Alexandra Burke – review

Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThere is a reason winners of The X Factor rarely go on the road after the obligatory X Factor Live tour: few can hold an audience's attention for longer than the length of an earnest ballad. The 2008 champ, Alexandra Burke, is the exception. The only one with a spark of life about her, she kept a full house happily on-side for 75 minutes tonight, proving that, for once, Simon Cowell and his henchmen backed an artist the public like enough to shell out £30 to see.D...

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