Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Sussex Busker Who Can Only Play Oasis Arrested
DEAN Langley is the busker who can only play Wonderwall by Oasis and American Pie by Don McLean. On July 29, 2010, you might have caught his two-hour gig outside the Anchor Pub in Hastings, East Sussex.
The landlord asks him to make it stop. (Busking is all very well if you are passing quickly by the busker. Listening to 2.1 seconds of busking – the average time it takes to walks past a busker on the London Underground – is enough. any mroe induces feeling of helplessness given to rage given to regret.)
Langley screams abuse at the landlord. Police come. He screams abuse at them.
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Posted: 8th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
In Pictures: Scouting For Girls At The Hard Rock Cafe
WE went to see Roy Stride of Scouting for Girls performs at the Hard Rock Cafe, London. We got pictures. Loverly pictures…
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Posted: 3rd, March 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Orlando Weeks And Akiko Matsuura Rock City: Pictures
THE NME Awards’ Tour 2010 features Orlando Weeks of The Maccabees performing at Rock City in Nottingham. Also there: Hugo White of The Maccabees, Akiko Matsuura of The Big Pink, Leopold Ross, and the Bombay Bicycle Club. Music is not all cloying GM syrup poured over the destitute. Simon Cowell will be gone one day…
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Posted: 10th, February 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment
In Pictures: Maccabees And Bombay Bicycle Club Play NME Awards Party
THE Maccabees performed at the NME Awards Nominations Party, at the Tabernacle centre in west London. So the Bombay Bicycle Club. We watched. The shortlists for the NME Awards 2010 take in Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian (both up for 6 gongs), Muse, Oasis and Biffy Clyro are among the nominees.
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Voting is now open at NME.COM/awards. See below for the full list of nominations.
The Shockwaves NME Awards 2010 nominations are:
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Posted: 26th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
100 Great Pop Music Photos Of The Decade: Part 2
PART 2 of our decade in pop music photos, with Michael Jackson, Take That, Oasis, Madonna, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Susan Boyle, Rihanna and more… In no particular order: 100 Great Pop Music Photos Of The Decade: Part 1
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Posted: 23rd, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
100 Great Pop Music Photos Of The Decade: Part 1
THE decade in pop music photos,with Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, Girls Aloud, Will Young, Gareth Gates, Pop Idol. Madonna, Britney Spears, Pete Doherty, Bono, U2, The Black Eyed Peas and more. In no particular order:
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Babyshambles front man Pete Doherty leaves Thames Magistrates court after admitting possession of heroin, crack cocaine, morphine and cannabis in east London, Friday January 20 2006. He was earlier charged after answering bail at Stoke Newington police station in northeast London this morning following his arrest on December 4. See PA Story COURTS Doherty. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Photo credit should read: Cathal McNaughton/PA
Posted: 23rd, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Christmas Nostalgia Wins As Rage Against The Machine’s Old Song Beats Joe McElderry X Factor Dirge
RAGE Against The Machine (their career in pictures) follows Mr Blobby, Bob the Builder, Cliff Richard (3) and X Factor winners (4) into the pop annals as the Christmas No.1.
The cover of the Sun predicts RATM front man Zack de La Rocha with devil horns. To his side is Joe McElderry wearing a Joe-nas Brother ™ purity ring halo.
Well done, Sony, which has both acts on the books. Well done to Simon Cowell, whose latest product sold 450,000 records. This is the Simon Cowell who told us that if Jedward won the X Factor he’d leave the country. They lost and he left anyhow. He’s in Barbados.
RATM’s Tom Morello says:
“Killing In The name is an anthem of rebellion and of liberation… It was about breaking the stranglehold these insipid X Factor ballads have had on the UK and this idea of a guaranteed No.1 single a prize on a TV show.”
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Posted: 21st, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (7)
Joe McElderry ‘Cracks’ Under Strain From ‘Cruel’ Rage Againt The Machine
THE marketing war between X Factor’s adequate Joe McElderry (“it’s me dream”) and angry Rage Against The Machine (join the debate) is resulting in a price war. You can download McElderry’s average version of Miley Cyrus’s The Climb for just 29 pence. That down from its original price of 79p. Hey, there’s a war on – buy two or three copies.
Well so reports the Mail, whish says the slashed price is a sign that the “pressure” is getting to Joe. Trouble with this exclusive is that the song costs 29p in Asda, as it always has.
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Posted: 20th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (9)
Lily Allen In Brixton Proves The RATM V Joe McElderry Fight Is Worthless
LILY Allen performs at Brixton Academy, London. For all the pressure to buy Joe McElderry or Rage Against The Machine and give one of them a novelty Christmas No.1. Whatever you buy, music carries on. Lily Allen is a genuine popstar who does her thing and gets way with it. On one hand, the music business is in such a desperate state that Paul McCartney sings on the X Factor final. On the other hand, Lily Allen shows that if you play the game, you can achieve success by enjoying yourself and being yourself …
Posted: 18th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (5)
X Factor Final: Joe McElderry Would Have Lost To Rage Against The Machine’s Zack
JOE McElderry – Simon Cowell’s pet Joe-nas Brother – takes on Rage Against The Machine and Paul McCartney comes out on the side of rebellion. Says Sky News:
Macca Backs Rage Against X Factor No 1
Paul McCartney, singer of The Frog Chorus, who performed on the X Factor final (Ringo Starr was unavailable – even the music greats must bow before Cowell) wants Joe McElederry to lose his right to be Christmas Number 1?
Steve Hargrave, showbiz correspondent, tells readers:
Sir Paul McCartney has thrown his weight behind the campaign to land Rage Against The Machine the Christmas number one.
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Posted: 18th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Bullied Joe McElderry And Biblical Rage Against The Machine Are Both Second Rate Christmas Hits
JOE McElderry v Rage Against The Machine is the big Christmas fight. Can Simon Cowell’s sense of entitlement to the Christmas No.1 be undone by an internet campaign to get Rage Against The Machine’s In The Name Of to the top spot? (Join the debate.) Will a big hit encourage RATM to reform?
But on the Mirror’s front page news that Cowell is upset:
“MY RAGE AGAINST THE BEEB MACHINE – Cowell accuses Beeb of bias in Xmas fight for No.1”
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Posted: 18th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (16)
In Pictures: X Factor’s Robbie Williams Busks For Apple And Tours WIth Olly Murs
ONWARDS and upwards for Robbie Williams after his X Factor duet with contagious Olly Murs. Says Olly: “I’d love to work with Robbie more – maybe a Christmas duet next year!” Generous stuff from the X Factor runner up who danced like a man skidding on a wet dog poo. Says Olly Murs: “He wants me to go to his house in LA after the X Factor tour. He’s got a football pitch in his garden and wants me to come over and play football with him.” Last night Robbie Williams went to find another 21 faces, a ref and two linesmen as he busked at the Apple shop in Regent’s Street. It’s a start but with Olly’s help Robbie can recover from the X Factor:
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Posted: 18th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Red Hot Chilli Peppers Flea Joins The Joe McElderry Fight
IF Rage Against The Machine are the antidote to the X Factor sickness and Joe McElderry, then they might inspire a raft of budding musicians to lay down their AutoTune and pick up an “instrument”. So here’s Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist Flea, launching his own line of bass guitars, The Fleabass, at Selfridges. London. There’s not many we’d want an autograph from. so we met him. And now, there’s one less. Bring on the rock god:
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Posted: 17th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Westlife, Sugabaes And N-Dubz Present Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball In Pictures
TO Capital FM’s Jingle Bell Ball at the O2 Arena in London, with a version of the Sugababes, Taio Cruz, Nicky Byrne, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Kian Egan of Westlife, Pixie Lott, Dappy, Tulisa and Fazer of N-Dubz, Jamie Morrison, Shingai Shoniwa and Dan Smith of The Noisettes, Mollie King, Chipmunk, Tinchy Styder and Jordin Sparks. Finding a use for the 02 tent was once seen as the impossible job. Now it’s the big bargain bucket of pop. The pictures:
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Posted: 5th, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
50 Cent Uses $25,000 To Advertise For Muggers
TEETHY rapper 50 Cent wants everyone to know that he has $25,000 in his pocket. As she says:
“I always carry $25,000 in cash, just in case something happens.”
Something happens..? 50 Cent was once shot nine times in a single episode. He carries £25,000 on him at all times. Why? Because it makes him feel secure.
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Posted: 3rd, December 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Jamie Cullum Sings The Pursuit, In Pictures
JAMIE Cullum is in Madrid, promoting his fifth album, ‘The Persuit’ (so it says on the press release), with a concert at Chivas Studio. On stage, Calum plays the piano and the Spanish zambomba, a friction drum that anyone who owns a hand can play. Anorak’s Woman in Madrid was at the show. She’s got pictures:
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Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (6)
Scouting For Girls And Newton Faulkner Play The Union Chapel, In Pictures
ANORAK continues to highlight music acts living the dream without the need for Simon Cowell’s televised pop school of pap. Today’s pictures feature Newton Faulkner, introduced by Jo Whiley and sister Frances, Little Comet and Scouting for Girls. Hey kids, you can sing your own song:
X Factor At The Union Chapel: Lostprophets, King Blues And The Black Out
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Posted: 25th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Paloma Faith Plays Koko, In Photos
ACTRESS and singer Paloma Faith performs at the Koko, London. Anorak was there to see the woman who looks like a young Geena Davis channelling Helena Bonham Carter in Lady Gaga’s wardrobe. Says she:
“I was on their [Hollyoaks] music show – had I been offered a part on Hollyoaks, I would have firmly declined it because it’s rubbish.”
It’s all pretty entertaining. We’ve got the pictures – Anorak – bringing you music acts beyond the reality TV dross:
Posted: 24th, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
X Factor At The Union Chapel: Lostprophets, King Blues And The Black Out
BEFORE Simon Cowell brought us his finishing school for music with modules in X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and Pop Idol – with special points for anyone able to shorten their name into something that can fit into text message (Jedward, Subo etc.) – there was talent.
Here’s the news: there still is talent and new music. It’s just not on the tell any more. It’s at the 2009 Mencap Little Noise Sessions at the Union Chapel in London, in the form of Ian Watkins of Lostprophets, King Blues and The Black Out. We were there. We’ve got pictures:
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Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Hey Rude: Paul McCartney Swears On Beatles Remasters
HAVING brought you the 14 neglected Beatles’s gems, Anorak’s Man In LA has also been working his way through the Beatles remasters. Says TB:
And although we’d have preferred that the cleaned-up, brightened, state-of-the-art recordings had been released ten years ago when people were still buying CDs and we were still listening to music on big Spicas with tweeters and woofers and pre-amps and tubes instead of throuh earbuds, car stereos and computer speakers, the tracks sound great and there are more than a few revelations:
* Paul McCartney does say “Oh, fucking hell!” at around 2:58 of Hey Jude (sound engineers Ken Scott and Geoff Emerick have said that Paul blurted it after hitting a clunker and that it was Lennon’s idea to leave the mistake in the final mix– buried low enough so no one will hear it– turn up the treble and crank it and you can hear it now).
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Posted: 23rd, September 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Trad Jazz Killed The G20
ANORAK flashes back to trad jazz:
LEAFLETS? Check. Placard? Check. Amonia? Check. Euphonium? Check.
Cometh the hour, cometh the trad jazz band. This is the iron law of public campaigning. No sooner is a committee formed, than the jazzers turn up like the bent coin in Humphrey Lyttelton’s Bad Penny Blues. Look, there they are – behind the man on stilts.
It is egotism, not idealism, that drives them, which is why they will happily offer their services to anything from a church fête to a sex offenders’ convention.
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Posted: 4th, August 2009 | In: Flashback, Reviews | Comment (1)
Alternative Album Art: The Who And Susan Boyle
Alternative Album Art – No. 2: Who’s Next And Susan Boyle
The Susan Boyle debate rages on. Will she need a makeover before the album comes out? Did she succeed despite or because of her unorthodox appearance? (Unorthodox by the constrictive standards of our celebrity culture, we hasten to add.) And so on and so on…
Back in the Sixties, record companies were still in the habit of putting pretty white girls on record covers, especially if the artist who recorded the music was black.
Otis Blue by Otis Redding was just one notorious example.
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The Best Michael Jackson Cover Versions
MICHAEL Jackson is dead. But the concert must go on. Bring on the Michael Jacksons and the impersonators. Cue the acts who did it their way. Anorak presents the Best Michael Jackson Cover Versions Ever – it being what he would have wanted:
Shine Head – Billie Jean
Posted: 3rd, July 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Mike Jones Photoshop Hip-Hop
MIKE Jones is the Photoshop Hip-Hop man with da swagg through da roof.
So much swagg does Jones have he needs a Rolls 2CV to take it home in…
Posted: 4th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Make Her Bub-Bubs Bounce
Make Her Bub-Bubs Bounce:
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Posted: 4th, April 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
