Jedward: Planet Jedward | CD review

(Absolute)"I wanna hold you, wanna hold you tight, get teenage kicks all through the night," John and Edward Grimes declare on track 10 of their first album, which will have Undertones fans vowing vengeance on the X Factor finalists. Yet Teenage Kicks is the only song of Planet Jedward's 11 cover versions that suits their abilities. It's no insult to the original to admit that Jedward's ineptness works tolerably well on a song that's all about adolescent gawkiness, though it would be stretching ...

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