Monthly Archives September 2013

Dizzee Rascal Plays Beat The Star

With the scores locked at 2-2, it was Dizzee Rascal’s turn to play Beat The Star this morning. Last week, Jessie J hammered Huw from Manchester playing the ‘answer-the-question-before’ game. It was Frederica’s turn to step up for the listeners and go head to head with Dizzee… Here’s what happened… [soundcloud

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By Darryl Morris

Text From Dog

Only occasionally does something come along on this here world wide web that can truly made me cackle out loud. We’ve all had our fill of ‘Cats Who Look Like Hitler’ (even the wonderful ‘Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Beiber’ is getting slightly tiresome) and so enter… Text From Dog.

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By Darryl Morris

Justin Timberlake Announces UK Tour

Justin Timberlake has announced UK dates as part of his world tour, 20/20 Experience. The UK leg will kick off on March 30th in Sheffield and take in five cities, London, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham before heading to Europe. He’s already getting to grips with being in the UK, surprising fans

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By Darryl Morris

Jessie J Plays Beat The Star

Last week on Beat The Star, Conor Maynard was beaten by Bethany from Oxford, making it 2-1 to the listeners. Could Jessie J pull it back against Huw from Manchester? [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/112571542″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

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By Darryl Morris

The Hits Radio: Conor Maynard Chats

Conor Maynard popped by The Hits Radio Breakfast this week to tell me about his new single, R U Crazy, and chat screaming girls, playground fights and googling yourself to get in clubs. Smooth. Listen to Conor Maynard on The Hits Radio here… [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/112570697″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true”

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By Darryl Morris

Terrible Estate Agent Pictures

This is what the internet was made for… blogs that highlight poor and pointless estate agent pictures. Prepare for hours of amusement – take a look at the full blog here. Do you think the room comes with the creepy man?   These stairs aren’t even nice…   This one comes fully furnished…

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By Darryl Morris

John Newman Teases New Album

John Newman has teased his debut album Tribute. Due for release on 14th October, the first collection from Newman has been hotly tipped for success by both critics and fans. Listen to the album sample here…

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By Darryl Morris

iOS 7… Making Children Cry

I finally took the plunge last night and spent a painful 2 hours sorting my iPhone and updating to Apple’s much talked about iOS 7 software. Reviews have been mixed, to say the least, with some rating it and others slating it. Some people have suggested the new style looks

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By Darryl Morris

How To Find Your First Tweet

For a while now, I’ve been trying to find a decent way of getting hold of old tweets. Websites that claim to search Twitter’s archives are ten to the dozen but finally one seems to be coming up with the goods. Topsy.com is an easy way to raid through a huge

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By Darryl Morris

Xtra Factor’s Matt Richardson Chats

We gave Xtra Factor host Matt Richardson a call on The Hits Radio Breakfast Show this morning, as he prepared to jet off to film judges houses. After being rudely interrupted by co-host Caroline Flack, we managed to squeeze out some gossip on how the acts are lining up. Listen

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By Darryl Morris