Monthly Archives October 2013

Awkward Newsnight Interview

Last night, James Blake discovered that winning the Mercury Music Prize comes with certain responsibilities, like enduring awkward encounters with ‘serious’ news journalists. Step up Steve Smith from Newsnight who quite clearly didn’t know much about what was going on or make any real effort to care. He produced this

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By Darryl Morris

Miley Cyrus Pumpkins

It was always going to be this years craze; carving Miley Cyrus into your pumpkin. The web is littered with them today, so here are a couple of the best. Some have gone for the classic tongue-out, some have added a witty ‘twerk or tweet’ sign and others have gone

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By Darryl Morris

Eminem ft. Rihanna – The Monster

Fast becoming one of the ultimate music tag-teams, Eminem and Rihanna have debuted their new collaboration, ‘The Monster’. The song will feature on the rappers eighth studio album, ‘The Marshal Mathers LP 2’ and features a rousing Rihanna chorus, just the way we like it. Listen here… [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117508653″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

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By Darryl Morris

The Weirdest Flight Safety Video You’ll Ever See

Virgin America have turned a few heads this week after launching an unusual in-flight safety video. The film, shown as the the aircraft taxis to the runway, gives the usual snooze inducing safety information… entirely in song… and its actually quite catchy. Watch it here…   And they aren’t the

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By Darryl Morris

New ‘I’m A Celeb’ Trailer

The first trailer for the new series of ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here’ has been unveiled by ITV. The trailer see’s hosts Ant and Dec arrive in Australia before hitching a lift with a crocodile and ends with a reference to their revived chart hit ‘Lets Get

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By Darryl Morris

Jonas Brothers Split

The Jonas Brothers have announced they are to splitting up. Kevin Jonas told People Magazine that he and his brothers Nick and Joe were parting company, saying “It’s over for now.” The news isn’t a compete shock to fans and onlookers, the brothers recently cancelled a US tour due to “a deep

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By Darryl Morris

New Disclosure Track – Apollo

Silence, please, we have a new track from the Disclosure brothers. The Mercury Prize nominee’s unveiled ‘Apollo’ on their soundcloud today, the first new material since the release of their album ‘Settle’ earlier this year. Have a listen below… [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/117448277″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

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By Darryl Morris

GaGa Naked Kebab Shoot

Lady GaGa has demonstrated the classic end to a Friday night, posing stark naked with a kebab hanging from her mouth. It also happens to be the artwork for new single ‘Venus’ that GaGa is set to perform on this weekend’s X Factor. We could get analytical and examine the

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By Darryl Morris

Brand vs Paxman… and the Political System

This has been blogged and re-blogged and the odds are heavily stacked in favour of you having already watched it, possibility more than once. But I do feel a certain responsibility to join the hundreds of thousands of people sharing Russell Brand’s Newsnight encounter with the world. He is eloquent,

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By Darryl Morris

Kingsland Road Live From The X Factor House

We caught up with Kingsland Road’s Connor and Thompson, live from the X Factor house. They told us about their room getting trashed, falling asleep at movie premiers and preparing for the live show. Listen here…. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/116976886″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

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By Darryl Morris