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Save BBC 6 Music, John Peel Radio in all but name
3 March 2010The BBC has published its ’strategy review’, “to decide what the future direction of the corporation ought to be”. The review has recommended that, amongst other offerings, BBC 6 Music be closed.
You can have your say on the proposals online, and it’s important that if you have come to rely on 6 Music as I [...]
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BRIT Awards… what?
19 February 2010Do I need to say more about the BRIT Awards 2010 other than to remind you that Robbie “I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams” Williams received the ‘Outstanding contribution to music’ award? I don’t deny that he’s been very successful, or that many people have enjoyed what he’s created, but does he really deserve to [...]
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Breton Breton Breton
10 February 2010Breton are Fox & Firkin regulars and favourites, putting on an amazing performance at FoxFest 2009 (I’m sure we’ll be seeing them in 2010 as well). Roman’s nipples added to the excitement (maybe we’ll see them again too).
If you don’t know the band, I thoroughly recommend you watch VIRAL, a two minute film that has [...]
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Now there’s a girl that’d really get my vote
27 January 2010Have you seen KoobaTV? It seems the boys haven’t produced anything recently so have resorted to posting amusing clips of 1950s Americana. (It should really be United-States-a, because America is a CONTINENT that’s home to many INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, but that would be a rubbish word.)
The latest one features the back of Jerry’s head, Carolyn who [...]
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Assaulting the charts
22 January 2010After the success of the Rage Against the Machine for christmas number one campaign – an excellent example of collective action utilising one of the few real powers we have left in modern society, that of the consumer – there’s now an effort to ‘get a GENUINE unsigned band into the charts‘.
As I write, the [...]
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