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The Trouble With Girls….

In between the cries of ‘kill the whore!’ which flooded the Guardian comments section on a recent piece about Kim Kardashian, sounding uncomfortably like an internal monologue by Peter Sutcliffe, there was a sliver of more digestible indignation about the woman the masses love to hate. A lone troll threw out the…
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Life Tracks: Cristina – What’s A Girl To Do?

If Edie Sedgwick had have written her own theme tune instead of letting the boys tell their version of her story, this would be it. A dose of ‘Poor Little Rich Girl’ blues with a glass shattering Euro-trash edge. What’s A Girl To Do? is Cristina’s No Wave hymn to…
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Brit Awards 2012

Ah The Brits, the only place where James Corden is still considered mildly amusing. The charisma void was on hosting duties again last night looking like he was auditioning for Bugsy Malone sounding as if he was made up of all the extra bits of smug that had fallen off…
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Album Review: Lady Gaga- Born This Way,The Remix

Do we really need a Gaga remix album? Wasn’t the head-spinning, unicorns-and-rainbows-in-a-can delight that was the original Born This Way enough? Apparently not, apparently we need something that can be played in a hairdressers of a Saturday afternoon, for some Fade Streeter to cue up between stares and sighs at…
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MTV EMAS 2011

Remember when the EMAs mostly consisted of VJ Simone on the red carpet in some ludicrous latex affair being crushed by various members of Die Toten Hosen? She’d slur something terrifically intoxicating into the camera, it’d cut back to an unawares Ray Cokes having a scratch before finally treating us…
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MTV VMAS 2011

Yes, MTV still hold award ceremonies no, not for ‘Best Pregnant 16 Year Old’ , ‘Most Vacant Stare (Hills Cast Special)’ or “Negative Stereotype of the Year” but for actual music videos, y’know the ones they never show anymore… The VMAs are supposed to be ever so controversial, ever…
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Live Review: Lady Gaga – The 02, Dublin

Friday night in Dublin, the closing night of Lady Gaga’s three night stand of her epic Monster’s Ball tour and surely the O2 is not about to let the bewigged one go out with a whimper not a bang? Yet sadly there was nary a sausage tiara to be…

