Long Live The Ripps!

I went into Coventry city centre today on a mission to buy a "I ♥ Cov " t-shirt from Vintage Urban Village, sadly they had sold out, but it turned out well as I saw a "Long Live The Ripps" t-shirt and almost creamed myself with excitement..............

I tried it on and it fitted perfectly, even though it was a medium junior size. I'd tried on the small adult size but when your a bag of bones like me - then there is no shame in buying kids sizes!

If you've not heard of Coventry group The Ripps then head over to their MySpace and give them a listen. The album is awesome, plus they remain totally humble and down to earth and loyal to Coventry - which I love so much.
Rather ironically there was a bulletin from the group saying you can order "I ♥ Cov " from them for a great price of £10 (plus £2.50 postage and packaging) so all has not been lost in my quest to own one of the t-shirts. While I was in Vintage Urban Village I also bought a retro top for the summer.

Good news for The Ripps fans - they are releasing a new single "Holiday" is released on 21st May, which has a perfect summer feel to it. The band can be seen "every fuckin where" as my new t-shirt says, so support this brilliant local group.

The promo video can be seen below:

Holiday



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The Enemy - Away From Here

It's an important week for Coventry music as local lads "The Enemy" release their first chart eligible single "Away From Here". The group have been touring up and down the country and this week they will be performing in Manchester, Cardiff, Bristol, London, Northampton and finally a sell out gig in Coventry. The Enemy will also be performing at HMV Coventry on Thursday (5pm), hopefully this time the licence has been approved!

The Enemy have also been featured on TV over the weekend on Sky's "Soccer AM"
and on Fridays "Transmission" over on Channel 4. The album is out on July 2nd, entitled "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" and is available for £7.99 on pre-order at HMV .We'll have more news on that nearer the time. Look out later in the week as robmacca tries to get some exclusive photo's of The Enemy.

See "Away From Here" video below:

Coventry's music scene is buzzing at the moment as local group The Ripps announced the next single to be released from their acclaimed album will be "Holiday", an upbeat quirky single full of summer sunshine.The album is also being released this week in Australia. Watch this space for more news about The Ripps.

robmacca - Online Video Blog 15/04/2007

Here is something new - an online video blog. I'm just experimenting to see if I like doing it or if I actually get the time. I was going to try and make it fancy with lots of picture inserts and music - but I'm crap with editing so in the end I just did a weekly summary.

Check out my online video blog below:

Geri To Write Kids Books

Geri and daughter Bluebell.

It has been revealed today, according to Reuters, that Geri Halliwell is about to publish a series of books about a feisty nine-year-old. The books due out about May 2008 take "Girl Power" to a whole new level as she follows a path already taken by the likes of Madonna and Kylie Minogue.


The tales of Geri's heroine Ugenia Lavender, will also have Geri recording a special song to accompany the books and will be reading the audio editions personally. Geri said in an interview with Reuters:


"She is the rebirth of Girl Power, it is time to hand on the baton of Girl Power through a different medium".

Melanie Brown Names and Shames Murphy

Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has announced that she plans to take Eddie Murphy to court to prove that he is the father of her newborn baby.

Scary Spice is so sure that Eddie is her daughter's father that she has already put his name on Fortuna Daphne Bay's birth certificate.

"Mel has no doubt Eddie is the father and she wanted to make the point," a source said.

Despite her insistance that the Hollywood funny man is the baby's father, Mel B still doesn't want him to play any role in her newborn daughter's life.

The source added: "She doesn't want him involved because he has hurt her too much. She just feels that he will have to accept responsibility at some point."

Easter Pub Pictures

There is a whole wad of pictures from Easter Sunday over at robmaccaEXTRA - just follow the link and piss yourself laughing at us getting pretty drunk!

Videos

Been a busy time my end - I joined in at band practice yesterday and spent time uploading several short mobile phone videos, which can all be seen in the links below. Thursday I'll try uploading the weekender pictures.

Pub Trouble

Lazy Sunday

Lazy Cat

Aimee

I also get easily distracted by sunshine, so I spend more time outdoors. I'm sure I'll blog something a little more interesting soon.

robmacca's New Glasses!

Three brand new pictures of robmacca taken on Saturday, at home and at a houseparty. Below is a video made on Sunday, testing out new mobile phone.

robmacca in a suit!
robmacca at a house party
robmacca's new glasses!

A video of robmacca showing off his new glasses and acting like a nerd!

Madonna v Melanie C - The Remix Video

It's a surprisingly good remix of Madonna's "Music" and Melanie C's "Yeh YehYeh" singles and video's as seen on YouTube and Melanie C forum . I enjoyed it and I hope you do as well.

* I wanted to post lots of photos and videos from the holiday weekend but I'm having trouble transferring the media to my laptop.

*Late Update: My good friend Martin has just spent a few hours sorting out the software problems with the phone upgrade and so now the media is ready (as seen by the silly picture above). So get ready for some new pictures and video entertainment during the days ahead.

Beware!

If your going to go out in the sun during this glorious holiday weekend - then PLEASE make sure you cover up with the right protection!