Last weekend saw the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest take place in Vienna, Austria - won this year by the, let's be honest, Gods of the annual shindig, Sweden. 60 years is a lifetime in most institutions, but for a contest that has slipped way under most people's estimations in recent years here in the … Continue reading #CrazyStupidPlaylist: The UK at Eurovision
It's Sunday, and thus time to tell you what I've been rating and ditching this week in what I like to call #AwesomeBoresome...let's kick things off then... #AWESOME - The Twitter account 'Things on my Rabbit' Victoria Beckham has been well known to call fans of her clothing line 'fashion bunnies' on her Twitter account … Continue reading #AwesomeBoresome (Week ending 17/05/2015)
The year is 1945. VE Day marks the end of World War II, actor Martin Shaw and singer songwriter legend Van Morrison are both born. And in May of that year, on exactly this week, the first in a new series of books for children called 'The Railway Series', charting the lives of a team … Continue reading ‘The Railway Series’ at 70: still crossing the points to new generations
As has been mentioned before several times on this here blog, there are certain popstars or books or TV shows for which it is impossible for me to try and form any coherent stream of thought on other than that of a giddy, excitable fanboy, whilst showing all the love and loyalty of a particularly … Continue reading #CrazyStupidGig – Olly Murs (@ollyofficial) – Never Been Better Tour (O2 Arena, London, 4th/7th May 2015)
And a hearty good afternoon to you all! Once again I have been somewhat sporadic as a...sporadic thing. That's largely because I've had a week off this week - more on which to a certain extent in my next blog which (spoiler alert) is a review of a tour - and numerous other shiz has … Continue reading #AwesomeBoresome (Week ending 10/05/2015)
Apologies for being slightly late to the #AwesomeBoresome-ness this week. Blame this on the fact that I am currently fending off a sore throat and thus have the energy and attention span of a fruit fly. Being slightly ill isn't one of my #Boresomes though, but there are a couple of things that are. So … Continue reading #AwesomeBoresome (Week ending 19/04/2015)
Mark Ronson has long been a DJ and producer I have admired the work of for many years. But there's a caveat. Just very occasionally, a record of his will be the most universally loved thing in the world and yet, without wishing to sound like a douchebag, I'll be completely resistant to its charms. … Continue reading 5 songs by Mark Ronson that are better than ‘Uptown Funk’
In what I hope to be a new feature on this blog, I thought it might be a cool idea to tell you a little bit more about what I'm enjoying and what's really been irritating me this past week. I'm calling it *drum roll please*... #AWESOMEBORESOME That's right. It'll be a list of about … Continue reading #AwesomeBoresome (Week ending 12/04/2015)
It's all too easy these days to assume the warts-and-all investigative documentary is a dirty, provoking and common beast that belongs in a 9pm or 10pm slot on Channel 4 or Channel 5, primed and ready for dissection of its subjects by Daily Mail columnists and sadist social media trolls alike. In recent years, it's … Continue reading #CrazyStupidTV: “Tom Felton Meets the Superfans” (BBC Three)
Hello all - and happy Easter! Today's blog post is being powered to you on these bad boys... (*with mouthful of egg* I digress.) It's been a busy couple of weeks, so firstly a few things - I've gone a little bit more upmarket as you can see, and now have a full domain name … Continue reading #CrazyStupidGig: McBusted (@mcbusted) – Most Excellent Adventure Tour (O2 Arena, London, 4th April 2015)
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