Name: Simon B
Weblog: xrrf.blogspot.com
Articles: 21
First Published: Monday, July 7, 2003
Last Published: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Currently listing articles 21-1:
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Steady Mercury— The Mercury Music Prize shortlist has been announced. There's not much call for smelling salts or counselling with the comfortable, surprise-free list.
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In London, we still worship fire— Following the defeat of the England football team, the English need something to cheer. Who new it would be a little bit of fire?
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Later... than you think?— Is Jools Holland's late night BBC music show chugging to an end?
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Osbournes: they've washed the dirty laundry, so now they're cleaning the toilet in public— And what good does it benefit a family if, in achieving a slot on a mainstream channel in prime time, in doing so they destroy
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I'm telling stories - trust me— The South Bank Show - ITV's last claim to be serious - pitches Cumbria's Melvyn Bragg against Lancashire's Jeanette Winterson
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WH Smiths takes the singles off the shelf— More misery for the lovers of the single, as one of the UK's leading retailers drops them.
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That's the Brits, then...— The Darkness and Duran Duran stand out amongst a fairly so-so night at the Brit Awards.
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We have not seen the worst while we can still say "this is the worst"— Typical... the first Top 100 singles poll you'd actually be happy to see Bohemian Rhapsody leading up, and yet Queen's pomp-op-pop track doesn't make the
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The Festive Fifty 2003— This year's Festive Fifty - the antidote to predictable end-of-year best singles lists - throws up its usual mix of David Gedge, Mark E Smith
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Cable At End of Tether— The Stereophonics imitate the Libertines, only with lawyers rather than housebreaking.
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Death outplays the Maffia— It takes a dead woman to kick Robbie off the top of the UK album charts, while Lisa Maffia's solo debut barely makes a ripple.
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The Littlest Festival— The dog-end of the UK festival scene gets the treatment it deserves from ITV2
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It's not the number you sold - more why you hadn't sold them before— Robbie Williams return to number one in the UK album charts serves only to show up how hard he's finding it to convert profile into
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Who actually likes Robbie Williams?— Robbie Williams may appear to be popular, but how come he can't get a single to number one? The weekly UK charts overview.
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Marsh lands soft— A quiet UK singles chart is seized by the Quiet Man of Pop. Meanwhile, Kym Marsh scrapes into the albums listing.
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Everything's Eventually Forgotten— Appleton, Avril and Madonna have a really bad time of it on the UK singles chart, while selling blackcurrant squash to tots fails to generate
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Ridicule Is Nothing To Be Scared Of— Last night, Channel 4's The Madness of Prince Charming poked about in the press cuttings and video box to chart the journey of Adam Ant
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Avril's entrance delayed— Beyonce remains all powerful as big names come a cropper in the UK singles chart; meanwhile, in the albums chart, Beyonce remains all powerful...
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Chicks Raised By Congress— Cumulus stretches definition of "independence" over Dixie Chicks ban
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The True Self Will Out— Will Self reads aloud in a glorified greenhouse, on a sunny evening in Liverpool.
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Evanescence Have Fallen— Beyonce crushes the puny British charts while Flaming Lips reap the benefits of taking all those animal costumes down to Glastonbury - it's the new
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