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Friday, December 08, 2006

Universal will doubtless be looking for a quid from each phone now

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As if the the music industry didn't have enough to worry about, what with underperforming Robbie Williams albums and the cruel, cold sla...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Indieobit: Darren Wiz Brown

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We've just heard of the death of Mega City 4 frontman Wiz , or Darren Brown as he was to the government. Formed in Farnborough during th...
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Virgin radio shuffles again

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We love it when Virgin radio has a major overhaul of its presenters; this tends to happen once every couple of months. The latest pushing ro...

Robbie Williams is not the wonder of Woolies

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According to a report on BBC 6 Music News yesterday, Robbie William's most recent album, Rudebox, didn't so much flop as never got u...

Keep Coxon out

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Surely we're not about to see Graham Coxon about to rejoin the party-gone-off that is Blur? Alex James has been hinting that maybe he is...

Victoria Newton has trouble with books

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It's good news for Popjustice as Bizarre runs a glowing report on their 'A Boy Called Pete' book . The only trouble is, Newton (...

The dream is over

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We're trying to be strong... but it's so hard to go on. How can we continue with a song on our lips and a smile on our big, goofy fa...

Buy as I say, not as I do

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We're not quite sure why Britney Spears running around town with the gate to her ladygarden wide open makes her the "perfect" ...

That's what I go to court for

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The glow of being voted the best vaguely famous person prepared to debase themselves to shore up the ITV share price didn't last long fo...

Artists united against Andrew Gowers

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With the treasury-ordered Gowers reporting coming out firmly against the extension of copyright on recordings from 50 to 95 years, 4,500 mus...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Here comes 2007... and here comes everyone

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You won't, of course, have a new diary until Christmas Day, but you might want to note down the Maximo Park February 2007 dates : 20th -...
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Microsoft shoots for the Zune

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Nobody ever got to the moon by lacking ambition. On the other hand, nobody ever got to the moon simply by closing their eyes and saying ...
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Mills will not be pushed

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Having picked a fight with one British icon, Heather Mills seems to be determined to start a battle with another. According to the London Ev...

Of course you're not a Goth, Robert

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There are two things that all Goths have in common. One: they learn quickly to avoid pale pillowcases as getting the dye out is always a mar...
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You're the one million that I want

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You can't stitch a woman into skin-tight trousers and not expect trouble. Olivia Newton-John is suing - yes - Universal Music Group for...

You can't put a price on excellence

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You can tell how well-regarded you are by how far your boss is prepared to whore you out for cash. Times are now so tough at the Fail-y Mirr...
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Razorlight go nuclear

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We did enjoy the piece in The Times the other day which raged about the focus on the dead Soviet spy - in essence, arguing that this obsessi...
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Madonna starts to remake the child

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Since Madonna is - supposedly - following the laws covering the adoption of children, isn't it a bit presumptuous of her to (apparently)...
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Girls Aloud bottom line

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We're a little surprised Declan at the Stock Exchange didn't find room in the BBC Breakfast business bulletin to cover the figures f...

An accidental death and an anarchist

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This morning's Sun takes a while to get round to what some observers might say is quite an important fact in its report on the death of ...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

We're sure Kanye West is busy thinking of his good explanation

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In the aftermath of Katrina, Kanye West was brave enough to open his mouth when everyone else was keeping schtum on the big racial aspect to...

What to say to people when they pick on you

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[UPDATE: Looking at the original Stylus magazine piece , it seems clearer that, yes, these emails were an amusing parody rather than the gen...
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Venuewatch: Takeover threat to ticket prices

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The prospect of a hike in London's already ridiculously overpriced mid-size gig market has caused the Competition Commission to raise ob...

When formats wear-out

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PR must be a strange world to work in; we've just received an email which has had to try and work up excitement over the latest (over-)e...

Something to listen to

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Joanna Newsom guest djs on NPR's All Songs Considered Alex Kapranos reads from the book of his Guardian food columns (continues every ...
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Church sins in her binbags

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One of the Daily Mail's many and curious obsessions is the policing of refuse. We know, we shudder to think what the Mail would be like ...

Sony seek third, lonesome place

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Perhaps because they've taken their eyes of the ball as they try and work out what they're going to do with millions of recalled lap...

Robbie Williams is not a registered financial advisor

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Problems we'd not mind having: Gary Barlow has so much money he's taken to asking Robbie Williams what he should do with it: "...

Mary J Billboard

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Suggesting either a terrible lack of imagination, or else that Mary J Blige is some sort of superhuman performer, Mary J Blige has won nine ...

I hope that's not his pet name for his cock

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Kasabian are preparing to plod about the country playing their songs. Or, as the Serge puts it: “It’s going to be mega. We are unleashing Go...
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