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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Keith Allen's daughter on the property ladder

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Naturally, Keith Allen's daughter can't actually buy a house. Oh, no, she has to buy a £600k lovenest . Apparently, she's sharin...

And yet you charged full price...

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Matt Willis has shrugged off his weak chart performance - Crash didn't make the top 30 - as being, well, as important as the single : ...

Have one's man take that for one

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In what promises to be the most It's A Royal Knockout moment of the entire Diana memorial concert, The Sunday People are claiming tha...

Rav exclusively reveals exclusive exclusives, exclusively

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Rav Singh, the "hottest showbiz reporter" in Britain, or certainly at the News of the World has got some hot, exclusive, piping n...

This week just gone...

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Seven days on No Rock and Roll Fun : The ten most-read stories, roughly, were: 1. Beth Ditto naked on the NME cover: feminist statement or c...
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Saturday, June 02, 2007

Yog cancels Prague after prang

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The young people of Prague were, this evening, supposed to have been enjoying the music and showbiz stylings of George Michael. And, you kno...
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Embed and breakfast man: Creep

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This does take a little while to turn into something interesting, so we'd suggest pausing it while it loads and whipping through to abou...

Bill Gates likes music

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Apparently unconcerned that "We write the code which drives the software which allows Excel to add up on spreadsheets" isn't p...

Police: criticism from own ranks

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Victoria Newton, oddly, managed to run a review of the Police's comeback gig under her own byline, despite it happening in Vancouver an...
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Somethings to listen to: More Songs To Learn And Sing

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Sweeping The Nation is reprising Songs To Learn And Sing, the micro-essay and mp3 festival, right through the month of June. They've go...

Kelly Osbourne goes back home

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And as Paris Hilton's music career evaporates, Kelly Osbourne goes back to the only thing that's ever worked for her: sShe's fil...

Hilton's music career: loose ends tied

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Warner Music has confirmed that Paris Hilton's half-hearted attempt to use music to give something to define her other than having been ...

It was twenty years ago today...

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... that John Walters pointed out that the twentieth anniversary of Sgt Pepper should really be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the ...
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Etch-a-sketch

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Couldn't Mutya have done a park bench as a tribute or something? Because we're not sure having you whole leg scratched and ink injec...
Friday, June 01, 2007

"Some people might recognise me..."

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Oh, this is hilarious - Ziggy, the man they're throwing into the Big Brother house, used to be in Northern Lights. And he actually think...
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Sharon Osbourne bingo winnings

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After our post last weekend about Sharon Osbourne's threats of violence , we did write to Sarah Mercer, who is head of groups communicat...

Mrs Way on the way? Or no Way?

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Gerard Way has told MTV2 that he's engaged , and that's why he's wearing an engagement ring. On the other hand, the band had bee...
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All the world's a Bordello

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The sightly clunking gypsishism of Gogol Bordello is about to be flying about a lot, as they undertake a world tour : 06-01 Nürburgring, Ger...

Some of my best Franz are songs

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Pitchfork is currently offering links to Franz Ferdinand covering LCD Soundsystem 's All My Friends. You might like to watch it.

IFPI steal Al Gore's IP

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Amusing to see the IFPI (where the RIAA pretends to let other nations play at copyright police, too) have, uh, borrowed the title of Al Gor...

Fingerprints on the Apple

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It was Franco who first alerted us to the discovery of private data encoded into the supposedly DRM-free files being sold by Apple: We now ...
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Apparently, Noddy Holder wasn't a relative at all

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You'll have to forgive us, because this sounds a little like the plot to one of the stories from the Haircut One Hundred comic strip in ...

Beckham quits show, or something

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The fly-on-the-wall Life Of Victoria Beckham series which was being shot despite no actually network wanting it has either been "thrown...

Victoria Newton went to the cupboard...

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... and when she got there the cupboard was bare, so she just ran a bunch of photos. This means today's Bizarre consists of man wears ha...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Glastonbury 2007: Line-ups

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The NME website has announced (possibly leaked) the Glastonbury line-ups. This the Pyramid stage: Friday (June 22) Arctic Monkeys Kasabian ...
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"A moving half-hour followed, with John recounting stories from his past"

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The splendid Sweeping The Nation has gathered the links, so we shan't bother: John Peel's This Is Your Life is currently bobbing ab...

How do you revive a clapped-out warhorse?

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In the case of MTV Unplugged, an idea which had its time and now wants it over again , you try by hiring acts who are even older and more dr...

How much does L'Oreal pay Beyonce again?

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It's money well spent, isn't it? "I actually don't like wearing make-up, I'd rather be natural. My hair is natural and ...
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Germaine Greer buys the NME

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We're sure Conor McKnickerless - sorry, McNicholas - will be delighted that today's G2 carries a not-quite-think piece by Germaine G...
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EMI and Google make a deal

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Google has come to an agreement with EMI to allow YouTube to carry their videos in return for a slice of revenue. All four majors have now,...
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