Just what the world needed![…]

“Ob-La-Di is cracking – it’s about gender reversal and other things and is very philosophical – the title means ‘life goes on’ – and it does.” – cheap PR fun at BBC Talking Point.[…]

Nothing to see here…
…but Popular is, how you say, ‘back’. And it has something that Alan tells me I shouldn’t actually call a graph.[…]

The literal mening of “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day”was made clear on Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway this weekend. On an evening where half the country was out at an organised fireworks display, they finished off[…]

POP FACTOR: 342 CONTROVERSY RATING: 247
Simultaneously lazy and ballsy, a rum way to end a pop career but weeks away from its brief radio life at least it sounds like a footnote, so not as undignified as it might have been. As a track on one of the[…]

We went to Regent Street yesterday to see Busted switch on the Christmas lights, little suspecting that we were to be plunged into a Conservative party rally. “You asked us to join the Euro / AND WE SAID NO!” sang the three well-off young[…]

Dark Carmodism*:
1992: UK Election, Major campaigning for re-election, No.1 = “Stay” by Shakespeare’s Sister 2004: US Election, Bush campaigning for re-election, Eminem releases “Encore”**
*(Carmodism has never been pr[…]

My Sick Obsession
…with Band Aid III continues apace – yesterday I was seriously considering setting up a special blog for news of the single. This despite the unavoidable fact that the record will be rubbish. Not because “Do They K[…]

Sometimes it is nice being on promoters and agents mailing lists. Look how they spin the disappointing news that Dave Pearce has lost his weekday Radio One show (the part in parentheses is particularly heartbreaking):
Dave Pearce’s diary is now[…]

When you’re in a hole…
keep digging.[…]