I mean, we already knew this, but consider this gem : @shanegreer @wallaceme It's like Boris liking the Clash. How can he listen to something which is fundamentally opposed to everything he is? I think she's actually fucking serious, too. I'd like to point out to the Dishonourable Member (and I use the term in its most ribald sense!) for Mogadishu East that not everyone defines themselves completely...
Back in 1984 or so, in the heady days of Phoenix gay hot spot Hotbods, you could count on seeing a young guy decked out like Boy George , with an LP on his head for a hat and plenty of rag-cloth dreadlocks. Everyone called him “Trashdance”, and I don’t think anyone ever knew his real name. I thought of “Trashdance” when I talked to actor Ben Martin , who plays George in...
Soul Inside (UK Number 16 September 1983) In 1983 Marc Almond, being Marc Almond, had announced he was retiring, aged 27. 27 years later he's still going strong and better than ever, but just after the letter to every mag and newspaper had sealed Soft Cell's doom they released the first single from their last (brilliant) album This Last Night in Sodom called Soul Inside . They were already massive...
UK Spandau Ballet's reunion tour, takes in arenas in Dublin, London, Manchester and Liverpool before moving on to mainland Europe, finishing in March in Madrid's Palacio Vistalegre. Singer Tony ...
Jim Carrey has switched on the Christmas lights in Oxford Street along with a host of other celebrities. The actor, who plays Scrooge in an upcoming performance capture-adaptation of A Christmas Carol, was joined in London by Peter Andre, The Saturdays and Spandau Ballet. Carrey told a source: "It feels great to be a part of all this tradition. "I want to thank the people of Britain for the...
Absolute have announced plans to launch an 80s station on the internet and DAB in London. Absolute 80s aims to be a "nostalgia trip" for 30- to 54-year-olds, playing 80s pop from the likes of the Human League, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Duran Duran, Prince, ABC, Depeche Mode, Blondie and Bon Jovi. The new station will operate as a jukebox format, without DJs, while the evening playlist will...
Join Dereck and Stephen at 9-00am this coming Saturday for another four hours of solid gold memories. At 9-00am they will flash you back to the charts on the 7 th November 1964, as well as the music, you will hear the news from October of that year and maybe a competition where you could win a CD or DVD, (one of the CD’s up for grabs this week is the new one from the reformed Spandau Ballet)....
A new review of Brian Dillon's Tormented Hope appears today in The Guardian : Dillon's subject, though, isn't simple physical deterioration but rather the tricks the mind plays on the body - or hypochondria. In his accounts of nine individual sufferers (including James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, and Marcel Proust), Dillon shows how often work is connected...
Clockwise from top right: Fancy A Pint Best Pub winners, sandwich at Ottolenghi , Camden Market , Normansfield Hospital Entertainment Hall The week's most popular posts, and a round-up of what's happening around London In the news: Ian, the angriest Tube worker in the world, resigned Boris' idle talk of an 'Eiffel Tower' on the Olympics site drew mirth Londoners waste £325 million on Facebook,...
(Pic: Roz H) Is Kev Willsher kicking the ball or has the ball sent him flying backwards like a cartoon baddie, into what one hopes will be a large pile of cardboard boxes? Examining Willsher Kev Willsher didn't want to listen to what Spandau Ballet were telling him. Not now. If he really was gold or indestructible, whatever that meant, why was he having to lay dead still in a cramped tube, in order...