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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Daniel Jones seems quite lovely

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news.com.au has caught up with Daniel Jones, the half of Savage Garden who didn't pursue a solo career. And he seems lovely: Lucrative...
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Simon LeBon has sympathy for One Direction

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Simon LeBon looks at One Direction. He know what they're going through. That was him, once. (Except Duran had to come up with ideas and ...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Maroon 5 no longer heading for China

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Maroon 5's planned dates in China aren't going to happen now. There's speculation as to why : No official explanation has been ...

The Times used to be a serious newspaper

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The horrible death of a child in an accident can be difficult. What's the correct way to react? How do treat the parents. Here's a...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

50 Cent? He WISHES he had 50 Cent

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50 Cent has declared himself to be bankrupt : In papers filed with the US bankruptcy court in Hartford, Connecticut, on Monday, 50 Cent, re...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Who says boyband members aren't bright?

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Faced with a demand for a £45 baggage fee when he tried to get on Easyjet with too much hand luggage, Rewind's James McElvar did what an...

This week just gone

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Flashback: What people were reading on No Rock ten five years ago today: 1. R Kelly video to be shown to jury 2. RIP: Daniel Cho 3. McFl...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Bookmarks: Wolf Alice

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There's an in-depth interview with the lovely Wolf Alice over on DIY : “Everything else is practice, in a way,” agrees Ellie. “I think ...

Grande apologises again; might have more work to do

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We've tried to stay aloof from Ariana Grande's whole ' licking doughnuts while saying I hate America ' incident; and the bot...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Blur hanging around

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The real disappointment about Damon Albarn having to be dragged off stage is that nobody actually pulled him off stage with a giant hook, a...

65daysofstatic won't be your project

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Catching up with a couple of stories from earlier in the week. First, the mighty 65daysofstatic were surprised to see themselves being named...

Ryan Jarman defends Courtney Love

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Ryan Jarman launches into a spirited defence of Courtney Love in a blog for the NME freesheet . There are a lot of grounds to call out peo...
Monday, July 06, 2015

NME for free

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The NME has confirmed, or admitted, that it is going to turn into a freesheet. It's a move that seems to be mashed up in some nonsense :...
Sunday, July 05, 2015

Gennaro Castaldo Watch: The stream flows uphill

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Our old friend, Gennaro Castaldo - now chief insight-piper at the BPI - has popped up in Silicon Republic making excited noises about how s...

Man expresses different opinion; Breitbart gets excited

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Greece is voting today on the referendum to decide exactly what their misery will smell like for the next few years, and naturally, there...

This week just gone

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Social entryists: Where people land when they come from social networks (so far this year): 1. PRS hiring criteria 2. Toyota bungle socia...
Friday, July 03, 2015

Twittergem: Like to like; retweet to retweet

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Embed and breakfast man: Flo Rida & Audrey Roberts

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It's what you've been waiting for - and by that I mean "you probably haven't been waiting for it" - Flo Rida and Audre...

Croonobit: Val Doonican

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Few of my generation would have been able to hear of the death of Val Doonican without feeling a type of Saturday night we've long sinc...
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I wonder how far down the whiteboard of names they got for this

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"Johnson, our campaign to encourage kids to jiggle about to keep fit - how are you getting on with finding a pop star to front it?...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Rose McDowall's solo album is coming back

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You know what? It's thirty sodding eight degrees outside and I'm hot, so I'm going to paste a press release in here and that...

When marketing fails

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"Righto, so Jane Zhang could be the first genuine global pop star from China. We're ready to roll out a tour building on the initia...

Angry nuns against Katy Perry

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The story of a group of nuns in LA who have sold their convent to a restauranteur, at the same time as the Church has sold it to somebody el...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Cameron might torpedo Glastonbury houses

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There's a shortage of affordable homes in the country. So it's brilliant that Michael Eavis is going to release a parcel of land in ...

Yesobit: Chris Squire

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Chris Squire, bassist with Yes, has died . The band released an official statement: It’s with the heaviest of hearts and unbearable sadne...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

Glastonbury 2015: How did Suede go down?

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Suede were astonishing last night - headlining the John Peel Stage. Obviously, having neither Lee Nelson or Kanye West on stage with them ga...

Glastonbury 2015: The impossible happened

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Who knew that, faced with Kanye West headlining the main stage, it was possible for the density of the self-regarding worn-out unwelcomeds t...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

What to do with the new space opened up by the moving Chart Show

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With The Chart Show disappearing down a hole round the back of old Mel's place ("moving to Friday teatimes"), Radio One sudden...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The music industry stands behind Taylor Swift

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Funniest sight of yesterday was a spokesperson from UK Music popping up on BBC News to praise the actions of Taylor Swift. Almost as if th...

Photographers versus Taylor Swift

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After Taylor Swift won the battle with Apple to ensure that artists get to make money from their work, a photographer asked why her photogra...
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