Punk-edged country about Judy Garland? How could Loverboy’s Fallon Gold not fall in love with Frog? Loverboy first encountered Frog – a two-person band from Queens, NY – when we heard their joyous track ‘Judy Garland’. Of course we wanted to know ‘why Judy?’ and their knowledge and enthusiasm for Jude’s place in the American […]

It’s difficult to write about Freeheld without giving away any spoilers. You may already know the real life story of New Jersey police officer Laurel Hester and her partner Stacie Andree, you might have caught the 2007 documentary about them by Cynthia Wade. Or you may know something about this much anticipated film because it […]

IKON: This week Fallon Gold writes about her love for Doris Day and reveals that for America’s Miss Apple Pie life wasn’t always so sweet Say the name Doris Day and for most of us it will bring to mind a massive toothy smile, ultrablonde bubble-bobbed hair and the most glowing, happy girl-next-door Hollywood ever saw. […]

Inspired by yesterday’s news that Bette will be playing Dolly Levi in a new production of Hello Dolly! on Broadway, today we’ve fallen into a deep Bette Midler black hole. We’ve been ‘winning’ concert posters from eBay, downloading albums from iTunes & discovering THIS on YouTube – the ill-fated Bette sitcom from 2000. Like Cybil, […]

Pray for Dolly everyone. Today she turns sixty-nine which has not been a popular age in the last week or so. But Dolly’s been through enough, we have faith. Anyway we thought we’d pull up our five favourite Dolly tracks. Obviously we won’t include ‘I Will Always Love You’ because that would be kind of […]

IKON: This week Fallon Gold writes about her love for Jacqueline Susann and her novels including Valley of the Dolls. Growing up, there were a handful of books belonging to my mum that I would hide under my pillow and secretly read with a torch under the covers. They were all popular ­ often notorious ­novels […]

How did you spend your Tuesday afternoon? We introduced Music Is My King Size Bed to this ICONIC performance and it felt as good as the first time we experienced it. #NeverForget

Like everyone else we’re reeling in shock over the passing of David Bowie this morning. There seemed to be so much stuff going on with him right now. He turned sixty-nine on Friday. His twenty fifth album, Blackstar, was released on the same day and was already looking set to knock Adele’s 25, from the […]

It’s Saturday night, so obviously we are tucked up in bed listening to this amazing podcast from The Hollywood Reporter – A Conversation between Lady Gaga and one of our favourite songwriters of all time, the icon that is Diane Warren. (ICYMI She wrote Celine’s ‘Because You Loved Me’, ‘Leanne’s ‘How Do I Live’, Toni’s ‘Unbreak My […]