UK Top40 Sun 19 Sep 10
Congrats to the Manics who have done something Stereophonics have been unable to do for some time ... crack the Top 40... their new single '(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love' kicks in at 28.

Irish band The Script storm ahead of Linkin Park in the battle to clinch top spot on the Album Chart with 'Science & Faith' without any adverse effect on their single 'For The First Time' which climbs from 5 to 4.

Meanwhile Linkin Park's new album 'A Thousand Suns' settles at two while their single 'The Catylist' slips from the Top 40 after one week.

The first South African act to make the chart in.... Die Antwoord's 'Enter The Ninja' is in at 37.

'Teenage Dream' Katy Perry keeps top spot on America's Hot 100.

7 new entries & 1 re-entry – 13 up, 13 down, 6 non-movers Top Ten… USA 5... UK 4 … France 1... Irish Republic 1

This Week ... Last Wk ... Wks In ... Artist ... Title ... Origin

1 1 2 ALEXANDRA BURKE Start Without You UK

2 3 4 TAIO CRUZ Dynomite UK

3 2 3 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream USA

4 5 2 THE SCRIPT For The First Time Irish Republic

5 4 3 OLLY MURS Please Don't Let Me Go UK

6 7 13 EMINEM & RIHANNA Love The Way You Lie USA

7 14 9 USHER & PITBULL DJ Got Us Falling In Love USA

8 8 4 KATY B Katy On A Mission UK

9 9 8 FLO RIDA & DAVID GUETTA Club Can't Handle Me France & USA

10 new SHONTELLE Impossible USA

11 11 11 YOLANDA B COOL We Speak No Americano Australia

12 12 4 BRANDON FLOWERS Crossfire USA

13 6 2 McFLY Party Girl UK

14 24 8 THE WANTED All Time Low UK

15 18 15 4 KE$HA Take It Off xx USA

16 13 5 ROLL DEEP Green Light UK

17 16 8 TRAVIE McCOY & B.o.B. Billionaire USA

18 15 2 ALESHA Drummer Boy UK

19 19 8 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA & PHARREL One (Your Name) USA

20 34 12 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & PITBULL I Like It USA

21 23 7 NE-YO Beautiful Monster USA

22 20 11 ELIZA DOOLITTLE Pack Up UK

23 22 16 B.o.B. & HAYLEY WILLIAMS Airplanes USA

24 26 6 THE SATURDAYS Missing You UK

25 27 4 STROMAE Alors On Dance Belgium / Rwanda

26 30 7 DJ FRESH Gold Dust UK

27 new EXAMPLE Last Ones Standing UK

28 new MANIC STREET PREACHERS It's Not War (Just The End Of Love) UK

29 25 13 KATY PERRY & SNOOP DOGG California Girls USA

30 new MAROON 5 Misery USA

31 10 2 EMMA'S IMAGINATION This Day UK

32 17 2 GREG STREET & SOULJA BOY TELLEM Turn My Swag On USA

33 35 14 EXAMPLE Kickstarts UK

34 39 2 THE XX Islands UK

35 re-entry 1 THE SCRIPT The Man Who Can't Be Moved Irish Republic

36 new 1 MISSING ANDY Sing For The Deaf UK

37 new 1 DIE ANTWOORD Enter The Ninja South Africa

38 28 4 HURTS Wonderful Life UK

39 32 8 MAGNETIC MAN & ANGELA HUNTE I Need Air UK

40 new 1 IYAZ So Big USA

America's Hot 100

This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title

1 1 8 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream

2 2 12 EMINEM & RIHANNA Love The Way You Lie

3 4 8 BRUNO MARS Just The Way You Are

4 3 15 TAIO CRUZ Dynamite

5 5 18 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & PITBULL I Like It

6 6 9 USHER & PITBULL DJ's Got Us Falling In Love

7 9 4 NELLY Just A Dream

8 8 9 KE£HA Take It Off

9 13 11 FLO RIDA & DAVID GUETTA Club Can't Handle Me

10 7 6 TAYLOR SWIFT Mine

MoylesBreakdown
Posted Wed 22nd Sep 2010 - Source - BBC.co.uk
Radio One's £650,000 a year (near six times the sum paid Steve Wright when he did the same job) breakfast show DJ Chris Moyles seems to have had an on-air breakdown which probably reveals the intensifying rivalry between himself and Chris Evans. Reading between the lines of the story below.... does this mean he's on the way out??? As Richard Park may have put it "it's a strange way to hand in your resignation". We'll have to wait and see what the repurcussions of a serious lapse of judgement will be... here's the story from the BEEB's website...
Radio One breakfast show DJ Chris Moyles launched an on-air tirade against the BBC on Wednesday, claiming he had not been paid for two months.
"I'm very, very angry for being put into this position," he said. "I haven't been paid since the end of July and no-one cares about it."
Moyles said he had considered skipping work, adding: "If they can't be bothered, why should I bother?"
The 36-year-old signed a new contract with the BBC in July.
At the time, he talked about his delight at the new deal, writing on Twitter: "I might treat myself to a few drinks tonight as it's warm and the contract at work is now done. 12 more months of early starts!"
In contrast, the host spent the early part of Wednesday morning's broadcast complaining about his pay.
He went on to appeal to the BBC's director general, Mark Thompson, to sort the situation out.
"What is it worth for me to carry on 'til, let's say, seven? A tenner?" he asked.
"Can you imagine if Terry Wogan had not been paid for two months, do you think that would ever happen? It just wouldn't, would it?
"Do you ever think anyone would forget to pay Chris Evans for two months and nobody would panic about it?"
By 7am, the DJ had yet to play a record, and listeners were texting in to voice their opinions.
One said: "Stop moaning, you get paid a fortune compared to most people," provoking further ire from the presenter.

Feeder World Tour
Posted Tue 21st Sep 2010
Feeder have just returned from Japan and have announced they will be headlining the Synergy Live Festival in South Africa as follows:
Saturday 27th November in Cape Town at the Boschendal Wine Estate
Sunday 28th November in Johannesburg at the Emmarentia Dam
This will be their first visit since 'Seven Days in the Sun' reached number one in that great country and they played to 30,000 at Centurion Park in Jo'Burg in November 2001.
Feeder will also headline the Kerrang Christmas Party at Birmingham o2 Academy on the 9th of December with support from The Futureheads. It's also been confirmed that Feeder will be part of the Soundwave Festival 2011 in Australia
Saturday 26th February in Brisbane
Sunday 27th February in Sydney
Friday 4th March in Melbourne
Friday 5th March in Adelaide
Friday 6th March in Perth

Fat Cat Socialism
Posted Mon 20th Sep 2010 - BBC.co.uk
When Yo Blair became Prime Minister in May 1997 one of the tasks he had given himself and for which he gained voter approval over John Major's Tories was to deal with the then excessive level of so called 'Fat Cat' public sector pay. At the time many like myself thought this meant bringing these excessive wages under control by reducing them... however... it seems what he really meant to do was double them... more than double them... think of any figure and double it.....
Thanks to new figures researched by the BBC under freedom of information requests we're beginning to get some idea how public money, our tax money has been squandered...
Here's some excerpts from the BBC report

More than 9,000 public sector employees are earning a higher wage than the prime minister, who has previously questioned pay levels in top jobs. New research conducted for BBC Panorama found that there were more than 38,000 public employees earning above £100,000 and 1,000 people on more than £200,000. David Cameron took a 5% pay cut when he took office and earns £142,500.
In light of the new research, Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office Minister, called for a return to a more "old-fashioned" public service ethos. Mr Maude said he questioned the sweeping pay rises in the wider public sector under the former Labour government and the idea that they were necessary to attract qualified people. "You're sort of blithely told you cannot fill the job unless you paid this amount and actually I think often that's too easy, it's a lazy view and actually getting the right people is much more about exciting them with the sense that it's a challenge, that they will find it rewarding."
38,045 earn over £100K
1,000 earn over £200K
9,187 earn more than PM
10 GPs earn over £300K
1 GP in Hillingdon PCT earns £475K
17 teachers earn more than PM
331 BBC managers earn more than £100K
362 local council employees earn more than PM