Author Archives: Fraser McAlpine

Fraser McAlpine

Fraser has been writing and broadcasting about music and popular culture for over 13 years, first at the Top of the Pops website, and most recently for the NME. He also wrote BBC Radio 1′s Chart Blog and reviews albums for BBC Music.

He is Anglophenia’s current resident Brit, blogging about British slang and running around the Mall taking snaps of the crowd at the Royal Wedding, as well as reigniting a childhood passion for classic Doctor Who and cramming as much music in as he can manage.

Fraser invites you to join him on Twitter: @csi_popmusic

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‘Doctor
Who’
Rogues Gallery:
The Haemovores

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Friday,
May 18th, 2012

All Stories

Adele Scoops
‘Songwriter
of the
Year’
Award, Thanks
To Me

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Friday,
May 18th, 2012

Adele goes to collect her Ivor Novello award

Forgive a moment of hubris here, but it seems I’m directly responsible for creating the best-selling British album of recent times, and as such, given that there are no trophies for the kind of thing I do, I have decided to step ...

R.I.P. Donna
Summer: Her
Biggest British
Hits

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Thursday,
May 17th, 2012

The Brit List:
Five Great XTC
Songs Every
Household
Should Own

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Thursday,
May 17th, 2012

XTC (Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding to the left)

Watch The
Trailer for
‘Elementary’:
2012′s
THIRD Sherlock
Holmes
Franchise

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Thursday,
May 17th, 2012

Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Millar as Holmes and Watson in Elementary

This was always going to be a tough sell to Anglophenians. No matter how talented an actor Jonny Lee Miller is, no matter how good the scripts are, the idea of CBS creating a TV series based on the character of Sherlock Holmes, at a ...

Happy 50th
Birthday Craig
Ferguson: His
Top 5
‘Doctor
Who’
Moments

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Thursday,
May 17th, 2012

Iconic British
Things: The
Black Cab

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Wednesday,
May 16th, 2012

Ah there she is! The latest incarnation of a vehicle whose roots go back (in name if not in technology) nearly 400 years.

Watch: Orlando
Bloom Goes Dark
In ‘The
Good
Doctor’

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Wednesday,
May 16th, 2012

Life Outside
The TARDIS:
Peter Davison

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Wednesday,
May 16th, 2012

WATCH: Florence
and the
Machine’s
New ‘Snow
White’
Song

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Tuesday,
May 15th, 2012

Just a little treat for your Tuesday afternoon. Here’s “Breath of Life,” Florence and the Machine’s new song from the soundtrack to the movie Snow White and the Huntsman, starring Charlize Theron and Kristen ...