The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Is the independent festival on its way out? Seeing the Big Chill fall into the hands of a corporate giant feels like a symbolic moment, but it doesn't reflect the health of the UK festival scene. The Big Chill failed not because independent festivals can't survive, but because Chillfest moved its festival away from the event's original ethos – an event for people who used to go clubbing –...
ballacorkish.net (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I’ve spent so long drinking red wine and watching VH1’s Final Countdown: One Hit Wonders that it seems that I have left no time at all for a blog post. Bugger. The top three (as chosen by VH1) were: 3. Tasmin Archer’s 1992 hit Sleeping Satellite – she blames you for the moonlit sky. And the dream [...]
Talking Pish (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Here's a video of Edwyn Collins and Teenage Fanclub performing 'Dying Day' in Mono in September.
Medialoper (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Today’s links of interest: Gawker Destroyed Nikki Finke. So Why Doesn’t It Matter?We wondered if anyone else caught this. Turns out someone was paying attention. Edwyn Collins stopped from sharing his music onlineThis is sad and scary. Especially the part about Warner Brothers claiming to own something they don’t and not fixing it right away. Visually-Impaired-Gamer-Sues-SonyHmm,...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Saw Edwyn Collins at the Bloomsbury Ballroom last night and a very fine evening it was. It was great to see him back on stage. As well as the old hits he also played a couple of newbies, including one co-written with Brian from The Cribs. His band were fantastic and it was wonderful to see him singing, bantering with the crowd and making light of the difficulties related to his recovery. Any others...
The Urban Woo (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
On Ian McNabb's Facebook page (that man courts controversy; you should ask to be his mate), he's been complaining about how Morrissey refused to come back on stage after having a bottle thrown at him by some toss-pot in Liverpool this week . Another commenter said that he was at an Oasis gig in Liverpool, which involved the chucking of glasses of urine, which sloshed around on the floor. Nice. To be...
CR Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
To mark it's 10th anniversary, UK music charity Youth Music has cooked up a project called Destroy / Rankin - in which musicians photographed by Rankin have created new pieces of artwork by essentially 'destroying' one of the photographer's iconic portraits...
Celebrity - Female First (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Lily Allen says that drink and drugs are "what life's all about".The 24-year-old singer - who celebrated her Q Award win for Best Track for single 'The Fear' at a pub with rockers The Cribs and Edwyn Collins after the London ceremony on Monday (26.10.09) - insists you would take the fun out of life if you never got intoxicated. The 'Not Fair' star ...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Lily Allen says that drink and drugs are "what life's all about".The 24-year-old singer - who celebrated her Q Award win for Best Track for single 'The Fear' at a...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
ROCK royalty descended on London's Grosvenor House Hotel for the Q Awards and despite the ceremony finishing at a rather un-rock'n'roll 4pm, the party carried on late into the night in the capital's pubs and clubs.
The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
British rock group Muse have been named the best act in the world after collecting the prestigious gong at the annual Q Awards last night in London. The Devon based band, whose recent album ‘Resistance’ went to the top of the charts, beat off strong competition from Oasis, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys and Kings of Leon to scoop [...]
The First Post (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Singer Lily Allen won best song for The Fear at the Q Awards in central London yesterday, and provided one of the few moments of controversy at…
The Sun (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
GORGEOUS Lily Allen is moved to tears by winning the Best Track Award for single Fear
The Sun (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
KASABIAN celebrate Q Awards wins watching Leicester beat Reading away from home on TV
The Sun (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
AMY Winehouse was back to her bongoed best at Q when she stumbled on stage
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