We all like to have a wallow in the past, don’t we? It feels nice to look back on things we used to do as children and then try and find a modern equivalent, either for children nowadays or within our own lives. Sometimes there IS no equivalent, and that makes us a little sad, but also...

I think we all know that this is not going to be the forum in which we discuss what is less than perfect about JLS, especially in the context of this, their latest single. The song is for BBC Children In Need, this is the BBC Radio 1 Chart Blog, and JLS tore the roof off at last...

It seems a shame that they’ve decided to go with the school bully video to this song, don’t you think? I mean sure, it’s a clear metaphor for the brutal way people can treat each other at times, and if you showed the more grown-up version, well no-one would be allowed to...

It must be murder being a songwriter these days. You’ve got ten squintillion other would-be tunesmiths all chasing the same tiny drip of inspiration, you’ve got an audience who have proven time and again that they can be distracted by almost anything, and you’ve got one...

Sometimes art and life are too contradictory to fully process, as an observer. In the same week that Manic Street Preachers make their return to the UK charts with a song which sonically owes a lot to their Imperial Period – the ‘Everything Must Go’ album, released after...