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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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