Archive for September, 2009
Intellectual Wine-lover TV chef Keith Floyd has died
Floyd, renowned for his irreverence and booze-fuelled cookery shows, collapsed at his partner Celia Martin’s home in Dorset last night. Paramedics battled for 45 minutes to save him but he could not be resuscitated, his ghost-writer James Steen revealed. Floyd, who [Read More]
Never Mind The Buzzcocks returns
BBC Two’s irreverent pop quiz, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, returns to our screens this autumn with a brand new line-up. Joining the panel this year as team captain, alongside the ever repressible Phill Jupitus, is Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding. Following Simon [Read More]
New Indie-Rock All Girls Band The Kut release double a-side single
All female band, The Kut, are set to release their debut Double A-side single mid October: ‘Doesn’t Matter Anyway’ / ‘Closure’. Dubbed as ‘the best all female band the UK has ever produced’, their ‘basement rock’ [Read More]
Fearless Dirty Dancing film star Patrick Swayze is dead
Dirty Dancing film star Patrick Swayze has died aged 57. His publicist Annett Wolf said that the US actor, who had been battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years, died with family at his side on Monday. Swayze was diagnosed with advanced stage four pancreatic cancer [Read More]
Shane MacGowan and The Pogues return for more this December
The Pogues play St. George’s Market, Belfast on 02 December and The Olympia Theatre, Dublin on 04 December. Tickets will go on sale this Friday 18 September at 9.00am from Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide. Formed in 1982, The Pogues scored a string of hit [Read More]
