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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Bookmarks - Internet stuff: Probe
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Anyone with ears who ever spent time in Liverpool will appreciate Out On Blue Six's piece about Probe : In the early nineties, Probe mo...
I'm not going to trade on being Chris Martin's sister, says Chris Martin's sister
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It's impressive that Nicola Martin is determined to make her acting career on her own without any help from being the sister-of-the-more...
Synthobit: Charles Haddon
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Confused and sad news coming from Belguim this morning, with reports of the death of Charles Haddon . Haddon was lead singer with Ou Est L...
The Kings Of Leon: Punch the clock
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Blimey, the process of making a Kings Of Leon album sounds just crazy : "It was kind of a depressing experience. If we'd made it i...
Downloadable: Salli Lunn
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I was going to spend some time trying to work something up out of Sally Lunn being rhyming slang for a bun, and them coming from Denmark, ho...
Gordon in the morning: Head for the shelters, everyone
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Once in a while, Gordon Smart has some important information : JAMIROQUAI have signed a new deal with Mercury Records and will release albu...
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Madonna offered ridiculous money to fast-forward career to obvious conclusion
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Clearly, claims that Madonna has been offered a billion dollars to do a five year Las Vegas residency are based on deciding the deal must b...
Is that a tear in your eye, Louis Walsh?
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Like a man sobbing as he throws kittens down the well, Louis Walsh regrets having to let Shayne Ward go : "I thought Shayne had the X ...
Wyclef Jean: He's Haiti's Obama
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And we use "Haiti's Obama" in the sense of 'being challenged to prove he actually is a citizen and thus eligible for the P...
Comes With Music now comes without Nokia brand
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Comes With Music - you remember, it killed iTunes a couple of years back - is no longer going to be branded with Nokia. They're lobbing ...
My nights with Robbie Williams
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If you can get past the strangeness of someone who is now married to Sir Clive Sinclair having once been Robbie Williams' girlfriend, th...
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Gordon in the morning: We're all in this together
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It's a time of tightened budgets and headcount culls, and even the Beckhams are feeling the pinch. They're doing the sackings part ,...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
British Council holds party with dodgy radio station
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The British Council is a great thing, and supporting culture around the world is a noble endeavour. It's just a pity they can't be...
Downloadable: All My Friends & Oh No Yoko
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Either that, or Megan Fox has recorded a single called All My Friends And Oh No Yoko. Which, I fear, nobody would try to talk her out of doi...
Prince Harry: He's like the Simon Cowell of aristocrats
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Say what you like about The X Factor and all the other programmes that ape The X Factor, but at least they offer a chance to people into a f...
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Gordon in the morning: What's the buzz?
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This morning, Gordon has cleared his pages to make way for... well: can you guess? Jesus Christ Hoofer Stars Yes, the big scoop is, erm, ph...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Ringo Starr's house is coming down
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You know, I might have given the impression over the last few years that I believed the "saving" of Ringo Starr's house by Flo...
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Bono's friends: How to save the music industry
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This should be interesting. Paul McGuinness, manager of Dutch-for-tax-purposes band U2, has decided to tell us, via the medium of GQ , how t...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Downloadable: Manic Street Preachers
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There's a new album out in a few short days . This track isn't on it: [via Soundcloud ]
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Rolling Stone: better late than never
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Probably only ten years after the rest of the world, Rolling Stone has decided that the war on file sharing was a bad move , and sent an iro...
Gordon in the morning: Clancy clash
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How is Abby Clancy "coping" with whatever it is that Peter Crouch is supposed to have done? She's doing brilliantly ; I know...
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Funkobit: Robert Wilson
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The bassist with The Gap Band, Robert Wilson, has died . Wilson joined his two brothers' band after their first bassist quit, and had ...
The Sex Pistols: Rotten stench
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Had they not chopped him into parts and sold him in Punk Reliquary boxes, Sid Vicious would be turning in his grave, again. Here's The S...
Hotpants Romance weekend: Emails
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Just a little late for the weekend, so we'll sneak in the video for the new Hotpants Romance single: [Part of Hotpants Romance weeke...
RIAA attempt to recast net neutrality debate as being about... oh, guess
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As Google and Verizon flirt with each other and try to explain why making some content more equal than others is good news (for people other...
Depressing news for queer youth
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Or, equally possibly, depressing news about queer youth. Stonewall had an online poll to pick GLBT youth's best role model . Will Youn...
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Edith Bowman: Rock critic
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Edith Bowman unhappy with the current state of pop : [She] hit out at current pop acts for offering nothing different, reports the Daily St...
Oh, if only this had taken place under Chatham House rules
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Scouting For Girls frontman Roy Stride has revealed that the group argued over The Hoosiers. Good lord. It's like the comb arguing over...
Scissor Sisters: a load of old arse
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How to explain the barely-there sales of the supposed big Scissor Sisters comeback album, barely managing to scrape together 50,000 people i...
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Lady GaGa contact lenses: They'll poke yer face
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Lady GaGa is trying to blind you , warns Newsbeat: US warning over 'Lady Gaga' contact lenses Blimey - what are they, then? Optici...
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