Stumbled across this during a late night YouTube music trawl and love, love, love it. I'm not sure what it's for or why it's happening but I'll take more collaborations like this please!

Apple Music has been doing annual reviews for a while now, looking at the songs you've listened to in the year and highlighting your most listened to albums and artists for a good summary of twelve months of music. I'm always disappointed in my Music reviews though, because I don't listen to enough variety or repetition (outside of musicals) to make it worthwhile. A lot of my listening happens via …

I've been very intrigued by the news that came out recently of Iga Swiatek's one-month tennis ban for failing anti-doping tests, the way this has been handled versus others. As a long-time Simona Halep fan it was frustrating to see her sitting in the sidelines for multiple years whilst the case was investigated, and it's not been a barrel of laughs since she returned to the courts - what with …

Whilst Strictly Come Dancing is drawing towards its conclusion for 2024, the latest series of Dancing With the Stars in the US has crowned its champion. For the last couple of years, after the big move to Disney, we've been able to watch all the dances regularly each week on YouTube, and all I can say is I agree with the people that think the result wasn't the right one. …

This show got off to an incredible start for me, because we have only just watched Little Shop of Horrors and lo and behold, they open the main show with a fantastic group dance based on that very musical. Best timing ever. Follow that up with the appearance of Miranda, who promised to be in the audience in November and just managed to squeeze it in before December hits. Well, …

Just in time for Musicals week on Strictly, I managed to squeeze in an actual musical viewing. Here & Now - The Steps Musical made its debut in Birmingham, and I rocked up to take in one of the shows. It was brilliant! I love Steps, their kind of wonderful guilty pleasure of music that you know isn't exactly great art but is one heck of a crowdpleaser. That sums …

More facts dropped by Claudia at the top of the show - every couple left in the competition has scored at least one 10. But at this point we hadn't seen a 40, despite the sheer quality across the board. No gimmicks this week, just seven couples trying to get through to the quarter finals, and musicals week. As they descended to the floor, I realised how empty it is …

We all know that Bake Off viewers have mixed feelings about the show - it's still a comfortable entertaining watch, and the bakes look absolutely delicious, but it just continues to get more and more complicated and drift further from what made it special in the first place. I wrote about this in October 2022, and everything said then still stands. However, one positive change to the show is the …

Oh Blackpool you say? Well why not. Did anyone actually count the number of times it was mentioned during the weekend? Still, the lights looked good, the floor was sprung, and the Pet Shop Boys were there! Seriously, I loved this dance so much, it's some of my favourite group dance work in a while! Anyway, on with the competition! Chris & Dianne - American Smooth The extra dancers were …

Bad Monkey is not a hugely enticing name for a TV show to me, and even now I’m not 100% sure how it ties in to the story. There is a monkey in it, but most of the time it seemed to be a pretty good one. The star of the show is not, as it turns out, the monkey, but actually Vince Vaughn who puts in a really star …

There's no theme this week so the dancers are just doing their own separate things, but with one thing on their mind (apparently) - getting to Blackpool. The B word is so over-used at this point in the competition that you really just want this week over so we can get there and get it done with. But apart from that, another great week of dancing gets underway! Tasha & …

Icons week is finally here after quite the build up. It feels odd going from one theme week directly to another, but actually if you dig into it, this isn't so different to other weeks - a variety of different songs by a variety of different artists. The big news this week was poor Amy, taken ill at the end of last week's show. The legend is on the mend …

I knitted a couple of these fingerless mittens last year and they all disappeared, gobbled up by adoring fans I like to think. So after a couple of recent froggings, I figured it'd be nice to knit up something super quick and easy and one that I could keep for myself this winter. Just like last time, I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to the thumbs, …