I want to perch myself halfway up a metal staircase with the Polydor girls and talk about meerkats Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working class scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill’s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbot. Bit of advice: call him Rupert, it fits, and besides it’s a good name. (The Light At The End of the Tunnel (Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train))Ī woman who described herself as “A little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex And The City” and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Where the cocaine is fair trade, and frequently displayed She said it was the place she needs to be She stayed with me until she moved to Notting Hill Miserable to who? I quite like a bit of drizzle, so stick to the facts! Opinionated weather forecasters who tell me it’s going to be a “miserable day” Granted, bull’s a double and an out – but I know that they don’t know Worse than this, though, is when cheers are raised for the bull No-one’s scoring, and there’s too much chat between each throw Not long now before lollipop men are called Darrenĭarts in soap operas: oh so wrong, oh so wrong Actually, don’t.Įven men with steel hearts love to see a dog on the pitchĭo you switch the kitchen light off with your chin? And if you’ve never listened to HMHB, in the Spotify age there’s really no excuse not to start. If you want to browse more Blackwell excellence, there’s now – finally – a pretty much complete archive online, courtesy of this excellent site (a far cry from the days when searching for “…Dukla Prague Away Kit” lyrics would give you reference to something called “Sub-U-Dome”). Grouped into three loose categories, with ten in each, I’m sure I could come up with thirty different ones on another day, but here are the first batch to occur to me here and now. “Jar of Hearts” has also been certified Platinum or better in eight countries, including going quintuple-Platinum in the United States.In honour of the band’s recently-announced summer gig in London (their first visit for almost three years), and the fact that I’d eerily been listening to a bunch of tracks with a view to putting a blog post like this together before said gig was announced, have a list of thirty reasons why Half Man Half Biscuit songwriter Nigel Blackwell is, to my mind, this country’s greatest living poet and satirist. And by and large, it charted in over a dozen nations and most cases breaking the top 5 of their music charts. “Jar of Hearts” proved to be a good set off to Christina’s career, peaking at number 17 on America’s prestigious Hot 100 and number 4 in Britain. The music video to this song was helmed by Jay Martin, who also directed the hit visual for Christian Perri’s track “ A Thousand Years”. This is the lead single from Perri’s maiden EP, “The Ocean Way Sessions”, as well as her debut album, “Lovestrong”.Ĭhristina wrote “Jar of Hearts” along with Drew Lawrence and one of the track’s co-producers, Barrett Yeretsian. And the other co-producer of the track is David Hodges. The song actually debuted on an episode of the reality TV competition “So You Think You Can Dance” dated 30 June 2010. This helped make the track popular even before it was released, and as such its issuance was expedited onto iTunes. And it was this song in particular which led to her signing a deal with Atlantic Records. This track was originally released on July 27th, 2010. It has been noted that initially Christina Perri put it out as an independent artist. However, it has since then been handled by Atlantic Records.
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