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X Factor Review, Week 4: The Deathly Hallows Part 1

August 5th, 2012 By Sophie Hall

So, ITV1 have given all their money away to wife beaters and rapists. This is the new way. As such, this essentially means you have to watch X Factor twice, because they can't afford to make any new TV programmes. Thank god Kelly Rowland agreed to work overtime due to how much she believes in music. (Cocaine.)

Talk Talk have given stop-frame animation a go and simultaneously ired the entire board of the Academy Awards as a result.

This week we are visiting MANCHESTER. Although the show isn't in chronological order or anything, so basically we're just looking? at the bits they filmed in Manchester. Or at least ITV1?s edited version of Manchester, which involves a lot of day-glo and mystical interchangeable skies, apparently. Or Hogwarts, if you will. Due to the fact that ITV1 are not culturally familiar with the ’80s ‘Madchester’ scene, we must settle for gratuitous tracking shots of Selfridges over and over to fully understand where we are. Come to think of it, the true meaning of Manchester probably is ?18 lip gloss.

Yoko Ono To Squeeze Every Last Penny Out Of John Lennon’s Fetid Corpse

July 11th, 2011 By Michael Park

Yoko Ono’s not a very nice lady, is she? First she split up The Beatles, then she was responsible for a series of musical abortions with the Plastic Ono band and now she’s going out of her way to sully the memory of her late husband by trying to grind as many shekels out of him as possible.

According to Jam, Ono has threatened to sue the owner of a Dundee pub which is dedicated to the former Beatle. Indications suggest that the?”singer” has had her lawyers send a letter to?Mike Craig, the owner of “Lennon’s Bar”, that accuses him of copyright infringement.

Craig claims to have spent thousands of pounds on?Beatles memorabilia for his pub which was opened in tribute to a member of one of world music’s most important acts. However, the letter from?Ono?s lawyers is demanding that he removes all the memorabilia and changes the venue?s name within 14 days or he will face legal action.

Stupid Pink Floyd Hate EMI So Take Them To Court Before Signing Up With Them Again

January 4th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

Bickering, pointless rock penises – Pink Floyd – are complaining and moaning again. Despite being wealthy enough to buy several moons, they’ve been in a legal battle with EMI, only to sign-up with them again once they’d finished folding their collective arms and pouting so much that every surviving member now has pulled muscles in their many chins.

If you didn’t know, Pink Floyd have been in a legal battle with EMI and recently won a court ruling over a deal signed in the pre-download age regarding digital sales.

That’s really interesting isn’t it?

Win ?200 Of Blistering EMI Goodness Now! Do It!

May 5th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

Regular readers may have noticed that, when it comes to competition prizes, sometimes we’re a bit on the rubbishy side.

No, no, it’s OK, we are. Or at least we were, because now we’re going to offer you possibly the biggest prize in hecklerspray history – a bundle of CDs, DVDs, T-shirts and goodness knows what else worth somewhere in the region of ?200.

It’s all thanks to the wonderful people at EMI and their wonderful new website. If you want to win, then you’d better watch the video after the jump, hadn’t you…

Sorry Grandpa: Still No Beatles On iTunes

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

If you’ve been waiting to hear what hot new pop combo The Beatles sound like, then you’re in for a spot of bad news.

Paul McCartney from The Beatles has announced that none of his band’s music will be available on iTunes for the foreseeable future because everyone is arguing over money. But Paul McCartney says he wants The Beatles on iTunes, EMI wants The Beatles on iTunes, and iTunes wants The Beatles on iTunes, so all is not yet lost.

Until then, the music of The Beatles is still available on something we’re told is called a Seed Ee, and you can put these Beatles Seed Ees into your computer and download them onto iTunes that way. But this Seed Ee-buying method does involve leaving the house, and that’s so old-fashioned that they may as well be asking to go into the woods and kill Beatles songs with rocks for food. What do we look like, bloody Luddites?

Jared Leto Not Leto-ff With $30 Million Claim by Virgin

March 24th, 2009 By Ian Dransfield

30 Seconds to Mars and their glorious leader Jared Leto had better check the back of their sofas for loose change.

They may have to resort to begging, borrowing or even stealing to get through this one – being sued by Virgin Records for $30 million isn’t the kind of thing you can get by simply by using the cash you carry in your wallet. Maybe they could sell their instruments and equipment – though this would of course mean they can no longer play as a band…

So in other words, it would be win-win.

But why such a huge amount? Well, according to Virgin, Jared Leto and 30 Seconds to Mars were contracted to provide three albums, but didn’t. Apparently this is worth that much money to the company, so they’ve gone and sued that movie star from the band to get what they think is rightfully theirs.

$30 million though? Crikey.

Thom Yorke Not Such A Fan Of EMI

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

Thom Yorke is a happy soul – his hobbies include puppy-stroking and riding around meadows on a bicycle going "Wheeeee" – but EMI seems to have somehow done the impossible and made Thom Yorke a bit miserable.

Thom Yorke and EMI boss Guy Hands are in the middle of a war of words about why Radiohead left the record label. According to Hands, Radiohead wanted a £10 million advance for In Rainbows and control of their old albums, while Thom Yorke is claiming that the band just wanted to make sure their back catalogue was treated correctly. The emotional impact of this public bickering is thought to have already taken its toll on Thom Yorke, and has made him ditch plans for his forthcoming Europop collaboration with Same Difference from X Factor called A Very Merry Radiohead Party Fun Time.