Good evening one and all - hope your week is going well so far! Time as always to bring you our look at three inspiring and uplifting stories making news headlines as we always do every Wednesday, with The Good News Week. If you enjoy the stories we've found this week, let us know - … Continue reading The Good News Week (26/02/2020)
Happy Monday people - hope you all had a good weekend. Let us ease you into the new week as we bring you seven more very funny bits from our social media travels in the last seven days - this is #TweetHeeHee... CARELESS WHISKER So I'm never gonna eat fish again etc... https://twitter.com/Rachael_Conrad/status/1231414301149233152?s=09 SOME PEOPLE … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (24/02/2020)
It's official: JLS are - to use the Smash Hits term - BACK! BACK! BACK! Following on - we would like to think - from our retrospective piece we did for the 10th anniversary of their debut album last November, Oritsé, Aston, Marvin and JB finally settled months of speculation last week, and announced details … Continue reading Our definitive ranking of all of JLS’ singles.
ARTIST: Jordan Mackampa SONG: Magic SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Jordan Mackampa is one of those rare artists that comes along every so often, who you can't place to any one specific time, as they have such a timeless sound from the off. After releasing two EPs that have amassed … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Jordan Mackampa – ‘Magic’
Welcome one and all to this week's installment of The Story of Pop: 2000, as we continue our look back, week by week, of the runners and riders - and all the big hits - from the UK charts of two decades ago. This week: one of the Nineties' foremost girl groups return with that … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 8)
Hello everyone, It's been a strange and sad old weekend, and yet somehow it feels a bit longer than that. Then again, that always seems to be the way when a massive loss happens. Most people reading this post from the UK will already know, but for any international readers among you, the sad news … Continue reading Kindness first, always.
It's midday on Thursday, and time once again to take a look back at the movers and shakers in the UK hit parade of two whole decades ago, in The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: one of the 90s' biggest Britpop acts make a - slightly underwhelming - return to the top after a … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 7)
Hello at the start of what is quite a blustery Monday and new week! Time as always to bring you seven gilt edged gems of social media hilarity from the last seven days - as always it's time to tickle your funny bones with #TweetHeeHee... TOM FLETCHER IS EVERY DAD AND IT IS A MOOD … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (10/02/2020)
Before you read this blog any further, there's a music video I want you to watch. https://youtu.be/DgmoYgpMNX8 This video, from 2011, was by bestselling girl group The Saturdays, for their hit single 'My Heart Takes Over', filmed out in Iceland. To most people, it just seems like a standard pop video for a slower ballad … Continue reading Being open: an evening with Frankie Bridge
Bringing you the hits from the year that Big Brother started watching its first set of housemates on Channel 4, and when the Ford Mondeo ruled the roads, this is The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: the only top 10 hit from one of that year's most notorious new pop acts... 2000 was the … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 6)
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