I love a music quiz and The Hit List provides a lively boost of music and energy on a Saturday night. The scheduling of this show confuses me but every now and then a celebrity special pops up, and this past weekend was exactly that. Harry from McFly, some people from morning TV and yay, two Gladiators. Now, there were plenty of questions raised by this appearance - why those …

The Backstreet Boys popped up on Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary concert and boy were they well received! Who would have thought that Paul Rudd and Jon Hamm would be bopping along to these boys as if their lives depended on it! Plus Maya Rudolph always in flirt mode, it's wonderful. What I love most about this is actually the YouTube comments, not traditionally a place known for positivity, are …

The 90s repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC Four have had a bit of a break recently (Proms and the Olympics will do that to your channels) but came back with a bang with this amazing episode. It kicked off with the Backstreet Boys which was such a surprise to me that I almost choked on my drink, and aside from the next song, continued to astound and …

My seventh year of listening to albums has drawn to a close and it's that agonising time where I need to decide on a top five. Each year I listen to 100 albums, one new and one old each week for fifty weeks, and they each get two listens to make sure I really get a feel for the sound. Then, at the end of the year, I pull together …

Somehow another year of music has flown by, I've banked another 100 albums, both new and old, and now I have to decide which were the cream of the crop and which weren't worth the download speeds. Each week, for fifty weeks, I've listened to one new album (usually from this year, or 2020 at a push), and one older album (any time before that), and have listened to each …

Hooray for the dreaded time of year where I pick out the top five albums I've listened to over the past twelve months. Each week for 50 weeks, I listen to two albums. One is a new one (this year or the previous year) and one is an older one (from any time previous to that). So I can't promise to have listened to every album that was released last …

It's that time again! A whole year of music listening gets distilled down to a choice of five top albums and seeing if any of them can break into my top ten of all time. I don't usually enjoy this process and this year hasn't been any different, although if I'm honest, the choice was slightly less inspiring than usual. It felt like the year was very top heavy in …

My write up of our outing to see the Spice Girls at Wembley mentions the fact that I had previously not been a concert-going person. I had practically no experience of seeing music live and in person, but that was all set to change that year. My realisation that I could now probably cope with it all coincided nicely with the Backstreet Boys going on their huge DNA World Tour. …

Backstreet Boys have been celebrating the launch of their new tour, 20 years of their best album Millennium, and a host of other things. Lots of content, tweets, videos, competitions, the works. I really liked the recent videos they released featuring their videos from the Millennium album with added information. It's like the good old days when MTV was actually comprised of music videos, and you could sit all day …

It's always a lot of fun when artists cover other artists, and that is never more true than when it's a Backstreet Boys tune on display. The superbly fun Florida Georgia Line took on that challenge with an impromptu cover of 'Everybody' and they did it pretty well, I think! If anyone else leaves BSB, there could be a spot open for one of these two. Although, I have to …

When I first starting putting together my Life List, I pondered adding "See a Backstreet Boys concert" to it. I added it, then I took it off again, then added it, then removed it, and repeated the process a few more times. In the end, I left it off. I wasn't totally convinced I wanted to see the band with just four members anyway, and besides, going to gigs isn't …

I was looking through some of the archives of my blog (don't you do that, I'm still in the midst of sorting it all out!), and discovered that I didn't actually write about mine and Mr C's wedding here on my personal blog. There are pictures and suchlike on Sidepodcast, and we even answered some questions in one of the episodes, but over here, it was all quiet. There are …

Eight Songs The song choices are by far the hardest part. My mother left her choices on the previous post, and told me that it took her the best part of an hour to narrow it down to eight. I'm not sure how long I've spent thinking about this as I chose them over a period of several days, by writing one, then going away to ponder and picking it …

The end of Friends - I'm stocked up with Doritos and tissues, just in case. I was driving home and it's been a mega stressful day, there was nothing on the radio so I was flicking through all the stations. I have pre-programmed all of the available slots in my car, despite the fact that I never listen to them. So, I picked a completely random station and lo and …