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  1. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    The Awakening - "Haunting" (2025) Hailing from Johannesburg, South Africa, and being brought up bilingual in both the country's two main languages - English and its close cousin Afrikaans - The Awakening is rock vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Ashton Nyte. This is his new single...
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    Lacuna Coil - "I WISH YOU WERE D3AD" (2025) Hailing from the beautiful and historic northern Italian city of Milan, famous for its fine food, fine architecture and fine football, here is the goth metallers' new single...
  3. Blackleaf

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    Lordi - "Hellizabeth" (2025) Hailing from Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland in northern Finland, the heavy metallers who won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest representing Finland are back with their new single... The band's 13th studio album "Limited Deadition" is out 21st March...
  4. Blackleaf

    Super Bowl

    Yeah. The top picture is basically his mouse mat. His previous job was in an Aldi warehouse and some guy got him into American Football. He ended up supporting the Baltimore Ravens because they share the same colours of his favourite football team.
  5. Blackleaf

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    White Town - "Your Woman" (1997) Hailing from the city of Derby, Derbyshire, the singer, musician and producer - real name Jyoti Mishra - scored a UK No 1 with this in 1997. The song features a muted trumpet line taken from a 1932 recording of "My Woman" by Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band...
  6. Blackleaf

    Super Bowl

    I watched it, even though the game finished at around 3:30am here. It's quite a good sport. I know the basics rules. The only downside is all the stoppages and every few minutes we were kept going to the ITV1 pundits in the New Orleans stadium. And around 45 minutes of shitty music being...
  7. Blackleaf

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    The Primitives - "Crash" (1988) The Coventry band performing their hit "Crash" on the BBC's "Top of the Pops" in 1988 before the song featured in the 1994 movie "Dumb and Dumber"...
  8. Blackleaf

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    The Primitives - "Sweet Sister Sorrow" (2025) Formed in Coventry in 1984, the band's 1988 mega-hit "Crash" featured in the 1994 American movie "Dumb and Dumber." This is their new single...
  9. Blackleaf

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    Here she is without that horrible ugly interregnum interrupting a piece of beauty at 3:47 in the previous video
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    Lady Gaga - "Abracadabra" (2025) Born in 1986, the New York City electrorocker is back with this new single and her sixth studio album - "Mayhem" - released on 7th March. I am a fan of her. That's my little guilty secret revealed.
  11. Blackleaf

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    The Stereophonics - "There's Always Gonna Be Something" (2025) Formed in 1992 in Cwmaman, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and famous for their massive 2005 hit "Dakota", the indie rockers release their 13th studio album "Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait" on 25th April. This is the new single...
  12. Blackleaf

    King and Queen host Beckhams and Stanley Tucci ahead of Italy State Visit

    King Charles III and Queen Camilla have hosted the Beckhams, Italian-American actor Stanley Tucci and other guests at their private home of Highgrove in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Stanley Tucci, 64, is an Anglophile who has admitted he is "fascinated" by Great Britain and lives in London with...
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    British Government orders demolition of Grenfell Tower

    The British Government has today ordered the demolition of Grenfell Tower. On 14th June 2017 a huge fire devastated the London tower block, killing 72 people. Bizarrely, some family members of some of the victims want the building to remain standing as a memorial, but today British Deputy...
  14. Blackleaf

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    Jethro Tull - "The Tipu House" (2025) Formed in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967, this is the new single from the folk rockers, who release their new album "Curious Ruminant" on 7th March. It is the veteran band's third studio album since 2022.
  15. Blackleaf

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    Def Leppard - "Stand By Me" (2025) Formed in Britain's 5th-largest city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in 1976, the rockers have released their new single, a cover of Ben E. King's 1961 hit
  16. Blackleaf

    Two children dead and six injured after being stabbed in Southport

    A little technicality means Rudakabana has been resentenced to Detention Under His Majesty's Pleasure and has not now got a life sentence. However, it's almost certain that he still must serve a minimum of 52 years without the possibility of parole. It's unlikely that the current or next...
  17. Blackleaf

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    Ozzy Osbourne ft Billy Morrison and Steve Stevens - "Crack Cocaine" (2025) The rocker, famous for fronting Black Sabbath, the Birmingham band who invented heavy metal in 1968 when they were each around 19-20 years old, is still making heavy metal at the age of 76. The heavy metal pioneer and...
  18. Blackleaf

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    Tears for Fears - "Emily Said" (2025) The Bath, Somerset, pop-rockers (Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal) - famous for their 1980s hits "Mad World", "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - are back with a new single and new album. New album "Songs For a Nervous Planet" is out now...
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    British nurse found guilty of murdering seven babies

    Medical experts are expressing doubt about Letby's guilt Could this be one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history? Could it be that a woman given FIFTEEN whole life tariffs for murdering babies did not actually kill anybody at all? A panel of international medical experts...
  20. Blackleaf

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    Los Bobos - "La Bamba" (1987) The Californian band reached No1 in Britain with this...