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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Turntable turns off
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Turntable.FM, the music sharing-streaming-discovery service which has had everyone excited for the last week, has blocked the world except t...
Bookmarks - Internet stuff: Lou Reed
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It's not all Glastonbury today. I suggest you have a quick look at Lou Reed's New York Mysteries , as drawn by Krent Able: Look, we...
Glastonbury 2011: Crushing dissent, deflating balloons,
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The Telegraph headline on the story about the U2 tax protest is almost as disgraceful as the way the festival behaved: Violent scenes brea...
Glastonbuy 2011: Press round-up
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The miserable weather made it hard for press photographers to find much to celebrate on site yesterday, so Gordon Smart in The Sun is reduc...
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Glastonbury 2011: Legal highs and lows
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Yesterday, Micheal Eavis was bristly . Well, he's always bristly, what with the beard and all, but mainly he was bristly about the idea ...
Glastonbury 2011: View from the sofa - U2
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Strange scheduling on the BBC, who split U2's set across BBC Two and Four. Presumably the thinking here was that U2 were too big not to ...
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Glastonbury 2011: View from the sofa - Morrissey
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Who would have thought that the first act to really cope well with the demands of Glastonbury would be grumpy old Morrissey, eh? He managed ...
Glastonbury 2011: View from the sofa - Various bands
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This year's BBC coverage from Glastonbury seems a little flat this year - the first slew of bands shown on BBC Three seemed to floating ...
Friday, June 24, 2011
Daily Mail drives coach, horses, large camera van through Pink's request
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Twenty-four hours ago, Pink asked politely to be left alone by the Paparazzi. The Mail has clearly seen the request , because it reprints...
Glastonbury 2011: Quick morning press round-up
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The Mail has heartbreaking news : Glaston-buried: Fans drown in sea of mud and the music hasn't even started yet Hang about, though - n...
Glastonbury 2011: No drug test run-off
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Dr John Ramsey is a disappointed man this weekend. No, he didn't buy tickets for the festival thinking it was some sort of Prince gig; h...
Glastonbury 2011: For Prince, it's 150,000 people bitterly disappointed in a field
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It's not really a surprise that Prince has an inflated sense of his own importance. But his anti-Glastonbury snark in the Guardian is s...
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Glastonbury 2011: Closing the gate after the cows have bolted
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Michael Eavis is a bit worried : Michael Eavis is reportedly worried that Glastonbury is becoming too middle class and elitist. The festi...
Twittergem: Andrew Collins
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Overheard, Glastonbury 1989, Dad to bored 8-year-old during Bhundu Boys: "Listen to it, Jason, it's VERY GOOD MUSIC!" - @Andr...
Even MySpace's parents don't care about their kid any more
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You know who else is following the herd narrative on MySpace? The people who created MySpace. Bloomberg Business Week kicks the corpse : ...
Gordon in the morning: Mr Roarke! The plane, the plane!
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Howard Donald has bought a seaplane , although he can't fly. Yes, a seaplane. This might show that Donald has more money than sense, a...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Pink versus the Paparazzi
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Pink has flogged photos of her baby to the media. But... it's not for money (she's given the cash to charity). It's in a bid to ...
Metallica: Everyone gets a bag with a torch, a CurlyWurly, a book of stamps...
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Yes, you might want to make it sound amazing, Metallica Official Website : "It all started when Kirk mentioned that his next-door neig...
Embed and breakfast man: Tift Merritt
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There's a lushly illustrated piece over on Brooklyn Vegan recording Tift Merritt's show in Madison Square Park. Fancy a taste? He...
Glastonbury 2011: U2 fight! Oh... no, they don't
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Spinner have an eyecatching headline on their story about U2 prepping to spoil Glastonbury: U2 Are Infighting About Glastonbury Appearance...
Gordon in the morning: Crimes and allegations
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Curious - Bizarre does carry Richard White's story that Amy Winehouse was "pushed back" on stage in Belgrade when she tried t...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Glastonbury 2011: When is it on the Red Button?
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Usefully, the BBC Internet Blog has published a sort of schedule for what will be tucked away behind Press Red during the Glastonbury weeke...
Glastonbury 2011: David Hepworth spots the flaw
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The whole post should be read , but David Hepworth sums up what's wrong with Glastonbury now in the title alone: People used to go to r...
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Glastonbury 2011: Beyonce takes on the Queen
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To be fair to Gordon, the covers Beyonce is planning to do down on the farm aren't that secret, given that she'd played both of the...
Gordon in the morning: The Bionic Bono
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Gordon gets himself in the mood for Glastonbury by fawning a bit over Bono : U2 will introduce "BONO 2.0" to 170,000 punters when...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
You remember how angry the sexualisation of culture makes the Daily Mail?
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Better not show the Mail this , then, it'll blow a fuse: Last month pop star Rihanna shocked when she pulled a female fan on stage and ...
Four Turntables and a likely label moan
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All Things D has been scrabbling about to work out how sharing-surprising-streaming music service Turntable works without a deal with the ma...
Downloadable: CSS
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Ooh, just when I was mentally shifting CSS into the "I guess they went and got proper jobs or something" file, who returns but CSS...
Dave Davis: Dreamreader
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For reasons that I can't still can't quite follow, Dave Davis of The Kinks is offering to interpret your dreams . So, for example,...
Gordon in the morning: Wringing hands
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In the run-up to Amy Winehouse's gig in Belgrade, it looked very much like Gordon Smart was being fed stories from her management with t...
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