Can it really be cabaret trio Fascinating Aida are going to split after their current tour, One More Flutter, ends this year?

Can it be that 20 years after it started, this sizzling, satirical, all-female troupe are packing away their posh frocks and settling down?

Common sense says they probably should. None of them - and certainly none of us - is getting any younger. Maybe it is time to say farewell with the show they subtitle The FA Final.

But it is a shame to see them go. It leaves the field alone to Kit And The Widow and, excellent as they are, we do benefit from the feminine insights this trio gives us in their take on the world.

The world certainly needs them. With George Bush on the rampage, Tony Blair sitting in Bush's kennel and all sorts of nasties out there making the world a grim place, levity with a female edge is vitally needed.

One Last Flutter ends on a high note and with a rare mix of satire and solemnity.

In short, the mixture is as before, showing us our own lives through ever more ingenious songs and observations.

They gave us a number of their old songs to remind us of the past and, as they sadly remarked, many of their political songs needed no changes.

Fat cats are still with us as are privatised trains, inequality, threats from abroad and sharp-dealing politicians.

Some of the names have changed. We now have Tony Blair and David Blunkett to have a pop at but, sadly, things are still as they were and Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Marilyn Cutts are still singing about it.

Our victories, defeats and all the other maladies such as loneliness, childlessness and break-ups are all displayed for us with large amounts of wry humour.

They are a pretty cynical bunch, their take on Britart and the various winners of the Turner Prize were hilarious and without mercy. "But is it art?" was asked, prompting the response: "I don't care, I am a millionaire."

There was some nostalgia for the Cold War and deliciously-wicked welcomes for the urbanisation of the countryside.

In one piece, old Lizzie was frightened by the lesbian who lived down the lane, was puzzled at the five o'clock shadow man who hung out an Agent Provocateur bra on the line and was bemused when public lavatories became cottages.

There was one lovely number about mobility being the enemy of beauty. If you wish to be beautiful, just be like Mary Archer but never show your hands.

One Last Flutter was a great evening spent roaming through the Fascinating Aida back catalogue and some smashing new stuff and, surprise, surprise, they brought along a member of the disadvantaged species - a man.

Russell Churney is a knock-out pianist and a dab hand at comedy, too.

Maybe Churney and the girls will come back for a few more farewell shows.