Unlike football, music is generally quite a genial hobby. Favourite bands might split up, but they could always get back together, and if not there’s always new ones to take their place, whilst decent songs might eventually be used as the soundtrack to an annoying bus journey, but you can take solace in the fact [...]
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Tom Vek
Posted in whatever happened to... on April 13, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Lost bands of the 00′s – JJ72
Posted in whatever happened to... on January 2, 2010 | 10 Comments »
What’s become increasingly clear over the past few weeks of over-indulgence and endlessly watching ‘best of the noughties’ programs is how relentlessly terrible the start of the decade was. Girls Aloud might looks pretty cool and ‘on trend’ now, but when they started they were horrible chavs, which seems to be a pretty decent analysis [...]
Whatever happened to… ¡Forward, Russia! ?
Posted in whatever happened to... on December 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The common perception is that children are easy to trick and cajole into liking certain things and behaving in certain ways, being highly susceptible to peer pressure and marketing. That’s why Christmas time sees adverts aimed solely at the under 7 market, telling them how they need to have a doll that wees itself or [...]
Lucky Lucky Pigeons – Bird Flu/Happy Birds Day EP downloads
Posted in new bands, whatever happened to... on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A week or so ago, you might remember a post about Swedish pop princesses Lucky Lucky Pigeons, appealing for anyone, anyone to come forward with a copy of their (should be) seminal works Happy Birds Day and Bird Flu. Thankfully, dreams can come true and yesterday, my wish upon a star was answered in the [...]
Whatever happened to Tom Vek?
Posted in news, whatever happened to... on November 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
4 years is a fairly long time. It’s the time between two World Cups. It’s enough time to get a degree, as well as taking a year out. It”s also nearly 5 years, which is how long it is soon going to be since Tom Vek released his debut album We Have Sound. Released to [...]
