Articles from January 2008
The story of Those Dancing Days
The facts in one sentence: Stockholm five-piece Those Dancing Days are all touching 18, are in possession of the best pop single (Hitten) since the early Sugababes unveiled Overload, are blessed with the unsickly sweetness of Belle & Sebastian and...
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Scholarship set up to honour Isabella Blow
Most people in fashion are bonkers and being a fashion college graduate, I've got wardrobes full of shame-spiralling proof. So the when the late Isabella Blow, who battled with depression and bipolar disorder, finally succeeded in offing herself w...
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Tights come to the Commons
A big Lipster congratulations and invitation for cocktails goes to Jill Pay, who's just been named the first female Serjeant At Arms in the House Of Commons. It's only taken 600 years for a woman to be bestowed the honour of wearing tights and car...
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"Bart Simpson" loves Scientology
You see those cunning speech marks in the headline above? That’s because we wanted to pull you in, but it’s actually not Bart Simpson the character who’s a big old Hubbard-lover (ie, don’t sue us, Matt Groening). Nancy Cartwright, real-life voice ...
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Join the Dot: Lipster's best soap women ever
Here at The Lipster, we've been excited all week about the greatest TV event since Live Aid, JR getting shot and that elephant pooping all over Valerie Singleton. For tonight (Thursday 31 January), EastEnders stars one woman and one woman only: th...
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Lipster Gig 2: what went down
So last night we held the second of our Lipster Winter Warmer gigs. It was great. Unfortunately I was only there for half of it, thanks to pesky winter bugs and subsequent early retirement, but here’s what I did see.
Stricken City: cor! Whirli...
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"Women's music isn't a genre!"
Hi, I'm George Pringle. I make music. I'm one of the fortunate artists to have received some New Year press. By New Years press, I'm referring to the "tipster" articles of the New Year period, where magazines and experienced industry insiders h...
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January 30th, 2008
Hot Chip 4 Westlife 4eva
Has long-term exposure to oddly syncopated drum machines and fizzy whizzy synthesizers sent Hot Chip a bit doolally? The loveable electro nerds told The Sun that they would like Irish smoothies Westlife to cover one of their new songs. “We’ve got ...
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Madonna gets into the (cash) groove
Madonna: minted. It’s official. Madge tops the new Forbes list of richest female musicians, earning a mammoth $72million between June 2006 and June 2007 thanks to her lucrative Confessions tour. That’s hardly surprising, since even the cheap seats...
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New Kids back on the block: but who's next?
When news broke on Monday that New Kids On The Block were jumping on the band revival wagon, my soft adolescent heart dipped a little – and not for dreamy, nostalgic reasons. Not that I'm ignoring the cruel truth of my pre-pubescent years, in whi...
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