RIP Girls Can't Catch

The world of pop suffered another crippling loss this week as it was confirmed that Girls Can't Catch were unceremoniously ousted from their contract with Polydor Records. Rather than struggle on without a record deal, the girls have done the smart thing and call it a day.

As we type this, we realise that Popjustice have already eulogised GCC better than we ever could but we'd just like to add to the whole debate by saying that whilst Girls Can't Catch never really set the pop world alight, with their first singles charting at numbers 26 and 19 respectively, they were a perfectly competent girlband who, with a bit of luck, may have at least reached the sub-Girls Aloud/Sugababes pantheon of female vocal pop groups (or, as we like to call it, "The Saturdays" level). Keep Your Head Up, in particular was a stonker of a single and a great way to launch what the band were all about. A shame it never really caught on but there you go.

So so long, Girls Can't Catch. We hope there's at least some consolation to be had in the fact that when we saw you supporting Girls Aloud at the O2 we whispered to the person next to us "they're alright but I do wish they'd get on with it so Girls Aloud can get out here and be pissed off by how much more popular Cheryl is".

Which is a substantially better treatment than Gabriella Cilmi received when she was supporting Leona last month.

Also, we've just chucked 10 pence Polydor's way by downloading the aforementioned Keep Your Head Up. Perhaps if we'd done that six months ago we wouldn't be in this mess but there you go.

In memoriam.