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Pop Culture Platinum
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commentary, news and humuor on music, tv, movies, celebrity gossip and other internet stuff. Pop culture served up and dissected!
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6 of The Best: 6 Pop Culture Treats This Week

Whether you spend your days tweeting about your favourite boyband (I see you One Direction Mafia) or reblogging endless gifs (who can blame you with the likes of RealityTVGifs doing such bang up work...

11 may 12

Music Video Run Down: Cheryl, Little Boots and Rihanna debut new clips.

Its a busy week for music videos. Theres pop biggest star Rihanna unveiling another surefire winner, the slinky high-fashion visuals delivered by Little Boots and the return of UK popstrel Cheryl Col...

02 may 12

Is Britney Right for The X-Factor?

The X Factor has spent more time the in the last year hyping who the new judge will be as it has making wannabe popstars churn out soundbite sob stories. The UK version spent months last year keeping...

13 mar 12

Cyber Punk, Synths and Arhthurs Day: Bressie Flies Solo

Whichever way you slice it, Mullingars Niall Breslin i.e. newly solo pop hunk Bressie, is a busy man. As the front-man of The Blizzards he helped blaze a pop-rock trail through the charts, student un...

27 jul 11

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: Pop Near Misses Vol. 01

More than anywhere else, pop music is ruled by the weird and wonderful world of the single. Having a hit single is the lifeblood of many a chart act and still a vital tool for an artist to capture an...

20 jul 11

Your Handy Guide to Britneys Leaked Gimme More Vid

At the height of her mid-life meltdown Britney Spears gave us the near-perfect pop masterpiece album, Blackout. It was of course preceded by the fantastic Gimme More, one of Britneys best singles. A ...

19 jul 11

Pop Boys Do Pop Things: Calvin Harris, Will Young, The Drums and.. Olly Murs?

I dont know how many of you went festivaling (yes, its a word. ahem) recently but I was down at Oxegen DJing multiple times last weekend. I saw only a few bands but given that one of them was surpris...

15 jul 11

Ke$ha, LMFAO & Alexis Jordan Live in Dublin: A Review

Despite sluggish ticket sales, much hyped pop roadshow Summer Jam brought its poptastic line up to Dublins 02 Arena last night for an evening high of teen hormones, screeching girls and surprising am...

29 jun 11

Mistaken Identity & Good Work of ReachOut.com

Confession time: I dont often get to take part in photocalls. Despite my best efforts photographers and PR agencies dont really call me to stand in Stephens Green holding a banana and winking seducti...

29 jun 11

Bridesmaids: Just As Funny As Youd Hoped

Everytime a much hyped US comedy appears on my radar I find myself getting excited and wary in equal measure. I dont know about you but I find myself regularly disappointed by many flagship comedies....

21 jun 11

Lady Gaga Releases Edge of Glory AKA THE LADY GAGA WORKOUT VIDEO

So theres a new video from Lady Gaga out. Even when people are sneering at her ridiculous "high concept" videos featuring avant garde blahdy blahdy performance art thingy type stuff I always ...

17 jun 11

Tweeting Yourself A Taxi: Twitter Makes Everything Better

Given my further descent into a full on Twitter addiction I am always trying to think of ways in it which it has improved my life. Blagging tweet seats for the fried chicken delights at Crackbird has...

17 jun 11

The Last 2 Movies Ive Seen: No. 2: X-Men : First Class

To conclude my exciting new segment The Last 2 Movies Ive Seen (ha) here are my thoughts on the new X-Men prequel (which of course many of you have already seen. Always up to date, thats me). X-...

16 jun 11

The Last 2 Movies Ive Seen: No. 1: Last Night

I seem to be on a roll of seeing movies in the actual cinema of late. Im mildly impressed with myself and have decided to review whatever I see in an attempt to make myself see more movies. Im bullyi...

16 jun 11

A Neon Tinged Feast At Body & Soul

Attending last years Body and Soul festival was one of the best things about last summer for me and Im suitably raging I cant attend this weekends festivities. Its an eclectic, chilled out exper...

16 jun 11

Spin That Record - Top Tunes Circa May/June 2011

A simple one this, a list of the tunes, remixes and such Im digging at the moment. This isnt necessarily the coolest tunes, the newest ones, its just whatever has lodged in my head, gotten repeat pla...

09 jun 11

Forbidden Fruit Festival: My Wholly Unprofessional "Review"

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09 jun 11

Being "Enthralled&# 34; by The Dirty Epics. Ahem.

Ive been doing bits and pieces for RTEs Red Radar music blog over the last few months and you can catch a piece I wrote about the new single from The Dirty Epics here. There is an also sidebar about ...

09 jun 11

How I Made Lily Allen Laugh. Kind Of.

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08 jun 11

Lady Gaga - Born This Way : A Review

Whether you did you own personal review 5 minutes after it leaked or would rather slice off all your extremeties than hear 5 seconds of it theres little ignoring the titanic hype, media push and sale...

01 jun 11

Music Video Run Down: Your Guide to Gaga, Rihanna, JLo.. and Nicole!

It’s been a big week or so for the hallowed music video. Why?  Because Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna and er…. Nicole Scherzinger all unveiled new videos. Oh my, how exciting!To celebrate su...

12 may 11

The Return of J-Lo: Why Jennifer Lopezs next single will continue her success

Proof positive that you cant keep a popstar-moviestar-fragrance seller-TV judge-former Fly girl-Latina Diva-serial dater down, Miss Jennifer Lopez is back.After a series of misfires with a long term ...

07 apr 11

Britney Brings The Heat on Femme Fatale: A Review

Well to say I was excited about this an album would be a huge huge huge huge understatement. Despite many a flaw, from not singing live to questionable interest in her own music Im constantly drawn i...

25 mar 11

Kylie Brings Les Folies to Dublin: A Review

Kylie Minogue rolled her sutiably lavish tour into Dublin this week and I was lucky enough to head along to the first night in The 02. Aphrodite Les Folies is the latest in a long glitter-y line of b...

24 mar 11

Britney & Born This Way: 1 Month on Planet Pop

Holy crap. You wait a month (as in dont blog for a month) to blog about a huge pop tune and then two come along at once. This isnt an attempt to pit Britneys "Hold It Against Me" against Lady...

14 feb 11

Yasmin Kicks 2011 Pop Off In Style

There are lists and lists and lists of lists and LISTS of acts that are hotly tipped to do big things this year. Whatever your flavour there is sure to be an act that covers it. Or at least sounds li...

06 jan 11

Happy New Year!

Well, well. Here we are. I had grand plans for my TOP 40 SONGS OF 2010 and my BEST MOMENTS OF 2010 posts but lets just say between the Christmas pudding and the TV boxsets my Christmas has made me a ...

31 dec 10

Chart Attack: Matt Cardle Trounces Rubberbandits for Xmas No. 1

The X Factor has taken the top of the Christmas charts ever year since it kicked off seven (thats right SEVEN) years ago. Last years much ballyhooed Rage Against The Machine Vs Joe McElderry battle m...

24 dec 10

Following Fade Street

This year saw a TV event for the ages. Finally Ireland got its own version of The Hills. Fade Street arrived ahead of huge press attention in November and soon became one of the most talked about Iri...

24 dec 10

Supporting Shakira: A Truly Surreal Story

So a few weeks on Twitter I joking asked if the legions of hip music types looking for Arcade Fire could get me one for Shakira. I was painfully excited about her incoming Dublin gig (her first time ...

24 dec 10

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