This is The Story of Pop: 2002, your weekly revisitation of all the top turns and hits of the UK charts as they looked twenty years ago. And with this year's Mercury Prize due to be handed out next week, it's a former winner that we revisit for this week's featured hit... Artist: Ms. DynamiteSong: … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 35)
Happy Boxing Day - hope you've all had a good, safe and peaceful Christmas so far! As is annual tradition on this corner of the web, today is when I hand out my End of Year Prizes, where I name my favourites from the world of music, TV, books and podcasts from the last 12 … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2021
Goodness me that time of the year is upon us once again - so a hearty welcome one and all to this, our annual End of Year Prizes blog post! Regular readers will know what this is, but if you're newly joined, then here's the skinny; every Boxing Day, we round off our blog posting … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2020
It is with great pleasure that I announce the nominations for my annual End of Year Prizes. It's our last blog of the year that we do every Boxing Day, to look back on the year that's just gone and celebrate what's been great and good about it. Obviously, things are a little bit different … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2020: Nominations and Vote for Reader’s Choice
Hello everyone - hope you've all had a good Christmas. It's time for us to give you our last post on the blog for the year which, as always, is our annual End of Year Prizes for 2019, where we give awards out to the people, music, books, film, TV, podcasts and comedy we've loved … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2019
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
And just like that, we're in the final few weeks of yet another year. Which can only mean it's time for yours truly to announce the runners and riders for our annual End of Year Prizes on the blog! If you've missed this for the last four years, then fear ye not, for we shall … Continue reading Alex’s End Of Year Prizes 2018: The Nominations (plus your chance to vote in our Readers Choice!)
Televised phone voting contests are just a natural part of the British viewing landscape now. But 20 years ago, the Eurovision Song Contest excluded, they weren't. That was, however, until the very channel who's been the home of so many of them, launched a brand new annual music show. Created and devised by the same … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: The Record of the Year
It's funny really. I do sometimes forget that I have an audience for this here corner of the web. In fact, whilst not wishing to sound glib, I genuinely believed it was just my good self twittering into the great cyber ether without much of a thought of an audience beyond that. It's only through … Continue reading A nice new accolade from EssexLive
Happy Boxing Day people! Hope your Christmas is going spiffingly festive so far. It's time, as always, for our annual End of Year Prizes for 2017. This is the time for us to hand out our awards to the great and good that we've loved in music, TV, film and books over the last 12 … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2017
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