Tony Wilson, the founder of the Factory Records label and Manchester music scene legend died earlier this month on August 10th.
Now a website has been set up to collect tributes and remembrances of the man who signed Joy Division and New Order.
On August 10th 2007 Anthony H Wilson died of a heart attack due […]
On Monday I reported that The Enemy and Dirty Pretty Things had played a gig live in Pentonville prison to raise awareness of the high incidence of suicides amongst young men.
Here is a YouTube video of part of the acoustic set from Dirty Pretty Things. The sound quality isn’t very good but it’s in a […]
Babyshambles front man Pete Doherty could be about to star as a zombie in a newly commissioned Buff The Vampire Slayer spin off.
Joss Whedon, the man behind classic TV series Buffy is going to be making a spin off, to be shown on the BBC, and is reported to want Pete Doherty to play a […]
I love hearing and seeing media of people taking British music and doing something slightly different than normal with it. As well as the mash ups I keep sharing with you, I’m always on the look out for something a bit different, and this video fits that bill exactly.
It shows an all male a capella […]
The Enemy and Dirty Pretty Things played a live gig in Pentonville prison today to highlight the amount of suicides in British prisons.
Mimicking Country music legend Johnny Cash, the two British Indie bands played a special gig to support ‘Wasted Youth’, a campaign to highlight and reduce the high incidents of suicide among young […]
Kanye West proved his song title correct by staying at number 1 for the 2nd week running with ‘Stronger’. Sean Kingston has gone straight in at number 2 with the strangely catchy but otherwise utter crap ‘Beautiful Girls’. Now I know this guy is American, that much is clear from the video, but I know […]
Last month Prince gave his brand new album ‘Planet Earth’ away with a British newspaper. To celebrate this, I held a contest where one lucky reader of Brit Music Scene could win a copy of the album.
The lucky winner was JM from that little country they call Australia, and I dispatched the album to her […]
The Amy Winehouse train wreck continues on, and shows no sign of stopping until she either gets help from some external source or kills herself.
The latest news in today’s Sun newspaper reveals details of a fight between Any and husband Blake Fielder-Civil. Seeing the latest pictures, he looks less civil, and more brutal to […]
Bono from U2 has for years seen himself as a kind of modern day Jesus: miracle worker, saviour of the masses, hero to the poor, purveyor of loud rock music. Actually as you can see he’s bigger than Jesus, the former never was any good at singing. Anyway, it seems that an artist has picked […]
I have two live videos of British bands for you today which I think you might enjoy. Maximo Park and The Editors are 2 of my favourite bands at the moment, and have both released amazing second albums in 2007.
While on their promotional tours over in America to support the new albums, they appeared […]
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