Arts & Entertainment

You liked one song, and eight other shit reasons you used to buy CDs

BACK in the day, CDs were a serious financial investment which required careful consideration. Here are the moronic reasons you used to buy them.

'My bassoon Grade 5 has served me well in life,' muses middle-class man

A MIDDLE-CLASS man forced to learn the bassoon as a child has reflected on how useful that skill has been to him in adulthood.

Classic band fallings out that were better than the music

ROGER Waters and Dave Gilmour aren’t the first musicians to be embroiled in a bitter feud. Here are some of the classic bust-ups from music history. 

Five things that used to happen during the climactic episode of a TV drama before you could pause it

BEFORE the dawn of modern TV, broadcasts could not be paused. And these were the things that inevitably ruined them.

Six half-decent bands shite towns won't shut up about

MANY places in the UK are cultural dead zones, so when a band comes along with three okay songs everyone goes mental. Here are six legends in their own postcodes.

Seven film trilogies that can be summed up in a text

SOME films think they merit a whole trilogy, often with instalments lasting three f**king hours. But why waste your time watching them when most can be summed up in a text?

A saxophone solo, and other things that instantly ruin a perfectly good song

ENJOYING listening to a good tune? Here's an element that's about to assault your eardrums and put you right off it.

Five films so long, serious or foreign your partner might give up and shag you

CHASING a shag? There’s no better way than boring your partner into desperate measures with a three-hour subtitled movie about weighty matters, like these.

Woman thinks she isn't watching Love Island

A WOMAN who has made a point of not being sucked into watching Love Island strangely seems to know every detail of what is going on. 

Elbow, and other band names that sound shitter the more you think about them

‘THE Beatles’ is a band name so embedded in popular culture no one ever mentions what a f**king awful pun it is. Here are some more terrible names we’ve all ignored.