Blue Christmas: NOW 100 Hits Christmas (2019)
Regular readers of this infrequently updated blog may have been wondering what the hell has been going on of late. Well, the truth is that while I still keep telling myself to kick myself in…
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They Sold Me a Dream of Christmas: NOW – The Christmas Album 2016 Vinyl
The world seems to thrive on revivals these days. Whether it’s dreadful sitcoms, the Gallagher brothers or Nazism, it seems we can’t go a week without something from the past being dredged up, brushed off…
30 Years of NOW – The Christmas Album Part 2 (2000-2015)
By 2005, it had been five years since the last NOW Christmas Album, and it was time for a reboot. But things had changed in the interim. Popstars: The Rivals and lying in wait The X Factor,…
30 Years of NOW – The Christmas Album Part 1 (1985-2000)
The internet never fails to amuse itself by asking “Want to feel old?”, does it? “Here’s what the kid from Cadbury’s Fudge advert looks like now”, “We’re now further away from the release of back…
NOW 20 – Giant Floating Letters in Space
One of the fun things about this blog is the amount of misremembering I’ve been doing; you know that weird feeling you get when you are utterly convinced of something from your past despite all…
Now! That’s What I Call Music II – More, more, more
Almost four months to the day since it had crashed its way through the charts and teenage bedrooms of the UK, NOW! would launch a second onslaught on the nation. And whilst at first glance…