Posted by: Scott on: December 15, 2008
So, as I reported t’other day, Alexandra Burke off of The X Factor has released her cover version of Hallelujah as the winners song. Despite this being a dead cert for the Christmas Number One spot, there’s plenty of competition that might possibly, maybe stop her… Okay, I’ll admit that it’s highly unlikely that anyone [...]
Posted by: Scott on: December 14, 2008
In a vote that involved over 8 MILLION phonecalls, the Winner of UK singing contest The X Factor was decided last night. Alexandra Burke, 20, from North London was crowned the winner and takes home a £1 MILLION recording contract, along with the Christmas Number One single pretty much guaranteed. The song she is singing [...]
Posted by: Scott on: December 6, 2008
So, a quick update just to let you know who went from this week’s X Factor. There was only room for three acts in next Saturday’s final, and the acts returning are: Alexandra Burke Eoghan Quigg and JLS Meaning that unofrtunatley, Diana Vickers has been booted off the show. Weird, considering she was probably thr [...]
Posted by: Scott on: October 28, 2008
As I said in this post yesterday, the Beeb, Russell Brand, and Jonathan Ross are in a bit of bother after the antics on Brand’s Radio 2 show last week. I’ll spare you the story as it’s mentioned in the other blog post, but it has been announced today that Ofcom, the media regulator are [...]
Posted by: Scott on: October 27, 2008
The BBC, as well as comedian Russell Brand and TV interviewer Jonathan Ross have apologised for the telephone ‘prank’ that they played on former ‘Fawlty Towers’ actor Andrew Sachs. The Beeb have dsecribed the 4 calls made on Brand’s Radio 2 show broadcast on 18 October as “unacceptable and offensive” and have unreservedly apologised to the actor. [...]
Posted by: Scott on: October 22, 2008
Now that ‘The Mighty Boosh’ have become, well, mighty. They have decided to try and make a crack at the silver screen… Although currently touring around the UK, Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett have their next project: a feature film, in the planning according to an interview with BBC Radio 1′s Newsbeat. Fielding said: “”We’ve done [...]
Posted by: Scott on: October 19, 2008
So, no-one is really bothered about the rest of the chart… (Though new girlband The Saturdays did chart at #4), I thought I would cut it down to a top three for a nice bitesize chunk of the Official UK Top 40 [full chart up tomorrow on the "Chart" pages] Top 3, 19 Oct 2008: 3 [...]
Posted by: Scott on: October 16, 2008
British Indie stars The Ting Tings have stated they would welcome the return of the ex-long running BBC music show ‘Top Of The Pops.’ The bands drummer Juels De Martino told Absolute Radio “We’ll force our way onto it. Bring back TOTP and let us be the first band to play on it.” The show was [...]
Posted by: Scott on: October 13, 2008
The Crystal Maze: Where Is It Now? Surely everyone remembers the Crystal Maze don’t they? DON’T THEY? Well, for those young’uns that have never experienced it; here’s the Wikipedia Article. Now, this show was genius! Everything from the theme tune, to the puzzles, to the actual dome and then Mr. O’Brian himself… But it hasn’t [...]
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