Blur: Britpop's embarrassment
Blur’s reunion was very well received by the media, although it is notable that most glowing reviews came from a series of “secret” indoor warm up shows. I caught the tail end at Hyde Park last weekend...
View ArticleOasis split: it's a family affair
I saw Noel Gallagher a couple of weeks back, and he told me a very funny, unprintable story about some shenanigans which an old Manchester mate tried to involve him in, which ended with Noel delivering...
View ArticleDitch my high heels? As long as you get rid of your sandals and novelty pants
I awoke this morning to find that the TUC has told women to ditch their high heels. Apparently they’re fine on a Hollywood catwalk but "completely inappropriate for work". Really? My appropriate...
View ArticleThe greatest front men of all time
Readers polls are a bad advertisement for democracy. The new issue of music Q magazine has a list of the best front men of all time, as voted for by their readers. Here’s the top 20. Gird your loins 1)...
View ArticleBeady Eye's new track is better than anything on the last Oasis album
Oasis are back. Already, you say? Didn’t they only break up in a state of rancour last year? Well, its not really Oasis. It’s a brand new group called Beady Eye. Allegedly. OK, so they are fronted by...
View ArticleA symphony for snoozing? Add it to the Liszt
It’s a dangerous thing, admitting that you’re bored by any aspect of the work you’re paid to do – but 10 foolhardy critics have just done it for a future issue of the BBC Music Magazine, each one...
View ArticleNoel Gallagher regrets the end of Oasis
Noel Gallagher has never really come across as a man who might harbour regrets. Throughout two decades as the leader of Oasis, he conducted himself with a kind of bullish swagger, a sense of...
View ArticleThe continuing saga of the death of Oasis: whodunnit (and who cares)?
Oasis couldn’t stop fighting when they were together, and apparently they can’t stop even when they’re apart. Andy Bell, formerly of Oasis and now guitarist in Beady Eye, has weighed in to the spat...
View ArticleNoel Gallagher's real genius is for insults
The former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher, who now plays in the badly named and even-worse-sounding "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds", has been named this year's "God-like Genius" by the NME. Come...
View ArticleMy neighbour Liam Gallagher snubs me. And now look what's happened
I know that critics have a less than pristine reputation in the world of hackery but there are worse than us, and I’ve been sitting looking at them for the past two days. I happen to live more or less...
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