been bouncing through her sweet, slightly skanking version of Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass', can of Magners in one hand, a fag in the other, barefoot and buoyant in a puffy white party dress, and has encouraged the crowd to ooh-ooh-aah-aah the ooh-ooh-aah-aah bits.

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