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Corbyn's cult has about six members. Creating a split in such a small group is quite an achievement.

Saturday 20th September Liverpool 3-1 Everton (12:30) Brighton & Hove Albion 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur Burnley 1-2 Nottingham Forest West Ham United 1-0 Crystal Palace Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-3 Leeds United Manchester United 2-2 Chelsea (17:30) Fulham 2-0 Brentford (20:00) Sunday 21st September AFC Bournemouth 2-2 Newcastle United (14:00) Sunderland 1-3 Aston Villa (14:00) Arsenal 2-1 Manchester City (16:30)

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HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast continue their reign of terror at the top of the singles chart as Golden grabs a seventh week at number one. Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast climb one place to number three with Soda Pop. The same combination are at number five with Your Idol. Olivia Dean’s Man I Need is at number two for a fourth successive week. Sabrina Carpenter’s Tears fall to number four. Katseye are based in Los Angeles but their members hail from the Philippines, South Korea and Switzerland as well as the USA. Their single Gabriela entered the top 100 at the beginning of the summer, but it dropped out of the top chart after four weeks. However, it returned after a two-week absence and has now cracked the top forty for the first time at number 39. Kehlani’s Folded has also taken its time to reach the top forty. It entered the top 100 in the same week as Gabriela’s return. This week, its seventh in the full chart, it climbs to number 33 to give her a first top forty hit since 2019. Lola Young’s Messy returns at number 4- after a few weeks out of the broadcast part of the chart. Even Suede’s biggest fans knew that their new album might not prevent Sabrina Carpenter getting a second week at number one, and so it proved last week. However, even Carpenter's biggest fans will have known that she had no chance of getting a third consecutive week. The reason? Ed Sheeran’s new album was released last week. Even though he is well short of his peak popularity, his albums still sell well and pick up a lot of streams. Play is said to be the first of five albums named after symbols on devices such as DVD players (remember them?), following his five albums named after arithmetical symbols. The five arithmetically-themed albums all went to number one, and now the first of his new arithmetical quintology has done the same. Play is his ninth chart-topping album and is also the second album called Play to top the chart after Moby’s mega-seller from a quarter of a century ago. Ed Sheeran’s nine number one albums matches the total accumulated by Bob Dylan. Only eleven solo artists have had more. Camera from the album is a new entry to the singles chart at number sixteen while A Little More re-enters at 32. Sapphire climbs to number 28. Camera is his 67th top forty single. Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend drops to number two after a fortnight at number one. Former Little Mix member Jade (Thirlwall) enters at number three with her debut solo album That’s Showbiz Baby. It has achieved the highest first-week sales for a debut album so far this year and tops the Official Record Store chart which uses sales from independent (non-chain) record shops. Twenty One Pilots get a fifth top ten album with their eighth studio album Breach at number four.. It concludes their quintology of albums which started with Blurryface in 2015. It is this week’s best-selling album on vinyl. Sophi Ellis-Bextor remains one top ten album ahead of Twenty One Pilots as Perimenopop (whatever that is) enters at number five. Selena Gomez and Nile Rogers are among the co-songwriters credited on the album. Careful users of English would avoid the use of the word legendary to describe a band whose existence cannot be doubted. Using the looser definition of the word, it is reasonable to describe Led Zeppelin as a legendary rock band. They released nine studio albums in thirteen years, but there has also been a succession of live albums and other compilations. They have now been joined by a Live EP. The EP is the length of many of today’s full-length albums although it has only four tracks, including the classic Kashmir (but not Stairway To Heaven). It is a new entry at number sixteen.

What a great winner! Good to see that my entry did well given that I just took it from my liked songs on Spotify at the last minute. If this had been launched a few days earlier, I would have entered the Ducks Ltd song that was my BJSC entry

Yes, it is part of a series. The fifth book was published last week.

What, the Farage who has remained loyal to his first wife. Oh,....

It doesn't help that this issue is always reporte4d from the perspective that "Immigration is a problem". The alternative view is rarely presented despite the fact that two GB-wide parties in parliament, the Lib Dems and Greens, are much more positive about refugees and immigration in general.

He advocated stoning gay men. That seems quite violent to me.

Scarily for some of us, Bohemian Rhapsody will turn 50 later this year. To mark the occasion, the second half of the Last Night of the Proms started with a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Brian May and, eventually, Roger Taylor. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - 2025 BBC Proms - 50th Anniversary Premiere Performance

I was also in London this evening. Lots of people draped in flags at Waterloo Station and in the nearby bars. For the first time in my life, I was nervous when I left the (Suede) gig that there would be a lot of seriously tanked-up thugs between the Festival Hall and the station. Fortunately, many of the bars had already closed (even though it was only just past 22:00) which meant there weren't many of them about.

Saturday 13th September Arsenal 2-0 Nottingham Forest (12:30) AFC Bournemouth 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion Crystal Palace 1-1 Sunderland Everton 2-0 Aston Villa Fulham 2-2 Leeds United Newcastle United 3-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers West Ham United 1-3 Tottenham Hotspur (17:30) Brentford 1-2 Chelsea (20:00) Sunday 14th September Burnley 1-3 Liverpool (14:00) Manchester City 2-2 Manchester United (16:30)

Epic fail

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There is still no shifting HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast from the top of the singles chart as Golden stubbornly stays there for a sixth week. The KPop film is also responsible for Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast at number four with Soda Pop. Olivia Dean's Man I Need remains Golden’s closest rival for the top slot, remaining at number two. Sabrina Carpenter is still shedding her Tears at number three. Disco Lines and Tinashe climb back up to number five with No Broke Boys. Without the limit of three songs for an individual artist Sabrina Carpenter’s When Did You Get Hot? would have been in the chart last week. This week, it is one of her three most popular songs, so it is a new entry at number nine. I have enjoyed some of Carpenter’s songs, but this isn’t one of them. Lady Gaga has a new entry at number thirteen with The Dead Dance. It is a third hit of the year for Gaga, and her 33rd top forty hit in a chart career that began in 2009. Calvin Harris enters at number 34 with Ocean, his 46th top forty hit. He is joined by Jessie Reyez whose only previous top forty hit was also alongside Harris, as well as Sam Smith. Sabrina Carpenter gets a second week at the top of the albums chart with Man’s Best Friend. It is the first new album to get a second consecutive week at the top since Eminem’s The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace) in July and August last year. Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department spent two weeks at number one last December, but by then it was seven months old. This bit maintains the tradition of scrupulous impartiality in these notes. There can be no doubt that Suede are the best band ever to have existed in this, or any other, universe. They started to come to public attention when they featured on the front cover of one of the music papers (ask your parents) under the headline “Best New Band In Britain?". This was before they had released anything. I first saw Suede in March 1992, still two months before they released their debut single. That was with the 50-60 other people who had turned up to see them support The Heart-Throbs. Seven months later, touts were charging £30 for tickets with a face value of £5 at another London venue. Tomorrow (Saturday), exactly 33 ½ years after that first Suede gig, I shall be seeing them for the 60-somethingth time at London’s Festival Hall. Their debut album, unimaginatively titled Suede, was released in 1993. It became the fastest-selling debut album since Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Welcome To The Pleasure Dome in 1994 and won the second Mercury Music Prize. Shortly before the release of their second (and best) album Dog Man Star in 1994, guitarist and co-songwriter Bernard Butler left the band. Many people speculated that his departure would lead to the end of the band, but they recruited the then-tennager Richard Oakes and carried on. Suede got a second number one album with Head Music in 1999, but the follow-up, A New Morning (2002), only got to number 24 and they broke up the following year. Those of us who attended the band’s “final” gig in December of that year had to hope that singer Brett Anderson’s promise that there would be another Suede album would be fulfilled. Even when Suede re-formed in 2010, it was officially a one-off to perform a show at the Albert Hall to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. However, that went so well that they announced new shows and, eventually, a new album. Last week, they released their fifth album since re-forming, matching the five they released before the break-up. Antidepressants is meant to be the second of a trilogy of albums, so there should be at least one more to come. In the meantime, Antidepressants becomes Suede’s second number two album, following Autofiction in 2022. The top five is completed by three compilations. Oasis are at number three with Time Flies, Ed Sheeran’s Tour Collection is at number four and Fleetwood Mac’s 50 Years - Don’t Stop is at five. Suede bassist Mat Osman has also published two novels, including the excellent The Ghost Theatre. By a weird coincidence, he started writing his first novel, The Ruins, at about the same time as brother Richard started work on The Thursday Murder Club. That must been that Red Rum Club should meet on Yadsruht. Their fifth album Buck, my second-favourite new album released last week, is at number seven. One of the 90s bands I most regret not having seen live are St Etienne whose members include Bob Stanley, another published author. This week the band get their third top ten album with International at number eight. They last reached the top ten in 1994 when Tiger Bay also reached number eight. Just two months after the surprise release of Swag, Justin Bieber has added 23 tracks to the original 21 and reissued it as Swag II. The album, which enters at number ten, now lasts for a little over two hours. Faithless enjoyed their biggest success from the mid-1990s to the early noughties with fantastic singles such as God Is A DJ, Insomnia and We Come 1. It is now eighteen years since they had a top forty single (although they came close in 2010), but they are still recording hit albums. Their latest, Champion Sound, is at number fifteen. David Byrne came to the attention of the music world as the singer and songwriter for the band Talking Heads, one of the most original bands of the 1980s. The band are no more, but Byrne is now pursuing a solo career. He gets a fifth solo top forty hit with Who Is The Sky? at number 34.