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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

STEP BY STEP

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The newly resurgent Lemonheads are going to be hiring some sort of monster truck, loading it up with sound equipment, and driving around Bri...

NEW MANICS: WHAT WILL IT SOUND LIKE?

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Yes, yes, we know it's going to wind up sounding a bit like the last Manics album, but that's probably the point. Nicky Wire has bee...
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MY FAVOURITE SONGS

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No sooner has Q magazine decided, definitevly what the best songs of all time are than NME.com kicks off its own attempt to decide what th...

COCKER KOKO

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They're calling it a "solo tour date", although we're not sure a single date constitutes a tour. Anyway, all freshly annou...

SPANKS FOR THE MEMORY

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Carly Simon has stage fright, which is a terrible thing indeed. To overcome it, she finds spanking helps . Being spanked. And who does she g...

TAKE THAT WON'T TAKE THAT, NOT AT THESE PRICES

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Having spent some time doing calculations, Take That have discovered that shipping their special effects and stuff to Europe for the ongoing...

OF COURSE SHE BLOODY HAS

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Can anyone truly say they're surprised that Peaches Geldof has now joined a band? No, thought not. She's taken over as singer in Cos...
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MICHAEL JACKSON MADE ME FAT. AND THIN. AND FAT AGAIN.

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There's hardly much family solidarity at play in the Jackson household these days - Janet Jackson is blaming Michael for her weight issu...
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... AND THIS IS MICK JAGGER READING IT

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There's nothing wrong with having a bit of help remembering things, and certainly nothing to be ashamed of. But we do wonder if Mick Jag...

OASIS ARE THE BEST THING, EVER EVER EVER

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We're not sure which "music fans" Q magazine asked to come up with its list of the top 100 singles ever, but we suspect they m...
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THE LATE MIKE BALDWIN HAS A POP AT DOHERTY

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Karl Lagerfeld, the trouser-making man, has issued a critique of Pete Doherty. Or, at least, made some words in that general direction : ...
Monday, August 28, 2006

EMINEM - THAT WAS WORTH THROWING IN MUSIC FOR

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Since Eminem gave up music or whatever it was he was meant to be doing at the end of the last tour, time has clearly been sitting heavily on...

U L B N X T C

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Good news for fans of XTC - or "all right-thinking people", as they could be termed. Andy Partridge has pulled together a nine-dis...
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DROWNED IN SOUND - ROBBED AT READING

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The lovely people at Drowned In Sound were affected by the virtually-not-there crime at the Reading Festival: Their photographer Ben Jones h...

THEY SAY THE DEVIL HAS ALL THE BEST TUNES

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And, you'd have thought, the Lord looks after his own. But reading the trail of misfortunes which befell Evanessence as they tried to m...

MADONNA MOSCOW DATE MOVES

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The day and location of Madonna's planned Moscow debut has been shifted. The day-larded-with-significance of the fifth anniversary of th...
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VENUEWATCH: A location for Wigan

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We have a soft spot for Wigan - we got married there, apart from anything else - and we can't think of any good reason why the town shou...

BPI WANT MARKET BOSSES PUNISHED

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The police are a little stretched right now - what with having to do all this poking about in terrorist hunting; investigating other forces ...

BARBARA LEG BREAKS HER BACK

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Oh... hang on, that should be Barbara Bach breaks her leg . Husband Ringo Starr been by her side in hospital since her 60th birthday horseri...

CREAMRISES: A Creamfields round-up

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Yeah, we kind of wish we hadn't promised to do anything about Creamfields, as there wasn't very much appearing early on in the weeke...

OH, TIS READING: A final round-up

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So, it's all over now, apart from the panicky looks on the faces of the people responsible for keeping the trains clean. Eddie Vedder an...
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THE VIEW FROM BBC THREE

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Of course, any Placebo is better than no Placebo, and who wouldn't love the reworking of the stuff from the recent album? Set free from ...
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Sunday, August 27, 2006

READING YOUR RIGHTS: A quick trip round Berkshire

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The most important thing about the Panic! At The Disco Reading injury, of course, was not the aim of the person identified - on solid eviden...
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LEEDS UNITED: Another round-up of coverage

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It's raining in Leeds. Tipping down, says the NME blog - which will probably be good news for the Love not riots organisers - as the co...

PETE DOHERTY: CLASS WARRIOR

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Pete Doherty? He's so street, it's a wonder he's not been paved over. He's going to lead us into rebellion of all sorts: “...
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POWER GETS A BIT ON THE SIDE

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Unconnected with this year's Reading-Leeds festivals, Vince Power might still be feeling a little happy as he watches Clear Channel tug ...

READING WHILE OUR MOUTHS MOVE: Another round-up

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The presence of Peaches Geldof at Reading tells you pretty much all you might feel the need to know about Reading these days - it's as i...

K-FEDS AND COPS

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Good news for Kevin Iwoulddoanythingforaline, as Stereogum reports he's to be the ridiculous part of this season's CSI embracing of...

HEATHER MILLS NAKED - AGAIN

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You've got to hand it to Heather Mills: if the press are calling you on having done nude pictures in the past, how better to react than ...
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COPS AND RAVERS: IT'S LIKE AN 80S REVIVAL

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Something you might not have heard about for a while: a mass battle between police and ravers as the cops wade in to break up an illegal ra...
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