Mondays are great in England because you can pop to your local HMV (though tesco is often cheaper) and pick up the latest "releases" by your favourite popstrels. Here is what made it into my shopping "cart" this very day...

Like I wasn't going to buy The Puppini Sisters cd... if you don't know about these 40s styled swinging vixens yet, then (if you are in England) you must have been living under a rock, because the media onslaught is second only to when Il Divo launched... Having said that it was quite hard to find in HMV so maybe it won't be the huge hit I want it to be. Well anyway you will either love their unique "tributes" to pop classics or despise them. The verdict is yours...

MP3: Heart of Glass (blondie cover)
MP3: Panic (Smiths cover)

Inside the puppini sisters cd comes a lovely little advert for Matt Dusk who is yet another harry connick jr/jamie cullum/etc wannabe, but he looks pleasant enough so check out his website...

Next is James Morrison who I blogged a little about here and here... his album Undiscovered brings no major surprises and I give Paolo Nutini the edge still, but its nice enough and i can see me trilling along to it for the rest of the summer...

MP3: Wonderful World

Finally is an album called The Bright Lights And What I Should Have Learned by Leeds based 5 piece Duels. I picked it up on a bit of a whim and I'm glad I did because I actually quite like it... They sound quite tight vocally and musically and are certainly tapping intoa trend of distinctly british sounding pop acts (kooks/hard-fi etc) They mix harmonious guitar riffs and clever piano sequences with clear crisp impressive vocals and it makes for an exciting first listen.

MP3: Brothers and Sisters

i love the last weekend in the month - not only do i get my lovely paycheck but it's the time that my excessive amount of magazine subscriptions arrive (The Works, Attitude, Q, SFX, Details, Blender) and i get to do an awful lot of reading... here is what i have learnt so far from said mags...but not before a random pic of last nights drinking buddies Liam and Bernice!

• The Scissor Sisters are media whores. And probably just whores in general. That is why i love them so much...
• Ana Matronic is dating the younger brother of the lead singer of Deee-lite who i have always thought were the early 90s version of the scissters. Does that make her incestuous??
• Kiss You Off ~ an Ana led track ~ and Just Might Tell You Tonight are apparently the stand out tracks from Ta-Dah
• Check out the myspace site of new french dandies group Rock and Roll. They are quite possibly quite good. Well they were last night when i was drunk on tia maria and orange juice...
• There is a new clothing store called Kangaroo Poo. I am literally flabbergasted...
• L'il gay Aaron, formerly of boyband V, gives his take in Attitude on what its like being a nancy in the "hetero" world of teeny pop... quite brillo!
• "I think that the greatest disco is melancholy. Its about a longing for something... it's about remembering why you were upset and turning that into something beautiful" ~ Babydaddy
• Pet Shop Boys (Introspective), Madonna (erotica) and Kylie (light years) are numbers 11,7 and 4 retrospectively on the gayest albums of all time list behind a top three that features Morrissey (Vauxhall and I), Abba (Arrival) and the scissor sisters...
• "I met the pet shop boys the other week and told them what a huge influence they were on me. Neil said ' that's funny because you don't sound anything like us!' " ~ Dan Gillespie Sells (Feeling)
• Apparently the Nu-Gay music scene is led by Dangerous Muse, Lo-Fi-Fnk, Le Sport and er... Final Fantasy
• Singer songwriters are taking over the world according to Q Mag...and its all david grays fault. Bastard ;)

Somehow this band had escaped my attention but suddenly they were all over the music press this week so i thought I would check them out...



There are people in the world who will tell you Captain are wimpy powder puff schmindie types and not worth a second of your time. These people are clearly idiots... Captain, you see, peddle pop that recalls the gloriously melodic heydays of Prefab Sprout and could easily reduce the hardest of hearts to puddles of mush with the mere flutter of single Glorious' chorus. They are like a consistently ace Aussie indie rock troupe The Go-Betweens if a major label had thrown loads of money at them. Glorious, by right, should be number one forever. If the lead singer would only take of his rubbish Orson hat, i'd henna his name on my heart forever. Or until it washed off...

MP3: Captain - Glorious (rightclick)

Well flap me sideways and bugger me gently, i didn't really expect to be so wide awake so early on one of the only mornings of the week I get to have a little bit of a lie in. So i thought i would do a random thought process blog (inspired by this and this) on some of the things i have checked out this week...

It seems I have started a sleazy little affair between Ella (i so want to be the junior vice president of her fanclub) and J'Ason. I am of course very jealous and a little aroused ;)



Deborah Gibson is now a top forty (ac) chart star once again! I kinda wish it was a song she had written herself but i am of course happy to see her back in the land of double digits ;) Fingers crossed she doesn't 'say goodbye' to Billboard for a while yet... (see what i did there!)

MP3: Deb&Jordan - Say Goodbye (rightclick)

Each day I am more and more in love with The Hotstuff Files. These guys rock the very mostest.

XO may have got their first with the fabbolicious cover to the bound to be crotch lickingly good Ta-Dah album, but Attitude have 5 different covers to their marvy mag this month - each with a Scissor Sister on the front. This is the one i chose (above!)

The Feeling, who i have been championing for some time now, release their 3rd single Never Be Lonely on August 28th, with the brillo All You Need To Do on the "flip". If you visit their website, you can see a clip of the video - Dan looks more and more lovely and at ease with each video they do...plus i love double barrelled surnames (dan Gillespie Sells). Isn't that right Mark H-G??

MP3: The Feeling - Never Be Lonely (right click)
MP3: The Feeling - All You Need To Do (right click)

And finally, click here to see The Slash Music Allstars (including Lily Allen, McFly and The Feeling - singing in the style of Tom Waits) perform the sunny day classic I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside.... the pet shop boys reaction is classic! (and matt willis puts about as much enthusiasm in as i have for his career!)

lemme tell you, in my house sexy never went away :) But the artist formerly known as trousersnake is bringing it back in a series of beats and beeps that can't help but remind me of nelly furtado's new direction... Both seem to be the darlings of the press at the moment and Justin has just completed a sell out european tour and smashing GQ photoshoot...


But i was listening to acoustic versions of their singles yesterday and realised that actually in both, there is a hook there and a catchy tune that draws me in. These versions may not change your opinion if you don't like the songs already, but its always interesting to me to see how different songs are presented without any plugs around...

MP3: JT-sexyback acoustic
MP3: Nelly-promiscuous girl acoustic

coming soon: b-sides! dance remixes! some other stuff!!

ah, remember those heady days in 1988 when Debbie Gibson ruled the charts and all those girls without prom dates were crying into their pillows wailing along to Foolish Beat? No?! Well neither does vietnamese singer Shayla cos she's too young, but check out her fairly faithful but a little bit funked up cover of said song...

Click Here to see more...

also click here to see Deb sing her latest single with Jordan Knight...

Yes, it was my first day of cycling to work, and let me tell you in extreme temperatures such as today, i certainly lost some weight through an unhealthy amount of sweat. When i arrived at the meeting my face was so red it looked like someone had painted it! :O I'm not a natural sweater, i tend to gently perspire, so this was a new experience for me!! At least i looked bleeding gorgeous in new red helmet...

Anyhoo, while i was peddling for "joy" around the slightly grim city of Coventry (it's certainly no Birmingham) a lovely acoustic version of Chasing Cars popped onto my mp3 player. I didn't even realise I had this in a different version, but it is certainly my favourite track from Snow Patrol's Eyes Open cd... It's got a great laid back feel about it and is perfect listening for a summers day... anyone who watched the Grey's Anatomy season finale knows what a powerful song this can be :) Love. It.

MP3: Snow Patrol - chasing cars (acoustic)

coming soon - slutty nelly and slutty justin get acoustic on our arses!

Its far too hot to anything today except have darren eat ice cream off my body. Plus I am too mortified that a work colleague felt the need to share that their inner bottom was sweating. WTF is an inner bottom anyway??? So here are some links and it will be back to normal tomorrow :) Possibly...

Now I am delighted as the next person that McFly are number one, and its true i love those crazy scamps, but i have no desire to see them nekkid. Ever. Heavens preserve us all...

Jess of Into The Groove and Dirrrty Pop (she has one more R than Christina Aguilera) has a marvo new film appreciation blog. Check it out here...

Nelly Furtado is getting Stripped in August...

Rooster's new cd Circles and Satellites was conspicuously absent from stores on its release date today... you can buy it on iTunes for a mere £5.99. Worth it for their exhilarating Good To Be Here from Stormbreaker

If you like the Popjustice site, make sure you check out The Hotstuff Files. Oh and Fetch Me Some Music will appeal to fans of oxygen chunks too - and the guy is only 16!

Deborah Gibson and Jordan Knight have the third most added single at AC Radio this week. I'm just sad its not one of Deb's self penned epic ballads...

I'm not the only person to miss this show!

Well, i just convinced some of my buddies that Paolo Nutini is so much more than the new James Blunt (even XO reader Blunty Bitch - name edited for my dad's eyes!) - his album crashes in at number 3 - when there is already a new sensitive singer songwriter on the so called block (what block!)

James Morrison clearly follows Paolo into being classed as the next Blunt, although in recent interviews he has claimed that he doesn't want to be a huge stadium filling megastar...I feel there are several factors working against him however. There's the name to start with, which brings to mind a certain sixties rock deity as well as that man Blunt.Next are the scruffy good looks and irrepressible toothy smile. And most significantly the voice provides a qality debut album with dark tracks like Call The Police ("I've lost control and i really want to see you bleed") and lighter more polished tracks like number five debuting single You Give Me Something with slick orchestration and obvious chart topping potential. Doesn't want to be a star? Looks like he won't have much choice...

MP3: You Give Me Something

After posting some forthcoming smashes on saturday (and rudebox is growing on me, and my friend Paul loves it!) here are some new singles that possibly no one is looking forward too...

MP3: Haylie and Hilary Duff - Material Girl
MP3: Louise - Slam

My eyes are rolling so much i look like i am seizing...

Well folks, i got more traffic than ever before on the site today and its possibly because of the three tracks posted in the post below this one. I got a bit scared and removed them now, but there are plenty of other places on the web you can get them.

The tracks seem to have generated discussion all over the internet. Be sure to check out people's opinions of the tracks at the links below. Most love the killers and scissters and are bewildered by Robbie...

Killers - J'ason loves it; Static have it!

Scissters - J'ason loves this too; it has Jessica's stamp of approval; the oc find it totally awesome; Homo Eclectic isn't sure... but my old kentucky blog find it disco wacky pants fantastic!

Robbie - Dan has a hilariously brilliant write up of it (love how he describes my blog!); and my fave find of the week Hotstuff Files are starting to warm to it. Good for you boys...

Also today:

Went to see Stormbreaker - based on a book which was actually out six years ago but i just read on holiday... Loved the film, thought it was brilliant and I am now obsessed with all things Alex Rider. It's no harry potter but its certainly a blast of fresh air...Not sure about the ridiculously good looking Alex Pettyfers new do though...

Am loving the fact that XO is now hooked on Paolo Nutini. He is right though, the title track to the album These Streets is a work of beauty...

And yay to the fact that a new Artemis Fowl book is out in just a weeks time :)

And double yay to the new promo shots for Prison Break. Despite the totally ridick ending for season one, i can't wait for season 2...

well, i'm eagerly anticipating three albums being released this autumn/fall:

• Robbie Williams - 1974
• The Killers - Sam's Town
• Scissor Sisters - Ta_Dah

First off, there was the very heartbreaking tv interview with Cat Deeley. Then today, kylie sold out 6 dates at Wembley Arena in just an hour, ensuring that over 60,000 people will ring in the new year with her. I am so thrilled with kylie's recovery and wish her all the best for the future - i can only hope and suspect that a new single will precede the tour and claim the Christmas number one slot in December...

from the "before the zapping blogspot" vaults, here is my review of the Showgirl tour, which remains the very best concert I ever went to...

Kylie Minogue ~ The Showgirl Tour 2005 Birmingham NEC ~ April 15th

I just got back from La Minogue concert and wanted to get down some of my thoughts before they fade from my mind This was so much more than a concert ~ from the moment the lights went up on the elaborate stage set i knew it was gonna be something special. Although i did feel a twinge of sadness thinking i wish i could see Deb doing this now... but anyway...

there was so much going on on the stage that it was a little bit like the start of Moulin Rouge. You have to go with it or get completely confused. Each set of songs was done as an act on its own ~ each with its own theme and costumes. The lighting was great, the dancers fantastic and the video screen at the back of the stage flashed every image conceivable from Kylies 20 year career...

here are some of the thoughts most prominent in my mind before i post the set list...

~ On a night like this was turned into an incredibly pretty piano ballad before a thumping bass line came in...
~ Kylie sang her little heard duet with the Pet Shop Boys In Denial kicking off an actually quite poignant gay husband trilogy of songs...
~ the NAKED male dancers in the shower at the start of red blooded woman ...
~Kylie in the moon singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow as it descended to the stage. I knew she was a moonchild at heart...
~ The Locomotion being the most brilliant song of the night when it was turned into a sleazy jazz romp that wouldn't have been out of place in Chicago....
~ My fave Kylie song Your Disco Needs You finishing off the show (pre encore) and it being so exuberant and joyous that i thought i would burst ...
~ A second encore where the audience sang the male part of Especially For You and the camera turning onto the audience so you can see yourself singing ...

Set List
Act One:ShowGirl ~ or Showgirl Kylie as i liked to call it
~Better the devil you know
~ In Your Eyes~ Giving You Up
~ On A Night Like This

Act Two:SmileyKylie ~ or Acid House Kylie as i liked to call it
~Shocked (with bits of Do You Dare inserted in!)
~ What Do I Have To Do
~ Spinning Around

Act Three:Denial ~ Or Gay Husband Kylie as i liked to call it
~In Denial
~ Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquois
~ Confide In Me(play these songs together at home and its like a mini musical. Was really brilliant )

Act Four:What Kylie Wants Kylie Gets ~ Or Gym Bunny Kylie as i liked to call it
~Red Blooded Woman (with bits of Where the Wild Roses grow inserted in!)
~ Slow
~ Please Stay

Act Five:Dreams ~ Or Moonchild Kylie as i liked to call it
~Somewhere Over The Rainbow
~ Come Into My World (ballad style)
~ Chocoloate
~ I believe in You
~ Dreams

Act Six:Kylesque ~ Or Downright Dirty and Lovin It Kylie as i liked to call it
~Hand On Your Heart
~ The Locomotion (she needs to record this song in this dirty jazzy style!) (mp3) (rightclick)
~ I Should Be So Lucky (brillo dance routine)
~ Your Disco Needs You

Encore1:Minx In Space ~ Or SpaceCamp Kylie as i liked to call it
~Put Yourself In My Place
~ Can't Get You Out Of My Head

Encore2:One of the Girls ~ or Casual Kylie as i liked to call it
~Especially For You
~ Love At First Sight

well i am back from london and i have to say it was crazy hot - from broken air con in the hotel room to temperatures that illegal to transport cattle in on the tube, i spent the whole couple of days in a glistening glow! At least i got to catch up with good buddies Simon and Mark for a cool cider in a lovely dark airconditioned bar :)

Here are 3 summery heat songs - the first two in different versions than are normally available!

MP3: Abba - Summer Night City (xtended intro version)
MP3: Bananarama - Cruel Summer (Exotica album version 2002)
MP3: Deborah Gibson - Blame It On The Summer Nights (gorgeous laid back jazzy track)

All this heat has got me looking forward to autumn - not least because it will hopefully be cooler but some of my fave acts are releasing new albums. Here are the three tracks I am looking forward to hearing the most...

The Killers - Bling
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing
Robbie Williams - Rudebox

I was just talking to poster girl today about BBMak and then Popjustice go ahead and mention them in their weekly newsletter. How weird. BBMak were a band that were truly unappreciated in their time...I truly loved both of BBMaks albums. They played all their own instruments, wrote great power pop songs and had the looks and voices to back it up. Why they weren't 2000 times huger than they were continues to baffle me to do this day. Their second album with tracks like Staring Into Space and Get You Through The Night remains a modern day pop classic. Sadly my love for them didn't translate into chart success and the band soon split up :(

MP3: Staring Into Space (right click)
MP3: Get You Through The Night (right click)

They also contributed a song to some Disney soundtrack (Treasure Planet? Oh Disney!) which was also a corker of a song and really, Rooster would have been much better off doing something like this instead of their piss poor Bon Jovi rip off, 33 placing, Home...Rip BBMak. I still loves ya!

MP3: Always Know Where You Are (right click)

Quick Links:

Popjustice newsletter recommends looking at this site and not thinking of BBmak... apparently he was in it or something...

Popjustice names the frankly fabulous XO blog of the week...

The frankly fabulous XO is off to see Madonna this very week - here is my fave Madge b-side from the Cherish single...

MP3: Supernatural (right click)

Metrosexuals are being replaced by retrosexuals? My buddy richard will be so annoyed...


And Ruthless! Buffy returns. All is ok in the world again...

Finally, I got two albums in the post today that i have wanted for ages and ages, etc. Boy duo Smash are from Russia and i can't remember which blog i read about them on, but it was a good one because there songs are amazing. I think they had a second album but did a 5ive and split up seconds after it was released. One of them is quite good looking and that one (Sergey something or the other) has released a debut album on his own. Without the Vlad one! Selfish! But i will forgive him as his album Don't Be Fake is very very wonderful and the song Fake totally made me want to skip around the room.

Away with work - back thurs. See you then gang :)

Its all over the web and the newspapers today that Robbie Williams has bottled out of a chart showdown with Justin Timberlake...

The prince of pop (oh dear) has delayed his new album release - called 1974 - so it won't go head-to-head with Justin's latest, FutureSex: Love Sounds. Both cds were due out on Sept 11th, but now Robbie has held his back until the beginning of October...

It's a surprise move by Robbie as rumour has it, it's his best and most experimental album to date. Its got to be better than Intensive Care, which I have to admit has slowly grown on me, but is still no classic...

1974 will be preceded by a single called Rudebox in September followed by Lovelight - a ballad that will come out just in time for the Christmas charts. He apparently has also recorded two rap-style tracks called The 80s and The 90s about his days in Take That... and I read here that there is a pet shop boys collab called She's Madonna and a cover of the Robert Friend track We Are The Pet Shop Boys. Plus i remember reading that the album will also contain a cover of Stephen Duffy's Kiss Me and Human League's Louise...

With Pet Shop Boys production and great sounding tracks (though the proof of the pudding, etc) i think its a shame that Robbie is backing off from a chart throwdown with Justin (who you know i love all of a sudden...)... September is going to be a GREAT month for new music :)

thanks to the sun for reporting this :)

This post over at XO's little home got me a little bit worried about my 2nd fave new act of the year, The Upper Room, who haven't updated their website since their debut album peaked at number 50 back in May...

Luckily, the record company haven't abandoned the boys and they are currently filming the video for the next single Never Come Back which is hopefully out on August 21st - the day after I will have seen them live at the V Festival...

MP3: Never Come Back (right click)

I have to say I was rooting for the elegant and gorgeous Portrait as the next single, which I think is almost a summation of the themes on their album about small town life, love and loss ~ the lyrics sing of how a seemingly perfect existence can actually be utterly stifling and demoralising... check out this totally heartbreaking acoustic version

MP3: Portrait acoustic (right click)

Sometimes i just feel like listening to something different and i had read a lot about a new artist called Plan B so thought i would check out his album (next up Jessica Dirrrty Pops recommendation of James Morrison...)



There's more fear and lathing on Plan B's ("rapper" Ben Drew) first album than in a years worth of Daily Mail headlines. While conventional hip hop beats are largely rejected in favour of lovely Latin-tinged acoustic guitars, elgaic pianos, brooding strings and a neat line in nicked pop hooks, this motormouth spits post Eminem holy fury at drug addicts and pushers, kids with guns, religion, abusive parents and a Britain that demonises the young while staring blitehly at "paedophiles on TOTP" Its the righteous angry white male flipside that will balance out my new love for Lily Allen's sassy cheek... (and language that will make my hair curl. Potty mouth)

MP3: Plan B - Kidz (Acoustic) (right click)

deciding to paint the main bedroom something other than white was a good idea in principle. Forgetting my tendancy for a good strop if painting doesn't go my way resulted in a moment like this...

Still its done now and we're quite chuffed with it :)

Before

During...

After...

Music (all right click - too tired for rapidshare!)

MP3: Big Fun - Blame it on the boogie

MP3: Cicero - Love Is Everyhere

MP3: Bill & Jen - Time of Your Life 2005 house mix

MP3: Dangerous Muse - Rejection Eric Kupper mix

MP3: Lorraine - Perfect Cure 2006 remix

MP3: Veto Silver - stay young Protocol mix

so nikki is the 7th person to be evicted from the big brother house. Here are two reasons why i will miss that beautiful crazy little psycho doll... (tip - the first clip gets brilliant at about 2.42)







God knows how this woman functions in normal society but i want to be there when she gives birth...

Cast your mind back to 1997... i was, erm, younger than I am now. And really starting - thanks to my trip to summer camp back in 1996 - to discover the joys of live music. So that's how I discovered the brilliant but short lived band Symposium...

A friend of mine from university was somehow related distantly to one of the band and so we went to see them at this tiny little bar where they played six songs to a tiny crowd. I'm not sure what it was about that night, but it was a great gig and they gave it their all as if there were thousands of people out there. Plus the lyrics to one of the songs really resonated with me at the time and the band just strolled off stage after and started chatting to people. I told the singer I loved the lyrics to one day at a time ("i don't care what you say/fuck you and your stupid ways") and he said something like 'yeah mate, i can tell you've been fucked over by a bloke or two'!! Lovely. Great night though with my friend Louise who sadly I hardly see anymore...

I randomly came across two symposium songs today that happen to be two of my favourites. They are just great catchy guitar anthems that never got the exposure they deserved and certainly deserve a bigger audience than they ever got...

MP3: Symposium - one day at a time (right click)
MP3: Symposium - farewell to twilight (right click)

you're never too young to die!

Does this

MP3: Sheilas Wheels (right click)

plus this

MP3: The Pipettes - In The Bleak Midwinter (right click)

equal this?

MP3: The Puppini Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (right click)

MP3: The Puppini Sisters - Wuthering Heights (right click)

Not only do we get new Scissters in September... but The Killers return!

• Sept 18th - new single When You Were Young
• Oct 2nd - new album Sam's Town

Yes folks, its been on the "web" all weekend and finally Justin Timberlake is bringing sexy back. It took me all weekend to get into it, and then it randomly popped up on shuffle on my mp3 player this morning and i have loved it ever since...

Its certainly an insistent persistant beat with dirty suggestive lyrics that seep into your brain and refuse to let go. I liked his debut album well enough, but i am loving this song more and more each time i listen to it. Make sure you check out ArjanWrites for some great write ups about Justin and his music. This photo is from Arjan's site...

MP3: Sexy Back (right click)

Now it's well documented that i adore those little McFly scamps, but their new single Please Please ain't really been doing it for me...

Luckily, they have recorded a cover of my favourite Queen song "Don't Stop Me Now" as the AA side with profits going to sports relief. And i just love their pretty faithful version. Check out the acoustic radio version - sure it might sound like a boozed up pub band, but they just seem to be having so much fun! And as its for charity, make sure you buy the actual song when it hits stores next week...

MP3: Don't Stop Me Now (right click)
MP3: Don't Stop Me Now Acoustic (right click)

And is it me or is little Jesse McCartney growing up too quick?

He certainly seems to be channelling Adam Levine and Gavin Degraw on his actually not too bad new single...

MP3: Jesse - Right Where You Want Me (right click)

Well that's all folks but please check out the two fabbo blogs i discovered this weekend
PopPosterGirl
Mental Hopscotch

Lets take a moment to mark Billie Piper's final moments on Dr. Who on Saturday night...

I sobbed my little eyes out (not literally cos a - that would be gross and b- i'd be blind) as it was pretty devastating final few moments. I won't give too much away here as I know there may be people who haven't seen it yet, but the rumours were true - Rose technically "died" and her last few moments with the Dr. were as heartbreaking as anything i've seen on tv (including the unsurpassable Buffy). And then of course a few seconds of comic brilliance as the Dr. is alone on his tardis, or so he thinks as Catherine Tate (LOVEHER!) appears in a wedding dress leading nicely into the Christmas Special "The Runaway Bride". Just Genius. Ps make sure you check out newlywed Dan's site for a much better write up than this!

I really think Billie has made a huge contribution to this show and it will be a hard act to follow... perhaps its time to go back to the music Billie? She had 6 top five hits in a row, and then of course one doesn't make the top twenty and she's dropped faster than a tarts knickers on bonus night... But my fave song of hers, the possibly filthy something deep inside is still a classic, she covered The Tide Is High and ruined it well before atomic kitten decimated it and even got covered by semi-ace girl group play. Billie Piper aka Rose Tyler i salute you :)

MP3: Something Deep Inside (right click)

MP3: The Tide Is High (right click)

MP3: Play - Honey To The Bee (right click)

Ah, popstars! They are generally infallible aren't they? Sometimes they make genius career moves (like Kylie releasing Light Years in 2000 and those gold hot pants...) and sometimes they get it horribly wrong (like Liberty X releasing Everybody Cries as the second single from their sophomore album or everything Hear'say did after Show Me The Way To Your Love...). Here is some career advice for current popstars...

There has been some debate about poor Shayne Ward recently (check out here and here) and releasing Stand By Me isn't the greatest career move, even if they are tagging it as a single "remix"...

MP3: Stand By Me (Single Remix Version) (right click)

Instead, him (or Gareth Gates) should have released this little funky gem by swedish (i think) popstar Darin along with some chest baring in the video and some slutty girls dancing round him. Then everyone's a winner :)

MP3: Darin~Step Up (right click)

Next, newly divorced blonde bimbo Jessica Simpson has chosen Public Affair as her summery comeback single, that shot into the US Charts at, er, number 39... (i'm only being nasty cos i actually kind of like it. And before that, another track called Fired Up - a atomic kitten b-side if ever i heard one - was being floated as first single...

MP3: Public Affair (right click)
MP3: Fired Up (right click)

Instead, Jessica should have tapped this perfect pop song from Deborah Gibson which not only would sound perfect on summer radio, but lyrically acts as the perfect rejoinder to both Nick's single and the media frenzy...

MP3: MYOB (right click)

And finally, does anyone really care about Delta Goodrem anymore? I'm not sure that even McFatten is interested! Certainly if she keeps doling out dross like this new-ish track below instead of stunners like Born To Fly and Lost Without You, i will rapidly go off her...

MP3: Together We Are One (right click)

Perhaps releasing this gorgeous understated classic from Mary Poppins herself, Laura Michelle Kelly would be a better move for Ms. Goodrem. Unless Laura releases it first as her second single which would just make my bloody day...

MP3: Communication (right click)

Please take a brief moment to remember all those who lost their lives and those who had their lives changed forever as a result of the London bombings one year ago today...