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The Beatles children to form a truly awful band? The Drab Four are here

EVERYTHING ever is always spoiled by the introduction of children. Muppets – great. Muppet Babies – awful. Scooby Doo – excellent caper with slight counterculture vibes. The introduction of Scrappy Doo? Worse than a dose of anthrax. Even Popeye had a son at one point and everyone in the world wanted to end his life.

And so, let us introduce to you, the act you’ve known for all these years, The Beatles Babies!

That’s right, we could well be faced with the Drab Four if Paul McCartney’s son, James, gets his way. It has been reported that James Macca is “up for it” and that John Lennon’s son, Sean, and George Harrison’s son, Dhani, have also shown support for the idea, which would see various Beatle-sperm getting together and performing songs which will invariably defecate all over the memory of the world’s most famous group.

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Posted: 3rd, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (11)


Heavy metal bands – a world map of where to find them

WHERE can you find the greatest concentration of heavy metal bands? No great surprise. But where do you think the world’s greatest concentration of trad jazz bands is? Come on… I want the exact lost cause and shopping centre…

Spotter: copyranter

Posted: 2nd, April 2012 | In: Music | Comment


The Teenage Cancer Trust Gigs 2012 – in photos

THE Teenage Cancer Trust Gigs 2012: Paul McCartney, Example, Devlin and Fenech-Soler, Pulp,  Cat’s Eyes, Jessie J, Professor Green, Roger Daltrey, Paul Weller and Kelly Jones… Byt the way, Paul Macca is five years younger than Ronnie Wood. (Pass the needles, nurse.)

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Roger Daltrey performing on stage during the Teenage Cancer Trust series of concerts, at the Royal Albert Hall in west London.

 

Posted: 30th, March 2012 | In: Music | Comment


Stock, Aitken and Waterman gig to feature Steps, Astley, Bananarama and SYBIL!

OH, dear. Pete Burns and Sinitta were at London’s County Hall to herald this summer’s “Hit Factory Live” concert, a cavalcade of hits from Stock Aitken and Waterman. The show will also feature such Capital Gold acts as Jason Donovan, Bananarama, Rick Astley, STEPs, Brother Beyond, Lonnie Gordon, Pepsi & Shirlie, Sinitta, Princess, Hazell Dean, Sonia, Sybil, 2 Unlimited and… No, not Kylie Minogue, the one act who could get a crowd together. This is mob rule music. You’ll know when it’s time to go home because someone will say, “And here’s one I wrote recently…”

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Pete Burns at County Hall in London during an announcement for the upcoming "Hit Factory Live" concert.

Posted: 20th, March 2012 | In: Music | Comment


Katy Perry murders ‘Niggas In Paris’

KATY Perry has allowed herself to be filmed murdering Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Niggas in Paris”.

Says Katy on the BBC’s Late Lounge:

“This is about to get real embarrassing.”

Katy does exactly what she promises on the tin:

Posted: 19th, March 2012 | In: Music | Comment (1)


The 10 sexiest One Direction Gifs ever

OK. Girls. Ready? These are the 10 sexist, most suggestive One Direction gifs ever. One Direction are totally checking you out… Liam, Niall, Harry, Louis and Zain are her to say hi*:

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Posted: 14th, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment


Bruce Springsteen scales the New York Apollo – photo

BRUCE Springsteen was in Harlem , New York,  last night, as The Boss and his E Street Band took to the stage at the Apollo Theater. Springsten also took to the seats, the stairs and the small gantry by the balcony…

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Posted: 11th, March 2012 | In: Music | Comment (1)


The Smiths, Starship, Europe and Rick Astley form Election Aid to force David Cameron to call general election

IN an NME interviewJohnny Marr, of The SMiths fame, says he will put the band back together is David Cameron calls a general election:

“We won’t be reforming this week. Maybe if the government stepped down. If this government stepped down, I’ll reform the band. How’s that? That’s a fair trade, isn’t it? I think the country would be better off, don’t you? I’ll do it if the coalition steps down.”

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Posted: 1st, March 2012 | In: Music | Comment (1)


RAED is Still Flowin’ – World’s greatest rapper makes a movie

RAED is back. And this time the world’s greatest rapper has a movie. Still Flowin’ the movie is now presented in “full rough cut edit”. Can it be polished?

When we last saw Raed he was lamenting “She left me at a Christmas barbeque”,  was being declared the Winner of World’s Got Talent 2011 and starring in a most intense intro to a Fisher Price Rap.

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Posted: 28th, February 2012 | In: Music | Comment


Terrible album covers – Vinyl horrors

More worst album covers ever… More vinyl epics here.

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Posted: 24th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment


Whitney Houston murdered Dolly Parton – don’t believe the hype

HOW good a signer was Whitney Houston? Julian Owen looks at her rendition of Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You. Parton’s song was a farewell to a business relationship with the Porter Wagoner Show, which had given her a big break in 1967. In 1973, she said goodbye. In 1982, Dolly sang it again on the soundtrack to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. And then Houston got hold of it. The song went big. Very big. But did Houston get it?

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Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: Music | Comments (4)


Will Capital Radio drop One Direction after Brits gaffe?

WHEN One Direction won a Best British Single at the Brit awards, we wondered who the hell made that decision and how we could have been so wrong? Harry Styles did his best to clear things up by giving a “massive thank you to Radio 1” for making is happen. Only, the gong was awarded by Capital FM listeners and iTunes users.

An industry source tells the Guardian:

“One Direction as far as Capital are concerned are only going in one direction.”

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Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: Music | Comment


The Brits 2012: winners, hair and photos

The Brit Awards 2012 – the winners, hair – it’s all about the hair (Damon Albarn?) –  and photos:

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Alex James, Dave Rowntree, Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon from Blur arriving for the 2012 Brit Awards at The O2 Arena, London.

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Posted: 21st, February 2012 | In: Music | Comments (5)


Adele wins six at The Grammys – photos

THE BAFTAS and Grammys were on the same night. Anorak was double-booked, so we did as most of you did and watched the showbiz AGMS at home on the telly. The Baftas are over here. The Grammys are here. It was good night for Adele, who got to hide the frame that offends bitchy fashionistas behind six metal gramophone records. The 23-year-old from Tottenham belted out Rolling in the Deep, the family car trip sound of 2011 at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles.

Said Adele:

“Thank you so much. This is ridiculous. I want to say thank you to every radio programmer and broadcaster that has been playing Rolling in the Deep … because I know it’s not really a pop record.”

Isn’t it?

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Posted: 13th, February 2012 | In: Music | Comment (1)


In photos – Clive Davis Pre-GRAMMY Gala: Diana Ross’s hair sees off Kardashian breasts

WHITNEY Houston is dead. And the Clive Davis Pre-GRAMMY Gala goes on. This is the Pre-GRAMMY Gala & Salute to Industry Icons with Clive Davis honouring Richard Branson. It’s about the music. But it’s really about the hair. No, not the breasts – hard lucks to Amber Rose and Kim Kardashian who showed more front than Bridlington. It’s the hair that rocks pop.

Branson has hair like a Barbie doll. Slash, the Guns & Roses guitarist, has luxurious curly hair that is always seen beneath a top hat. Does the hair go to the top of the trademark lid, or is it attacked to the hair’s brim? The biggest hair belonged to Diana Ross. Her hair is so big it has it own postcode. It’s massive. It’s hair to share. When Ross dies, her hair will keep growing, possibly in a museum or under Slash’s hat..

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Model Amber Rose arrives at the Pre-GRAMMY Gala & Salute to Industry Icons with Clive Davis honoring Richard Branson, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Vince Bucci)

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Posted: 12th, February 2012 | In: Music | Comments (5)


Daily Mail mocks Etta James in death

ETTA James has died. The Daily Mail signals this passing by announcing: “At Last singer Etta James dies after battle with leukaemia”.

Etta James sang the song At Last. She sang lots of other songs.

At Last was a song written in 1941 song by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. James recorded her version in 1960. To our mind James is most famous for The Wallflower (Dance with Me, Henry) and her wonderful rendition of I’d Rather Go Blind.

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Posted: 20th, January 2012 | In: Music | Comment


The Kitten Covers: Tumblr Site of the Day

TUMBLR Site of the Day: The Kitten Covers is a fantastic collection of kittens in the mode of classic pop and rocks album covers. This colleciton features: David Bowie, Kiss, Queen, Simon and Garfunkle, Duran Duran, Pink Floyd, The Ramones, The Beatles (which is brilliant), Prince, the Velvet Underground and Nirvana…

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Posted: 10th, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment


Solid Solid Crew were the biggest band of all time: 178 members

SO Solid Crew once had 21 Seconds to Go. Then they went. But who were they? Well, one of So Solid crew dated Alesha Dixon, of Strictly Coem Dancing and Britain’s Got Talent repute. He was So Solid Crew’s MC Harvey. But who else was in the band. Wikipedia know. It turs out the Solid Crew massive really were massive. They were 178 members massive. Were they the most bloated band of all time?

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Posted: 5th, January 2012 | In: Music | Comment


Red Hot Chilli Peppers Flea does The Simpsons Mo Photos)

FACE of the Day: Flea from rockers The Red Hot Chili Peppers performs during a concert in Barcelona, Spain, while doing his famous impression of Mo from The Simpsons.

 

Posted: 19th, December 2011 | In: Music | Comment


Daily Mail says ‘At Last’ Etta James is going to die

ETTE James has cancer. She is terminally ill. Etta James, fabulous singer of wonderful songs, might not have long leftin this world. So. How does the Daily Mail report on her condition? Why, with this. All news organs like to be first with news that a star has died – but does the Mail need to be obvious in its enthusiasm?

 

Posted: 18th, December 2011 | In: Music | Comment (1)


Beat Box Vicar Gavin Tyte Introduces Five Mind Melting Christmas Carols

THE Rev Gavin Tyte is rapoping the story ofnativity form his perch at the Uplyme and Axmouth churches in Devon. He’s the Bible beater. But is his song the worst Christmas carol ever?

Let’s see:

Coventry Carol – music to murder the innocent by:

God Rest Ye Gerry Mental Men… You must sing this as if envying the turkey being slow-roasted in a gas oven…

I Wonder as I Wander

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 15th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment


Shaun Ryder Drops Happy Mondays Reunion Hint

BALDING, shuffling, pink-faced thirtysomethings REJOICE! Not only are The Stone Roses hauling their ample arses out to relive your youth in sweaty fields, but so are the Happy Mondays! Stella Artois shares rocket as a result while Longsight drug labs start churning out speckled Es in a bid to cash-in on this dreadful Madchester nostalgia trip!

Northside are still of no fixed talent.

Anyway, Shaun Ryder is dropped hints heavier than his mortgage bills that his ragtag band are making a comeback next year. Of course, they’ve done the reunion thing on countless occasions already, but why should that stop Ryder and his new, eerie Hollywood teeth?

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Posted: 12th, December 2011 | In: Music | Comment (1)


The Greatest Album Covers In Lego: A Gallery of Brilliance

BOYS never grow out of their toys: artist Aaron Savage has recreated great album covers with Lego. Which one’s your favourite? (Lily Allen, Michael Jackson and Blondie and brilliant)…

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Posted: 9th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment (1)


Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball Photos 2011: Rihanna Does The Barbara Windsor Two-Step

THE Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball starred do-wop bands One Direction (hair), JLS (torsoes), The Wanted (Irish) and Rihanna, bumping and grinding way under the hair Barbara Windsor wore in Carry On Camping

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Rihanna on stage during the 2011 Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball at the O2 Arena, London.

Posted: 4th, December 2011 | In: Music | Comment


The Nigerian Scam Artists Release A Greatest Hits Album – For Charity

THOSE Nigerian scam artist and their 419 caper have released an album of their greatest hits. And it’s all for charity!

Spotters: @alex_chase @craigfots)

Posted: 28th, November 2011 | In: Music | Comment