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Snow Patrol - 'Take Back The City'

19 hours ago

It must be quite daunting being Gary Lightbody. Imagine the pressure involved in having to get your band together in a studio, ready to record some new material, all the while knowing that one of your songs - 'Chasing …

Tagged: reviews

How To Destroy...The Ting Tings

Oct 6, 2008

NOTE: This isn't really so much a guide which shows you how you can destroy the Ting Tings - assuming, of course, that you really have to and are not just doing it out of spite - as it is a guide to showing how the …

Tagged: how to destroy

M.I.A. - 'Paper Planes'

Oct 6, 2008

I did debate briefly doing this review in a "cuh, why did it take until being featured on the Pineapple Express soundtrack for this amazing song to achieve mainstream success, eh?" style, but then I realised it …

Tagged: reviews

Chart Report - 05/10/08

Oct 5, 2008

Poor old Top 5 High 5 sometimes gets related to the back of the Chart Show report, so just for a change, here it is at the top! Now, come and play our game... All you need to do is answer 'High 5!' if you approve of …

Tagged: radio 1 chart show

The Saturdays - 'Up'

Oct 5, 2008

Popular music! WHY do you insist on throwing conundrums my way? Conundrums which are complicated enough to give Stephen Hawking a headache? All I have ever asked of you is that you give me a few cheap thrills now and …

Tagged: reviews