Ten most-popular stories this week:
1. Jesus And Mary Chain return to play Coachella
2. R Kelly remembers to check video camera on before sex; forgets to check partner's ID
3. Heather Mills takes her clothes off
4. Glastonbury registrants get spam in breach of Michael Eavis' pledge
5. McFly get naked
6. Boy George accused of kidnapping male "escort" for bondage session; denies all
7. Lily Allen briefly nude under the ocean
8. Is KT Tunstall gay? Does anybody really care?
9. Peter Andre hasn't died
10. Pete Wentz gets into the nightclub business
Also this week: Chris Evans won at the Sony radio awards, while Dave Rowntree lost in the local elections; Amy Lee kicked out a couple more of Evanessence; Peter Gabriel launched a world-shaking 'new' service supporting downloads by advertising; Amelle from the Sugababes insisted her nightclub scrap wasn't her fault and Tom Chaplin revealed his drug hell.
You can read the whole week on one page (and it's 116 posts, the most in a single week) or
skim the previous week in a single post.
Five years ago, the long-dead Kurt Cobain was being blamed for the now-largely-forgotten pipe-bomb schoolkid's US attacks; EMI bought Mute while Radio 3's Late Junction launched its own label; Jewel got tossed off a horse; the cancellation of the Essential Festival was blamed on the Badminton Horse Trials and R Kelly insisted he couldn't be a criminal because his "music speaks for itself".
This was stuff in shops this week:
Dinosaur Jr are back - and, yes, it's a happy reunion
Fly the Blue Peter: Electrelane's No Shouts, No Calls is about to set sail
A two disc James collection, stretching from when they were darlings of Record Mirror through to kings of indie disco
... also available as a DVD of the promo flicks
Y Kant Tori Mayke A Non-Konzept ElBUm?
Radiohead's Japanese-only magic ep turns into a standard release
Glen Tilbrook indulges in an Andy Partridge-esque release of Squeeze songs from their demo stage
What, Melt Banana, would Bambi's Dilemma actually be?
I, Robot stands out as the jewel in the Alan Parsons reissue project
The latest ABC collection does include the "short bald bloke with big specs" era, but you'd not tell from the packaging
Hell's bells - from "this is not the London School of Economics", through Kidderminster and the Guesthouse Glockenspiel to Oswestry, the complete collection of the greatest suburban sitcom
Have to salute the inclusion of Ever Decreasing Circles this week. I grew up on that - It was a staple of every Sunday evening.
ReplyDeleteAs Martin once said, "I've just had Oswestry thrown in my face"