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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Strangely Strange

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Came home this afternoon listening to "The Lusty Sounds Of Diddy Wah", another inimitable podcast by Adam Weatherhead. Adam appear...
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A Star Is Born

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Ysabella Brave is a unique YouTube find. She just gets on her webcam and sings. Everything from "Proud Mary" to "I Loves You...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

The hits keep right on comin'

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Jonny Wilkinson got through half a game with the Newcastle Falcons, which is such good news they're now talking about putting him in for...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Going the pretty way

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The fuss about Prince Charles's carbon footprint in the light of his visit to the USA to pick up an environmental award makes me wonde...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

The power of negative thinking

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I'm not surprised that England lost to Australia. I am surprised that they lost as badly as they did. But what I find profoundly dispir...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Just do it

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Spoke to Neil Tennant today for a Radio Four programme I'm doing about things you can learn from pop music. He worked with Dusty Springf...
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Going back to go forward

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I'm delighted Neil Finn has decided to get together with Nick Seymour under the name Crowded House. He wanted to tell me when I spoke to...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

For those in peril

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Caught a bit of BBC1's Trawlermen last night. It's an old fashioned straight documentary about trawlers operating out of Peterhead. ...
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Monday, January 22, 2007

Department Of Cake And Eat It

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This afternoon the Channel 4 board have been in conclave trying to work out whether Goodygate really has damaged: a) their brand and: b) the...

Nothing's gonna change their world

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Bobby Gillespie was just being honest when he told Word he didn't give a fuck about global warming. When it come to this issue we'r...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Pet Sounds

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From An Underworld At War by Donald Thomas: "In the City of London in the thirties, the tired businessman, on his way home, could pur...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

Anger management

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I've just woken up to another of those "is - isn't" conversations that have been clogging up the airwaves post-Jade Goody....
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Friday, January 19, 2007

"Cut or uncut?"

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I was standing in line in a shop the other day and found myself reading one of those signs that said "our staff have a right to do thei...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

"Salford calling"

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On Simon Mayo's Five Live show yesterday talking about the future for record shops in the light of the feature in the current issue of W...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

One giant leap for a hack

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Last night's Front Row on Radio Four included a piece by me about the 40th anniversary of the original news item about 4,000 holes in ...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Copyright and book keeping: a cautionary tale

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Nine months ago I was contacted by somebody from Universal DVD who was putting together a DVD of John Martyn at the BBC. They wanted to use ...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007

I want my aaawwww TV

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Somebody should think of a name for the increasing number of home-edited montages from new generation sitcoms that are starting to appear on...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Never before and never again

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Tonight's Timewatch Beatlemania film wasn't up to much. The producers tried to pass off their collection of home movie footage and p...

Joni Mitchell in concert

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Last night I happened to catch the last few numbers of a BBC In Concert recording of Joni Mitchell from 1970. There she was in a long frock ...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Why should anyone care about the chart?

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All this talk of a revolution taking place in the charts now that downloads are included in the calculations overlooks the larger question ...
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