Misanthrope And Glory (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Hambi & The Dance, Delta 5, The Lost Loved Ones - just three of the bands I thoroughly enjoyed - and paid to see - around 25 years ago. Even at the time I was aware they were highly unlikely to enjoy mass market success of any description. Not because they lacked distinction, ability, personality or charm, but because it was so bloody hard to arrive on the higher rungs of the music industry. The...
Scooter McGavin's 9th Green (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Quote of the Week : Well, actually he’s the idiot, he fell in love to a break up song. (Izzy LaFontaine, Modern Family ) Song of the Week : True – Spandau Ballet ( Modern Family ) Big News of the Week : A Melancholy Happy Trails to Ken Ober : Every once and a while you hear about a death that makes you feel like part of your childhood died with them. That happened a couple of weeks ago...
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
It was Phil & Claire's anniversary & Claire struggled to get Phil a present but eventually persuaded a washed up rock star to play in their living room not realizing she picked the wrong band. Cameron & Mitchell decided they needed a night out & went out with their friend Sal who had a problem with lily as she has come between them & finally Jay had all the kids over for a sleepover...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sadie Frost is penning an autobiography which will reveal ''everything'' about her marriage to Jude Law and her relationship with her first husband, Spandau Ballet singer Gary Kemp.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Stand by for scandal. Sadie Frost, the fashion designer and ringleader of London's notorious "Primrose Hill Set", is soon to pen her tell-all memoirs. Those involved with the project are promising "an amazing story" with "all the gossip" about Frost's two marriages (the actress married Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp when she was 16 and then Jude Law, with whom she has three...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
ACTOR Jude Law, Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp and the Primrose Hill set must be quivering in their boots as it emerges that Sadie Frost is releasing her autobiography.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
To a TV executive, I’d imagine the phrase “special guest stars Elizabeth Banks and Edward Norton” would conjure up images of creative brilliance and ratings gold. But in actual practice, the stunt casting of the former as a boozy child hater and especially the latter as dreary Spandau Ballet bassist Izzy LaFontaine, threatened to derail
What's Alan Watching? (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Spoilers for last night's "Modern Family" coming up just as soon as I slut it up with Driving Miss Daisy... The concept of sweeps months (using November, February and May to help set ad rates for the next year) is outdated and silly, but the networks still pay attention to them because their affiliates do, and that means we get a certain amount of traditional sweeps stunt programming, like...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Filed under: OpEd , Episode Reviews , Reality-Free , Modern Family (S01E08) I don't know if enough credit is being given to the child actors on this show. All four are doing top-notch work... five if you count Lily. We already knew that Rico Rodriguez is amazing as Manny, but so little is being said about the Dunphy children. They haven't had as much screen time, yet, as really anyone else on the...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
There's one thing that "Great Expectations" gets exactly right. Anniversary presents given by spouses to each other suffer from an inevitable asymmetry. In my marriage, Noel plays the role of Phil, thinking up interesting and extravagant gift combinations, always waiting in vain for reciprocation in kind. I play the role of Claire, giving coupons for hugs, "which are usually free, but...
The more I know about you (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Just a little note to say that setting aside the crap venue and awful facilities at the O2 Spandau Ballet were really very very good and far better than we all thought they would be. Tony Hadley in dark suit rambled about the stage like a demented shark alternately growling and cooing the wonderful lyrics to their beautiful anthems. Each line supported in riposte by the most fabulous sax music bringing...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
After years of sneery criticism, old prejudices about the suburbs are being replaced with the notion that they are a source of pride After years of having derision heaped on it, suddenly suburbia is all the rage. Lots of people's writing is secretly biographical and my interest in suburbia, as seen on this site and elsewhere , is no exception. I reacted against growing up in the outer west London...
Reluctant Scooper (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Mrs Reluctant is a Spandau Ballet fan. Now then, stop sniggering at the back. Shlepping over to Liverpool to see them play live gave me the perfect excuse for some Merseyside boozing. Would the beers be Gold? Or Confused? Let's Cut A Long Story Short... With two days in town, we picked out six of the seemingly-best pubs to try. Mrs H is a wheelchair user, so level(ish) access and ground floor loos...
Popdirt.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Spandau Ballet are out with an official video montage for their new single ‘Once More’, out now on Mercury Records. The track the title track off the British pop band’s seventh...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Toronto hardcore provocateurs, Fucked Up , told New York Magazine that they plan to use some of their $20,000 Polaris Prize winnings to record an all-star cover of the 1984 charity single, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Originally written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and performed by musicians of the time including U2, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, George Michael and many others. So far, Fucked...
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