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Jeremy Elwood’s Notes The Foxglove Ballroom, Welington, May 14 Can’t say I expected to have my brain working during a comedy show. Normally it’s just relaxing over a beer, switching the brain off and (hopefully) trying not to pee from laughing
Cabinet Minister Maurice Williamson has missed out on his chance to appear on the American chat-show Ellen.
VENETIC Scorched Earth Days (Self released) I missed the early incarnation of Venetic, when Wayne Stuart McCallum, Johann Croton, Ziggy Bukowksi
“I’m Paula White and you’re lishening to BBC Radio Shtoke.” What every broadcaster should remember before they head out for a few sneaky lunch-time drinks. Because it doesn’t take long for drunken on-air mishaps to go viral these days, as the unfortunate Paula White has learned to her cost.
Bryce Wastney’s gamble is paying off.
HOME Rudimental (Warner) Hipster popsters have known for a while that it’s cool to be happy again – but it’s taken a while for the smiles to break through to the world of drum n bass. Rudimental smash that door as wide as a Cheshire cat’s grin with a debut of soulful style and urban panache
BEAT MANIFESTO Superturtle (Self released) Ex Chainsaw Masochist and bFM Electic Chair presenter Darren McShane says Beat Manifesto is the closest album he’s made to something he’d like himself. A strange thing to say, maybe
Angelina Jolie has revealed that she recently underwent a preventative double mastectomy. The Hollywood actress, whose mother Marcheline Bertrand died of ovarian cancer in 2007, was tested to see whether she carried the ‘faulty’ gene, BRCA1, that increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
So that’s what she looks like. After eight seasons of remorseless teasing, How I Met Your Mother finally revealed – wait for it – “the Mother”.
Teenage pop star Justin Bieber appears to have given up on his pet monkey which was seized by German customs officials in March, according to the shelter looking after “Mally”.