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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Fictionalpopstarinspirationobit: Josie DeCarlo

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Earlier this month, Josie DeCarlo died . She was married to Don DeCarlo, comic book creator. One time, on a cruise, she dressed as a cat, wh...

Musical Youth must pass on The Dutchie

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Given that you couldn't move at the time for people pointing out that Pass The Dutchie used to be a song about drugs, the real surprise ...
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Gordon in the morning: JLS bring their own sunshine

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Gordon was very excited by Sport Relief last night: JLS hitched a ride on a high-speed water taxi to get between their Sport Relief appear...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Radiohead: Can't keep touts out

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Radiohead were pretty clear: they didn't want electrotouts ViaGoGo selling their tickets on at a profit. Indeed, they even did a deal wi...
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James Dean Bradfield: Sweatin' out my soul on the radio

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For the next couple of weeks, James Dean Bradfield is sitting in for Bethan Elfyn on Radio Wales of a Saturday night.

Bookmarks: Neil Tennant

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Humanizing The Vacuum has exhumed Neil Tennant's 1992 Details piece in praise of hate: Positivity is fundamentally middle-class. It’s ...

Gordon in the morning: Cowell edits himself into sex tape

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It's right, of course, that Tulisa shouldn't be dropped from The X Factor because someone else is selling a video of her having sex....
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Gordon in the morning: Taped

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There's an unfortunate juxtaposition on Gordon's pages this morning: That's the only amusing moment in something of a grim morn...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Cud-jet 2012: Only A Prawn In Whitby

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This seems to have been lifted from a Festive Fifty rundown: That concludes the 2012 Cud-jet. It's affordable, it's enjoyable, a...

Cud-jet 2012: Neurotica

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From late-night rolling Gary Crowley popsmear The Beat:

Cud-jet 2012: BBC Leeds interview

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Let's just a pause a moment to look inside the heads of Cud, via this Look Out interview:

Cud-jet 2012: Art! Live

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From their prime, a 1987 live performance:

Cud-jet 2012: I've Had It With Blondes Live

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From the 2010 reunion Brixton Hootenanny gig:

Cud-jet 2012: You Sexy Thing

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No, no, Carl: You sexy thing:

Cud-jet 2012: Lola / Hey! Wire

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Snipped from the legendary Transmission late-night indiefest, two rarely-spotted Cud promo videos:

Cud-jet 2012: Rich & Strange

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As alternative programming, if you can't bring yourself to watch George Osborne, No Rock And Roll Fun is proud to bring you the 2012 Cud...

Gordon in the morning: Just tee off

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Not only is Gordon Smart doing the pointless golf thing again this year, but he's now convinced that it's such an important event, h...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

A Brilleaux idea

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You'll have online petitions shoved at your on an almost hourly basis of course - 'save the pickles!'; 'ban fretwork!'; ...

Beats buys MOG

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MOG, which those of you with longer memories will recall as plotting to turn music blogs into pure gold, is going to be bought up by Beats ,...

Gordon in the morning: Fake

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Oh, simply everybody who, in a low light might look a little like someone famous has a sex tape, darling: The quotes around 'fake' ...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Gordon in the morning: Weight a minute

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Gordon claims this morning that Adele is on some sort of a diet . Really? How does he know? A source said... Oh, so it's almost certa...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Twittergem: Dean Friedman

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Very, very well played, sir: #hmhb Half Man Half Biscuit: Guess whose bastard son's father just announced his UK Tour Dates? Huh? Go ...

Bob Geldof: Well, tonight, thank God, it's mine instead of yours

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Who was the keynote speaker at the annual global gathering of Private Equity firms in Berlin last month? Why, it was Bob Geldof. Not ju...

This week just gone

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The most-read things so far this month: 1. Happy birthday, NME 2. Noel Gallagher would bring back TOTP so he'd have something to comp...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Bookmarks: Jubilee

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There's a great piece on WFMU 's Beware Of The Blog about Derek Jarman's Jubilee; the ironic way that Vivienne Westwood complain...

Gordon in the morning: Not with a bang, but with a Twitter

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Oddly, Gordon has detailed Ian Garland for today's plum job , cutting a pasting tweets between former members of N-Dubz to pad out the ...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Spotify insist they are the near-mythical iTunes killer

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Spotify is going to outstrip iTunes. In a couple of years. According to Spotify : Speaking at the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) conferen...

Gordon in the morning: Harry Styles is the John Lennon of our age

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Yesterday, Gordon Smart tried to get us excited in the idea of some sort of battle for America between One Direction and The Wanted. It lo...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Hotels broadcast, dentists don't - official

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The European Court of Justice has offered a couple of rulings which helps firm up the rules on what constitutes broadcasting . An Irish ho...

Gennaro Castaldo watch: Game on

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Given that HMV has the healthy prognosis of an asthmatic in a dust storm, you might think they'd show a bit of sympathy for rival GAME, ...
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