Girls Aloud and Sugababes are, without a doubt, the two biggest girl groups in the UK right now. They have crosses genre divides and grabbed fans from all walks of life and are both talented and able pop groups.

While I may like both groups, many fans have chosen to stay loyal to just one of the two, and a rather unhealthy rivalry has cropped up between Girls Aloud fans and Sugababes fans. This is despite the two groups getting along fine, at least on the face of it.

Some would argue that there is enough in-fighting in both camps that an inter-band fight would be over-the-top. And that would seem to be the case. Bizarrely, it’s a couple of video clips on YouTube which has prompted one of the groups to speak out.

The two videos are embedded below. As you can see they show a very badly animated Cheryl Cole and Keisha Buchanan arguing over the merits of their albums with each other. With the monotone speech it’s like South Park meets Stephen Hawking.

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Kaiser Chiefs are reportedly taking a sabbatical from writing, recording, and playing their music. What’s more, front man Ricky Wilson could be about to try and break into TV, forging himself a new career on the goggle box.

The reports that Kaiser Chiefs were going to take some time away from being a band have been circulating for a couple of weeks now. The decision has apparently been taken due to their third album, Off With Their Heads, received a lukewarm reception.

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Get five attractive girls together, actually, three attractive ones and two that are a little ropey looking but that can actually sing. Put them in, well, not very much clothing. Have them cover a classic song and stick a cheesy pop beat underneath it and et voila, you have a guaranteed hit on your hands.

A guaranteed hit, but not a guaranteed number one, or so it would seem. The Saturdays are basically a Girls Aloud tribute act. Maybe the record company suspects they’re bound to split up soon, or maybe they’re a little old to appeal to teeny boppers anymore. Either way, The Saturdays have stolen their act.

The Saturdays were chosen to release the charity single for this year’s Comic Relief, which was held last night. As is traditional, the single is a cover, this time of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough. Now with all new Stock, Aitken, and Waterman-style backing track.

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21:30 - The Ting Tings and Estelle take to the stage together for one of the most bizarre collaborations I’ve ever witnessed. It kind of works as they boh get to perform their biggest hits but it’s not a patch on last year’s Rihanna/Klaxons mash-up.

21:33 - Alan Carr on stage to present the award for ‘British Single’. What the hell is he wearing? I’m not exactly the most fashionable guy but some of these outfits are terrible. I’ll stick to Primark I think. And the winner is… not Diana Vickers… Girls Aloud. Much deserved, and it means Scouting for Girls missed out. A fact we should all celebrate.

21:37 - Tom Jones presenting the award for ‘British Album’. He’s finally let himself go gray! Good decision Tom, something you should have done years ago. And the winner is… Duffy for Rockferry. Three awards out of three. Adele must be sick as a parrot.

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2008 has been dominated by groups reforming and getting back together. But not many have split. 2009 could see the two trends switch places though, with more British bands splitting than reforming. But which are likely to break up?

The bookies are rarely wrong, mainly because it’s their job to be right, with an incorrect verdict when setting odds costing them money. Paddy Power, an Irish bookmaker who specializes in bizarre or out of the ordinary bets, has published its odds on which bands are likely to part ways next year.

The two biggest girl bands in the country, Girls Aloud and Sugababes are top of the pile, while there’s an influx of boy bands, two of which have only recently reformed, not far behind them. Two rock giants complete the list.

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I think my conversion to pop music lover is now complete, as for the first time ever, I am willing to admit to loving a Girls Aloud song. I still love my indie, rock, and metal, real music where a band play instruments and everything, but Will Young, Sugababes, and Take That are turning me on to pop in a big way. Maybe I’m just getting old.

I’ve never been anti-pop as such but when I younger I was in to dance music, then heavily in to hip-hop, before finding the true and righteous of guitar music. But pop seems to have evolved now, with some songs actually being worth more than one listen.

As it is with the new single from Girls Aloud, a group manufactured a few years ago on Popstars: The Rivals. They’ve always released catchy songs but The Promise has to be their catchiest yet. And while I know they didn’t write it or anything, I can’t help liking it.

Video and review after the cut.

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British pop sensations Girls Aloud formed on a long defunct television show called Popstars: The Rivals way back in 2002. Since then, the show has evolved to become The X Factor, and Girls Aloud have gone on to be massively successful. Now the two are about to merge once again.

Last week saw Sharon Osbourne, wife of the British born and bred rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, quit the show after her request for a massive pay increase. She straight away backed Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole for the job, and that has now been officially announced.

It’s good timing, as filming for the new series starts today, June 12th, so any longer and we’d have had to make do with just three judges, one of whom is the untalented lump that is Dannii Minogue. The others being the equally annoying, but slightly more cut out for television Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh.

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Adele is a new British singer that I would put money on making it big around the world.

Her début single, Chasing Pavements, is outstanding, and her album 19 went to number one in the British charts last month. But it seems it’s not just solo success that this girl is after.

According to The Sun newspaper, Adele has indicated her desire to be in an all female super group, and the line-up is pretty damn impressive: Adele, Amy Winehouse, Kate Nash, Lily Allen & Katie Melua.

Please make it happen, as I think this would be the best girl group ever, and with The Spice Girls now no more, and a lot of the other British girl groups splitting up, the UK is in desperate need of one. Girls Aloud are okay in small doses, but this group would kick their asses.

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