Johnny Borrell: Saint or sinner?

By Ed Caesar

Johnny Borrell - Razorlight's bombastic frontman - has never been everyone's cup of tea. Prone to saying stupid things like, "firstly, I'm a genius" and pulling out of unfinished gigs with creative excuses such as "extreme stage fright", he has been a gobby mainstay of the rock landscape since the group's rousing, New Wave-inspired 2004 debut Up All Night. But quite what he has done to deserve his latest kicking is anyone's guess.

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Now that we've wrested you, and OUR independence, from the big bad record label we can endeavor to be more consistent with our mailouts (hands up, who got one under the old regime...? Not me),

and we can now legally give you whatever we want, whenever we want to in terms of music, videos, photos, etc.

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- Air Traffic "

chris's last name is WALL.

so that's a letter from Mr. Chris Wall, the vocalist from Air Traffic.

 "not finished yet"

From wiki

The lyrics of Arctic Monkeys' singles often feature social realism as typified by "A Certain Romance", which comments on chav and indie culture; and observations of working class life, as typified by "When the Sun Goes Down", described as a "witty, poignant song about prostitution in the Neepsend district of Sheffield".Based on their lyrical style, Arctic Monkeys have been compared to acts such as the British rapper Mike Skinner of The Streetsand earlier artists such as Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker, both known for their combination of observational lyrics and humour.

Turner sings in a strong Yorkshire accent, typified by the contraction of "something" to "summat" (IPA: /sumʌt/) (as summit or like summut), use of "dun't" (IPA: /dʌnt/) (like dunt) instead of don't for "doesn't", use of "were" instead of "was", the replacement of "anything" and "nothing" with "owt" and "nowt," use of "reight" instead of "right" (meaning very), and the use of Yorkshire colloquialisms such as "mardy" for "grumpy, difficult, unpredictable, spoiled" and "got the face on" for "in a bad mood".Their songs also include frequent references to popular culture both common and obscure; Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not includes references to Romeo and Juliet, "Roxanne" by The Police and Frank Spencer, from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em,leading one journalist to describe the band as having a "camp retro-futurist fascination" for 1980s popular culture.

 super fast, super cool.

 The crowd must have been really enjoying this.

We all love SPEED.

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. Each country participates via one of their national EBU-member television stations, whose task it is to select a singer and a song to represent their country in the international competition.

• Allmusic link
• Robert Christgau (A-) link
• NME (10/10) link
• The A.V. Club (Favorable) link
• Pitchfork Media (9.1/10) 10/15/01
• Rolling Stone link
• Degeneracion Rock link
• Village Voice (Favorable) 10/24/01
• Q Link

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves…but at the very least, there’s a spark. More than a spark.

Ryan Gosling and Natalie Portman!

As I reported exclusively on eTalk last night, my sources say they met a few weeks ago at one of his DJ nights through a mutual acquaintance. Am told he was rather assertive, asking for her number right away. Since then they’ve apparently been flirt texting and hanging out with friends, and casual dvd nights undercover, not in any particular rush towards anything serious but they say they are super cute when together, very relaxed vibe and, as girly boo boo as this sounds, supposedly he’s crazy about her but is “happy not to push”.

…Still early days, so let’s not overheat. You know how it works in Hollywood. Things flash away so quickly. So maybe just a little squeeeeee under your breath for now. Save the loud one for if and when it really blooms.

Ballad Of A Thin Man