Happy Boxing Day people! Hope your Christmas is going spiffingly festive so far. It's time, as always, for our annual End of Year Prizes for 2017. This is the time for us to hand out our awards to the great and good that we've loved in music, TV, film and books over the last 12 … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2017
ARTIST: Olly Murs SONG: I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday ALBUM: Right Place Right Time: Special Edition (2013, Sony/Epic) We will continue to beg Olly for a Christmas album every year - this year included - until we are blue in the face. And why? Because on the basis of his take on seasonal … Continue reading Christmas Song Advent Calendar 2017: Day 16
I'm pretty sure it was Simon Amstell and Miquita Oliver, hosts of the true leading light of smart, funny 00s pop telly, Channel 4's Popworld, who openly breached the subject in one episode c. 2004/5 that they had McFly on the show that week, despite the fact they were on the week before. And were … Continue reading #CrazyStupidGig: Olly Murs – Summer Tour (Singleton Park, Swansea, 12th August 2017)
Ever heard the one about the French man and the English man walking into a recording studio? No? Let me tell it then... ARTIST: Kungs featuring Olly Murs and Coely SONG: More Mess SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? France has a great tradition for many things. Spiky, slightly brilliant electronic … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Kungs featuring Olly Murs and Coely – ‘More Mess’
Happy Boxing Day one and all! Hope you are having a lovely Christmas so far, whatever you may be up to (cue festive emojis 🎅🎅🎅 🎁🎁🎁 🎄🎄🎄). Today's blog sees the third annual giving out of my End of Year Prizes. 2016 has, it's safe to say, been an odd mistress of a year, but … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2016
Firstly, a hearty welcome back one and all! I've missed you all. I may or may not divulge in another forthcoming blog why there has been a silence of nigh on three months since my last post - real life mostly to place the blame on there. Secondly, Olly Murs is back (I know so, … Continue reading #CrazyStupidAlbum: Olly Murs (@ollyofficial) – “24 HRS”
Afternoon all! And a hearty welcome to December on my blog! I do realise it has been something of a very long while since I last wrote an entry (a month. That's usual, I know). Once again, feet of blame must rest firmly at the door of 'real life shit', and it's only now things … Continue reading #CrazyStupidPlaylist: ‘Last Christmas’
Previously on 'Dear Cat & Fi'... MILTON KEYNES! COLOURING SCENES!! AND....squid in a clog?! And now, to your esteemed host... Dear Cat & Fi, Goood afternooon! It's Sunday, and I'm back in my usual place when I come to write to you both - on my bed, with my laptop on my fold up desk, … Continue reading Dear Cat & Fi: The One in Two Parts (Part 2)
Dear Cat & Fi, Helllooo! Hope you are both well. I am absolutely buzzing because this week's blog to you both is special for many different reasons. Firstly, because well. My blogs to you are usually written from the comfort of my bedroom, with my laptop perched on my fold up desk. And this is … Continue reading Dear Cat & Fi: The One in Two Parts (Part 1)
'The X Factor', it's fair to say, is a show with which I've had a notoriously on again-off again love affair. Much like Ross and Rachel, only without the girl from the copy place which yesterday, I took full responsibility for (and I make no apologies to anyone who doesn't get that reference). At the … Continue reading #CrazyStupidTV: The X Factor (ITV)
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