It's Friday. If we were either the Easybeats in 1966 or Gary Moore in 1987, then it would be on our mind, but we're not, which is quite fortunate really as we don't actually know the song, but we have run out of Friday referencing singles to use for this intro piece so we'll need to think of a new schtick for next week. Even with that thought playing heavily on our mind, we still managed to find time to watch this week's Top of the Pops. Here's what we learnt:-
- Uniting Nations made the most of the traditional slow sales at this time of year and rocketed up the charts. Well, went up 6 places, anyway.
- Lucie Silvas is convinced that what the pop world needs right now is a one woman Corrs tribute act, only without the tunes.
- Top of the Pops reckon that Ciara, Bloc Party, Rooster, The Game and Kano are going to be the big names of this year. Jesus wept. Although we do like Kano and our hairdresser is very keen on Bloc Party.
- Green Day are at number on in the album charts. As a result of this we were reshown them performing Boulevarde of Broken Dreams with all the passion of a deflated blow-up doll, presumably in the hope that people will realise how bad they are and stop buying the sodding album.
- Jennifer Lopez, who is remarkably unattractive when you come to think about it, has a new single called Get Right. Much like her perfume, it stinks.
- Ashlee Simpson managed to make it all the way through her performance of Lala without fucking up. Well done her! In it she sings about some guy who makes her want to lala in the kitchen on the floor. Ashlee always makes us want to do something, though we're not totally sure what. Throw stuff, maybe.
- Top of the Pops believe that "Unlimited" means the same as "3 months"
- Steve Brookstein is number one, having elected to give all the profits to the Tsunami Appeal. This is quite a nice gesture, even more so when you realise that this is going to be the only thing he ever releases which is actually going to sell in enough quantities to make him any money.
