ARTIST: Craig David SONG: When You Know What Love Is SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? So then. The first brand new material from Craig David for more than a year (unless we're counting his collaboration with Nile Rodgers for his last album) and it couldn't be more well timed if … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Craig David – ‘When You Know What Love Is’
It's Thursday, and time once again to throw things back to the UK charts twenty years ago, with The Story of Pop: 1999. And if you were in your teens and paying attention to what was on the box or big screen back in 1999, then boy do we have a song that you'll instantly … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 22)
If you're after a midweek mood booster, and a look at some of the people hitting the headlines that are making the world a pretty good place to be in, then you've come to the right place - as it's time for this week's edition of The Good News Week. If you enjoy the stories … Continue reading The Good News Week (29/05/2019)
A new four day week is here, so if you're just enjoying the bank holiday or you're on half term this week, then sit back, and get your LOLs on with another round of the funniest bits from our social media travels in the last seven days with this week's #TweetHeeHee... TROLLING WITH ROAD SIGNS … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (27/05/2019)
It's not unfair to say that there are two areas of programming the BBC have struggled greatly with in the last decade and a half. One: making Saturday night telly unmissable during those times of the year when Strictly Come Dancing isn't on the air. Two: making a show centred around pop music actually unmissable … Continue reading #CrazyStupidTV: The HitList (BBC One, 25th May)
ARTIST: Shakespears Sister SONG: All the Queen's Horses SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Twice now the unthinkable has happened for pop fans of a certain era in the last couple of years. And both of those unthinkable instances have involved one Siobhan Fahey. After burying the hatchet with her old … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Shakespears Sister – ‘All the Queen’s Horses’
Revisiting the hits and sounds of the UK singles chart 20 years ago, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the UK's then hottest new dance music genre around makes a triumphant surge to the very top of the chart via a much in demand floorfiller... 1999 undoubtedly saw the rise of one … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 21)
BBC One devoted fifty minutes of its schedule on Sunday evening after the 10 O'Clock News to a programme featuring several well known footballers talking. Nothing new there, you would think. Except this time, it was of real importance, as they opened up a conversation that has long been needed in such a primetime slot. … Continue reading Why ‘A Royal Team Talk’ is the most important TV show you’ll watch this year
It's 8:30pm on an overcast but pleasant Saturday evening in May on the most south easterly banks of the river Thames in London. And as the house lights dim and the screens flash up, someone looking very much like Olly Murs is trying (and thus far failing) to get past security and into the O2 … Continue reading #CrazyStupidGig: Olly Murs (@ollyofficial), All the Hits Tour (London, O2 Arena, 18th May 2019)
ARTIST: Paige Cavell SONG: Predators and Monsters SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It's not unfair to say that opinion has been sharply divided in the pop debating chamber in recent months. Chiefly, have pop production titans Xenomania still got it? Case for the prosecution lies with Brian Higgins and co's … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Paige Cavell – ‘Predators and Monsters’
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