Deconstructing the sights and sounds of the UK charts twenty years ago, this is our weekly series of posts we like to call The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a fledgling Scottish indie rock act make the grade to the big leagues via an iconic Glastonbury performance... Some bands and artists really are the … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 32)
If you're needing a gentle midweek reminder of some of the amazing good things happening in the world, you've come to the right place, for this is this week's installment of The Good News Week. Although today is a good one just by default because my lovely big sister Mairi celebrates her birthday today, so … Continue reading The Good News Week (07/08/2019)
Welcome to our first new installment of #TweetHeeHee for August on the blog. And whether you're relaxing with some holiday time, or if you're working while the sun shines, we've got some guaranteed laughs to start your week right from all the funniest bits we could find on social media in the last seven days... … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (05/08/2019)
Taking you back to the sights and sounds of a time when a fresh faced Dermot O'Leary hosted T4 on Sunday mornings, when the London Eye was erected on the South Bank and when twittering was a noise that birds made, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the first member of one … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 31)
If a burst of the giggles at the start of a new week is what you need to crank your Monday into high gear, then you need #TweetHeeHee, our weekly round up of all the most hilarious bits from our social media travels in the last seven days... COMEDY PUB BOOK NAMES Check out some … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (29/07/2019)
It's Thursday, it's midday, and time to once again hop aboard the pop musical tardis that is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the summer bangers of 20 years ago continue apace with one of the biggest dance hits of the year... As 1998 had been a good year to be from Ireland, 1999 … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 30)
In this ever confusing and mad world, sometimes we all need a little calm reminder that there's people out there making the world a brighter place. And sometimes they're making the headlines with it too. We bring you three more of them this week, with this week's edition of The Good News Week. If you … Continue reading The Good News Week (24/07/2019)
ARTIST: Call Me Loop SONG: Self Love SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? You know it's funny really. Xenomania have reactivated themselves this year with both Unperfect and Paige Cavell - both of whom we've had on this series. And yet the song that sounds closest to Brian Higgins and co's … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Call Me Loop – ‘Self Love’
The Story of Pop: 1999. It's the story of the UK charts, the hits that were in them and the artists that made them hits two whole decades ago. This week - another turn of the millennium R&B classic from the girl group that gave the world one of its biggest female solo superstars.... It's … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 29)
Over 50 years ago, there were two not so little chaps called Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. And they lived and worked together in a disused cow shed in rural Kent, making some of the most iconic and well loved British children's television series for several generations. Smallfilms is one of the most widely recognised … Continue reading Once upon a time in a cowshed: the lasting legacy of Smallfilms
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