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Another Barclaycard Mercury Prize list was announced this week - and the nominees are certainly going to make it a sterling night as far as Playlist is concerned.
Kasabian, La Roux, Florence And The Machine, Friendly Fires, Glasvegas and Bat For Lashes are all acts I've been writing about for yonks.
Predicting a winner is a tough call,
Kasabian, who I've supp...

Here's the full version of a story which only appeared briefly in our print edition on Sunday.  I reckon it's worth posting here:
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So there I was at the Ashes last week, watching the Australians paste our bowlers all over Cardiff.
Ad who should be sat just yards away, but Michael Vaughan?
Keen to put my lifelong career of bar-room cricketing knowledge to the test, I button-holed the recently retired middle-order stylist.
“Michael, Michael,” I grilled him, “Shouldn’t we be going round the wic...

When it was announced that Michael Jackson would be practically living at the 02 Arena this summer Playlist towers expected our summer to be over. No longer would the festivals be priority but following the King of Pop's every move, on and off stage, instead so it's very strange to think that tomorrow July 13 would have been the opening night of his highly anticipated This Is It tour.

I still can't believe he's dead. 
 Like Elvis and Princess Diana bef...

Good day to be a Supreme
Leader of Iran.

See, we used to care
what he was up to, silencing dissenters and rigging an election.