Simon Cowell is Katy Perry’s Latest Crush
Simon Cowell and Katy Perry are having a massive love in – which adds fuel to the rumour she’ll be making an appearance on this years live X Factor. According to The News of The World she says she “just loves Simon” before going on to gush: “Simon and Russell actually do have lots of...
Justin Bieber Leads Poll of Cancelled Gigs
Justin Bieber cancels more gigs than anyone else according to a poll by Esquire. To be fair though it wasn’t his fault. When he was due to perform in Australia police cancelled the gigs amongst security fears. Thousands of fans had descended onto Sydney to see him and hundreds of them became “distressed” in subsequent...
Morrissey’s 13 Favourite Albums
If we were to pick our top albums, We are The Quarry, The Queen is Dead and Hatful of Hollow would be in there (yes….we know the last is a compilation, but we’d cheat). So when Morrissey announces the music that makes him tick then, we sat up an listened. Here are his top albums:...
Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts Secretly Recording an Album?
Cheryl, predictably, was the first to have a go on her own, then Sarah did something (didn’t she?) – but now it could be Nicola’s turn. According to reports in The Mirror, she has been snapped up by Sony and will be recording an album of “kooky” music. Their source reported “(s)he’s an original girl...
Robert Pattinson Threatens to Make an Album
“I kind of want to do [an album] at the end of the year – all my friends are recording albums and I’m very annoyed about it, but I can’t do two things at once.” When Robert Pattinson revealed this to Parade, my instant, cynical reaction was to think he’s an idiot. After all the actor...
Kylie Minogue Definitely Not “Fame Game Loser”
Kylie had a fairly good day yesterday – not only did her album go straight in at number one, confirming her touch for being omni-popular, but also Spain won the World Cup. At this she was said to be delighted – mainly by proxy due to her Spanish boyfriend. Strange then to see the Mirror...
Kelly Rowland Album Set to Cement Move to Dance Music
We’re hotly anticipating Kelly Rowland’s new album – and it looks like her third solo effort is going to establish her further into the dance artist. Her newly leaked song – On and On – produced by Brian Kennedy (famous for Rhianna’s Disturbia), is a definite mix of pop and dance building on her collaboration...
Young Musicians Waiting For Life to Perform
On Sunday night, the BBC will broadcast the final of its Young Musician of the Year competition. Contests between the country’s most un/talented people are a near constant source of TV entertainment, so I tuned in to last week’s semi finals to see what makes this show different from all the others. The man we...
The Virtues of Amateurism
“Sometime I’m going to do an essay called ‘The Virtues of Amateurism’ for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts.” Robert Kincaid, The Bridges of Madison County. Unfortunately, Robert Waller’s character never did write his essay on the virtues of amateurism. But it’s a good title, even if we...
Susan Boyle Latest to Line Up Rap Collaboration
Susan Boyle is reportedly being lined up by Syco, her management company, to do a rap duet. A source told the Daily Mirror: “They are looking at ballads and more musical style stuff, but this time around they want to try to make her a recording artist – original material, and giving Susan a chance...
Diana Vickers Vs Alexandra Burke
Alexandra Burke may have beaten Diana Vickers in X Factor; but there’s every chance she’s going to be less commercially successful. Alex has just released a new video called “All Night Long” – it’s a strong pop song, but a bit derivative. The video is very similar to Lady GaGa’s Just Dance and early reactions...
E.M.I. needn’t spell disaster for England’s Music Industry
If, like I, you have been reading articles under headlines such as ‘Deadline day looms for ailing EMI’ or ‘EMI facing crisis’ you could be forgiven for assuming that EMI was in fact an acronym for England’s Music Industry as a whole, rather than the forlorn single enterprise it is. Consensus amongst analysts of the...
