Posted on 28 July 2009 by Mel Mingas
It’s the paper that brought hundreds of criminals to justice, exposed sex scandals, tapped Royal phone lines and relentlessly stalked celebrities.
The current situation at News of the World needs little introduction. But for those recently returned from Mediterranean beaches, African safaris and trips to Mars, here goes…
Refusing to learn their lesson from 2006- when Royal Editor Clive Goodman and accomplice were jailed for tapping royal phone lines, and then-editor Andy Coulson (now “PR aide” to David Cameron) resigned- NOTW continue their covert operations to find out what we all need to know. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009 by lsentino
Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Off, off with your head/Dance, dance ‘til you‘re dead”. The first words uttered and in one simple couplet manages to sum up the tone of the next two hours at Manchester Academy. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 July 2009 by lsentino
One such definition of pop music suggests that it is “popular music intended for, or accepted by a wider audience”. Whilst this sounds about right, there has been a strange trend in the last decade or so which has seen the counter culture take over. Any genre that is seen as anti-establishment automatically becomes cool; the minority becomes the majority if you will.
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Posted on 01 July 2009 by lsentino
Bikini Black Special are, if you didn’t know, one of Preston’s best musical hopes putting our fair city on the musical map. PR1 caught up with the band just before their record breaking set at 53 Degrees.
When asked to describe their sound, both Paddy Green (guitars/synths/vocals) and Kim Seward (vocals) agree that “We just want to make noise. We make noisy electro rock, we like to dance around and we hope that other people want to dance around with us too!” Continue Reading
It’s the paper that brought hundreds of criminals to justice, exposed sex scandals, tapped Royal phone lines and relentlessly stalked celebrities.