March 20, 2008
Real Classy

In the wake of the Mills - McCartney divorce, ITV are going to air a documentary on how celebrity children become the centre of attention is such cases and how it can affect them then, and later on.

No. Wait. Pre-April Fools Day shens everyone!

Executive producer Steve Anderson said: “Heather’s life story could have been written for Hollywood. From a poor childhood to a face-to-face showdown in the divorce courts with one of the richest men on the planet.

“Perhaps this is the programme Sir Paul should have seen before he decided to get married.”

(Via MediaGuardian) 

March 11, 2008

Kate Nash @ Hammersmith Apollo 11/Mar

Back when I booked a ticket to Kate Nash in March I was quite excited about it, but went for the circle - can’t explain why, but didn’t feel like standing down the front as I had done for Nerina Pallot and WsH.

The Black Kids were excellent. The sound wasn’t great, and this might have contributed to me thinking they were doing a cover of Float On by Modest Mouse for a minute or so. Really enjoyed their set and will hunt out a few tracks.

Kate Nash came on stage just after 9pm and started with Pumpkin Soup, which is one of my favourite songs from the current album. The set moved on to some slower, guitar led songs which were ok, but with the poor acoustics and sound quality (as commented by many when leaving last night, and on blogs this morning) these were somewhat lost and difficult to enjoy.

Overall it was quite good, and Kate Nash is excellent, but on a personal level I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

March 3, 2008
"There's bin an earthquake for crying out loud"
Monkey has posted a link to this video on YouTube, of some viewers who seem a little irritated at the lack of coverage on BBC News 24. Whilst they appear to have dropped the ball, the BBC (in all output) beat Sky News (in all output) by approx 13 minutes. 
February 27, 2008

National Express East Anglia Railway (NEARly)

One Railway becomes National Express East Anglia today. The franchise hasn’t changed - NE has owned it for some time. Seeing as some trains still have a livery displaying Great Eastern, some First Great Eastern, some First, some ‘One’ (which were updated to ‘One’ just a few months ago) and now National Express.

Who’s paying for this change to carriages every time? Just a year or two ago ‘One’ started updating their fleet to the pink, black and blue interior and exterior, and now it’s changing again. And the franchise is up for grabs in three years - will it change again? 

In all of those changes, I honestly can’t recall a major difference between Network South East, Great Eastern, First Great Eastern or ‘One’. 

February 13, 2008
BBC3 relaunch: How was it for you?

To me the whole channel looks and feels like CBBC Extra. Lily Allen was ok, but the show wasn’t interesting or exciting. Leigh is right - it was a bit So Graham Norton, which I really liked when it was on. Lenny Henry was doing more of these clips on BBC One, and Harry Hill was scheduled at exactly the same time on ITV. Watching the same episode of TV Burp for the third time this week was still funnier. ;-)

I don’t think “the yoof” are always after something like Lily Allen and Friends. The MySpace craze that surrounded Lily Allen has quietened down somewhat. Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert are constantly pulling in big numbers of college age people - would that not fly here?

February 8, 2008
As desirable as Martin Lewis. :-)
As desirable as Martin Lewis. :-)
Great $1 camera stabilizer
Moyles on Facebook
It was set up by a fan. They didn’t set up anything that the blog post claims they did.
February 7, 2008
Loops and effects in Adobe Audition? This is how you make some decent jingles!
February 5, 2008

Super Tuesday

It’s Super Tuesday in the US. I’m listening to NPR (WNYC FM) and reading BBC News.