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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Information Is Beautiful: Life on the minimum wage

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Information Is Beautiful - the site that takes numbers and makes them pretty has pulled together a graphic which shows the activity a music...

Downloadable: UNKLE

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The men from UNKLE are flinging at you a free track, Caged Bird: It's intended to make you get all excited in advance of th...

The illustrated Hello: Charlie Parker

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Not Charles Parker, who produced the BBC's Radio Ballads, which led to the creation of songs like this one, written by Ewan McColl, and ...

Gordon in the morning: How many non-stories are there about N-Dubz?

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Dappy appears to treat women like a total arse; Gordon spins this as some sort of adventure story . I'm sure the characterisation of Dap...

Venuewatch: Korova on fire

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The Korova building on Hope Street, Liverpool was on fire earlier this morning , reports hopestreet.co.uk. The fire was bad enough to need n...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Metalobit: Peter Steele

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Type O Negative's singer, Peter Steele, has died , his bandmates have confirmed. The internet had killed him off before. In 2005, the ba...

Embed and breakfast man: Kids Of 88

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What would it sound like if Visage were working with the Pet Shop Boys? A bit like this, possibly - Kids Of 88 doing Just A Little Bit. It...

Gordon in the morning: All I got was a headful of heroin

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Gordon Smart has worrying news for the S Club Juniors , as Russell Brand wants to kill them: OUTSPOKEN RUSSELL BRAND has called for "te...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Gordon in the morning: Playground taunts

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You know what, Gordon Smart? Using the word 'lesbo' in a headline is low even by your standards. By the way: Brooke Vincent isn...
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Venuewatch: Jillys And Music Box

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Grim news from Manchester, where long-running twin venues Jillys Rockworld And The Music Box have gone into liquidation and are closing . T...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

White Rose Movement: The end of the movement

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Tomorrow and Thursday, it's your last chance to see the bloody brilliant White Rose Movement before the become one of this nation's ...
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Lost FM: Last FM does less

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It's not quite as apocalyptic as it sounds as first : Last.fm is retiring a feature whereby users could play any full song they like, an...
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BBC say 2Extra is just a isn't going to happen

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The BBC has poured a large bucket of cold water over the stories that 6Music will be saved and rebranded as Radio 2 Extra : In a brief state...

Darkness at 3AM: The Scissor Sisters return

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The 3AM Girls bring exciting news. The Scissor Sisters have made a brand new album. No, please, please , try and keep calm. After four year...

Gordon in the morning: It's the new Top 40 from Radio One

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You have to scroll quite a way, but there's an interesting story in Bizzare this morning . You have to get past the bombast and bits tha...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Liam Gallagher's swift comeback

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There is l'esprit d'escalier, and then there is l'esprit d'a month or so later. James P writes with news of Liam Gallagher: ...

We're all in this together: Cameron keen on Keane

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Having got themselves into a bit of a bate about Labour launching their manifesto in a hospital, sort of, you'd expect the Conservatives...

Vote Labour. Save 6Music. Perhaps.

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Gordon Brown hasn't quite added a 6Music twibbon to his election avatar, but he has offered his backing for the campaign to save the net...

Shirley Manson definitely back in music

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It's not exactly news , as she'd been talking about being back in the studio a couple of months ago, but talking to the Daily Recor...

Gordon in the morning: Astley crashes engagement party

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Let's not detain ourselves too long on the headline on Gordon's coverage of Paul Weller's engagement : Weller's the changing...
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Monday, April 12, 2010

Ringo blames money-grabbers for his withdrawal from autographs

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A couple of years ago, Ringo Starr made himself look a bit of a soft lad by taking to YouTube to tell fans he wouldn't sign anything any...

The illustrated Hello: Steve and Claire

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Another name check for pals of the band, and, thus, another chance to let the Beloved do their thing: [Part of ilustrated Hello ]

The illustrated Hello: Desmond Tutu

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Not, perhaps, the greatest tribute that Tutu has ever been given - once you've had the Nobel Prize, getting a chance to sit alongside Bi...

Dairylea and farewells: Supergrass put out to grass

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I never did like those claymation cows they've been using in Dairylea adverts for the last few years. So it's lovely to see Evil Cor...

Bitter Pills so sweet to swallow: 22-20s return

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Nobody was more upset than this household when the 22-20s called it a day. Four years ago now, that was. But they're back. Not in a reun...

Gordon in the morning: Scrappy Dappy do

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N-Dubz have got themselves in more bother : JUST days after I warned N-DUBZ to keep their wits about them, DAPPY is involved in a "code...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

What the pop papers say: NME reborn

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So, that new-look NME in more-or-less full, then. It's probably the least-worst redesign the title has had since it abandoned newsprint,...
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6Music: Telegraph claims survival plans exist

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There's three possibilities that might explain the Telegraph's story that 6Music will become Radio 2 Extra and, thus, be saved in s...

Malcolm McClaren: 'Killed by shopfittings'

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Young KIm has suggested that Malcolm McClaren might have been the unwitting author of his own demise . It's all down to the interior dec...

Susan Boyle: What you wish for

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Woman at end of long journey gets upset and swears when told her flight is delayed. That's what today's Sunday Mirror leads with . I...
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