SHINE 4 In Your House-THE MOST AMAZING THING YOU'LL HEAR*

*Perhaps this week!

Ok, I have just returned from Germany but I thought I'd update the blog with little gem tonight. Seeing as I discovered so much pop while in Germany I am still trying to make sense of it all. I bought over 16 Cd's so it will take time to work through it all. Ok so going back Shine 4! This girlband will appear on DSTP again but for now I am turning to a Shine 4 retro classic of theirs from their first album simply titled Begin. After DSTP announced Shine 4 to the rest of blogWorld, the girls have made quite an impact and have even appeared on PopJustice! Behind all the shimmer there is a real talent and you'll hear that in this song available tonight. Its a cover of the Alanis Morrisette hidden track from Jagged Little Pill. But, Shine 4 improve on the original (as they tend to) and morph the acoustic original to a stunning epic pop song. I highly recommend this & the album it came from....This song has everything. Sometimes it sounds like Carola, Enya and Annie Lennox got drunk with Sinaed O'Conner and started ranting about the men that did them wrong. Pure operatic bliss!

Buy Shine 4 here

NKD QuickSand

The girls - Nicky de Lange, Kesha Charlton-Perkins and Deidre Visse - have just won their first award in South Africa for best musical newcomers. They got their name much in the same way fellow girlbands Clea/RAEN/EMMA got their names. NKD hail from South Africa and were formed out of its first Pop Idol shows. As they've featured online quite a lot recently for their biography I'll give you these two links as they drive home the girlbands genealogy much better than I could ever do. So instead I'll point you in the direction of a brilliant music store where you can purchase really cheap South African musicians like DSTP icons Shine 4, Hi-5 and of course NKD's debut album where QuickSand comes from.

The track itself is a perfect slice of pop that recoils in a musical seizure of Stock, Aitken and Waterman with electronic bouts of Transvision Vamp, Sophie Elis-Bextor and Giorgio Moroder thrown in for excellent measure. The result of which makes QuickSand a poptastic anthem and must for your playlists...Its everything that Girls Aloud would wish to be and sounds like everything Kylie's tenth album must contain!

You can listen to the entire brilliant album on NKD's album on their official website.

SHINE4 Ietsie Binne My-A MUST DOWNLOAD!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure if you know this but I've been pretty unwell recently. What has kept me smiling? Girl Pop and girlbands from around the globe. Yes seriously! Whether it be forgotten SuperSister b-sides or the Argentinian Spice Girls Bandana I've had a giggle and a dance despite it all. When the doctors hail from Colombia it's quite useful to break the bleak mood of the room by gossiping about Colombian girlband Escarcha! Believe me, girlbands have oddly worked their magic. So sit back people, I am sharing one of my favourite girlband tracks with you today! Shine4 are very special and if you take little listen to Letsie Binne My you'll hear why.

I've done a little research on information around this band and sadly no blogger has covered this song. To my knowledge anyway. However I do think readers of PopJustice, TheZapping, PopEatsPop, PopPosterGirl and Poptrash Addicts will adore what they find when they download the song.

They might also have to scrape their tongue off from the floor. Only because I had to when I first heard it. Shocked I was! I Was! Shine4 come from South Africa which is slowly creeping on Australia, Sweden and Spain as the country for poptastic pop! Don't believe me? Refer to the facts that Lisa Scott-Lee released her album there this year alongside the Phixx album and of course who could forget Hi-5-the boyband that cover Eurovision songs that actually improve on the originals.

This picture just might be the best picture of a pop band of the 00's.

Shine4 consist of Marlese, Liesl, Desiree and Jill. They've released about 2 other albums but its their most recent album So Elektries that has got me excited. Why? Well not only does it feature the hand of Xenomania but the girls also cover Transvision Vamp and Wilson Phillips, do PopEatPop covers of Elize's Automatic(!), Fredrik Kempe and Christine Stumer. Need we say more? Just go and buy it yourself over at very reliable Kalahari.net. Check out their earlier stuff too while your at it. Especially their cover of Dragostea Din Tea which saw the girlband gain a boy for one very special moment in South African pop history...


Ok so I would actually like to dedicate this post to Mike Of Poptrash Addicts (YAZZ!). I also wanna thank the YCTL flight-crew: Pinkie (I'm sure you'll love this fantastic PopEatsPop example), PopPosterGirl (my fellow South African pop fan!), SlippyDisco (hopefully we'll be singing the English version of the above song with the girls in 2 weeks!) and Paul!