Join us as we continue to revisit all the biggest UK chart hits from a quarter of a century ago with The Story of Pop: 1998. This week - a second chart topper for these ladies, offering up two unlikely covers for the price of one... Artist: All Saints Song: Under The Bridge / Lady … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 18)
Welcome once again to this week's instalment of The Story of Pop: 1998. Now it's at this point we should tell you that the UK charts of 25 years ago was full and plenty with girl groups, so here comes our first of two encounters with one of that year's biggest... Artist: All Saints Song: … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 2)
Good afternoon and welcome aboard this week's Pop Essays, our weekly look back at some lost classics in our music library that we dust off and polish good and proper to shine as they deserve to. This week: an overlooked single from one of my all time favourite bands... Artist: All Saints Song: Chick Fit … Continue reading Pop Essays #16: All Saints, ‘Chick Fit’
Welcome one and all to this week's installment of The Story of Pop: 2000, as we continue our look back, week by week, of the runners and riders - and all the big hits - from the UK charts of two decades ago. This week: one of the Nineties' foremost girl groups return with that … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 8)
Happy Boxing Day dear readers! We hope you've all had a lovely Christmas so far. As is always tradition on this corner of the internet, today we bring you our most important blog of the year, as we hand out our prizes to those we've loved across music, TV, books and film this year. This … Continue reading Alex’s End Of Year Prizes 2018
If 'Red Flag', 2016's superb renaissance album (we don't like saying comeback, it doesn't seem right in this context) was the sound of All Saints rediscovering their musical identity, then 'Testament', its follow up, is almost certainly the sound of them taking that rediscovered, timeless sound, and running full tilt with it. Although even 'full … Continue reading #CrazyStupidAlbum: All Saints – ‘Testament’
ARTIST: All Saints SONG: Love Lasts Forever SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? I'm going to do a little bit of scene setting for you here, people. It is Thursday morning - a whole 24 hours before this blog goes live. I have heard the new single from All Saints - … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: All Saints – ‘Love Lasts Forever’
I've spoken many a time before on the blog about life after hugely successful pop bands - solo efforts from former members of girl groups in particular being my Mastermind specialist subject. And particularly, my love of those albums or singles from such artists that weren't broadly commercial or mainstream, but for whatever reason I … Continue reading Nicole and Natalie: from All Saints to Appleton – ‘Everything’s Eventual’ at 15
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Happy Boxing Day one and all! Hope you are having a lovely Christmas so far, whatever you may be up to (cue festive emojis 🎅🎅🎅 🎁🎁🎁 🎄🎄🎄). Today's blog sees the third annual giving out of my End of Year Prizes. 2016 has, it's safe to say, been an odd mistress of a year, but … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2016
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