Oh but ick... our favourite name checker is midweek number one with another bloody reworking of the same shite Sting song... Yay for number 2 though. Finally in this land of shite cheesy dance music we have an absolute stonker and check out that charting position (its the one u like pat!)
midweek mania
1. Craig David Featuring Sting - Rise & Fall
2. Tomcraft - Loneliness
3. Ronan Keating - The Long Goodbye/Love Won't Work (If We Don't Try)
4. Busted - You Said No (Crash And Burn)
5. Lisa Maffia - All Over
6. Kelly Rowland - Can't Nobody
15. Lil' Kim - The Jump Off
23. Killer Mike - A.D.I.D.A.S
27. Puretone - Stuck In A Groove
32. Johnny Cash - Hurt/Personal Jesus
35. Kid Creme - Hypnotising
36. Revelation - Just Be Dub To Me
37. Nivea - Laundromat/Don't Mess With My Man 2003
Tuesday, 29 April 2003
BUSTED ARE NUMBER 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUSTED ARE NUMBER 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (admittedly with their worst song so far )
but yay.... me & mr riddell... our work here is done!
but yay.... me & mr riddell... our work here is done!
Hmmm its quite shocking really.
Hmmm its quite shocking really.
Melanie C's first album was an absolute stonker, with such non single belters like closer and feel the sun. There were some absolutely gorgeous tunes.
However her latest offering Reason really was represented well by Here it comes again because the entire thing is utter pap. And the chart buying public seems to have realised this as well, as its languishing way down... I suppose after 7 years the Spice Girl thang was worn off!
Anyway don't buy it/waste your bandwidth on it... its cack
Melanie C's first album was an absolute stonker, with such non single belters like closer and feel the sun. There were some absolutely gorgeous tunes.
However her latest offering Reason really was represented well by Here it comes again because the entire thing is utter pap. And the chart buying public seems to have realised this as well, as its languishing way down... I suppose after 7 years the Spice Girl thang was worn off!
Anyway don't buy it/waste your bandwidth on it... its cack
Monday, 28 April 2003
Whoohoo just got 2 tickets…
Whoohoo just got 2 tickets... in front block for Tom Jones at the NEC on Saturday!! YAY! This means I have one spare though so if anyone (who I know) wants to come then gimme a bell/drop me an email and t'will be fun!!
Also there's a big load of 'hacks' up this weekend so should be fun!!!
Apologies to anyone at Warwick who went to School Daze on Sat. Pat & I djed it and we couldn't get through about 3 songs without them skipping/stopping... it was shocking and it really wasn't our fault. We went through 3 cd players and they were all pants :-(
Just got Simply Red - Home and Melanie C - Reason so will listen and report back soon!
[Hmm this thread shows my dubious music tastes quite well!]
Also there's a big load of 'hacks' up this weekend so should be fun!!!
Apologies to anyone at Warwick who went to School Daze on Sat. Pat & I djed it and we couldn't get through about 3 songs without them skipping/stopping... it was shocking and it really wasn't our fault. We went through 3 cd players and they were all pants :-(
Just got Simply Red - Home and Melanie C - Reason so will listen and report back soon!
[Hmm this thread shows my dubious music tastes quite well!]
ARGH. I’m just in the
ARGH. I'm just in the middle of the most annoying, long winded, arsey assignment ever. Mr Paul Gillibrand I shall no longer listen to your recommended module advice!!!
But yes anyway.. what have I been upto.
Well, the Easter holidays have finished and i'm now back in the lovely, glorious pit of debauchary and sin that is the beautiful city of Coventry. However this holiday has been one of the v. best!
Nus Conference, Blackpool
For so long now, I've been waiting for my mates to come up from uni to my hometown and well in a round about way they finally did. Lummers, Reissy, Greg and others from Warwick came to the annual NUS National Conference held in the Winter Gardens. The majority of us being NUS virgins we were a tad scared by the rumours we had heard of it being awful and well the conference part of it was a bit scary, but once we got into the swing of it all, we enjoyed it a lot. It showed us a lot about the national executive and conjured up some thoughts of disaffiliation... the NUS exec themselves didnt exactly endear themselves at all during conference, and all seemed like a bunch of careerists who didn't care that much about anything but advancing themselves. Ah well!
I've got to give Paul from Liverpool Hope a shout out now. He reads this blog (hello!) and was at conference and I promised I would. But yes conference was wicked. We all got very lashed repeatedly and it was ace to have people up at home. And I got a hotel even though I lived 5 minutes away!! Photos will be appearing soon, especially of a very drunk alan reiss passed on on the hotel stairwell ;-)
And another one... SRA Spring Conference 2003
Well this was my first SRA Conference and my god I am so pissed off I've missed out on 2 years of them. Rob, Catt, Flymo, Shall, Nick, George and moi trundled off to Nottingham Trent, not knowing quite what to expect, but it was so so good. We learnt absolutely loads about radio, made some wicked mates from other stations, and got involved with the SRA. Rob is WM rep and I guttingly lost chair... but it was my first go and I didnt know anyone so fair dos... Roll on next year.
But my god there are some very attractive men in student radio (why none at raw!) I'm not going to say anything else seeing all the scandal involves me ;-)
But yes anyway.. what have I been upto.
Well, the Easter holidays have finished and i'm now back in the lovely, glorious pit of debauchary and sin that is the beautiful city of Coventry. However this holiday has been one of the v. best!
Nus Conference, Blackpool
For so long now, I've been waiting for my mates to come up from uni to my hometown and well in a round about way they finally did. Lummers, Reissy, Greg and others from Warwick came to the annual NUS National Conference held in the Winter Gardens. The majority of us being NUS virgins we were a tad scared by the rumours we had heard of it being awful and well the conference part of it was a bit scary, but once we got into the swing of it all, we enjoyed it a lot. It showed us a lot about the national executive and conjured up some thoughts of disaffiliation... the NUS exec themselves didnt exactly endear themselves at all during conference, and all seemed like a bunch of careerists who didn't care that much about anything but advancing themselves. Ah well!
I've got to give Paul from Liverpool Hope a shout out now. He reads this blog (hello!) and was at conference and I promised I would. But yes conference was wicked. We all got very lashed repeatedly and it was ace to have people up at home. And I got a hotel even though I lived 5 minutes away!! Photos will be appearing soon, especially of a very drunk alan reiss passed on on the hotel stairwell ;-)
And another one... SRA Spring Conference 2003
Well this was my first SRA Conference and my god I am so pissed off I've missed out on 2 years of them. Rob, Catt, Flymo, Shall, Nick, George and moi trundled off to Nottingham Trent, not knowing quite what to expect, but it was so so good. We learnt absolutely loads about radio, made some wicked mates from other stations, and got involved with the SRA. Rob is WM rep and I guttingly lost chair... but it was my first go and I didnt know anyone so fair dos... Roll on next year.
But my god there are some very attractive men in student radio (why none at raw!) I'm not going to say anything else seeing all the scandal involves me ;-)
Monday, 21 April 2003
Just a mini blog to
Just a mini blog to let everyone know I'm not dead. I'm just totally busy at the mo, doing lots of revision for impending exams. May try and blog a bit later today but don't hold your breath!! :-)
Wednesday, 9 April 2003
I’m in a conference till
I'm in a conference till Sunday so probably won't be blogging .. very busy. See you all soon
Monday, 7 April 2003
Top Ten 06/04/03 (1)
Top Ten 06/04/03
(1) 1 Room 5 feat. Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv
(2) 2 Gareth Gates - Spirit In The Sky
(5) 3 Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
(-) 4 Atomic Kitten - Love Doesn't Have To Hurt
(8) 5 50 Cent - In Da Club
(4) 6 Mis-Teeq - Scandalous
(-) 7 Avril Lavigne - I'm With You
(7) 8 Jennifer Lopez feat. LL Cool J - All I Have
(3) 9 Westlife - Tonight / Miss You Nights
(11) 10 Delta Goodrem - Born To Try
Unsurprisingly given last weeks new releases, Room 5 makes it 2 weeks at the top. Singles have recently being staying at the top longer than the 1 week of last year, as there have been very few *big* releases this year. Atomic Kitten enter with their fourth single from second album Feels so good . Love doesn't have to hurt is a pretty bland re-hash of their big slow hits but did better than expected at no 4 instead of the low top 10. Avril's third single enters at no 8, and both Junior Senior and 50 cent climb the chart. There's a fall of 6 places for westlife though! Yay!!
New music Being back
New music
Being back home means that I am broadband free and thus music is a little hard to come by. However here is a quick review of what i've managed to get hold of.
Out this week
 | Continuing the 2003 theme of covering 80s hits and making them popular again (Heaven, I wanna dance, I think we're alone now etc etc...) 56K (who?) bring us there eurotrance cover of the Duran Duran no 2 classic from 1982. Wow I was only 6 months old when this came out originally... bonkers! Unfortunatly this track goes nowhere near the brill updating of Ordinary World from Aurora in 2000. A pretty weak vocal leads up through the dull verse to a better chorus but all together its quite pants really. Expect Flip & Fill to have been near it at some point. Nothing special. Chart pred: number 31 |
 | Since leaving the doomed Hear'say, Kym has been branded the bitch in the breakup, a cradle snatcher and a bit of a pramface. I don't really like her so I'm quite happy to believe all that. Cry is a 'nice' song. That's really the only way to describe it. Its purebread, harmless pop. The type of thing you would expect Emma Bunton to do, although a little bit more guitary. Anyway as I said its harmless.. its not going to set the charts alight but its not going to do badly either. Especially as its aided by a video in which she apparantly looks gorgeous in the purple number!?! Chart pred: number 9 |
 | The first single from the Canadian winners of popstars arrives in the UK, and is a cover of the top 20 hit by Fierce from back in May 1999. From what I can remember this sounds exactly the same, although it is 4 years ago so I may be wrong. The track is catchy r&b pop and I like it. However I think that it is too easy to pass over to chart very high in the UK. I'd like to say it would chart at about no 12, but my chart pred is number 29 |
Well I’ve changed my template.
Well I've changed my template. At first I really liked it but now I'm not too sure... Its a bit too red I think...
Opinions in my comments please!!
Opinions in my comments please!!
Sunday, 6 April 2003
Ooh the RaW site has
Ooh the RaW site has been updated FINALLY!!! Check out the front page & exec page for newness :)
I’ve been very very tired
I've been very very tired & hence there have been a pitiable amount of updates on this site.
Just a quick note then.
The only thing of any worth conference did was to change NUS' stance on the grants not fees debate. Instead of means tested grants, NUS now fight for grants for all. Personally I'm for means tested but our union holds policy meaning I had to vote for the latter :(
Whatever your opinion please sign Pay Up Tony - a petition to be presented to Blair sometime soon.
Ta!
Just a quick note then.
The only thing of any worth conference did was to change NUS' stance on the grants not fees debate. Instead of means tested grants, NUS now fight for grants for all. Personally I'm for means tested but our union holds policy meaning I had to vote for the latter :(
Whatever your opinion please sign Pay Up Tony - a petition to be presented to Blair sometime soon.
Ta!
Thursday, 3 April 2003
Slap me on the
Slap me on the thigh and call me a member of elections group
(no offence dave, devin!)
But... ARGH. I've just finished NUS national conference (full report will follow later.. too tired atm) and it appears to have turned me into a complete sad twatty hack. Some amazing things happened, some annoying things, lots of beaurochracy (can't spell it! .. u know what i mean), lots of drunkedness and lots of fun but I seem to have been transformed into this person who a) voted for the far left loads of times (i mean wtf?), b) can talk at length about NUS & student politics (instead of gliding along like I was before), c) Actually really want to talk at length about it.
This has also transformed me into someone who is getting v. pissed off at the SRA who seem to not open up agendas to their members and not show us the constitution. They must have put something in our food at conference. I mean really, REALLY, why would someone want to read a constitution!!!
/me slaps self in face
(no offence dave, devin!)
But... ARGH. I've just finished NUS national conference (full report will follow later.. too tired atm) and it appears to have turned me into a complete sad twatty hack. Some amazing things happened, some annoying things, lots of beaurochracy (can't spell it! .. u know what i mean), lots of drunkedness and lots of fun but I seem to have been transformed into this person who a) voted for the far left loads of times (i mean wtf?), b) can talk at length about NUS & student politics (instead of gliding along like I was before), c) Actually really want to talk at length about it.
This has also transformed me into someone who is getting v. pissed off at the SRA who seem to not open up agendas to their members and not show us the constitution. They must have put something in our food at conference. I mean really, REALLY, why would someone want to read a constitution!!!
/me slaps self in face
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