Todd is God

Last night I got the pleasure of catching twins Jess and Lisa Origliasso (aka The Veronicas) live. The Australian pop duo had returned to UK shores to play a couple of dates this week in support of their last album finally getting an official UK release (next month). Making the, perhaps, unusual move of kicking off their 70min set with their recent (and first UK hit) 'Untouched', the girls and their band launched into an entertaining set showcasing some of the stronger material from their two albums to date. The heavy keyboard presence from the albums is eschewed in favour of a more straight ahead rock delivery live with the girls backed by a band featuring guitar, bass and drums (with Jess providing back up guitars where needed). The set rattled along and was broken up nicely by a 3 song acoustic based section in the middle of the set featuring, 'Don't Say Goodbye' 'This Love' and 'Heavily Broken'. Set highlights? For me 'This Love', ...

I first heard of Australian duo, The Veronicas at the end of last year, when I caught a few seconds of the title track of their current album. It stuck in my head, but the band's name didn't until the beginning of this year when I remembered and downloaded the album. I then forgot about it again, until a month ago, when I decided to give it a spin, and found that I loved it. The band comprise Lisa and Jess Origliasso, 22 year old identical twin sisters. Their debut album was a pop/rock affair in the style of Avril lavigne /Ashlee Simpson et al. Whilst it showed hints of the twins' ability to pen catchy pop tunes it never really delivered on its initial promise. Move forward a few years and they have now delivered that promise in Spades with 'Hook Me Up' – a collection of infectious 80s influenced (Flashdance, Boys of summer as well as nods to Prince/Shelia E) synth pop/rock tunes. The Video for Hook me up , with the whole schoolgirl uniform thing going on reminds yo...