Bitter Fingers
A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category
Are you the sort of person that likes music? Specifically, the sort of music nominated for the 2011 Mercury Music Prize?
If you are that sort of person then you’re in the right place, as for the 16th and therefore most recent edition of Bitter Fingers Radio I done a show in which I play tracks [...]
Announcing them in a couple of weeks, in fact:
The Barclaycard Mercury Prize ‘2011 Albums of the Year’ will be revealed at 11.30am on Tuesday 19 July 2011. The announcement will be made by presenter and broadcaster Lauren Laverne and will be hosted by The Hospital Club in Covent Garden.
I’ve been to the Hospital Club. It’s [...]
Some spurious BRIT Awards 2011 predictions
In: Awards| Live Music| New Music
14 Jan 2011Every year, those lovable scamps in the British Phonographic Industry put their heads together pick out some musicians that they think have made very good music in the previous year. That in a nutshell is what the 2011 BRIT Awards are all about. Don’t listen to anyone who says it’s more complex than that.
Because I [...]
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Welcome to Bitter Fingers - a blog about popular song. Written by the hand of Mark Higgins, it serves up the very finest in new music, radio shows, spurious comment and #1 jams.
- Peter: My favourite is M.A.G.I.C. by The Sound of Arrow. Makes feel like a child again. http://www.youtube. [...]
- Grace: What about Nick Drake?? [...]
- Gareth: In fact there's so much magic involved I got the title a bit wrong. [...]
- Gareth: It's a Kind of Magic is the best song about magic. [...]
- The Internet Garbage: I like this! It's really good - definitely a "Saturday morning jam" as you say. And the video is fun [...]
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- The top five songs by Wham!
- Azealia Banks – 212
- Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 18: Quite Good Songs Of The Year
- I CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO SELENA GOMEZ
- The top five music videos where they’re driving a car, for some reason
- I rather like We Show Up On Radar and here’s a song of his
- I’ve mentioned that I quite like The Sound Of Arrows before right
- Fred Falke – Aurora
- Jessica 6 – Prisoner Of Love
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