THE GASJET has an article entitled ‘Youth crime costs Blackpool £1m a year’ which explains that the cost to prosecute youths that commit crimes in Blackpool has topped £1m. You’d think, therefore, that the article was about the high cost of putting these kids through the courts. But it isn’t. After the second paragraph, the [...more]
I WAS genuinely surprised to see X Factor blatently using Autotune on certain contestants to make them sound better on TV. They’ll say they aren’t targetting their ‘favourites’ but we have every right to be suspicious now don’t we! After all, anyone can sing with Autotune, and when it is so evident as it was [...more]
You may have heard about this, but another Blackpool publicity website has been unveiled. It’s called Blackpool the Movie and is supposed to give people an X-Factor style experience of Blackpool. Apparently they are using the voice of the X Factor, Peter Dickson, to give it that extra polish. To be honest it looks more [...more]
October-December Local employer British Aerospace faced being charged with bribery after paying out millions of pounds to win contracts in foreign countries. Tears were flowing from staff as Pontins closed its doors: it’s fate unknown but a housing development is expected. But fear not! A mind-boggling proposal to build a ski dome on central car [...more]
After Simon Cowell went against everything he had said about them over the last few weeks and voted to keep Jedward on X-Factor ahead of professional singing sweetheart Lucie Jones last night, has the show now descended into a bit of a charade? The Irish duo, labelled “horrific” by the Sony BMG A&R supremo in [...more]
This weekend we saw Blackpool warbler Stacey McClean ejected from the X Factor, declaring, “I’m heartbroken” before boarding the plane back to Lancashire. The strangely coloured singer, 20, blurted out a Britney Spears number before the final insult of being told you’re not very good by musical failure Dannii Minogue. But still, the Gasjet is [...more]
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