ARTIST: The Script SONG: Run Through Walls SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Something strange happened with Dublin rockers The Script on their last album, 2017's chart topping 'Freedom Child'. They tried to move towards a more contemporary sound than what we usually know and love them for, evidenced by that … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: The Script – ‘Run Through Walls’
It's midday, it's Thursday, and time as always for us to hop aboard our little musical pre-Y2K pop tardis we like to call The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a second chart topper for a man who had one of the top 10 biggest selling albums for two years running... At the start of … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 46)
Happy Wednesday people - and also happy World Kindness Day. And what better way to celebrate this day than with three more uplifting stories in the news showing the kindness in our world? This is The Good News Week. If you enjoy the stories we've found this week, let us know - remember this is … Continue reading The Good News Week (13/11/2019)
Good morning to you at the start of this new week! It's time as always to start Monday with a smile and bring you some more giggle inducing bits from our social media travels in the last seven days. Yes, it's time for #TweetHeeHee... MOST BRITISH TWEET OF THE WEEK *cue inexplicably linked song with … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (11/11/2019)
It's funny how much has changed in ten years. Not least of all The X Factor. Once the cornerstone and an unmissable powerhouse of Saturday night entertainment on ITV, pulling in 16m viewers at its peak, it actually once did what it said on the tin and produced stars. Nowadays, it's a pitiful and irrelevant … Continue reading JLS: a retrospective piece on the 10th anniversary of their debut album
ARTIST: Dua Lipa SONG: Don't Start Now SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Despite her eponymous debut album in 2017 being a huge hit, spawning off chart toppers like 'New Rules' and 'IDGAF', I will hold my hands up and say Dua Lipa and indeed her success had passed me by. … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Dua Lipa – ‘Don’t Start Now’
Welcome to this week's edition of The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly look back at the all the big movements in the UK charts of twenty years ago. And I suggest you strap yourselves in for this week people, because we have not one, but TWO - yes, two - songs to cover. Prepare … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 45)
It's Wednesday, and thus time for that part of the week where we take a look at three more inspiring and uplifting stories making headlines - this is The Good News Week. If you enjoy the stories we've found this week, let us know - remember this is a place for you to share any … Continue reading The Good News Week (06/11/2019)
Well, a hearty good evening to you my dear blog reading chums. Now come along please, settle. That's it. And let us get you up to speed. Previously in our lives, 10 years ago, in 2009, the news was full of economic doom and gloom, dark intense crime dramas were becoming all the rage, and … Continue reading Hello to you and thanks for joining: the top 10 ‘such fun’ episodes of Miranda
Happy Monday one and all, and to the first one of November to boot. But if you're finding the darker mornings trickier to get up in, we've got just the solution for you with some more nuggets of social media japes from the last seven days, in this week's installment of #TweetHeeHee... CONCLUSIVELY, WE HAVE … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (04/11/2019)
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