OK, can we get the kiddie jokes about Denial being a river in Egypt out of the way right now? You’re all a bunch of big kids really…
OK, so we’ve hit the third single from the Sugababes’ Change album. It’s been confusing for the record buying public who aren’t sure now if the Sugababes are a pop group or a travelling fashion show. Certainly, between the videos for Change and Denial, you’d be forgiven for thinking that they were on the verge of launching a fashion range.
You know how hard it is being in the public eye? Well, try to imagine. You’re got the press constantly making up shit about you and taking your quotes out of context.
What’s worse, in this age of Web 2.0 and bands being able to communicate directly with their fans, it seems you can still send out mixed messages that confuse the hell out of everybody.
REM have announced that they will play four gigs in the UK later this year to promote their new album, Accelerate 
The mini tour will take in the Old Trafford in Manchester on 24 August, Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium the next day Southampton’s Rose Bowl on 27 August and will finish off at Twickenham Stadium, south-west London, on 30 August.
Tickets for the band’s UK gigs go on sale this Friday. Read more & comment »
I’ve long been a fan of The Jayhawks, discovering their music through a recommendation, then discovering to my disappointment that they’d split up years before.
So, my ears pricked up today when I heard that Gary Louris and Mark Olson, the brains behind The Jayhawks have come together to release a new album, Ready For The Flood. It even sounds like a Jayhawks type of title, doesn’t it?
Welcome back for another run down of the UK’s top ten! In this edition, I’m going to moan about how hard it is to write the chart run-down when the tunes stay the same each week.
Nickelback, Rihanna and Kelly Rowland have been hanging around the chart for weeks and weeks, and I have officially run out of things to say about these singles. So, spare me the mental block and fill in your own thoughts in the comments, eh?
I was a wee bit peeved to see so many drunken idiots both presenting and receiving awards at last night’s Brit Awards. I could barely understand a word Vic Reeves said, and Alan Carr’s gag about sticking a straw in Amy Winehouse’s beehive was tasteless and insulting to someone who’s obviously trying to get her career back on track.
We were wondering what the hell happened to Ozzy at one point in the proceedings, because he just disappeared. No offense, but Ozzy’s a liability - all that stammering and shuffling around - people are laughing at him, not with him, and it’s a bit like taking the piss out of someone with a disability.
Actually, it’s exactly like taking the piss out of someone with a disability.
Anyway, so Ozzy disappeared, and Sharon was a delightful cocktail of gobby and embarrassing, especially when she laid into Vic Reeves live on stage.
Then you had the Arctic Monkeys - resplendent in their country gentleman attire - but so utterly pickled that they had nothing intelligent to say. For a band who produce such sharp observations in their music, they let themselves down completely on stage last night.
And according to Chris Moyles, one member of Klaxons was actually unable to stand up during the press conference afterwards. Apparently the rest of the band had the good sense to be mortified, and ditched him for the interviews which came later.
There’s nothing wrong with getting a bit merry at an awards shindig, but the Brit Awards are supposed to be a celebration of the best talent we have on these islands.
You’d expect a bit of freaking professionalism from the establishment instead of backing up the myth that Britian is full of slobbering unintelligible drunks. Even our celebrities are wasted.
And the contrast between smart young acts like Mark Ronson and a nervous-but-sober Amy Winehouse was never so bloody apparent. The Brits organisers should be a little bit ashamed this morning that their choice (mostly of presenters) dragged the show to a low that even Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox couldn’t imagine.
His Holiness, Pope Bono and the other assorted members of U2 are holed up in their studio in Dublin working on material for a new album.
But don’t expect anything too amazing from them, they’re only trying to “break new sonic ground and deliver a masterpiece“ according to collaborator Daniel Lanois. And no classic U2 album would be complete without Brian Eno behind a curtain somewhere twiddling knobs and helping push things into the right creative direction.
Ouch. Of the two young ladies tipped for big things in 2008, Adele spent the last few weeks being denied her #1 by Basshunter. Then, just when their iron grip of that position slips, in nips Duffy and takes it effortlessly. That’s got to be annoying!
Not as annoying as that Nickelback single is becoming. Finally managed to eclipse How You Remind Me with a piece of novelty rock? Well done lads. Anyway, without further ado folks, here’s the UK Top 10 for the week.
According to Idolator, Nicole Scherzinger will be returning to her raunchy song and dance act after her solo career failed to set the charts alight.
Nicole’s decision to go solo after the Pussycat Dolls first album was something which shocked me. The Dolls had barely broken as an act, though admittedly Nicole was the only member of the group people recognised. Surely the music equivalent of premature ejaculation, Nicole decided that the time was right to go it alone.
I read an interesting piece over on ZME music speculating on a possible new Aerosmith album in the making. Apparently Joe Perry spoke on a New York radio show about his son’s band and the problems that have got in the way of a new Aerosmith record.
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