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News round-up: November 2005

Madonna’s love of lycra puts women half her age to shame, and one of Britain’s favourite bands of the 1990s annouce they’re back together. No, not Bis…
Forty-seven-year-old Madonna, who Sharon Osbourne describes this month as dressing like a “hooker” and a “fucking dyke”, opens the MTV Music Awards by descending from the ceiling in a giant […]

Boy bands will be boy bands

By ROB JONES
There are at least four people pleased about the impending reunion of ’90s boyband Take That. Robbie Williams can probably take or leave it, but Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and the other two must be rubbing their hands in glee at their unexpected Christmas bonus.
It was a little more than ten years […]

Ray LaMontagne, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, 15 November 2005

Ray LaMontagne is not one for small talk, but, my word, he has a singing voice that most artists would carve off their own legs for.
Trouble, 2004’s country-tinged debut album from the shy American singer, hasn’t yet picked up the sales it deserves, although it hasn’t failed to touch those lucky few who have […]