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If ever a band divided opinion, it’s U2. Some see them as the ultimate modern rock band, able to channel their obvious passion into classic songwriting. A band who connect with their audience and always seem to be able to fit into the prevailing mood in music. Others see them as clumsy practitioners of vapid, [...]
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A steadfast and indisputable truth of the Universe is that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Similarly, anything a bloke tells you in a pub is gospel. Once you realise this, it opens up a plethora of facts and figures which, while sharing the common factor of being singularly useless, are nonetheless mildly interesting. Many [...]
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Good day to you all, my fabulous friends, and I hope this Friday sees you in fine fettle. What better way to celebrate entering our second year as a going concern than by dipping our toes in the traditional waters of the Friday 5. Yes, the precursor to the weekend which we take some vague [...]
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People, as Depeche Mode once so sagely noted, are people. Similarly unarguable are the merits of the Friday 5. ‘Ver 5′, as no-one calls it, can cover pretty much anything; it’s subject matters are as free range as Jamie Oliver’s dream chicken. Today we felt we’d go a bit Yellow Pages and prove sometimes we’re [...]
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U2, returning with new album ‘No Line On the Horizon’, really are the embodiment of the Rock Superpower. Though they were by no means the first, they really defined the idea of a stadium band and the megalithic album every two years. If that sounds formulaic, well, it is, but in all fairness it’s their [...]
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There is nothing wrong with one having convictions. (Well, morally at least. Actual convictions can tend to have a ruinous impact on one’s life, as Boy George is about to find out. And it’ll mean when he sings his most famous song, he’ll be telling fibs. Singing about not having convictions without conviction when he [...]
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We are, in these isles, a cynical bunch. There are myriad factors behind this fact, but a fact it surely is. Yet even in Britain, one can detect the spreading of a little bit of optimism after last weeks US Election. One week on, it still feels a tad surreal but no less amazing. That [...]
Filed under: General Stuff | Tagged: Rolling Stones, Jesus and Mary Chain, jo Whiley, Oasis, Glastonbury, Madonna, Glasvegas, chris martin, George Michael, bono, queen, amy winehouse, rod stewart, america, Obama, optimism, lembit opik, sex, drugs, rock n roll, paul rogers, robbie williams, morrisey, proclaimers, bedingfield, Seinfeld, P{reston, Simon Amstell, Walmart, Sarah Palin, all about eve | 6 Comments »
By Contributor Scant Regard; “You say you want a revolution” sang John Lennon. And, in some ways at least, we think everyone does want to save the world. This is truest for a certain breed of music star, fuelled by a strange mix of ego and hubris, er sorry, humility. So here we recount for [...]
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A issue which often vexes me, dear reader, concerns what will happen immediately after my benign dictatorship assumes power of the Good Ship Great Britain. No, not the economy, which is headed to the toilet anyway. No, not Iraq, as the love-child of Albert Einstein and Kofi Annan couldn’t figure that one out. A much [...]
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