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U2 Save Ireland From The IMF
IF only all Irish taxpayers could be like Bono? When he and the rest of U2 moved their publishing arm to the Netherlands in 2006 after the Government capped tax-free earnings for artists at €250,000, there was much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. But then we realised that the Irish Government had no fecking clue how to spend taxpayers’ money and would most likely have spent the U2 harvest on art, Bernie Madoff T-shirts and cake.
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Posted: 18th, January 2011 | In: Music | Comment (1)
Michael Jackson’s Dead Perfume On Sale Soon:
MICHAEL Jackson Inc. has launched a new perfume. To connect with Jacko, his legion of fans can open the twin vials of Ebony & Ivory and dowse themselves in a rich emollient of embalming fluids with top notes of creosote over a deep base of Ronseal. Also hints of wine gum, burnt hair, Pepsi and for that added authenticity a dash of ground monkey foot. But we are wrong. The actual scent is made from the flowers that grew in his Neverland Ranch in sun-dabbled Beverley Hills.
Now the cool kids who want to remember their idol can small of Knobcone Pine, Brittlebush, Hairy Purple Bells, Blue Dicks-Ookow, Morning Glory and maybe other native Californian species.
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Posted: 18th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (23)
Modern British Landmarks: Nick Cave’s Broken Gatso (Brighton)
THEY come to pay homage to the Gatso speed camera Nick Cave struck in Brighton last December. The prang assured Cave a new legion of fans.
What other modern British landmarks do you know of..?
Amy Winehouse Regains Control Of Her Limbs – Suddenly: Video And Photos
AMY Winehouse is in Brazil. She’s on stage. And suddenly she regains control of her limbs. Like Pinocchio testing out a new arm, Winehouse wheels about the stage. She finds a leg. She finds another legs. Thrilled by it all she does a pirouette.
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Freddie Mercury Back From The Dead To Flog Japanese Noodles
WHEN John Lennon was brought back from the dead to shill for Citroen, we wondered which star would be next to lick Mammon’s fingers. So. Without further ado here is resting Queen front man Freddie Mercury to flog you noodles. And he’s not been wasting his time of late – Mercury’s bene learning Japanese…
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Canada Bans Dire Straits’ Money For Nothing: Animated Sting Must Die
CANADA likes to be noticed. And news reaches us that the latest plot to remind the world that the land above the US of A is not just an oxygen storage depot of California, is that the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has decreed that Dire Straits’ 1980s protest song of working stiffs Money for Nothing must not be played on Canadian radio.
A listener complained to St. John’s radio station CHOZ-FM. that the word faggot is “extremely offensive” to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Music | Comments (5)
Michael Jackson’s 25 Most Used Words
MICHAEL Jackson song lyrics: What do you think are the 25 most common words in Michael Jackson’s songs from 1979 to 2009?
All together:
Make girl come now
Wanna just love really bad…
Spotter: mypantsareonfire
Posted: 10th, January 2011 | In: Music | Comments (3)
Madonna’s Audition For Fame At 21: Video
MADONNA auditioned for the hit TV show Fame when she was 21. She failed. Had only she succeed she could now be as famous as Lee Curreri, Valerie Landsburg and Gene Anthony Ray.
Anyhow, here’s Madonna acting. She was, as she ever has been, a terrible actress…
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Billy Bragg Is the Big House Boy From Burton Bradstock
BILLY Bragg, the “big-nosed boy from Barking”, is the voice of socialism in Burton Bradstock, west Dorset. Bragg’s home is a grand £1.5 million house by the sea. Singing about working on the line with the common man pays better than actually working on the line.
But all is now happy. Bragg is the target of a hate mail campaign. Person or persons want him out of the village. Bragg blames the Tories, for the “powerless ranting of a bitter individual who is angry that, even in a sleepy village like ours, people reject the politics of racism”.
But all we see is a bloody big house.
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Posted: 6th, January 2011 | In: Music | Comments (3)
Nicki Minaj’s Facebook Row Is A Coco Theme Park Ride: Photos
NICKI Minaj would like you to know that the photo of her dressed in a fishnet shag suit sticking her fabulous bum out like a Coco Austin theme park ride does not violate Facebook terms. Her fans love it. You might too. But, then, it’s all about the music, isn’t it?
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Wannabe Black Girl Justin Bieber Likes Black Artists
JUSTIN Bieber, fresh from adding his name to an official range of home hairdressing and pudding bowl merchandise tells Vanity Fair that he is still in tune with his inner black girl in a plaid skirt:
“Music is music, and I’m definitely influenced by Michael Jackson and Boyz II Men and people who were black artists—that’s what I like. But I like their voices and I like how they entertain—it’s not about what color they are.”
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Gerry Rafferty RIP: Walking Champion Dies
GERRY Raffery, lead singer of Stealer’s Wheel, champion of urban rambling down Baker Street has died. He was just 63. RIP. Take it away – this is a great song:
Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John: Photos Of Elton John’s Son
ELTON John, 62, is now father to Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John. The birth mum is a surrogate. (Whose egg? Liz Hurley? Liz Taylor? Liz Windsor?) The other dad is Elton’s husband David Furnish, 48. Anorak likes the name, although the double-barreled surname evokes images of a smark downstairs privy.
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Posted: 30th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (77)
Enrique Iglesias’s Hentai Rock Opera: Featuring James Bond Porn
ENRIQUE Iglesias’ latest outpouring of pop pap is called – ahem – Tonight (I’m Fuckin’ You). Soft-faced Enrique has only gone and created a Hentai rock opera. It’s porn delivered with a cartoonish edge by a man so soft-focused he might be a singing smudge.
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JLS And Tinie Tempa Rock Wembley: Photos
JLS were with Tinie Tempa (sunglasses) at Wembley Arena in north London last night. At one point the X Factor stars flew over the crowd in a Mercedes sleigh. Stars in a sleigh. This is Christmas, fans. If you like JLS you will vole these photos. If you don’t, you need to see what the youth are into…
Posted: 23rd, December 2010 | In: Music | Comment (1)
Sir Paul McCartney Plays Liverpool As Heather Mills Recalls Her Life As Penny Lane: Photos
HEATHER Mills’ words were still ringing in our ears as Sir Paul McCartney played a concert at the Carling 02 Academy in his home city of Liverpool. The latest rumour on the internet is that at a meet-the-teachers night for Mills and Sir Paul’s daughter Beatrice, the child was praised for her skill with the saxophone. Mills, aka Penny Lane, is alleged to have replied:
“Yes. She gets that from me.”
This is augmented by another quote form the women known locally as Lovely Rita:
I ask if Beatrice is musical. “Well, yeah, because all her family are – I play saxophone and oboe, my brother plays bass trombone and has a rock band, my sister plays the flute, my mother played piano and my dad played six instruments, so…”
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Posted: 22nd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comments (4)
Shakira Works The Primark Lettuce Leaf: O2 Show Photos
SHAKIRA was at London’s O2 arena last night. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is 4ft 11in, and is thus able to dress in Primark’s junior range and wave about a lettuce leaf as if it were the green sail of an ocean going ship…
Matt Cardle’s Book Is A Journey Into Obscurity
MATT Cardle, the X Factor winner, was signing pages of his book Matt Cardle: My Story at Waterstones in London. From being a ordinary bloke who could sing – he was a painter and decorator from Essex, no less – Matt is now a shiny popstar with a book and a message. His watery version of Biffy Clyro’s Many Of Horror’ is at top of the charts. His hair is no longer beneath a cap. And so begins the end of the chap you liked and followed on the telly.
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Posted: 20th, December 2010 | In: Music | Comments (3)
The Captain Beefheart Interview: Don Van Vliet (1941 – 2010)
CAPTAIN Beefheart RIP. Here he is in interview. The quality of the video seems to fit. Remember:
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen’t shake, eat another piece of bread.
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Majela ZeZe Diamond Sings This Year’s Christmas Hit
MAJELA ZeZe Diamondwill now tells us in song Father Christmas F*cked My Pussy.
This is the (Christmas pussy song). All other Christmas pussy songs are fakes.
We don’t know if she kissed Santa. But she most likely knows someone who has…
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P Diddy Combs Suffers As Woman Catches Fire In His Bath Full Of Tap Water
FIRST Usher is kicked in the head by a fan. Now The New York Fire Department is at the venue for Sean “Diddy” Combs new album launch. There is a fire. Diddy Man is OK but the woman sat in his bath tub has a shorter, curlier wig than usual as what passes for her hair catches fire.
The whole thing looks like a put up job. If anything was burning it that room, the crew would be hanging over the source and taking it in deep.
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Posted: 17th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment
Usher Hurt In Staged Sex Act: Video
THAT Usher chap is no Akon. When Akon gets a fan on stage he dry jumps and leaves nothing to chance. Usher hauls the fan and stage and wants to look more lover than jack rabbit. He bumps. He grinds. He spoons. She goes to flip her leg over his head to give him a view of her fanbase and smacks him in the face.
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Kesha Does A Sex Cymbal: Her UK Debut In Photos
DID you, perchance, see the Kesha show at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire? This was her debut concert in the UK. The show lasted 56 minutes. Dave Gilmour’s prog-rock Charlie Gillmour’s Austerity Past, Present and Pluperfect has a longer intro. Still, does Charlie’s song feature a woman who looks a bit like John Travolta in Ian Botham’s old hair, with blue lips, and a 1980s hairdresser’s wardrobe performing a sex act with a cymbal? Back to the drawing board, Dave…
Posted: 15th, December 2010 | In: Music | Comments (2)
Susan Boyle Survives The Mania To Live A Life Outside The Book
SUSAN Boyle remains impervious to the Americanisation process. Her chest, teeth and skin tones are her own. She is just a human being, of course. But when she burst onto the scene, Boyle was a symbol of God’s love. Boyle was signing copies of her book The Woman I Was Born To Be in Glasgow’s St Enoch’s Centre today.
But back then, Boyle was the antidote to the vanity of our age. She as an angel, whose looks were a totem to feminists who desperate for an argument saw in a face a sign that women could now be “ugly” and accepted.
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Posted: 13th, December 2010 | In: Music | Comment (1)
X Factor 2011 Final: The Captain And Tennille
X FACTOR 2011: Introducing The Captain and Tennille’s poptastic song Muskrat Love.
Finalist so far:
