YOU have to hope that Westlife will be buying all their
Christmas presents at Tesco. It would be the right thing for the
band to do, to thank the supermarket chain for all it's done for
them, especially in the last couple of weeks.
THE NME's self-styled annual "Cool List" is usually a tragic
affair - inevitably featuring Pete Doherty and a bunch of other
predictably raggedy indie stars distinguished only by their
similarity to each other. The Cool List is "an attempt to define
the musical zeitgeist," says the magazine. Which doesn't do much to
explain why the top two on the list are virtual unknowns.