Looking at the singles chart this week, I can see that while it's a great week for Client and Long-View (going in at 22 and 32 respectively), it's an awful week for Minnie Driver who only managed to enter the chart at number 68. :(

"Invisible Girl" is a wonderful song but obviously:

(a) People don't like it
(b) It wasn't advertised well enough
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Two stories from Chortle:

"ITV1 sitcom Dead Man Weds has lost 700,000 viewers in its first week on air. The show was seen by 3.4 million viewers on its first outing but Wednesday’s second installment, transmitted at 10pm, lost a fifth of that audience to average a disappointing 2.7 per cent - or just 13 per cent of the audience. However, despite ( Read more... )

Continuing the series of "Flashback Fridays" - listening to an old album on my discman to and from work in order to relive and enjoy once more the tracks and times of days long gone:

Flashback Friday Number 2 - "Wild!" by Erasure


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It's a good job I ended up in the HMV on Birmingham High Street two days ago!

I only went in there to have a look at the singles and to buy the new efforts from Client and Minnie Driver and I discovered that Long-view (no longer Longview as there is already an American band out there with that name) also have a new single out. If that wasn't good ( Read more... )

Two superb quotes from the sublime Jenny Eclair ( Read more... )

The Brit Award nominations this year are an absolute farce. The acts who I thought deserved recognition (such as Delays and R.E.M.) are absent from the lists and acts that haven't been around for long enough seem to get instant recognition. Yet again, certain decisions seem to be ill conceived. If Kasabian are worthy of their "Best British Group" ( Read more... )

Looking at my CD collection, here's a thought I just had that means a lot more to me than to others but what the heck ( Read more... )

"The Joker" by Fatboy Slim has got to be the cutest video ever made! I first saw it on one of the music channels at around 4am on Sunday morning and then again in the early hours of this morning. It never fails to bring a smile to my face. :D

To see what I'm raving about you can watch the video by clicking here! Just ignore the first ten or so ( Read more... )

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And now the first in a regular series. I'm going to make every Friday of 2005 (if possible!) a "Flashback Friday" which will result in me hunting out an old album from my CD collection so that I can listen to it on my discman to and from work. During the day I will post up the album cover and any memories that resurface from listening to it and it ( Read more... )