about 2 months ago - No comments
is that when HyperHam says she wants to go to a two-day musical theatre festival in the heart of what we call London, we go to said musical theatre festival. Thus meaning, the news about a vintage computer orgy with OMD as the headline act completely passed me by. As did the news about the
about 7 months ago - No comments
When my sisters and I were growing up (younger than ten), we were somewhat discouraged from consuming Western pop culture, ie music and films, by our parents. (Can’t you tell?) Thus, while my schoolfriends were (perhaps) reading Smash Hits et. al., we were listening to Cantopop and comedy films from Hong Kong, procured at great
about 8 months ago - No comments
You may have seen a musical clip from the frankly genius idea of Silence of the Lambs: The Musical set to Lego: Anyway, it turns out the musical is coming to London mid-January! Who’s with me? We can all wear night-vision goggles and adopt cod-Virginian accents! (or surgical masks and cod-posh-Welsh accents)…
about 8 months ago - No comments
I’m watching a Chinese Cantopop music video, which has all the stylings of a Mariah Carey / Britney Spears video shoot. Groovy dancers, a wind machine, and a made-up lead singer in a short skirt. However, the only English-language lyric I can pick up is “Loneliness is my best friend”. Just to reinforce this fact,
about 9 months ago - No comments
When I first moved to Cardiff in December 2001 and found myself at numerous friends’ Christmas house parties, I did note – as you do – that everybody’s music collection included plenty of CDs by the Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers – and even Catatonia, depending on how old the partygoers were. Via some magical osmosis,
about 10 months ago - No comments
then apparently Absolute Radio is your UK radio station of choice, according to comparemyradio.com. Mind you, they’ve only played a track 11 times in the last 30 days. Just thought you might want to know that.
about 12 months ago - No comments
In an era where fanfic writers think nothing of plonking the Red Dwarf crew on the Starship Enterprise, or the cast of Spaced in the TARDIS, it shouldn’t really come as that much of a surprise when professional media creators do the same thing. Thus today, where we discover that Richard Curtis (famed romantic comedy
about 1 year ago - No comments
With the Pet Shop Boys being given a Outstanding Contribution to Music award at The Brits, I thought I’d look at ITV’s Brits website just to see what behind the scenes content they had. To be fair, they had a reasonable range of content, but it was all let down by the following: It took
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The new Pet Shop Boys single. It’s fab. For the following reasons: – It’s going to be fab at concerts, hearing fans scream back the various call-and-beck lines – Lyrically, it’s an age-old theme but with the typical Pet Shop Boys twist – It’s catchy as hell. Did I mention that? – Love Etc. –
about 1 year ago - No comments
A former music writer colleague of mine once told me that the great thing about new music was that it was always there for you, when you were ready. Given that my last CD purchases of simple pop bands Alphabeat and Scouting For Girls drew sustained moaning from my music-loving neighbour, it’s patently high time
