*almost.

jersey available from Milltag.

New single from the greatest band in the history of mankind, the future of mankind and all past and present celestial beings.

Their new album is out in March.

Wikipedia:

Two videos were filmed for the song. The version used for promotion on television, commissioned by the record label, features teenagers in various everyday group situations with lyrics from the song occasionally flashing on the screen. The alternative version, commissioned by the band themselves after being disappointed with the label's version and directed by Valerie Philips, features the girls featured on the Send Away the Tigers cover art miming to the song.

YouTube comment on the alternate version:

is not the best video of the Manic Street is true.. but who don't like the video is gay :)



A classic collection of the best Kemp folds around

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And Leicester has beaten Southampton , an Hammers are finally on top alone where we belong! #COYI #Mademyday #LiketheCreamingonthecake :D!

— John Carew (@JCarew10) January 23, 2012

#Icingonthecake!! COYI :D

— John Carew (@JCarew10) January 23, 2012

Creaming on the cake is actually takin it too far... Mum would throw me outta the house..

— John Carew (@JCarew10) January 23, 2012

Dexys Midnight Runners were more, much more, than just that song.

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According to Popjustice the original lineup of Sugababes are working together again.

Subsequent different lineups went on to release songs that still make them the best pop act of the century. They disintegrated in 2008 becoming tacky American overtly sexual bullshit. Keisha left just in time.

Going back to the start would just seem right, if only to reclaim the psyche if not the name of their old group. Their first album came out when they were about 15. They were involved in the songwriting and it was British RNB soul sass, a spirit which largely remained intact through their more poppy moments and line up changes but died when Keisha left.

They can't call themselves Sugababes though unless they're going to sell wrapping paper ribbons.

If this reunion is true I'm excited. Almost OhMyGodTheStoneRosesAreGoingToPlayAgain excited.

Photoshop work is rarely as seamless as superimposing heads on the bodies of people in an inexplicable pose.

Richard Keys, on the 'smash it' clip, January 2011:

Shocking, horrible, out of order, wrong, old-fashioned, behavioural problems that need to be attended to? Yeah. Reconstruction? Yeah.

Prehistoric banter isn't acceptable in the modern world. I accept that. We failed to change when the world has changed.

Contrition has rarely been so genuine.

(image via a superb Lost in Showbiz column by Marina Hyde for The Guardian)

dad also said "i'd pay a fortune to walk barefoot on a sea of tits" or words to that effect (strohm remembers verbatim, probably--goodmemory

As was the case last year, a late entry picks up this prestigious award.