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It’s Different For Girls
There has been some chatter around the local Twitter hub of late about that old thorny issue of women in music. Last week when a music website decided to publish a Daily Fail style reader-trolling/baiting review that ‘ironically’ rolled out that old ‘hilarious’ observation that having a vagina means…
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Teenage Scream : Hollyoaks & Tea-time Rape Culture
Telly teen girls will always be commodities. Ever since poor old Nabokov gave the lazy architects of tea-time droolfests a teasing template, there has been the slippery of lip, bony of hip, school uniform seductress, a bit of ‘innocent’ distraction for the Dads to make soap-time bearable. This used…
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A.A Gill & Guilty Pleasures
Never has a phrase made me dissolve into tears of righteous anger quicker than ‘Guilty Pleasure’. Guilty BLOODY Pleasures, what self hating simpleton thought this up? How utterly, miserably Catholic to have to feel shame and turmoil about quite liking something that’s not deemed retro enough to be ironic….
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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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Brand Spanking Q?
Good old Q magazine, without you we may have never have witnessed Jonny Borrell’s saucer eyes bulging out from the front cover turning every newsstand into a fish mongers. Whereas Mojo and Uncut favour the safely dead, Q was the place for lads that grew tired with the NME and…
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Ranniversary: Phillip – The Unstoppable Smarm Machine
*Ranniversary: Why wait for a decade to celebrate those seminal moments in pop history? It’s been 21 years and 5 months since this happened… The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party was a thing of glory. A tea-time feast where you could feel vindicated as Sonia’s face flashed up on the…
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Bret Easton Ellis – Pop Culture King
We live in a world where Kanye describes his sartorial superiority in relentless, irrelevant detail down to his monogrammed socks, where every stare, blink and perfectly pouty punctuation pause by those Hills girls have taken on some kind of existentialist meaning and have seeped into our very being. Where…
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Ranniversary: Richard Ashcroft and the Youthclub of Doom
*Ranniversary: Why wait for a decade to celebrate those seminal moments in pop history? It’s been 6 years and 9 months since this happened… Oh that Richard Ashcroft! He used to be as mad as a carrot, always off his mind, banging his shoes together over his head telling people…
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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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Ranniversary : Brian Harvey runs himself over…
*Ranniversary: Why wait for a decade to celebrate those seminal moments in pop history? It’s been 7 years and 9 months since this happened… Sometimes it really does feel like Dappy is Brian Harvey’s long lost son. The stupid hat that his head doesn’t fill up, the puppy-dog aggressive ‘street’…
