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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Gordon in the morning: Gag reflex

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Given that much of the attention to the Tulisa sex tape was down to the massive coverage of it in Gordon's showbiz pages, now that MC Ul...

G4S actually rocks, you know

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Adding itching powder to the main misery of G4S, the security company which has to ring up the army to help them out, was the discovery of t...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Gordon in the morning: Newton Faulkner throws the awe away

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Newton Faulkner has turned up at The Sun to do one of their sessions , and tells one of those anecdotes that is meant to be about one thing,...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Sing me to sleep: Corey Taylor conks out on stage

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Let's face it - who wouldn't feel themselves slipping gently to sleep as Slipknot churned out the same songs for the billionth time...

Gordon in the morning: Stacey Solomon - the sitcom

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Yes, it's true - fresh from her, um, success playing herself in those Iceland commercials, Stacey Solomon is having a sitcom built aroun...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

On the night Hank Williams Jr went to town

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Hank Williams Jr's bid to simultaneously paint himself as some sort of victim and out-Nugent Ted Nugent continues with a Rolling Stone i...

Moyles not on the market

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So, what now for Chris Moyles? Radio 1 Controller Ben Cooper has told MediaGuardian that he won't be released back into the wild : ...

They call me MISTER Grimshaw

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When I heard that they were bringing one of the Radio One Specialist music show presenters in for breakfast, I was surprised. A little thril...

Moyles packs up

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Chris Moyles is finally leaving the Radio One Breakfast Show in September, or "a good five years after he should have gone." Th...
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Gordon in the morning: Cash in the Oasis attic

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How does Noel Gallagher feel when Beady Eye play Oasis songs? He's not worried, he claims : “Beady Eye have my permission to play my so...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Stock, Aitken & Waterlogged: Hit Factory flooded out

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The rain that has been falling has washed away the Hyde Park Hit Factory minifestival , carrying away with it the prospect of Jason Donovan ...

Having destroyed Spin, the internet steps in to save it

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Spin Magazine, the American one that isn't Rolling Stone, has been sold to Buzzmedia , webhome of Stereogum and Hype Machine amongst oth...

Chumbawambaover

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Chumbawamba are calling it a day after thirty years of spitting, punky, political tunes (and that strange period where they were briefly the...

Gordon in the morning: Barlow hugs the Lord

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Given how toe-curling that Jubilee song was, can anyone be anything other than mortified by the news that celebrity tax-dodge-loopholer-expl...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Rounder 'bout the end

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I was born in Brighton, and grew up there; when I was misspending my youth, and spending my pocket money, I'd make my way down The Lanes...

Gordon in the morning: Be a little bit wiser, baby

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Mel C has broken up with her partner, which need not detain us here. The headline on Stuart Pink's story should, though : Two Become On...
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Sunday, July 08, 2012

Doctor Boyle

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I know that honorary degrees are one part 'rewarding the worthy' to one part 'let's remind the wider world that our universi...
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What the pop papers say: Heaton rifled

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So, welcome, then, new NME editor Mike Williams. He officially put on the eyeshade on Monday 25th, so this week's edition is his first o...

This week just gone

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The ten most popular No Rock pages on social networking sites so far this year have been: 1. Noel Gallagher remembers how great it was whe...
Saturday, July 07, 2012

Clap Your Hands, Say Goodbye

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The departure of Tyler Sargent and Robbie Guertin from Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah has led to a mathematically accurate but slightly strange N...

Countryobit: Andy Griffith

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Although best known as an actor for the Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, it's worth remembering that Andy Griffith was also an active mus...

Slayer: Apparently writing lyrics is a quick process

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Kerry King is writing some new words for a Slayer record. Surprisingly, he's not blocking out much time in his diary : "If I get o...

One Direction: It's like Perez Hilton has a time machine or something

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Perez Hilton has gone right out on a limb and suggested that shoddy boy band One Direction might not last : "I would not be surprised ...

Count: Whitney Houston song used for good

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Count were shooting a video on the streets, when a guy came up and proposed marriage. He didn't get to become Gabbi McPhee's husband...

Destiny's Child: They're coming back... eventually. Possibly.

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Destiny's Child are back, back, back. Actually, they're not. In fact, all we're being promised by Beyonce's dad Matthew Kn...
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CBGB festival closed as former bassist 'stabs' replacement

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While Bloc was falling apart in London, New York's highest-profile festival was also suffering a shutdown of its own. It appears that fo...

Def Leppard clone themselves

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Def Leppard have got the hump with Universal taking the lions' share - or, rather, the Leppard's share - of their royalties, and hav...
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Gordon in the morning: Dappy is the Lord Longford of our age

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Tucked into the showbiz section today is news of Dappy issuing calls for justice : The Sun revealed that a message in his new video out on ...

Cocked Bloc: Festival dissolves in confusion

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It sounded like a lovely idea: take over the Pleasure Gardens in Victoria Docks, London. Get a load of acts, from Snoop to Battles. Have som...
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Friday, July 06, 2012

Gordon in the morning: Decoding

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Gordon Smart's on top of his game, isn't he? Today he's running an analysis of Katie Holmes' behaviour in May . He reckons...
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