
As tastemakers have now conclusively identified, getting all mawkish and puffy and snivelsome online over the death of a celebrity is no longer okay, OK?
I myself have long railed (at whom is another question) against the vapid pointlessness of Tweeting my big sad face or “Liking” that one of your school colleagues that you no longer speak to wrote “RIP Lenny Bennett, I remember your name from on the telly from when I was young” (I’ll check whether Lenny Bennett has actually died in a minute and consider deleting this or leaving it in for some ineffable comic… Read the rest
Categories: Music
Tagged: Alex Chilton, Big Star, Memphis, Palace Brothers, The Box Tops, The Raspberries
- Published:
- March 19, 2010 – 8:27 am
- Author:
- By Campbell
Friends of the Stars Family Announcement
We would like to congratulate our brother Craig and his girlfriend Val on the birth of their baby son earlier today. Mother and son doing great, Dad probably being a big jessie as we speak.
With Love
FoTS
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Categories: Collaboration
- Published:
- December 7, 2009 – 6:16 pm
- Author:
- By Campbell
Teach your Children with Shortwave Number Stations and Ghosts… then check out Robert Popper’s blog
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Live,podcast,The 2nd Album
- Published:
- October 13, 2009 – 9:37 pm
- Author:
- By Campbell
Bit of a plug this week on Radio Scotland’s mid morning show.
Click on
this link and scroll through to 1hr and 5 minutes.
The story is this….
EPISODE1 “The Set-Up”:
On February 4 Graham has to review the new
Minder remake
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Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Promotion
Tagged: BBC Radio Scotland, payola
- Published:
- February 13, 2009 – 10:17 pm
- Author:
- By Campbell
before everything gets disappointing again… The Staple Singers – If You’re Ready
Cam x
Categories: Collaboration
- Published:
- November 5, 2008 – 7:36 pm
- Author:
- By Campbell