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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 their whole world? The Osbournes arrive on Tonight With Trevor McDonald
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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 Worst Singles list at all.
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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 and Half Man Half Biscuit, and is none the worse for that.
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Cable At End of Tether
The Stereophonics imitate the Libertines, only with lawyers rather than housebreaking.
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