Wednesday, February 10 2010

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'Polychromatic Gold? It's the sheer, almost heroic, inventiveness of the advertising guys that's so impressive'

Sunday January 31 2010

After I got honours in my Inter Cert (yes, I did!), I refused to go back to Synge Street to do my Leaving. I'd spent four years being thumped around classrooms on a daily basis by the odd weirdo Christian Brother, and the prospect of two more years of the same seemed unappealing. I'd had enough, that was it, I wasn't going back. My parents, and especially my mother, were aghast. They could see a long lifetime of messenger boys' bikes stretching out before me, with little prospect of anything better. Astoundingly, they came up with a bribe: if I returned to school and did my Leaving, they would get me a bicycle. Like, at once. I'd never had a bike of any kind, not even as an infant (all together -- boo-hoo, the child never had a bike; that accounts for a lot; no wonder the man is so awkward and difficult and grumpy and tetchy and generally unattractive in his behaviour, sure what can you expect? He's more to be pitied than laughed at.) and all my pals had bikes.

Coco Sumner may be the daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler but it?s her determination to make it as a musician in her own right that packs the most punch.

Sting in her tail

Friday January 29 2010

Coco Sumner doesn't really do small talk: "I've never been romantically involved with Pete Doherty," she announces. "We both went and sang a song together once. Everybody has been saying we were involved. And we're not."

Corinne to perform at global summit

Wednesday January 27 2010

Corinne Bailey Rae is to perform at the One Young World summit.

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Ireland needs fewer fruitcakes and more Terry Wogans please

Sunday January 03 2010

FEELING cross with a variety of people the other day, I remembered a cathartic party game I invented some years ago. The principle is that each participant chooses whom they would most like to run out of the country and whom they would like to bring in. You put a euro in a hat for each entry, have a minute to make your case to your playmates and then a popular vote wins the jackpot.

Status Quo maintained as rockers take the honours

Thursday December 31 2009

After rockin' all over the world for more than 40 years, the two remaining original members of Status Quo have been recognised in Britain's New Year Honours List.