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Misanthrope And Glory (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hambi & The Dance, Delta 5, The Lost Loved Ones - just three of the bands I thoroughly enjoyed - and paid to see - around 25 years ago. Even at the time I was aware they were highly unlikely to enjoy mass market success of any description. Not because they lacked distinction, ability, personality or charm, but because it was so bloody hard to arrive on the higher rungs of the music industry. The...
Olga Loves YuЯi (Free subscription) | yesterday
Olga and I have been on an exercise kick this year. I always bring my iPod with me everywhere, so taking it to the gym is a given. Have you ever noticed that songs you have in a playlist or have earmarked for a workout do not always work for you? For me, a song I like for reasons other than the beat may totally throw off my treadmill mojo when shuffling up. And from a workout perspective, that can...
Scooter McGavin's 9th Green (Free subscription) | yesterday
Quote of the Week : Well, actually he’s the idiot, he fell in love to a break up song. (Izzy LaFontaine, Modern Family ) Song of the Week : True – Spandau Ballet ( Modern Family ) Big News of the Week : A Melancholy Happy Trails to Ken Ober : Every once and a while you hear about a death that makes you feel like part of your childhood died with them. That happened a couple of weeks ago...
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | yesterday
It was Phil & Claire's anniversary & Claire struggled to get Phil a present but eventually persuaded a washed up rock star to play in their living room not realizing she picked the wrong band. Cameron & Mitchell decided they needed a night out & went out with their friend Sal who had a problem with lily as she has come between them & finally Jay had all the kids over for a sleepover...
AlbumArtExchange Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Soft Cell : Bedsitter, originally uploaded by See Gee. Related articles: GIG REVIEW: Marc Almond (yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk)...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Stand by for scandal. Sadie Frost, the fashion designer and ringleader of London's notorious "Primrose Hill Set", is soon to pen her tell-all memoirs. Those involved with the project are promising "an amazing story" with "all the gossip" about Frost's two marriages (the actress married Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp when she was 16 and then Jude Law, with whom she has three...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
ACTOR Jude Law, Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp and the Primrose Hill set must be quivering in their boots as it emerges that Sadie Frost is releasing her autobiography.
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Of course we at WOW absolutely worship Pete Burns. He's an absolute goddess. But we had to laugh at The Daily Mail headline: "It's Hard to Smoke a Cigarette if You're Pete Burns" with the accompanying pic ( left ). "Eighties singer Pete Burns shows how smoking a cigarette can be a real drag." the article trumpets. "The former Dead or Alive frontman, who has undergone extensive...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
To a TV executive, I’d imagine the phrase “special guest stars Elizabeth Banks and Edward Norton” would conjure up images of creative brilliance and ratings gold. But in actual practice, the stunt casting of the former as a boozy child hater and especially the latter as dreary Spandau Ballet bassist Izzy LaFontaine, threatened to derail
What's Alan Watching? (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Spoilers for last night's "Modern Family" coming up just as soon as I slut it up with Driving Miss Daisy... The concept of sweeps months (using November, February and May to help set ad rates for the next year) is outdated and silly, but the networks still pay attention to them because their affiliates do, and that means we get a certain amount of traditional sweeps stunt programming, like...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Filed under: OpEd , Episode Reviews , Reality-Free , Modern Family (S01E08) I don't know if enough credit is being given to the child actors on this show. All four are doing top-notch work... five if you count Lily. We already knew that Rico Rodriguez is amazing as Manny, but so little is being said about the Dunphy children. They haven't had as much screen time, yet, as really anyone else on the...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There's one thing that "Great Expectations" gets exactly right. Anniversary presents given by spouses to each other suffer from an inevitable asymmetry. In my marriage, Noel plays the role of Phil, thinking up interesting and extravagant gift combinations, always waiting in vain for reciprocation in kind. I play the role of Claire, giving coupons for hugs, "which are usually free, but...
Lets have a cocktail (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
When I was a youngster, I was a bit of a late bloomer. And by "bit" I certainly mean I was the last one in the door to puberty. In 7th grade, I finally became a woman, or in reality, an already hormonal girl suddenly with a reason to buy feminine products. My older brother had a friend that I had a mad mad crush on. I would always ask my brother about him. He was at our house a lot so I made...
The more I know about you (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Just a little note to say that setting aside the crap venue and awful facilities at the O2 Spandau Ballet were really very very good and far better than we all thought they would be. Tony Hadley in dark suit rambled about the stage like a demented shark alternately growling and cooing the wonderful lyrics to their beautiful anthems. Each line supported in riposte by the most fabulous sax music bringing...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
After years of sneery criticism, old prejudices about the suburbs are being replaced with the notion that they are a source of pride After years of having derision heaped on it, suddenly suburbia is all the rage. Lots of people's writing is secretly biographical and my interest in suburbia, as seen on this site and elsewhere , is no exception. I reacted against growing up in the outer west London...
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