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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Can you hear the sound of an orderly queue forming?

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Tom Fletcher, out of McFly, has a secret desire: he wants to write for other bands : I've got so many songs that aren't right for us...

Spice Girls: All for one. Where "one" means "mememe"

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The Daily Mail has taken some time to peer into the black heart of the preparations for the Spice Girls tour, and the jostling for position...
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Thurston Moore - in the Book Tower

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Currently showing on VBS.TV , Thurston Moore showing us - the interwebbed gawping public - round his collection of rare books.

Cerys says no to November

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Cerys Matthews has axed her November tour ; the good news is that she's shifted the dates to February and added a few. The late winter W...
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Non-pornographic image "still not porn" - official

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The Crown Prosecution Service have sighed a deep sigh and explained, patiently, that - since Elton John's Nan Goldin wasn't indecent...

Donald ducks off

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Surprisingly, despite the absence of Howard Donald, you could barely spot the difference in Take That's Vienna gig. Donald has sustaine...
Friday, October 26, 2007

EMI try something new

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Nobody scoffed louder than us when EMI disappeared into the hands of the German motorway network's catering company, but we'll give ...
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Kiss off: EMAP dump dance network

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MediaGuardian is reporting that EMAP is about to offload Kiss to Global Radio; the idea being that Global will merge the Kiss brand with it...

Pete Doherty doesn't go to jail. Again.

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Possession of drugs? Driving illegally? It's not enough to send Doherty to prison - especially since procedural screw-ups meant the cour...
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Christmas with the Spice Girls

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Tescos must be delighted, as the money they're paying The Spice Girls to appear in an ad is generating acres of coverage , such as Newto...
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Akon continues slide into sitcom

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Those of us who were convinced that Akon's disaster-strewn career was all part of a subtle campaign to pitch him as a Terry Scott for a ...

Danzig falls

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It's not easy being rock. Glenn Danzig was happily starting the latest Danzig US tour when he fell offstage . Ouch. His injury was bad e...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Oink man squeals

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Alan Ellis, the IT expert arrested at the behest of the record labels, has turned up - somewhat surprisingly - in the Daily Telegraph defen...
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The world needs another actor-turned-singer

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What a startling surprise . Although Evan Rachel Wood makes a living as an actor, all of a sudden she's decided that, really, she wanted...

How has XFM's dumping of DJs worked?

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Not well, according to the latest figures: XFM's audience share in London halved to a tiny 1.2% of listening, reports the latest RAJAR ...

"Keep Richards" says Keef Richards

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At his time of life - and with his history - it's no wonder Keith Richards is worried about his local hospital closing down. Keef is go...

Larrikin Love unsplit

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The predictions that the times between bands splitting and doing the reunitey tour will eventually be measured in zero are looking more and ...

Winehouse on a small wagon

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Not only do we now have to struggle with the concept of a drug-free Doherty, they're now rolling out an alcohol-free Amy Winehouse on u...

A little bit of Filthy

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From the more-than-generous department: Filthy Little Angels have just posted up the first 19 of its releases for your ear-delight needs. C...

Not Simply disbanded

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Mick Hucknall has decided the world has had enough of Simply Red : The 47-year-old said Stay, released last March, would be the group's ...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Fox in a box

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Things are going from bad to worse for Foxy Brown: following a fight at Rikers Island, she's now looking at 76 days in solitary confinem...

Great news

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Much-beloved of the Marc Riley show on 6Music, Emmy The Great has announced a new single , due the start of December. It's seven inch vi...

Nostradamus didn't see Judas Priest coming, did he?

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Busy, busy in the studio: Rob Halford and his old friends Judas Priest, working on a concept album about Nostradamus . Why Nostradamus? ...
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No Love at Claridges

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Apparently, Courtney Love loves staying at Claridges when she's in London. Claridges, though, aren't that thrilled in return . Not a...

Robbie Williams is not living up to John Legend's expectations

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With something approaching a poetic mirror-image, John Legend has given a long interview to The Sun. Since nobody here cares much about Lege...

The gap between headline and story

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Did Sarah Harding strip naked for a radio presenter? The Bizarre headline suggests 'yes': Sarah Harding strips live on air Blimey. ...

Doherty: drug-free and loving it

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Despite not having bothered to turn up for the last hearing , Pete Doherty's eventual trip to court has turned out alright for him: he...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Spears fears

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We were going to headline this 'save the Britney - save the world' but then, as we read the page, we saw they were using "save ...
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Free stuff

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With Radiohead effectively allowing you to steal their album, and the Charlatans foisting it on you for free whether you want it or not, the...

DownwardSpiralFrog twitches

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The much-hyped, little-seen SpiralFrog ad-supported music download service has done the equivalent of a coma patient twitching and signed a ...
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