Lily Allen’s days of being a “neo-luddite” look to be over as she has returned to Twitter. So why the four month break in the first place? Did she just fancy a break from the endless publicity and press attention or is there more to it than that?

Lily Allen had a strange second half of 2009. She threw her hat into the ring as being against file-sharing, setting up a blog to explore the issues surrounding it. And then she quit the blog, quit Twitter, MySpace, and her BlackBerry, and threatened to quit music.
Her last tweet from September read, “I …read more

At least temporarily. Lily Allen has had a strange last few months. She set a blog up against filesharing, then deleted it after some critical comments. She then allegedly claimed to be quitting music, with acting and record label ambitions coming to the fore, and then also quit the Internet and technology altogether!

It now seems most of the rumors and reports were correct. In an interview with Sara Cox on Radio 1, Allen confirmed she was taking a break from music but isn’t retiring for good.
Instead, she’ll spend a couple of years doing other stuff, including setting up a …read more

Lily Allen has never been afraid to voice her opinions on all manner of subjects, some close to her heart. Earlier this year she started a blog about illegal filesharing and copyright infringement. But she walked away from the debate in September, deleting her blog as she went.

That doesn’t, however, mean that she has suddenly stopped caring about the subject. Although she does seem a little mixed up with her views on how her music is shared over the Internet and burned on to pirate CDs.

The Children In Need 2009 charity concert took place last night at the Royal Albert Hall in central London. The stage was set for Take That and Robbie Williams to reunite and perform together, and there was speculation that this was exactly what would happen. And it kind of did, but not really.

There have been rumors of a Take That/Robbie Williams reunion taking place for months now, and the Children In Need concert seemed to be the perfect opportunity. In the end, Robbie and Take That shared the stage twice but didn’t actually reunite.

The UK music charts may mean less now than they used to but they’re still an indicator of what’s hot on the popular British music scene right now. This week’s Top 10 singles and Top 10 albums are listed below.

Cheryl Cole landed the coveted number one on the singles chart last week and not only managed to hold on to it this week but added a number one album to the mix as well.
In the singles chart she held on with Fight For This Love despite strong competition from both Westlife and Jay Sean Feat. Lil’ Wayne. Michael Buble scored …read more

Well there’s a turn-up for the books. There we all were thinking Lily Allen was retiring from music, moving out of the media spotlight, and leaving her fans to stew on Twitter and MySpace. But it seems this isn’t strictly true.

Talking to The Daily Star after winning a Q Award for ‘Best Track’ for The Fear, Allen denied the claims over her desire to leave music behind. However, rather than promising new music, it looks as though she is now more keen to disappear more behind the scenes. She said:
“I never win anything for my music so I’m very happy. …read more

Lily Allen is clearly a big quitter these days. Not a week goes by without her quitting something or other. First it was music, even though she still has a tour planned. Next it was her blog about the issues surrounding illegal filesharing, which she deleted and walked away from seemingly without warning.
And now? Now, it’s all technology, including MySpace, Twitter, and her BlackBerry, allegedly all in aid of pleasing her boyfriend Sam Cooper.

One of Lily’s pals reportedly told The Daily Star:
“We thought she was joking, but it’s been a month since she last Twittered. Before then you could always …read more

You may not have yet heard of Speech Debelle. I certainly hadn’t until she went and won the 2009 Mercury Music Prize in September, beating the likes Glasvegas, La Roux, and Florence and The Machine in the process. But she’s big on the British hip-hop scene and was due to take herself and her music over to the States for a tour this month.

Unfortunately, Debelle has had to cancel the gigs due to what NME calls “Visa problems.” Debelle isn’t the first artist to encounter such problems, with Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen also succumbing in recent years. Anyone would …read more

The issue of illegal filesharing of music has been much debated in recent weeks, thanks to a new effort by the British government to curb the activity. Lily Allen started a blog about the problem, but then got cold feet and walked away. While other artists are pushing for fairness and compromise in how the issue is dealt with.

Radiohead are a part of the Featured Artists Coalition which, although not fans of filesharing, are seeking for a better, longterm solution than the ones being proposed right now. And it was two years ago that Radiohead experimented with a different way …read more

Just a couple of days after it was claimed Lily Allen had announced her decision to quit music, she has also walked away from the debate over illegal filesharing and copyright infringement. Lily started a blog called It’s Not Alright to share her views on the filesharing debate in light of the British government’s attempts to bring in tough new laws to cut off persistent offenders.

The debate surrounding illegal filesharing – not just of music but also movies, TV shows, software, etc. – is a very complicated one with strong opinions on both sides of the divide. So I guess …read more