December 2009
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Shirley It's Time For The New Year
Love Machine is finally recovering from the barrage of enormous roast dinners over Christmas and, as you do at this festive time of year, listened to Pa Love Machine set the world to rights on what ‘proper music’ is. As is so often the case, Pa Love Machine turned out to be pretty much bang on with everything. -The Cheryl Cole album isn’t very good apart from Fight (Fight) For...
Merry Christmas from Love Machine!
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Is This The Funniest Story of the Year? Oh No It...
Amy Winehouse has been quiet of late, ‘working hard’ on her new album (much like the Klaxons) so it really is fantastic to see her pop her head up just before the end of the decade which, in column inches at least, she has dominated. She halledgedly did the following last night: -Kicked a theatre manager in the groin at a pantomine starring Anthea Turner, Mickey Rooney and Bobby Davro...
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Alicia? I hardly knew 'er
So - Alicia Keys. Maybe it’s just us, but we’re always surprised when we realise just how huge she is in the US because she never seemed to make it properly massive over here. Mentally we had her chalked up as a bit of an also-ran, but she has actually sold over 30 MILLION RECORDS worldwide. To put it into context, that’s roughly more 29,930,000 more than Pixie Lott. Anyway, as...
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Girls Can't Catch have a new...
(See what we did there?) We saw Girls Can’t Catch supporting Sophie Ellis-Bextor and The Saturdays at what was probably the best gig we’ve ever been to. We weren’t, if we’re honest, entirely convinced. However, they did play an excellent song called ‘Echo’ which will - a mere six months later - be their second single. The official video is quite dramatic...
It's A Crime
We don’t know who Vikki Stone is but we take our Santa hats off to her for this effort…
One foot in the rave
The return of 90s dance and rave tunes in a new guise is something you’d never have seen coming a couple of years ago (Little Man Tate covering Mr Loverman, anyone?) but makes total sense now it’s with us. Truth is, the early 90s was such a golden age for pop/dance crossover that if you nick the chorus it’s very hard not to make a good song. Calvin Harris’ ‘I’m...