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Saturday, November 16, 2002

Can an arse be a trademark?

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Obviously, it must be distressing for Kylie to believe someone else is cashing in on her arse , but the answer is in her own hands: release ...
Friday, November 15, 2002

Why we love Jeremy Vine

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From tonight's Newsnight mailout: "Now as a regular viewer of Newsnight, you have a real problem this evening. On BBC One a chance ...

Great excuses of our time

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"I don't know about that, I'm a visionary" [UPDATE: 15-11-07 We're sure this meant something at the time, but Billboar...

Rock and remote

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Television is the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and spreading radiation. We take one of our infrequent hits: MTV Pink - Just Like A...

Best served cold

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Oh, Rod Stewart knows how to have a laugh. Asked about Robbie Williams getting off with Rachel Hunter , Rod's not bitter. In fact, he wi...

Fly swatting

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Of course, it's not a victimless crime, is it? Walls get all sticky. But you have to clear a small space on your desk, preferably one wi...

Apparently, we hadn't

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We got a polite email from the people at Popjustice today, and we suddenly thought we should check to see if we'd ever sat and applaude...

Another sign of aging

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When we were young, we dreamed of piss-ups in breweries. Now, Jackson Browne in a winery sounds quite an attractive proposition.

Wanna feel ancient?

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Taylor from Hanson is a dad

Live television: it can blow up in your face

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For some reason, BBC Choice's Liquid News is extended to an hour to promote a rival channel's awards - it being the MTV Europe award...
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Thursday, November 14, 2002

Laugh like a dog

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Even as the RIAA lumbers about demanding the right to hack through peer to peer networks on its own whim, the New Scientist reckons that th...

Jackson made to show face to court

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Presumably the mirror and comb will be in the post?

EMI - MSP

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Is it just us, or does the EMI annual report betray the influence of rival Sony's act the Manic Street Preachers?

This time, we're not getting excited

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There's not much pattern on the cloth of EMI's plans to expand its online download offerings; even the official press release does...

The Simpsons are going to All Tomorrow's Parties

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Or, at least, Matt Groening is .
Wednesday, November 13, 2002

And now, in Macrovision...

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Also in this week's Music Week is an opinion piece by Brian McPhail, who comes from Macrovision. Not the company that made the poor-qual...

Noel, you're wrong

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Noel Gallagher popped up on 6Music a moment ago, speculating that because a few thousand sheep are traipsing out to see Oasis live, that som...

What the pop papers say: Donkey meets shrimp edition

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As if those lifetime achievement awards don't already make you feel like the Grim Reaper has invited all your friends together for your ...

Figure it out

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Some useful facts to have to hand in the Counting The Notes [pdf] report, produced by the National Music Council. Most significantly, if c...

Jacko, QC

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It's the trial of the century - not counting the Butler one - Michael Jackson is being sued for not playing millennium eve gigs.

Scary development

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I don't think anyone can view the news from Australia that some CDs are going to be made illegal for under 18 year olds with anything b...

Moby put in place by Elton

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Last night's Frank Skinner Show. The now-beyond-self-parody righteous fleck that is Moby trots through his usual playground-level attack...

Weighty matters

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Having endured the jibes about being kept at the back of the videos and being "the fat one out of Wilson Phillips", Carnie Wilson ...

Get busy with the fizzy

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Sony and Pepsi are linking up to formalise the artist-by-artist fizzy drink endorsement arrangements in the US. Now, Sony artists are hooke...

No, Tara, No

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We've always had a softy spot for Tara Palmer Tompkinson; her skittish performance on Frank Skinner (okay, she was coked off her head, b...

The Polaroids that bind us together

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Following on from the success of blindyouth.com in bringing early human league releases back to the stores, Nightporter , an equally wonder...

Neighbours from hell

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We've had Kylie II in Holly Valance. Now, prepare yourself for Delta Goodrem - the not-quite-as-good Natalie Imbruglia.

We can't help you

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We don't have any MP3s to download, much less Liam Lynch MP3s. If you're really that desperate, popEx >> PopEx has a sample o...

Multiplex

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We don't often bring you the joy of Ms Becky Bamboo's film reviews - we're not that sort of blog - but we're able to bend th...
Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Universal results service

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Doom and debt-laden dinosaur Vivendi-Universal has released its figures for third-quarter sales, and what's most interesting from our pe...
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