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The Cambridge Dictionary (that’s the Online Advanced Learner’s edition for all you fact fans) defines 'cult' as ‘someone or something that has become very popular with a particular group of people’, and it’s hard to find a mention of American band Big Star without this word sneaking in. What we generally take cult to mean is that the thing in question isn’t of much interest to the world in general, but thanks to a devoted bunch of obsessives, those who don’t know accept that it must be kind of cool. Big Star are certainly that, and even if you haven’t heard them directly, you might have come across a cover by artists as varied as The Bangles and Elliott Smith or their song In The Street, used as the theme tune to That ‘70s Show (another cover by fellow 70s rockers Cheap Trick). Even if you’ve missed all of that you’ll know about some of their supporters. Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie recently said “everybody in Primal Scream is a big fan of Big Starâ€, Wilco and Idlewild featured on a 2006 tribute album, and Teenage Fanclub practically are Big Star, but Scottish.
We saw The Long Blondes at Fibbers, York - a place they had previously been banned from for using foul language(!) You would never believe it to lay eyes on them; Bassist Reenie in particular looks like a head girl.
So, there we were, bottle in hand at 10.00 pm still waiting for the headline act to perform on a rostrum no larger than a paddling pool; tired and our feet aching from perching up on tippy toe for the last hour and a half.
This was a strange and very tall crowd: teenage boys modelling themselves on Tony from Skins, young girls trying to ape lead singer Kate Jackson by wearing ballet shoes and stripy tops, miserable loners fake-frowning for England and the odd drunk standing at the front when, frankly, they could have seen the stage from the bus stop outside.
Jim Reid once described the experience of playing in a band with his brother William as ‘like being locked in a cupboard with somebody for 15 years’, the point being that if it was anyone else you could open the door, push them out, then kick them in the arse for good measure.
Of course, you can’t really do that to your brother (just think of the trouble you’d be in with mum), but the Reid boys managed something similar when they killed The Jesus and Mary Chain live on stage in 1998 with a raging argument.
Unfortunately, there’s no footage of that event on YouTube, but you can find a video of the 1985 riot that the band were blamed for. It’s legends like this, coupled with the bickering of the brothers Reid, that built the bands reputation as mad, bad and dangerous to know, and it continues to linger today.
Rumours have started to emerge suggesting that Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze has terminal cancer and has been given five weeks to live.
A National Enquirer report claims that Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January and that it has now spread to other organs. Despite
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Britney Spears has been through a living hell this year - a living hell that only Seal and his missus can properly fix.
It doesn't matter that Britney Spears is now being looked after by her family and seems to be making inroads into overcoming whatever problems she's suffered from, because it's fairly obvious that Britney Spears would receive far better treatment from a supermodel she's probably never met and her balladeering husband.
Which is why Heidi Klum has invited Britney Spears to come and live with her, either until Britney's completely better or until Heidi's children get so freaked out by Britney constantly rubbing herself and muttering in confusing British accents that they promise not to keep taking mummy for granted so much.
As informed members of the music buying public, there are a few things that you should know before reading a live review of Cat Power.
Not the fact that her real name is Chan Marshall (pronounced ‘Shaun’), nor that she has recently become the face of Chanel, handpicked by Karl Lagerfeld himself.
No, we refer to the Winehouse - sized back catalogue of problems that recently looked set to cut short her career.
Miley Cyrus - the girl who plays Hannah Montana in the self-titled Disney Channel show - has dramatically been found to use a body double in her live shows.
And the news that Miley Cyrus is replaced each night for one or two minutes so she can quickly get changed has sent shockwaves around the preteen entertainment world. Rightly so, because the Hannah Montana body double bombshell is easily the most outrageous thing to happen to teenage female stars of American kids' TV shows for years.
Apart from, you know, that one who took naked pictures of herself. And, um, the one who got pregnant.
Like most heterosexual males, seeing Take That in concert is not at the top of this writer's life experiences, but last week that exactly thing happened when a girlfriend situation forced us to attend their latest concert on their Beautiful World tour.
We found ourselves surrounded by thousands of women, baying for the blood of the objects of their desires. The gig began with support coming from an unnamed woman, whose talent with a saxophone and vocals proved far superior than the other supporting act; Sophie Ellis Bextor (yes, she is still trying to give this singing lark a go) who was living off past glories for duration of her set, the only song garnering any kind of crowd reaction was the 2000 summer hit Groovejet, a collaboration with that household name DJ Spiller.
