Label: Polydor UK Release: 7 May 2012 Cover Drive’s brand of sun-soaked, dancehall-esque carib-pop hasn’t particularly been explored by the mainstream UK market since the early days of Rihanna; and now that she’s evolved into an electro-raving love-in-a-hopeless-place-finder, Karen ‘Amanda’ Reifer, Barry ‘Bar-Man’ Hill, Jamar ‘Toast’ Harding and Thomas-Ray ‘T-Ray’ Armstrong have jumped in to fill ...
UK Release: Wednesday 2 May 2012 Back in 1999, the very first American Pie outing managed to tick boxes that not every teen comedy could tick. Not only was it hilarious for viewers of all ages (well, most ages), but it also had a real sense of friendship and heart at the centre of it ...
Label: 679/Atlantic UK Release: Monday, April 30 “My first album wasn’t a flop, but it wasn’t a wild success,” said Marina Diamondis recently. “This one is more assured, and I feel it will come to define my career.” It’s been two years since she, under her stage-name Marina & The Diamonds, broke onto the mainstream ...
Steps Reunion was undoubtedly a pop highlight of 2011, bringing back our favourite 90s/00s quintet and forcing them to kiss and make-up after a split that was so much messier than any of us ever really realised. It was a hit with fans, it was a hit with critics, and it was also a hit ...
It says something about the talent level on The Voice UK that will.i.am can earnestly say someone is better than Justin Timberlake, and then in the next breath eliminate them from the competition. The guy earning such high acclaim was of course Jay Norton, the Liverpudlian 24-year-old who ultimately lost out to the equally amazing ...
The Only Way Is Essex blasted so quickly into viewers’ hearts that it was only natural for it to feel very tired very quickly. Amy Childs left, Mark Wright left, Harry Derbidge, Kirk Norcross and Maria Fowler were chucked, and Season 4 had been broadcast when the show was still just over a year old. ...
It seems like everything these days has to be “the next” something. The Voice is the next X Factor. Facebook was the next MySpace. Twilight was the next Harry Potter. And now The Hunger Games is the next Twilight. But in reality they are totally different products, and in so many ways. Twilight’s about vampires, The ...
Who exactly is Nicki Minaj? Is she an electro-pop rave queen with an ear for an infectious club hook, or is she the reigning hip-hop queen with the ability to pen the cleverest raps the mainstream market has heard from a female for quite some time? In fact, is she even Nicki Minaj at all, ...
There’s been a distinct feeling among pop music critics lately that Ms Ciccone can get away with anything just because she’s Ms Ciccone. When ‘Give Me All Your Luvin” first appeared, the consensus among most was that “it’s not her best but, hey… it is Madonna”. Can’t we just call a spade a spade? It’s ...
Heaven tour Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London Tuesday 13 March 2012 Setlist: ‘Fighting Suspicions’, ‘Mr Bright Eyes’, ‘Glitter and Gold’, ‘Diamond To A Stone’, ‘Shoulder To Shoulder’, ‘Knocked Up’ (Kings of Leon cover), ‘Gimme Shelter’ (Rolling Stones cover), ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ (Sam Cooke cover), ‘Teach Me How To Be Loved’, ‘Too Good To ...
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