Monday 3 March 2008

Ever wanted to walk all over Robbie?

Well here's your chance, if u can afford a flight to China that is!

EMI has announced that it will be sending over 1million copies of Robbie William's latest album Rudebox to China to be crushed and used for road surfacing.
The album which sold only 500,000 copies in the UK was a huge dissapointment when it was released in 2006 so the decision was made to get rid of the leftovers to make some more money for EMI.
The record company is facing huge financial hardship at the moment and has just announced plans to axe 2000 jobs after losing £263 million in 2007.
EMI is of course blaming the Internet and illegal downloads for it's current problems, and plans to cut it's workforce by almost a third. But some people think that this is unfair. Graham Jones thinks it's as simple as the music bosses not knowing what a modern audience want.
It's deffinatly bad news for "Blobbie Williams" though who has completely slipped in to the shadows in the past year and is once again becoming a source of ridicule to the British media.

Baftas, hit or miss?

The morning after the night before and the dresses are being questioned, the acceptance speeches picked through and the rumours are flying about celebrity's dates but it's the BBC that is really being scrutinized after last night's British Academy Awards.

Last nite's ceremony may have proved that British cinema can happily stand alongside Hollywood but the televising of the ceremony was certainly not worthy of LA la land.

Although it had the glamourous frocks and more stars than you could count the Baftas somehow lacked the sparkle of an American awards show, and with the loss of the grammies and the possiblity of the Oscar's being cancelled this is something the BBC should have taken advantage of!

Stephen Brook manages to list 7 "blunders" that the BBC made, not very good for a programme meant to be showcasing our excellence in the arts!

So how did Britain actually do?

All hopes were pinned on Atonement, and it certianly did us proud when it came to the nominations, featuring in almost every catagory but the 14 nominations dissapointingly only gave us 2 wins!

We had high hopes this year, but a bit like the BBC's production we were left with mainly dissapointment.

Ah well there's always next year, and we're British, we're good at waiting!

Full list of winners and nominations