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A previously unheard track by Clash legend Joe Strummer is to be aired on BBC Radio Ulster’s Late Show.
“Divorcing Jack” was written but never used by the Clash singer for a low budget film of the same name; a black romantic comedy set around the troubled “peace process” and its effect on a cynical Belfast [...]

It seems ages ago since Borat both delighted and revolted us in equal measure, but unwitting ‘extras’ in the movie are still trying to sue the makers 20th Century Fox for the distress of being made to look like idiots.
Most recently the guy who legs it from Borat when he first tries to greet a [...]

An upright grand piano John Lennon used when recording his 1971 Imagine album has been put up for sale at at £189,000. Said to be used by the former Beatle just hours before being shot on 8 December 1980, it has also been played artists such as Don Mclean and Bob Dylan.
The company selling the [...]

In case you didn’t know, 8Ball Towers is located in the heart of England in a sunny lil ol place called Stafford. Its a small county town with not a hell of a lot going on, but a local musician is causing quite a stir with his homage to his home town. Bourne from the [...]

Busy year once again for ageing rockers The Rolling Stones who will headline the Isle of Wight festival on June 10th. Unbelievably this is the band’s first festival date in the UK since Knebworth Fair in 1976. Sir Mick Jagger said he would have liked to have played Glastonbury, but “the Isle of Wight was [...]

Just a quick pointer that we have launched a new 80s T-shirts Section on the website. We’ve always sold 80s related t-shirts but we have introduced more and more over the last few years as us children of the decade of decadence have grown up and grown misty eyed over our youth. We will be [...]

Quick round up this week with lots of tit bits for you to digest.
With this year seeing the release of the new Simpsons movie, 16 US cities called Springfield have been asked to fight it out Itchy & Scratchy style (not really) to host the movie world premiere. 20th Centruy Fox will choose the best [...]