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Saturday, March 01, 2003
Unintentionally apt Google search term
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kelly osbourne pap don't preach
And she took the full six... no, wait,
nine
inches
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Is it just us, or does the tale of Fred Durst's My Night With Britney [manfully typed in full by the good folk at Playlouder ] sound les...
How spambands work
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The Datsuns, for shame, are having this done in their name: "We all know how great The Datsuns are live and what a better way to show y...
Tune-in
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The nice Simon Tyers has been in touch again, this time with the following observations on what they're planning for our radio services:...
Where the bleats have no name
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Bono very, very careful in his Iraq war remarks - careful to suggest that Tony's heart is in the right place , and bloody careful not t...
Friday, February 28, 2003
Pay up, pay up
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6Music is reporting that the cost of entry to the 2003 Glastonbury is going to be GBP105 plus, of course, booking fee - they're saying t...
Head change
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James Palumbo stepping down from the helm of what is, scarily, Britain's biggest indie label, Ministry of Sound.
The Crane Mutiny
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When KACL had adopted its salsa-only format, Frasier paniced to discover his fanclub - a motley crew of cranks and the painfully lonely - ha...
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SAW ONE TODAY, AND IN HIS HAND, WAS A WEAPON THAT WAS MADE IN BIRMINGHAM: Another delightful twist to the weapons of mass destruction held...
Darkness doesn't fall, it downloads
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Those of you who've drifted this way looking for audio darkness freebies will be pleased to know the recent Radio One session is availab...
Avril Love-In
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Okay, it's not. It's more bashing Avril. Hey, we know we're just a h8r boi, but Avril's got the cover of Rolling Stone (back...
Thursday, February 27, 2003
Why live a little? Live a Lotto
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While the official line might be that the handing over of the old National Pop Music centre to Hallam Uni was just a straight swap - buildin...
More Glasto sign-ups
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Dave Gahan and Prince , together at last. There's just going to be a cloud of pervert air hanging over Pilton, isn't there?
I'm still Jenny from the blockhead
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There was a wonderful mismeeting of minds on BBC Breakfast this morning, when Dermot Murnaghan met Jennifer Lopez. DM was forced to stumble ...
The 3AM Girls will have a tricky time spinning this out into a full page
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popbitch shuts for a springclean .
Call us paranoid
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But 3D suddenly arrested on drugs and porn charges ? We hope Somerset and Avon police have got something very solid, otherwise the arrest of...
Is It Sophie Ellis Bextor?
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So, Tim Burgess has used the web to prove the Charlatans aren't dead. But the lyric he posted - "who is the girl in the tight blac...
I Want Your Pax
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"George Michael - Pop star" read the caption on last night's Hardtalk, although to be accurate and cruel, it's a while sin...
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
What the pop papers say: Boiler fixed edition
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It’s always tricky to know exactly which way Darcus Howe will jump. Sometimes he surprises us and says something totally unexpected. Which i...
Major suddenly realises owns web presence, launches service
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So MusicNet is now to be offered to AOL members in the US . The key phrase in the report, and why its unlikely to work, is "AOL will ch...
Now the horse isn't in the way, the door bolt shoots across lovely
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Now MPs have joined in with the campaign to "keep" local music on local radio stations . Yeah? Bit late isn't it? Labour backb...
Christian faith
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We thought giving Chris Moyles a chatshow was odd. We thought sacking him and replacing him with the notoriously mirth-free Christian O'...
Mel C: Gay. True.
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It's not an answer to 'is Mel C a lesbian'. But, at least, she's going to play GAY . But look, she's got a boyfriend, ok...
Obit
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Howie Epstein , bassist with the Heartbreakers, dead at 47 from a suspected overdose. Fairly safe to say he won’t be coming around here no m...
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BADLY BEATEN BOY: Following on from yesterday's story that Badly Drawn Boy could only make GBP1.60 busking, the Guardian sent out some ...
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MR JACKSON GOES TO COURT: Michael Jackson called his two hour snoozeathon 'The footage they didn't want you to see.' Erm, excep...
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YOU THINK I GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE GRAMMYS?: Well, we don't have to, as Becky Bamboo was our man at the Grammys. Except she's not a ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
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THE LIGHT SHED ON DARKNESS: Judging by the number of Google searches for 'Get your hands off my woman' right now, the Darkness have...
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IT'S A GOOD TIME TO BE A STUDENT DRINKER: Not only did last week see the expensive, public-funded National Pop Music Centre in Sheffiel...
Fred On The Dead
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Fred Durst is fast emerging as the Richard Hillman of shit rock. Writing on the Limp Bizkit website, fred sheds tears over the nightclub fi...
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