Category: TV & Music

  • “Britons using bargain music download website allofmp3.com have been warned that they are breaking the law. Record industry trade association the BPI said consumers were breaking UK copyright law because allofmp3.com was not licensed to sell recordings”, say the Beebs…

  • This Saturday will be the 51st Eurovision Song Contest, held in Athens, Greece. It’s a unique event for so many reasons, but mainly, it’s the one time of the year where each country agrees to making a complete fool of…

  • Some “trucker mud” (instant coffee) to keep me awake til midnight: £2 A Lindor Dark Chocolate bunny leftover from Easter: £3 Using SkyPlus as intended for the duration of the first 2 episodes of Lost: Priceless!

  • I think today, the shadow of the possibility of something resembling Spring may have happened! We had sunlight for more than a couple of hours and while the weather wasn’t exactly warm, it felt much milder and comfortable outside. There…

  • So it’s happened again. British music manages to sneak its way up the US Billboard, and it turns out to be complete and utter shit music. Why can’t it be something better? I mean, I’m not a fan of much…

  • I’m not American. I don’t “get” American football. But most of all, I don’t get the Superbowl hype, or the willingness of American enterprises to blow millions on 30-second adverts every year. While I do understand that it’s a once-a-year…

  • The Beebs’ Entertainment section brings us horrific news – We all thought Evita, one of the worst musicals of all time, had died a painful, slow death, surrounded by too many dull recitatives and sickeningly repetitive leitmotivs. Unfortunately, Sir Andrew…

  • My favourite song of the moment is the JCB Song by Nizlopi. A few Warwickshire boys who recently came out the paintwork and turned out to have produced a good, fun, lighthearted album. Not necessarily the album of the year,…

  • Just a little heads up for Top Gear lovers abroad, quite a few videos are available on Google Video now! How to get around the Nurburgring in a Transit van, the unavoidable Supercars comparisons, the Lotus Exige vs the Apache…

  • I just had a moment of melting childhood softspot when I saw this link to Le roi et l’oiseau on DVD Times on Spyhunter’s blog. It was apparently renamed The King and the Mockingbird in English, but was never subtitled…