80s genius!

Does anyone remember a song called Live It Up by Mental As Anything? It’s an underrated classic, I feel. It just came on my iPod and had me dancing round the living room like a mad thing. Just had to share the love. And to complete the 80s dance-a-thon, the next song to come on [...]

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Review: Longview, Manchester Roadhouse, 27/9/08

It’s sad when a good relationship goes bad. You move forward, but your beloved doesn’t. The little things they do start to annoy you, when once they charmed you. You start to feel awkward, embarrassed even, when you are out together. You start to wonder what you ever saw in them in the first place. [...]

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Robbie Williams: An Apology

Back in October 2006 I wrote a less than complimentary track-by-track review of Robbie Williams’s seventh studio album Rudebox for the paper. Admittedly, I didn’t have much time to put it together – just a quick whizz through each track on the digitally-protected “copy this and die” press only download – but I was decidedly [...]

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Top of the Pops Part 2

As promised in my previous post, here are my top ten songs! Unlike the albums, this list probably wouldn’t change much if you asked me at a different time. The rules: only one song per artist! 1. Who Knows Where The Time Goes? - Fairport Convention - well, this song is just bee-yoo-tiful. It almost always brings [...]

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Top of the Pops Part 1

Being a great fan of Nick Hornby’s book High Fidelity, it’s only natural that I am also a fan of lists and Top Tens! I found a kindred spirit in my similarly square friend N, and now we regularly spend happy lunchtimes sharing our top ten albums/songs/films/books etc! Today was albums – the rules: only one [...]

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