I've lived in London almost a decade and I've honestly never heard of that venue!

You'd think she'd have at least enough of a fanbase to be able to sell out theatres rather than random little venues that no one's heard of! I saw Bananarama at the London Palladium (capacity 2000) a couple of years ago, that would sound like the ideal size venue for Louise.

Edited 16 hours ago16 hr by Mangø

On 09/07/2025 at 13:10, -Jay- said:

Definitely very consistent!

I have a feeling that if Louise had carried on beyond 2003 and released her fourth studio album around 2004/5, that it might have missed the Top 20. I can see her career having gone in the same way as a solo Spice Girl / Rachel Stevens... probably managing more Top 10 or Top 20 hit singles, but this not translating into an album that sells well. From a chart perspective, maybe she bowed out at a good time.

It was such a pleasant surprise when she came back in 2019. I'd long since come to terms with her not being a popstar anymore. Never would have imagined two more albums, that for me are better than her first three!

Not that it matters much at all, but Heavy Love was originally scheduled for a 2019 release before being pushed back to January 2020. So she missed out on having a charting album in the 2010s decade!

I do think Louise could have continued with a bit more success. 'Bounce Back' was due to her next single following 'Pandora's Kiss' & considering how low sales were back then, that song could have easily been another top 5 or top 10 hit for her, a low selling one. Then the 4th album would have been released and that could have gone gold at the very least. I predict that 'Slam' would have probably followed 'BB' & maybe went top 10 & then finally 'Don't Ever Change', a low top 20 or top 30 hit to cap off the era.

How the era would have looked like:

SEPT ' 03 - Pandora's Kiss [#5]

MARCH '04 - Bounce Back [#5]

APRIL '04 - Lil' Lou (ALBUM) [#8]

JUNE '04 - Slam [#7]

SEPT '04 - Don't Ever Change [#21]

I think she could have perhaps got a top 10 single in 'Bounce Back', but there's absolutely no way she would've gotten a post-album top 10 single and the album probably would've been a #28 smash.