First Offenders (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
By Alison I was trying to think of a blog topic for today, when out of the blue a friend of mine brought up a song I remembered from early childhood. Claire, by Gilbert O' Sullivan. You remember this song?...
Most Sincerely Folks (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
I know the past is a foreign country, but how the hell did Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert O’Sullivan ever top the UK and US charts? This has to be the most miserable song ever. First verse he contemplates climbing up a tower and jumping off after being left in the lurch on his wedding [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
It must be really irritating for Gilbert O'Sullivan to be seemingly lumped in with past-it crooners and people watching him who are well into the winter of their life, cooing 'doesn't he write lovely songs... I always liked that 'Clair'...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Guardian.co.uk/music: The audio guide to Dorian Lynskey's history of sampling
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
It was the year of the miners' strike the 'Bloody Sunday' shootings in Northern Ireland and quirky Irishman Gilbert O'Sullivan headed the charts with 'Clair' when Great Britain last won the Rugby League World Cup on Nov 11 1972.
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Okay. Today, I shall be jumping on a plane to go to Belfast. The reason I'm going there is because I'm seeing my girlfriend's family who are appallingly cool (double bass playing in a jazz combo dad heads the bill,...
TV Scoop (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Even though ITV has been constantly kicked around for being the dumbest channel ever to air, you've got to admire the cheek of Melvyn Bragg for consistently...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Adam Sweeting reviews the pop CD of the week, Keane's Perfect Symmetry.
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
One of the most exciting performers in the electronic music underground–his gig at last year’s Pitchfork Music Festival set off a veritable frenzy–laptop composer Gregg Gillis is arguably as significant for his politics as he is for his unbelievably dense, incredibly enjoyable musical pastiches. And the 26-year-old biomedical engineer has topped himself on both fronts [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Welcome back to another edition of CHART ATTACK!, everyone! Sick of the ’90s? Sick of the ’80s? Sick of … uh … the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, 1970, 1971, and 1973 - 1979? (I’m reaching here.) Then have we got a year for you! This time last year, guest writer Beau Dure covered a 1976 [...]
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I have been tagged. They're probably all songs by Gilbert O'Sullivan but if you wish to diversify, well...should I feel guilty about Split Enz "I Hope I Never," Harry Nilsson's "Cuddly Toy," early Beach Boys songs, or Liz Phair's "Whip-Smart"?...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
A hearing will be held to appoint new guardians for eight people after a Macomb County Probate Court judge pulled a Shelby Township company from cases in which it was providing guardianship services for the wards of the court.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
HAR MAR SUPERSTAR *** KING TUT'S, GLASGOW
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
OK so who wrote the song You get a beautiful day for your prize if you get it rightThe best weather of the trip to the island so far today but the worst snorkelling. While it was absolutely lovely above the surface below a stoerm was billowing sand and weed around making it difficult to see and even difficult to swim. I went to the mythical eastern shore to two new devastatingly handsome beac
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Warning: use of the word "zeitgeist" approaching. For the first time in years, perhaps decades, it is the Italians not the Germans, Japanese or French who have captured the automotive zeitgeist.
