It's Thursday, meaning that it's time for us, as always, to throw things back two decades to the hits and hitmakers of the pre-Y2K charts. This is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: four girls from Dublin make chart history - and cement their place in the record books in the process... In less … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 12)
With the spring finally arriving, there's a lot to feel good about this week - and even more so with your regular Wednesday installment of uplifting and positive stories making the headlines in The Good News Week. If you enjoy the stories we've found this week, let us know - remember this is a place … Continue reading The Good News Week (20/03/2019)
*in best Heather Small impression* You've got to search for the hero inside yourseeelllff...oh. Hello! Just warming up with a spot of M People. No, I've not been watching Miranda instead, all will become clear later on. For now, let us bring you the lowdown on partie le deux of Derry Girls, series le...deux...? Let's … Continue reading #CrazyStupidTV: Derry Girls – 2×02: ‘Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague’
The Story of Pop: 1999. It's the story, week by week, of the songs and stars that were riding high in the UK charts twenty years ago this very week. We continue onwards and into double figures, and this week - a comeback and then some from one of the greatest female vocalists of all … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 11)
We know the news at the moment can be enough to make anyone consider building an underground intruder protected bunker, so that's why we're here to offer a little oasis of positivity in the desert of headline generating chaos. This is The Good News Week, our weekly round up of some of the most inspiring … Continue reading The Good News Week (13/03/2019)
The wait was finally over this week. Channel 4's biggest new sitcom of last year and our TV Show of the Year in our 2018 End of Year Prizes, Derry Girls returned for its long awaited second series. And to celebrate, we decided (based on a Twitter poll we conducted all of two weeks ago) … Continue reading #CrazyStupidTV: Derry Girls – 2×01: ‘Across The Barricade’
ARTIST: Alphabeat SONG: Shadows SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It's funny really, how cyclical things are in pop. When I first laid eyes on Alphabeat back in 2008 (God that seems further back than I thought) they came along at just the right time. Dullard landfill indie bands like Razorlight … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Alphabeat – ‘Shadows’
Welcome to another installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly look back to the UK chart hits of 20 years ago. And it seems quite fitting that this week, with Red Nose Day for Comic Relief just around the corner again next Friday, that we profile one of its former fundraising hits... It … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 10)
A brand new week, a brand new month - all that's missing is some brand new laughs. Thankfully, we're here to give you our round up of the funniest Tweets we've seen in the last seven days with #TweetHeeHee. Let the LOL times commence... NO ATOMS, NO KITTENS ETC Want proof of why it's good … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (04/03/2019)
ARTIST: Emma Bunton SONG: Baby Please Don't Stop SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? If you read this here corner of the interweb with any regularity, you'll know a couple of things. Mainly, we love us a good girl group. And perhaps even more so than that, we love us a … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Emma Bunton – ‘Baby Please Don’t Stop’
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