You've got to hand it to MARK OWEN for persistence alone, haven't you? He was always at best the third most/ least likely to when Take That split up and he's doggedly hung in there ever since, crafting fair-to-middling pop and stoically refusing to succumb to extinction.
And with "Believe In The Boogie" he's back yet again, like the guy in Monty Python's "The Life Of Brian", who refuses to desist shouting 'Jehovah!' in the face of continual stoning. Still, despite the whiff of lambs to the slaughter, this isn't too bad: it's a bright, brash, neo-Britpop affair with a nicely knowing lyrical bent ("From the Albert Hall to the Uni ball....how the mighty fall" - quite) and a chorus with rampant optimism stoking the chorus of "Times are changing, everything will come around." Yup, you tell 'em Mark, even if you will insist on including the currently inevitable, Chris Martin-style falsetto inflections. Gah!
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But some mercy is required. "Believe In The Boogie" is unremarkable, but still enjoyable in a lunkheaded, slightly clueless way, which allots him two points. He's still standing, which alone earns him another one. I have it on good authority that he's a lovely geezer which claws him back a sneaky fourth and the simple fact he's not turned into Robbie Williams definitely grabs him a fifth.
Half marks well and truly earned, if you ask me.
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