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Brit Awards 2013
This year really should have been all about One Direction’s hair. It should have been a camera-trained tribute to the five gleaming superstar pompadours sitting on their polished heads like official pop-star halos. They should have opened the show, should have exploded from beneath the stage in a humid…
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Pop Life: Loving Laverne
Heroes seem to come in colossal form. Giant-size tornadoes of drama like Bowie, Dylan, Morrissey that whisked into your tiny life in the nick of time to save you from dingy normality and focus you on to the path to secret brilliance that no-one had yet recognised. They were…
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Album Review: Kylie – The Abbey Road Sessions
Kylie + Ballads = ? It can mean the devastating soul-ache of Put Yourself in my Place the cool psycho-eroticism of Where the Wild Roses Grow , the electro existentialist breakdown of Breathe or if you’re really stretching it, the wonky tick-tock of Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi. Kylie…
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Pop Life: Do You Believe in Magic?
(The Diary of a Pop Defender) Saint Etienne always existed just outside the edges of the Cinemascope. They encapsulated the fuzzy line that blurred the most alluring of fantasies into the best of realities. They came wrapped in a sense of assured quality forever to be described in awestruck superlatives….
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Pop Life : How Do You Describe A Feeling?
(The Diary of a Pop Defender) It’s hard to remember a time when Kylie wasn’t in my life. Maybe when I was a dribbling, moth-mouthed baby, a skinless prawn with roaming fish-eyes that cared more about what bit of fluff I was going to ingest than what perfectly formed pop…
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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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Ranniversary : Calvin Harris,a pineapple & Jedward
*Ranniversary: Why wait for a decade to celebrate those seminal moments in pop history? It’s been 3 years and 3 months since this happened… It’s lucky Calvin Harris is so tall because most folks just can’t reach him to slap the head off him. You know that’s what Kylie…
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Live Review: Kylie – The 02, Dublin
It is strangely fitting and rather comforting that on the day when diva extraordinaire Liz Taylor exits stage left, leaving the last vestiges of old school mystique, charisma and dubious hair-dos behind her, that we gather to watch the Trojan show pony that is Kylie Minogue attempting to unite Dublin…
