Music
Before the recent Eurovision Football Contest, RealMusic Blog caught Swedish poplet Robyn trying to persuade us Brits to cheer on her home nation. Her reasons? That Sweden doesn’t have a large population and that it had given us Abba. After such a persuasive argument, RealMusic Blog duly stripped off and rolled around in blue and yellow paint for a week, but the Swedish team still went out at the group stages. Thank goodness then for Abba - and their music - which has endured far longer than that…
Fresh from their triumphant headlining return at Glastonbury on Sunday, The Verve have come over all generous and are giving away a free download of the track “Mover”. Said song is available now for the next six days, so hurry, while stocks last! To get you even more excited, the song is brand spanking new and will not appear on the band’s forthcoming album “Forth”. It’s like they did it just for you…
RealMusic Blog remembers the heady days of Garage glory, when a young Craig David teamed up with Artful Dodger and dropped a track that sent everyone crazy. Back then, we used to spend our days busting the two-step with a pout to rival Posh Spice and the smooth voice of Craig David singing ‘Re-re-wind’ blasting out of our sub-woofer speakers. Craig’s been a busy boy since then, churning out four albums, clocking up 13 million album sales worldwide and swelling his fan club with the likes of Elton John, Missy Elliot, Beyonce and Usher. So would the 2008-styled Craig David live up to the glittering memories in our head? We headed to London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire recently to find out…
She broke onto the scene at the end of last year, and by February had picked up the first Critics’ Choice Brit Award for person most likely to succeed in 2008. Some might have toppled under such pressure, but Adele has come through with flying colours, singing up a storm while drinking cups of tea on her recent UK tour and selling vast numbers of her debut album “19″.
Here, our sister-in-law Rhapsody Blog chats to the UK starlet about her sudden rise to fame, the class of 2008, Estelle’s dig at her and working with producer-du-jour Mark Ronson. “We just had an instant thing. He just loves honesty… He kind of likes it when people don’t lick his ass. And I was drunk and he forgot the meeting…”
