Stacie Orrico – I’m Not Missing YouThis is the first song from her third album, which will be released this August, and I have to say I’m quite disappointed – it’s nothing on Stuck, More To Life or even I Could Be The One. There is no progression from her old sound – it’s all… Continue reading New Pop On The Block

It’s certainly not unique to the music business that the most important and influential jobs are held by men, in fact it’s probably better than most industries, but that doesn’t change the fact that almost every aspect of music has a male bias. However, that doesn’t mean we girls should be moaning – after all,… Continue reading Popping The Question: Is Music Too Patriarchal?

http://www.youtube.com/p/112B7A0928840124 Sylver – Lay All Your Love On MeSylver are a poppy dance act who are really big in central/Eastern Europe but unlike similar acts such as Lasgo and Ian Van Dahl, they have never had any UK hits. This is probably because they’ve never done any particularly good songs (unless I missed it, but… Continue reading DP:UK

In all the Eurovision excitement I forgot to post up this week’s poll. Vote quick cos you’ve only got 2 days! Which of these singles are best? Lillix – Sweet Temptation Dima Bilan – Never Let You Go Texas Lightning – No No Never Mihai Traistariu – Tornero Pet Shop Boys – Minimal The Attic… Continue reading Oops!

Well, Eurovision has officially been and gone for another year. The acts have gone home, the radio presenters no longer find Lordi hilarious – the only remnant is the mysterious appearance of Daz Sampson in the UK’s top 5. At least he got something out of it, although I would rather he stayed behind the… Continue reading Untitled

I cannot believe that Sandi Thom’s single is close to being no.1 this week, and sure to be no.2 at least. It represents everything wrong with the modern attitude to music, and the whole sentiment of it is just ridiculous. Read this earlier post for my first comments on the song, and join me in… Continue reading For goodness’ sake!

It turns out Ireland are capable of making brilliant music after all! The last ace Irish export were B*Witched, but a band described as “Rock/Funk/Soul” but in fact sounding like a brilliant piece of urban/latino-pop, like Outkast or the Freeform Five. This band are called Republic of Loose, they’ve already had a no.2 album in… Continue reading What on Earth is going on?

I certainly didn’t expect that!!! Finland were always going to do well but these joke songs always usually just get to the top 5 or something, they don’t actually WIN… I think perhaps if there’d been one particular song that had stuck out from all the ‘serious’ entries (like Helena, Ruslana and Sertab did in… Continue reading Blimey!

I’ve been reading up on all the backstage gossip and opinions all day, and now I’m very very excited about tonight’s Eurovision! So, I thought I’d put together some predictions for who I think will end up in what place tonight – but of course, as the semi-finals have shown, you never know what could… Continue reading More Eurovision excitement and speculation

http://www.youtube.com/p/B9897D8625FB9D4D Sylvia Night – CongratulationsHaving now had some time to think over Thursday’s tragic loss, I have a few theories of why it happened. Firstly, Iceland, like Belgium, is very far away from most countries in Europe. If you look at the list of entrants this year, 20 out of 37 would definitely be classified… Continue reading DP:UK