• ALEX GARDNER's "I'm Not Mad" debuted in the UK Singles Chart this week at number 44.
  
  As Chart Rigger puts it, "'I'm Not Mad' will go down as another sadly lost gem that was touted in the blogosphere — and one that truly deserved the hype! — but overlooked by the general record-buying/music downloading public".

• Someone went through the trouble of transcribing every single word of the articles that were published on the latest issue of the PET SHOP BOYS fanclub magazine Literally:
  
  -- Brian Higgins interview
  -- The Yes diary
  -- Pet Shop Boys discuss each song on Yes

• MIRANDA COOPER is in the latest issue of Red Magazine talking about new singer/songwriter Emeli Sandé. Miranda says: «She's part of an exciting new generation of producers and writers, and I am always hearing great things about her.» Emeli Sandé wrote Chipmunk's "Diamond Rings" and also appears on Wiley's "Never Be Your Woman".

• New Xenomania protégée BROOKE X has been finishing her debut album, so it won't be long until there's new music out there. Meanwhile, here's the top 3 Brooke X tweets from the past week:
  
  -- "If I like my record anymore I'd marry it, have lots of song babies together and live happily ever after in the rock and roll hall of fame."
  -- "Holy shit, we are KILLING this album! I'm on aural pleasure overload!"
  -- "I've just heard the sound of love, and it's on my goddamn album."

• Through some intensive Twitter investigation, Popjustice discovered that there is a GIRLS ALOUD cover of The Go-Go's' "Our Lips Are Sealed" hidden somewhere in the Xenomania vaults.

• MINI VIVA talk about the pressure of working with/for Xenomania:
  
  «There’s always that little bit of pressure because they’re well known for the Girls Aloud stuff and it’s always in the top ten. We just wanna have the same success if you know what I mean. We just wanna do well for them and we want people to love ‘em [the songs] as much as they love Girls Aloud songs.»

• "Jump Off" by the BANNED OF ST TRINIAN'S has been remixed and re-recorded by Almighty and J.K. The track has been released as a download, CD-R and is now on the compilation Almighty: Definitive Collection: Volume 8. Listen to clips and buy it here.

Labels: Alex Gardner, Brian Higgins, Brooke X, Girls Aloud, Mini Viva, Miranda Cooper, Pet Shop Boys, St Trinians