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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Peter Andre: what exactly was your job description?

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I'll be honest, I'd thought that Peter Andre was clearly tagged as "former minor singer" as far as a career goes, but it t...

Ant And Dec blame other people for Susan Boyle

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Ant And Dec have popped up at the Edinburgh TV Festival to defend the way Britain's Got Talent gave Susan Boyle a breakdown : "What...
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The view from someone else's yacht: Mandelson defends new filesharing hunt

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Is that the sound of deckshoes I hear approaching? Why, yes, it's Peter Mandelson writing about the new proposals for treating fileshare...
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DJobit: DJ AM

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Adam Goldstein, who worked under the name DJ AM, has died of an apparent overdose . Goldstein survived the plane crash that killed four othe...

Griffin done... going north

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With the Oasis era coming to an end, what better time for Zoe Griffin to suddenly declare Manchester 'cool' ? It would seem that if ...

Twittergem: Mrs Stephen Fry

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From @mrsstephenfry : BREAKING NEWS: 'I needed something fresher than Oasis' announces Noel Gallagher, ahead of his tour with Michae...

Oasis "split": It's all in the timing

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You have to wonder if there might just be a God, and that he or she might have been a Melody Maker reader. The death of Michael Jackson comi...

Gordon in the morning: Remember I told you

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Given Gordon's ability to run a dozen stories that are wrong to every one that's sort-of right, it's perhaps unsurprising he...

Oasis: Probably not such a glorious new morning

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Oh, we'd love to spend the next three days as part of a massive tea party, celebrating and clapping and cheering. But given that this ab...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Set against the scale of things...

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The discovery of dope in Michael Jackson's bedroom hardly comes a shock compared to the stream of heavy-drug-stories that are being dri...

Gordon in the morning: Oh, mother

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The trouble with Gordon's apparent decision to allow Simon Cowell to write huge chunks of the Sun's gossip pages to promote JLS is, ...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Bookmarks: Some things to read on the internet - Filesharing

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Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo looks at Jammie Thomas' fine for filesharing, and lists some cheaper pastimes she could have tried: • Burn someon...

Madonna in surprising "in the right" story

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It's not often we find ourselves siding with Madonna against a bunch of people who are booing her, but you have to give her credit for f...

Chris Brown: The sort of thug only a mother could love

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I know, I know, it's hard for mothers to see the faults in their kids - after all, admitting fault in them is tacitly to concede the fla...

Griffin done: JLS

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The weak attempts to try and make JLS seem interesting continue. Consisting of "they drink alcohol" and "they drive cars...
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Mobos announce shortlist. Pretend to look interested.

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The annual MOBO awards - or the annual procession of self-defeat as it's also known - are just thirty four days away. The website has a ...

Black Eyed Peas: A plausible reason for turning to Islam

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The government of Malaysia has issued a ruling barring Muslims from attending a Kuala Lumpur gig this September. They're worried that t...
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Gordon in the morning: Not a Lott to add

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How are the attempts to get people to head off to the newsagent to buy a proper, paper product going over at Bizarre? Today they make a good...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Flagging

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Apparently, they've banned flags from Reading and Leeds this year, and Melvin Benn had suggested they introduce the ban at Glastonbury a...
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Gordon in the morning 2: A little more on Megan Fox

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Just further to Gordon's big scoop this morning , about Megan Fox being Catwoman: The Times' Blockbuster Buzz pours cold water on th...

Festival axed: Beachdown goes down

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Brighton's Beachdown Festival has been pulled. Organisers have statemented: “It is with immense personal regret that the Directors of B...
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Poppa Zune flees Microsoft

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Chris Stephenson, who has handled what's grandly being called "the global marketing" for Zune, has quit Microsoft for a role m...
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The Early Bell: Andy shares first demo

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Tucked into Andy Bell's online biography is something midway between a rarity and a historical curiosity: some of the demo he made when...

Gordon in the morning: What's new, pussycat?

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For some reason, nobody at The Sun has deemed Gordon's story about Megan Fox playing Catwoman worthy of putting behind a "buy the ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Simon Cowell calls the cops

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Are we really to believe that 'hackers' are 'hacking' into Simon Cowell's computers ? Simon Cowell is mad that "Don...

UK Music: "We don't want to get our hands dirty"

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Music Week's coverage of Mandelson's yacht rules includes an unnamed UK Music spokesperson. In the middle of the clapping and giggl...

Twittergem: Liam Gallagher

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Thanks both to James P (via email) and Ben Frost ( in the comments ) for pointing out the especially delicious about today's Sun coverag...

Embed and breakfast man: Fanfarlo

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Always nice to hear of a new track from Fanfarlo; all the more so when it's supported by a none-more-Paul-Daniels clip of escapology. Ne...
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Downloadable: Simon Joyner

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Not the one off the US cop show. If you listened to Peel much during the, ooh, last decade or so of his career, you'll at the very least...
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Feargal Sharkey calls for calm

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In the light of the sudden and clumsy Geffen Yacht proposals for punishing unlicensed filesharers, Feargal Sharkey popped up on the BBC Five...
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