Tag Archives: Plan B

It’s Official: These Are the Best British Songs of the Last Year

By | Posted on April 17th, 2013
Bat For Lashes

It’s always nice when the nominations for the Ivor Novello Awards come in, because they’re one of the few music awards ceremonies that explicitly separate the celebration of music for being good from the celebration of music ...

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British TV Cop Show Reboot ‘The Sweeney’ to Open March 1

By | Posted on January 18th, 2013
The Sweeney-poster-featured

The poster for the new movie reboot of one of the most popular of British TV shows of the 1970s has just been released in the U.S.

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The Brit List: The Greatest British Viral Videos Of 2012

By | Posted on December 13th, 2012
Boris Johnson up a zip wire, today

Note: As with all of our ‘greatest’ lists, the greatness of these videos is not open to debate. They are great on a scale that has yet to be accurately measured by science, even if some of them are a little NSFW.

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The Brit List: 10 Greatest British Songs of 2012

By and | Posted on December 12th, 2012
Pet Shop Boys

Note: this is not a subjective list made by two members of the Anglophenia writing team. This is a statement of scientific fact.

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Mercury Prize Nominee Plans to Take A Break

By | Posted on September 13th, 2012
Plan B performs at the iTunes Festival at the Roundhouse in London. (Photo via AP)

Plan A was to make a film, record an album, and get his name out there. Now that that plan has been implemented, Plan B, the rapper, is now making a “Plan B” in light of his success.

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WATCH: All of the 2012 Mercury Music Prize Nominees in One Place

By | Posted on September 12th, 2012
The Maccabees pose for a snap at the 2012 Mercury Prize launch party. (AP)

Mercury Music Prize, now the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, has released the shortlist of nominations. Take a listen to a single from each of the nominated albums. The winnner will be announced on November 1.

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Film Trailer Friday: New ‘Spider Man’ and ‘Ill Manors’ Trailers

By | Posted on May 4th, 2012

This probably isn’t going to become a thing, but there are two new film trailers doing the rounds which star notable British actors, one very expensive and inescapable, and one cheap and worthy.

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WATCH: Ray Winstone and Plan B In ‘The Sweeney’ Trailer

By | Posted on April 10th, 2012

A week or so ago, we looked at British TV theme tunes, and in particular stopped to give extravagent praise to The Sweeney, the hard-boiled ’70s cop show where the police played by the same rules as the criminals and no one was ...

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Plan B: “The Media Demonise The Youth”

By | Posted on March 19th, 2012

Anyone who has come to the music of Plan B via his fantastically successful album “The Defamation of Strickland Banks” might find his new single “Ill Manors” to be something of a shock.

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News Roundup: Man Finishes The Biggest British Fry-Up Ever

By | Posted on September 15th, 2011

I’m not sure if this constitutes news to a society that has already given the world that bacon, peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich Elvis used to eat, but if you’re a fan of the great British fry-up, and you always ...

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