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The Brit Awards 2010: Britain‘s Got No Talent
17th February 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
As the Earl's Court glitterballs were setting on Robbie Williams' medley of (mostly) Guy Chambers-penned power pop standards, it was time to reflect on what the preceding two hours had delivered in terms of quality and entertainment. Not something that ITV1 viewers usually find themselves doing (which is just as well).
Robbie, bless him, looked bloated, lethargic and tired, which is nothing new, but it was something he shared with the... -
Rage Against the Machine 1, The Machine 2
22nd December 2009 | 2 comments | 2 people like this
When Jon and Tracy Morter created a Facebook campaign to challenge Simon Cowell's monopoly on the Christmas number one single, they did more than just engage an online community to make a point, they mobilized an army. With support from celebrity Twitterers (like comedian and writer Peter Serafinowicz) and no little media interest, more than half a million copies of Rage Against the Machine's 1992 hit 'Killing in the Name'...
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The S Word
8th December 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I paid for my ticket. There - in the first five words I've broken two rules. They're not even unwritten rules - they are very clearly written, and frequently: Never prejudice your subsequent comment by admitting bias and much more importantly, under no circumstances, do you ever (EVER) mention yourself in your piece.
Unless you're Hunter S Thompson. And I am not. If you were hoping I might have been then... -
Scarves, dark drinks and the Arctic Monkeys
17th November 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
In early 2006, a group of unassuming Sheffield lads released the album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. Like The Libertines a few years before and like Oasis a decade or more earlier, the Arctic Monkeys combined attitude, street-sharp humour, guitars and drums in a way that was somehow fresh and exciting at a time when it had seemed that all rock formula had been exhausted.
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Tea, Cake and The Scottish Song
9th November 2009 | 5 comments | 1 person likes this
Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand, like The Enemy's Tom Clarke, Maxïmo Park's Paul Smith and Reverend and the Makers' Jon McClure before them, seem humbled and a little bewildered at the scene laid out before them.
As it is every Saturday afternoon in the basement club at Manchester's Ruby Lounge, Xfm linchpin and Inspiral Carpet Clint Boon is hosting another family tea and cake affair. Tables are laid with... -
Tick… tick… BOOM
29th September 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
"My, how you've grown." Most childhoods are littered with this and similar proclamations from elderly relatives and, for most, the only appropriate response is to look coyly at one's shoes, wishing the moment past and certainly doing absolutely nothing to allude to the phrase's vaguely adult connotations.
But there's nothing coy about Sonic Boom Six. This year sees the ska-punk outfit celebrate their seventh birthday with the release of their third... -
The Deification of Florence Welch
7th September 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Florence Welch is 22 years old. Lungs, the debut album from her band Florence + the Machine, was released just six weeks prior to her August bank holiday weekend appearances at the Leeds and Reading festivals and was almost instantly nominated for the 2009 Mercury Music Prize.
With the ink barely dry on the album artwork and with only three singles having been released, how can it be then that, on...
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