2009 is approaching fast and so it’s time to look back at 2008. Here we’ll see the high and lowlights of Spring, with a selection of stories we covered between April and June.
April
The month started, as it always does, with April Fool’s Day, and while Brit Music Scene didn’t hoodwink its readers, YouTube did. I detailed the prank in a post entitled The Day Rick Astley Ruled The World.
I shared my Soundtrack For A Day in the middle of the month, and was joined by other b5 Music bloggers. Meanwhile, Boyzone announced their reunion shows, an event I was ecstatic …read more

The Ivor Novello Awards 2008 results are in, with a star studded ceremony held in London tonight. The best of British as well as some American artists have been rewarded and recognised for their song writing talents at the annual celebration of all that is good in music.
This time last month, I highlighted the nominees, which included Brit Music Scene favourites Amy Winehouse, and Take That, both of whom were successful on the night.
Amy Winehouse, nominated for three awards won the big one, with Love Is A Losing Game named as the best song musically and lyrically. Her father Mitch …read more

There I was surfing the b5 Music Channel, when my eye was drawn to a headline on The Rock Relic – Phil Collins QUITS??
Well, I hadn’t heard anything about that, so I read Chuck’s article before tracing the source back to the original story. And yes, it’s true, Phil Collins has announced his retirement from both recording new material and touring old material.
This story hasn’t really been picked up in many places, I suppose because Phil Collins is hardly current or cool, but I still think his retirement deserves a mention. It could also be because Collins was so …read more

We all think our music taste is the best, and most of us try and somehow inflict that taste on out friends, or in the case of blogging, on total strangers.
I am very confident in my music taste, thinking it is solid, with artists who are talented, and definitely acceptable to most people’s ears. But, everyone, including me, has those little gems hidden away somewhere, that they may not be quite so proud of.

Call them what you will, but for the means of this post, we are referring to them as Guilty Pleasures, and here are my Top Ten …read more

You’ve probably already seen this advert for Cadburys Dairy Milk chocolate, either on television in the UK, or via the multitude of emails flying around with it attached.
It shows a giant gorilla sitting at a drum kit listening intently to the start of Phil Collins hit ‘In The Air Tonight’. And then when the drums kick in, so does our ape friend, who proceeds to bash the living hell out of the skins.

Well now it seems that Phil Collins has heaped praise on the monkey, saying:-
“Not only is a better drummer than me, he also has more hair …read more