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So, once again the award season is upon us with this weekend the BAFTA film awards following hot on the heels of the British Comedy Awards, the National Television Awards and the National Envelope Openers Awards. But it is on 15 February that the blue riband event so far as the British music industry concerned takes place, the night when record execs come together to slap their counterparts

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Well, hello readers. I was prompted to return to these parts after recently receiving notification of one of my previous literary masterpieces from two and a half years ago getting some positive feedback. Although the great comedy scriptwriters believe in calling it a day while the audience are still crying for more, I thought this was my calling to return and indulge some more. So much has

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Well, if the turf accountants of this green and pleasant land are to be believed (and on the surface, they seldom make poor calls), then the culmination of the 2010/11 Champions League is a formality. The script is written and it declares that European football's finest exhibitionists will win their third Champions League final in six seasons, each achieved against English opposition in the final

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So, now to continue the great booze fuelled nostalgia trip where I recount my memories of each pub and bar that I have visited in Brighton and Hove in my adult life to date. So far I have taken in the Queens Park and Hanover areas which are rich in said establishments, I have paid a visit to North Laine, Seven Dials and the area surrounding Brighton Station, each being areas providing bountiful

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Well, way back in the sands of time, or last October to be precise, I began chronicling my progress in visiting over 180 pubs in Brighton and Hove in my adult life to date so far. In my first instalment, I cast both a critical and whimsical eye over 40 pubs in Brighton's Hanover and Seven Dials areas, the 2 main areas in which I have lived my 32 years to date. However, I never returned to speak

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Hi everyone.Well, as you probably have gathered by now, I am something of a sporting enthusiast, albeit an enthusiast devoid of any natural talent on that front. But, this weekend sees the start of one of my favourite sporting televisual events of the year, namely the World Snooker Championships. There has always been something magical about the 17 days at the Crucible as far as I am concerned. I

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Well, the last time I posted my alphabet inspired playlists from my various travels, I'd got as far as the end of 'N'. So, we move on now to O, P, Q and R. As usual, this experiment means that there's a real mixture of old and new stuff, and also a journey across different genres. This may be the last playlist for a while as I have over 400 tracks on my iPod beginning with 'S' to wade through, by

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Found below are my latest batch of playlists listened to when I have been on my travels. This latest collection of 22 alphabetically sequenced playlists covers approximately a 2 month period and 5 different letters of the alphabet. As ever, there is an eclectic mix of mainstream and less well known artists to be found amongst the lists.A few points of note. Playlists 68 to 70 were listened to

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Friends, Romans, countrymen and fans of Chris Moyles. Once again the Brit Awards are upon us, being televised later this week, hosted by the ubiquitous yet strangely unfunny James Corden, who is apparently donating his entire fee for hosting the event to Comic Relief. Well, he'd have only spent it on pies otherwise. Here's my predictions for this year's categories, along with who my personal

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These are the latest sets of alphabet influenced playlists that I have listened to on my travels in the past couple of weeks. These last 5 playlists have completed the letter I, which resulted in 123 songs beginning with that letter being played, the most of any letter so far. As ever, each playlist has conjured up a diverse mixture of old and new songs and tracks from mainstream and less

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Hello everyone.I trust you have been enjoying the snow and ice of the past couple of weeks, either indulging in some well earned duvet days or guiding the most reliable method of transport during the cold snap, namely the sledge. Unfortunately some of us live close enough to our employer that we were not excused work on the grounds of inclemency. And I hope that none you experienced the kind of

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I realised that it has been around 2 months since I last updated my playlist pleasures on this blogspace. Since then, I have had occasion on assorted journeys to listen to another 20 alphabetically influenced playlists via my iPod. When I last provided an update, the musical journey had got as far as the letter E. As you will see below, the journey has swiftly moved on now to the letter I, with a

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Whilst engaging in an exchange of bar-room musings with a friend of mine, we got into talking about pubs. During the conversation, my friend asked me how many pubs and bars within Brighton and Hove I had ventured into in my life on this planet up to now. This prompted me to go away and raid the old memory bank and see if I could hit upon something like a definitive ball park figure. I hope that

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PLAYLIST #23Moby - Dream About MeNewton Faulkner - Dream Catch MeBlondie - DreamingThe Coral - Dreaming Of YouThe Cranberries - DreamsFleetwood Mac - DreamsTravis - DriftwoodThe Cars - DriveREM - DriveThe Beatles - Drive My CarGarbage - Drive You HomeMadness - Driving In My CarMadonna - Drowned WorldThe Verve - The Drugs Don't WorkPLAYLIST #24Garbage - DumbLadyhawke - Dusk Till DawnMumford & Sons

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PLAYLIST #19The Kinks - DaysThe Beatles - Day TripperCherry Ghost - Dead Man's SuitTravis - Dear DiaryWhite Lies - DeathColdplay - Death and All His FriendsThe Thrills - Deckchairs & CigarettesThe Kinks - Dedicated Follower of FashionJamiroquai - Deeper UndergroundFatboy Slim & Macy Gray - DemonsBlondie - DenisManic Street Preachers - A Design For LifeU2 - DesireThe Eagles - DesperadoJames -

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Continuing my alphabetically themed playlists, I have now made it as far as D. Here are my recent musical listening pleasures for your delectation.PLAYLIST #15David Bowie - China GirlNerina Pallot - CigaretteOasis - Cigarettes & AlcoholU2 - City Of Blinding LightsMuse - City Of DelusionArcade Fire - City With No ChildrenDelphic - Clarion CallColdplay - ClocksCorinne Bailey Rae - CloserDirty Vegas

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Greetings.I trust the summer recess has been good to you all. The summer was good while it lasted, which as usual, was for all of a fortnight. And plenty has happened while I have abstained from rambling in these parts. We have a new coalition Government which largely led to condemnation (did you see what I did there?). Staying on the political scene, a former premier decided to release his

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Following on from my last blog post, here is another instalment of the alphabetically influenced playlists I have been listening to on my travels. I am now ploughing through the 'C' tracks.PLAYLIST #11Simon & Garfunkel - The BoxerThin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In TownDon Henley - The Boys Of SummerMelee - Built To LastU2 - Bullet The Blue SkyRazorlight - Burberry Blue EyesAsh - Burn Baby

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As I am someone who often spends time travelling on trains as part of getting to and from work, I spend a lot of my journey time listening to music on my iPod and am always looking for inventive ways of selecting the music that I listen to. I have found that one of the best ways is to play songs alphabetically from the song index, as it means that you get to listen to quite a diverse range of

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Well, we are now at the stage where there are just 4 teams left in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. All of the teams that have made it that far have got there through playing some good, attractive football along the way, as well as showing tenacity and commitment at key times and of course, each of have had some lucky breaks. None more so than Uruguay, whose place in the last 4 owed everything to Luis

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Greetings, blog readers. Well, it looks as though spring is here at last with the smell of cut grass, the tulips in full bloom and ah yes, that funny light in the sky. Nothing like a few rays of sunshine to see the beautiful people of this fair isle home into view and discard a layer of clothing. Then again, it is probably that fatalistic British attitude of making hay while, you know the rest,

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Hello again, cyber friends. As usual, I find myself apologising for an extended absence from subjecting you to my occasionally well thought out prose musing on the finer points of life. And for the most part, my idle ramblings on whatever enters my head. As much as I would like to inform you that my latest hiatus has been due to a hectic work schedule or a spell of globe trotting, the reality is

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Another batch of 2nd round 1st leg Champions League matches are taking place this midweek. Here's my take on affairs:Stuttgart v BarcelonaThe holders have been in imperious form in La Liga this season, although their unbeaten domestic campaign was ended by Atletico Madrid last weekend. They have continued to be the free scoring force that they were in winning this competition last season, with

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This week sees the return of the Champions League after its mid-season break and there are four quite interesting match-ups, with two ties involving English teams. Here is my take on how these matches will shape up:AC Milan v Manchester UnitedI think that the key to this tie is going to be the ability of Manchester United to dictate the tempo against Milan. If you look at their recent matches,

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Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2010 has been good to you all so far and that you are not experiencing the New Year blues. Scientists claim that the week just gone is the most depressing of the year. Let's look at the positives, another week and most of us should have received our first pay packet of the new decade and it isn't too long now until summer comes.Well, I trust you have all been

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The past week has seen the BRIT Award nominations for 2010 take place, with the results to be declared on 16 February at the ceremony at Earls Court. In general, the shortlist appears a little lightweight and predictable this year, with pop and dance acts seemingly faring better than indie and rock acts. This reflects the dominance of these genres in the charts during 2009.In order to build up a

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Well, merry Christmas everybody. After the long preamble and the trials and tribulations of buying the Christmas presents, wrapping them, putting up decorations and filling up on turkey and all the trimmings and consuming copious amounts of wine, Christmas was gone in a flash. Yet again, all those hopes and dreams of unwrapping a magical present only to discover the usual array of socks and boxer

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Hello again readers. Hope you have been keeping well since I last posted on these pages and that you enjoyed lighting a few sparklers and indulging in some trick or treating. Well, there have been some newsworthy developments since I last let myself loose at the keyboard, so let's get down to business. Joe on....Royal Mail reaching agreement with workers so avoiding further strikes until after

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Well, as we now find ourselves just two months away from the end of 2009, it is probably inevitable that the media begin to get into reflective mode and start to review the past decade and all of the events that have happened in that time. When you think of what you were doing in your life, it is often easy to place a particular point in your life through a musical timeline, the soundtrack to

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Well hello again everyone. You might wonder what has kept me so long. It is over 3 months since I last posted in this parish. Well, like the MPs and the school teachers, I decided to have a little break from writing over the summer, although my period of writer's block has lingered on for longer than I had anticipated. Speaking of summer, did we have one? I think we should all make a beeline for

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Afternoon guys and girls.I hope you have been enjoying the summer weather of the last week or so. Although, for those foolhardy souls who made the trip to Glastonbury, I hope that you went suitably prepared with umbrella and Wellies! The height of summer also means the annual pilgrimage to SW19 and the sounds of a yellow ball being whacked on graphite and the sight of Union Jack adorning

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Hello again.Well, so much has happened since I last sat at this keyboard. We have seen the world's first £80 million footballer, of which there will be more discussion in a moment. Also, we have seen the less than encouraging developments of 2 BNP candidates being elected to the European Parliament, which I will also cover further down. And then, just when you thought it had disappeared off the

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Evening folks.Well, another week has flashed by and today sees the conclusion to another monumental mission. No, Gordon Brown has not left office yet, but it is the final of The Apprentice series 5 tonight. Who will be rewarded with a £100,000 a year salary and a permanent seat in Sir Alan, soon to be Lord Sugar's empire? By the way, doesn't the boss's new title make him sound like he should be a

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I have come across this website, which I thought I would share with you. As you will be aware, given the current apathy there is with the three mainstream political parties and the politicians associated with them, there is a potential for a surge in support for fringe protest parties, not least those parties representing the secular far right views of the misinformed or downright ignorant

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Hello again.Hope you have all enjoyed your weeks and have had opportunity to take advantage of the early summer sunshine that has hit these shores. I get the impression that the beautiful people inhabiting this fair isle must be solar powered, you don't see them during the winter but all of sudden, they are there to be found in droves now that the sun has come out.Well, my week was somewhat

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Hello everyone.Well, I'm back again to write another blog after a short hiatus. Not of the hernia kind I am pleased to report, but of the not in front of a PC kind. I trust you are all enjoying the spring finally having sprung and the start of the barbecue season after yet another Bank Holiday weekend. Sadly, there's only one more Bank Holiday to come before Christmas.So since I was last here,

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Well, I'm back again to finish my ramblings from earlier on in the week. Quite a few bits and pieces to get through so I had better get cracking with some more constructive ranting.2. Let's encourage responsible peopleAs ever, the media has of late been all too busy to highlight the negative side of youth culture with a series of stories about bullying in schools, news of poor literacy skills

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Hi everyone.Well, I hope you enjoyed the latest Bank Holiday weekend of the spring and have enjoyed the good weather that there has been of late. The meterologists reckon that this summer is going to be a hot one, let's hope that doesn't just mean thunderstorms and heavy rain. We surely must be due a glorious summer to bask in the sunshine and enjoy the great outdoors.For those reading this blog

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Good evening.Hope you have all had good weeks and been enjoying the continued good weather. Perhaps the only people who have not enjoyed the fine spring sunshine and heat of the past few days were those brave souls in some cases dressed up in foliage or superhero costumes pounding 26.5 miles of London's streets in the name of charitable cause. Well done to everyone who raised money for their

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Good evening everyone.Well I suppose I should start by wishing everyone a belated Happy Easter which has come and passed since I last vented my spleen in a figurative sense around these parts. I hope you are all suitably full as a result of consuming plenty of Easter eggs over the holiday period. Sadly, I am now at an age where no-one seems to buy me them any more, hence I refrained from stuffing

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Good evening readers.Well, another week negotiated and plenty of things have happened since we last convened. Protesters descended upon London to voice their dissent against the world leaders in these times of economic depression, some of whom had a clear agenda, others just looked like they fancied a day off work. Then, extraordinarily, peace broke out where it appeared that differences of

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Well, that last post turned into a blog all on its own exclusively about Brian Clough. And as much as I'm sure the great man would be honoured to have my entire week's blog output being all about him, like Chris Tarrant, I don't want to give you that. So here is the blogging equivalent of a Brucie Bonus, although it comes with the caveat that there won't be a cuddly toy or a glamorous assistant

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Hello everyone. Hope you have a good week since we last convened. Well, I thought I would mark the release of the big screen biopic of Brian Clough's life and times as manager of Derby County and Leeds United, The Damned United, by paying homage to Ol' Big 'Ead with this week's blog title. I hope to get to the cinema to watch this movie pretty soon and as and when I do, I will review it on a

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Well, I'm back again to complete my work. Hope you have had good weekends. I've been enjoying some time off from work and been taking advantage of the good weather, which have been plus points. On the downside, the weekend's football hasn't been so good. Manchester United seem to be shooting themselves in the foot after losing at Fulham yesterday, ending the match with 9 men and just to compound

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Well hello again everyone. I hope things have been good since we last convened. If you happen to live in the south of England, you should at least have enjoyed the glorious spring weather of the past week. Wall-to-wall sunshine, clear blue skies and temperatures in the teens have all added up to surefire evidence of spring having arrived. Sadly, however, you just know that it can't last and when

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Well hello again everyone. In the finest traditions of Mastermind, I intend to start what I finished the other night with some further discussion of some of the interesting and quirky things in the news these past few days.Since I last posted some ramblings on these pages though, another story has come to the forefront of the media coverage and I feel it is only right I should talk about it. No,

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Hello again all you good people who are reading my blog. As you will have seen, I have recently taken the liberty of introducing a web counter on the front page of this blog to show how much people traffic has passed through this blog and is reading my literary masterpieces. The early signs are certainly encouraging. Well, once again as there have been quite a few different things going on in the

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Well, I don't know about anyone else among the football fraternity, but for me, the Champions League really comes alive when the knockout stage arrives. The group phase is a necessary evil I suppose and it sorts the men from the boys, but very rarely does it produce really memorable matches and usually the qualifiers from each group runs in accordance to the script.Once the knockout phase begins

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Next week U2 release their latest studio album, No Line On The Horizon, some four years after the last album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was released.I am a huge fan of the Irish veteran rockers. I take my hat off to the band for staying at the top of their game after 30 years of recording and touring together and given the tensions that must arise in a band, it is quite incredible that their

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Hello again everyone. Hope those of you reading this blog have had yourselves a good few days since I last posted and that you have been making the most of the milder weather we have had here in Blighty in the last week or so.Well, I suppose the big news around these parts in the last day or so has been the unceremonious departure of Micky Adams as manager of Brighton & Hove Albion FC. Adams was

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Well, it is the Brit Awards next Wednesday night, with those idiots out of Gavin & Stacey presenting it this year, along with Kylie. And as promised in my last blog post, I am previewing the Brit Awards and making my predictions on who will win, as well as saying who I would vote for if I was canvassed for my vote. So here's my rundown in each of the award categories.As ever, these are purely my

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I have been listening to a few good albums and tunes of late to unwind after a hard day's work, or to get me going during the weekend. Below are the pick of some of the albums on my current "listening to" pile.White Lies - To Lose My LifeThis band are from London and this new wave influenced album hit number 1 in its first week, helped by the constant radio airplay for the title track with rather

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Hi folks.Just a quick post to say that I will be posting some more blog articles over the next week or so. Next week sees the annual fun and games of the Brit Awards and over the weekend I will be casting my eye over this year's nominees and trying to pick the wheat from the chafe. I will be predicting who I think will win each award, as well as saying who I would vote for if I had the choice.

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Hello again, faithful readers of my blog. As ever, I apologise for the interval since I last shared my thoughts and opinions with you all. Much travelling and working and a distinct lack of time in front of a PC.So, I suppose the story of the week has been the snow. Anyone would think this fair isle had never seen a covering of the white stuff before given the blanket coverage given to the

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Well, I'm back again. Back to complete my work from the other night. So much to talk about, yet so little time to talk about it. Everything is just one big rush.So anyway, I'd started talking the other night about some topics in the news and I got as far as discussing politically incorrect royals and politicians getting ideas above their station. Now time to move on and discuss failing brands,

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Greetings readers. Apologies for the hiatus once again. Hope the January blues are not getting you all down too much. Apparently last week saw the most depressing day of the year for everyone. The fact that it has now elapsed surely is a positive thing!Well, there has been a lot in the news in the last week or two. Beyond the disturbing scenes in Gaza going on at this time and the ever decreasing

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Well, Happy New Year everyone. I hope you had a Christmas that did not leave you too stuffed and has left with you with a sufficient bank balance in order to negotiate the January sales. I hope that 2009 is a rewarding and healthy one for you all.Apologies for the lack of blogs in the past three weeks or so. Time has been at a premium with the usual pre-Christmas rush of things to do and people

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Hello again readers. Well, Christmas draws ever closer. As if the masses of people traffic around Brighton City Centre was not enough of a clue, then turning on the radio to hear 'Fairytale Of New York', 'Last Christmas' and 'Christmas Wrapping' gave the game away. Hope you are enjoying the Christmas build-up and are not too stressed, and for any budding secret Santas who might be reading, some

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Well it is drawing ever closer to another weekend and at this time of the year, out of sync with the weather, the Premier League football season really hots up. There are some good matches taking place both in England's top flight and on the continent this weekend, with the greatest of all "derby" matches taking place in Spain on Saturday night with Barcelona playing host to Real Madrid.Madrid

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Well hello again readers of this blog. I trust you have all had a good weekend and that the pre-Christmas panic stations have not set in just yet. I can honestly say that I have not done anything remotely Christmassy yet, not bought any presents, not written any cards, zippo. But more of that another time.For those people reading this blog and as people who know me will testify, I am not someone

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As an occasional feature, I thought I would share with you the music that I listen to while I am writing my blogs and generally pottering around on the computer. I have well over 2,000 tracks on my iTunes to choose from and this includes quite a range of songs from different genres, some mainstream, some less well known, some new music and some older tunes.Through checking my iTunes usage while

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Now that December has begun, the gritters are out in force in the north of England and already the doors of advent calendars are being opened are around the country, it means another end of year tradition is nearly upon us again. Yes, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year is about to be decided and for once, it should make for very interesting viewing.Earlier this week, the BBC announced a

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From time to time, as I mentioned the other day, I will use this blog page to let you know of my top 10 songs by a particular artist/band, explaining my choice behind shortlisting the tracks that I have. To kick this off, it seemed appropriate to consider my favourite 10 Coldplay tracks to date, given that I have just reviewed their latest EP. I realise that music is very subjective, one man's

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As I mentioned a few days ago, I have recently purchased Coldplay's new EP, Prospekts March. The EP is essentially an extension of the Viva La Vida album that they released earlier in the year. The band's press people say that the EP's material includes tracks that Coldplay had not recorded in time for Viva La Vida's release date, hence the release of this EP. The more cynical side of me leads me

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Hello again. First of all, thank you to the people who have commented on my blog so far via Facebook or e-mail. It is always nice to hear what people think of what I write, after all I have taken the time to do it, so it is good to realise that I am not talking to myself. So keep the comments coming, be they positive, negative or indifferent and also let me know if there is anything you would

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In my introductory blog, you may have noticed that I said that from time to time I will use this blog space as an opportunity to review new albums that I have listened to, as well as occasionally reviewing any books I read while I am doing my daily commute and any films that caught my eye at the cinema or on TV.This is a feature of the blog that I hope to demonstrate over the coming weeks. And to

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Hello again to the readers of this blog. Hope everyone is having a good week so far. I had a rare day off from work today and while I was catching up on a few chores at home, I happened to have the news on and heard that Woolworth's appear to be the latest victim of the current economic crisis with the administrators likely to be called in.My initial reaction to hearing of Woolworth's plight was

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I thought by way of an ice breaker, I would start by providing a small insight into my character by providing a series of Q&As, much like in the style of a teen magazine interview with some boy band hunk or girl band babe. I promise that the journalistic content of my blog will be a little more high brow from here on in, but just for starters, here's me in the comfy chair.NameJoe

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Hi everyone.Well, welcome along to my new blog. I thought it was about time I set up my own little blog space as plenty of my friends have said to me previously that it would make for a good read. Oh well, no pressure or anything...My name is Joe, as the title of this blog would indicate. Apologies for the rather predictable choice of blog title, but I thought it had to be done.Over the coming

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