Steve Dykes for iHeartRadio.

When Charli XCX was announced as part of Australia's 'Groovin the Moo' lineup, i had my fingers crossed for a NZ sideshow. Unfortunately there was no sideshow announcement, there was however a free IHeartRadio show!

Charli came out looking like the 90's had thrown up all over her and i loved it! She rocked sunglasses, matching sparkling zebra print crop and skirt, and chunky platform heels. Her equally amazing all girl band were dressed in silver sequin clothing and holographic shoes. Where can i sign up to be part of this tour?

From the second Charli came out she put in SO much energy to the show, you don't even want to look anywhere else because one minute she's rocking out with a giant inflatable guitar and then she's rolling around on the floor dressed as a cake and rapping along to 50 cent (it was her bassist Vicky's birthday), you never know what she's going to do next. I'm surprised she could still sing flawlessly while she was running around, and that she could bust all those moves without falling in those massive heels!
It was just really unfortunate that the crowd didn't show her the same amount of enthusiasm, it was probably one of the more duller crowds i've seen which is odd because i don't understand how you can not move to Charli XCX. Maybe it would have been different if the room was full of her fans and not a mix of people who only entered to win tickets just for the hell of it? Or maybe Kiwi crowds just suck, probably the latter. She also confessed she was starting to get bored of performing the same thing every night, and at some points i could see that. I don't think the unenthusiastic crowd helped.

But i hope the lack of crowd enthusiasm won't put Charli off visiting New Zealand again, she's such an incredible performer who deserves a lot more recognition than she gets! and so do her band! The world needs more of these four amazing fierce ladies.