Arts & Entertainment

10 terrible music acts designed to screw money out of parents

MUSIC producers quickly realised children and pre-teens were a lucrative market thanks to people known as ‘parents’. Here are some of the crap acts that were the result.

Six ultra-horny songs to turn off your partner this Valentine's Day

LOOKING to turn tonight’s cosy Valentine’s evening at home into frenzied, depraved rutting with a curated selection of sex jams? Best avoid these.

Woman hoping she can still catch a bit of QI after sex

A WOMAN mid-intercourse with her partner is wondering if it will be over in time for her to catch the last 20 minutes of QI. 

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.