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Aria Experienced: Weekly Singles Round-Up

10:08AM Clem Bastow | Last week some fellow called Flo Rida was making his mother proud at the #1 spot, Axle Whitehead showed the people his knob tunes, and Brian “Potato” McFadden was beginning to bother the pointy end of the singles charts. Who will reign supreme over the children with disposable income this week? Read on to find out in Defamer Australia’s weekly singles charts round-up! More »

Aria Experienced: Weekly Singles Round-Up

9:51AM Clem Bastow | Because we’re nothing if not connected and hip to the modern idiom here at Defamer Australia, from now on each week we plan to bring you the latest moves and shakes from the pointy end of the ARIA Singles Chart, so you can, dunno, talk about it on your lunchbreak, or decide what to spend your hard-earned pocket money on to help up the charts. So here you are, the ARIA Singles Chart’s official Top Fifteen for the week beginning 31st March, 2008! More »

Your Mr Darcy Fantasies? Colin Firth Spits On Them!

3:45PM Clem Bastow | Colin Firth, who went from the thinking woman’s crumpet after his ridiculously Mills & Boon-esque Mr-Darcy-in-the-lake moment in Pride & Prejudice to, well, more or less the same thing in Bridget Jones’ Diary, would like to make it known, lonely single women of the world, that men of the variety that he has made a successful career playing are fictional. Well, obviously the film characters are fictional, but Firth reckons there’s not even an archetype in real life to base them on. “I’ve decided the quintessential Englishman I play doesn’t exist. “I play him but you don’t run into him very often. There aren’t very many Mr. Darcys out there. I think he’s a figment of our folklore or film lore. “My character exists in mythology and he may have existed once but now he only exists in the hands of actors.” So there you have it! Stop dreaming of meeting your very own Mr Darcy, ladies – you may as well commit over-28s-night-induced hara kiri right now, and save yourself the bother! More »

Mr G To Launch Music Career; Hopefully Ja’mie To Follow By Entering ‘Dolly’ Model Contest

12:12PM Clem Bastow | We know more than a few people who actually took to listening to and/or playing Naughty Girl (”Ecstasy! Ecstasy! E, E, E, E, Ecstasy!”), the climactic club number from Mr G’s Summer Heights High magnum opus, back when the series was on the air. One Defamer Australia pal even went so far as to “drop” the track in the middle of an indie rock club’s DJ set. It goes without saying, then, that there will be a lot of very excited people around the country next week, when Mr G releases the track as an official single! The popular creation of satirist Chris Lilley, the drama teacher will break out of his small-screen stardom with the stand-out track from Mr G The Musical. … He plans a full-scale promotional assault to realise his dreams of achieving greater recognition of his talent. “I’m planning to use the song as the school bell for a week once it’s released. The Principal doesn’t know this yet but I’ve booked in with the PA ladies and I’m going to blast it all over the school. This should help sales,” Mr G said. The 36-year-old scene-stealer said he had already received a huge response to the single, including the remixes by Paul Mac, John Paul Talbot and Stylaz Fuego. We’re impressed to see Paul Mac is in on the joke; we thought he was only interested in playing extended prog jams with Silverchair these days, but it seems Mr “We’d like to thank the ecstasy dealers of Sydney” still has a sense of humour in him! The single will be available digitally on March 1st and on CD from the 8th. More »