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Saturday, May 02, 2009

Don't take photos of Amy Winehouse

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In court yesterday, Amy Winehouse tried to guarantee her privacy : The order bans leading paparazzi agency Big Pictures from following Wineh...

Andrew Sachs: The victimless crime

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If one thing was at the heart of the squawking fuss about Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, it was that the close, loving relationship betwee...
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Courtney wishes to share

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She's on the MySpace : Me Blog Big today, no blog after! orris look it up im orris rightbefore they put the enfluerage in and its taken ...
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Gordon in the morning: Swine flu fever

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Oasis holed up in a hotel in Venezuela. The two off Big Brother where you can never remember which was the one who snogged the Ordinary Boy ...
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Friday, May 01, 2009

Art Brut settle in to LA life

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It's not just Alexa Chung who is embarking on an exciting but time-limited new American career: Art Brut are setting up an LA residency ...

Levellers auction: Good works for charity

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Mike E emails and asks if I can mention The Levellers' charity auction . "Or maybe embed the video?" Go on, then: The money go...

Cabaretobit: Danny Gans

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Las Vegas strip stalwart Danny Gans has died, reports the Associated Press. Gans was the American equivalent of Joe Longthorne, building an...
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McDonalds Chicken Nuggets: Now include portion of Sweat

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Did you know the American McDonalds has got a special site for black people who enjoy eating ground up cow-face as much as white people? It...

LiveNation: Top promotions

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I'm sure Ultravox will be delighted at the well-positioned advert which appeared in today's G2 Guardian supplement, promoting their ...

Spain thinks internet users owe songwriters a living

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The spread of copyright management concerns demanding that ISPs make up the losses they're experiencing as their businesses undergo stru...

Venuewatch: The Gramercy Theater

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The Gramercy has been having a bit of a hard time of late, what with its sponsor, Blender magazine, crashing and burning. Now, LiveNation ha...

Pink and pushing

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What really caught our eye in the report of Pink turning up to sing for the people filming a T-Mobile advert in Trafalgar Square was the in...
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Keef grief

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It appears that Keith Richards used to hate being called Keith Richards, as it didn't live up to his expectations : "It made me sic...

Green Day, grey minutes

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Thanks to @Electroweb for news of how quickly the Green Day ticket sale turned in to a tout payday: wow, touts are quick! Green Day tix on ...

Dears: Oh dear

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Montreal is turning in to a music crime blackspot. The Stooges and Clinic have had stuff pinched from there, and now The Dears tourbus has ...

New Zealand rips it up, starts again

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Probably brought about in part by the recent failure of attempts to implement a three-strikes style law, the New Zealand government is going...

Gordon in the morning: Swines and stripping

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More on swine flu, then, as Oasis turn up in the wrong place at the wrong time - no, not the music scene anytime after 1998 in this case, b...
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Michael Jackson stays at home

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There is simply no health scare that cannot be raised a couple of pitches in hysteria by the addition of Michael Jackson to the mix. Jackson...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Glastonbury 2009: Slight overstatement

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Even by the standards of meaningless lists, the Time magazine 100 Most Influential People list's inclusion of Michael Eavis seems a litt...
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RIAA finally scrapes some cash out of the Santangelo family

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After four years, an out-of-court settlement has been reached in the legal battle between the Santangelo family and the RIAA. This is the c...

Twittergem: Lawrence Lessig

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Warner Music has issued a takedown of one of my presos on YouTube. Someone send them a copy of §107 ("fair use"). @Lessig . Perhap...

Seeqpod launches its Napster 2.0 phase

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Seeqpod is dead. But just as Napster died, and got replaced by something with the same name, but useless, and Muxtape died, and got replaced...

Darkness at 3AM: Elton John gets a makeover

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Do the 3AM Girls actually understand about music? This morning, they turn their attention to Elton John : It is definitely one of Elton John...

Gordon in the morning: Mrs GaGa's Summer Holiday

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Worrying news from Lady GaGa's camp this morning as Gordon suggests she's about to crack : Lady GaGa goes lala EXHAUSTED LADY GAGA h...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Wannadies die

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I suspect you'd assumed it had already happened, but it turns out that The Wannadies hadn't actually split up before today. Today th...
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Chris Brown tries a change of subject defence

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Chris Brown has, more-or-less, admitted that he did some bad things to Rihanna the night before the Grammy Awards. Oh, yes, he hasn't sa...

Copyright catfights: Lil Wayne illustrates a point

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The idea of copyright was, you'll recall, to encourage creativity. That was meant to be the point. Not to monetise ideas - although that...

Gennaro Castaldo watch: Hung up

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Another day, another HMV announcement that comes without the Knowledge-Stick of Castaldo. The poor guy is probably struggling to keep up as ...
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Iggy Pop isn't selling car insurance. Not any more.

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The ASA has banned Iggy Pop from advertising SwiftCover car insurance . Not because they want to save him from himself, but because Swiftcov...
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Gordon in the morning: What a Lott for not a lot

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With breathless enthusiasm, Gordon overpushes a session from Pixie Lott this morning: WITH a cracking voice, an offer from top modelling ag...
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