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Welcome to The Ice, Spice and Vice Files!

Here we aim to provide you with 7 full length and detailed reviews, one for each day of the week, of the highlights (or lowlights as the case may be) of the following week's single releases.

You will also find plenty of other features, including the UK midweeks singles chart which is updated daily, roundups of both the international music and boxoffice charts, a glance at the X Factor UK, a 'Who's On Top?' magazine section as well as some other treats too, such as our 'Star Power' featured artist page and 'Introducing...' page.

As always, if there's something you want us to review or feature, just let us know via email or comment and we'll try and sort something out. We're very friendly like that ;-)

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Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Who's On Top? Taylor Swift Covers Glamour Magazine


US Country singer Taylor Swift has covered 'Glamour' magazine and in an unprecedented move...actually manages to look...dare we say it...interesting! AMAZING! Who'd have thought it? Looks like she's just in time to compete in this week's 'Who's On Top? - The Best Cover.' Find out who we've chosen later on...


UK Boxoffice Chart Roundup - 5th Oct



‘The Other Guys’ continues its reign at the top of the chart for a third week, taking £976k in ticket sales, keeping Ben Affleck’s ‘The Town’ off the summit with its takings of £890k. ‘Buried,’ starring Ryan Reynolds, is a new entry at #3, resulting in ‘Eat Pray Love’ falling two places to #4. Children’s horror ‘The Hole’ slips one place to round off the top 5.

Feel good movie ‘Made In Dagenham’ is a brand new entry at #6, taking 212k more than the new entry at #7, the re-release of cult classic ‘Back To The Future.’ Starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, the 1980s favourite has been shown in over 200 cinemas ahead of its Blu-ray release later this month.

Full chart list below:

1. (1) The Other Guys - £976,459
2. (3) The Town - £890,309
3. (-) Buried - £820,631
4. (2) Eat Pray Love - £800,533
5. (4) The Hole - £700,763
6. (-) Made In Dagenham - £674,059
7. (-) Back To The Future - £461,194
8. (6) Toy Story 3 - £413,759
9. (5) Devil - £332,949
10. (7) Grown Ups - £302,196

Uk Midweek Charts Roundup - Tuesday 5th Oct



Another week and yet ANOTHER single on track for the #1 spot! This time it looks like a battle between Cee-Lo Green with ‘Fuck You’ vs Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow with ‘Shame’ to claim this week’s top spot. Currently Cee-Lo is ahead of the Take That duo, shifting around 40k copies, ahead of Williams/Barlow’s 27k.

The Tempah/Turner collaboration has slipped a couple of places to #3, ahead of Bruno Mars’ ‘Just The Way You Are’ at #4. A new entry at #5 is Sweedish House Mafia featuring chart regular Tinie Tempah with their collaboration ‘Miama 2 Ibiza,’ making it Tempah’s second position in the top 5.

Labrinth has dropped down to #6, ahead of Kings of Leon’s new entry ‘Radioactive’ which currently resides at #7. Last week’s chart heavyweights Taio Cruz and Adele fall to the #8 and #9 spots respectively whilst Katy Perry clings to the end of the top ten.

You know the drill...pop back tomorrowwww!

Who's On Top? The Wanted Cover GT Magazine


The Wanted have covered 'GT,' a UK gay magazine, featuring interviews and the usual topless men fillers. Despite the pretty faces I can't say their bodies are the best...bit disappointing really, esp for a cover... Their feature below...


Who's On Top? Mary J. Blige, Samuel L. Jackson. Usher & Taraji P. Henson Cover Ebony Magazine


To celebrate 65 years of 'Ebony' magazine, some huge stars have joined forces to create a special cover, which is stylish and sophisticated and shows a versatile array of fashions using a rather simple colour palette. We're pleasantly surprised at how much we like this. And besides...it is their birthday...

Who's On Top? - Rick Ross Covers Urban Ink Magazine


One word: Tacky.

Who's On Top? Usher Covers Vibe Magazine


A photo that'll make a million girls swoon. Usher covers 'Vibe' magazine in a sexy yet unoriginal shoot. Looking good for his age though. Come back on Friday to find out who will win our first 'Who's On Top? - The Best Cover' spot...

US Boxoffice Chart Roundup - Tuesday 5th Oct



‘The Social Network,’ which details the emergence of the ever popular ‘facebook’ website, has swooped in to take the top spot in the US boxoffice after its first week of release. With $23million in sales, it knocks last week’s #1 ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’ down to the #3 spot, just trailing behind animation ‘Legend Of The Guardians’ with $10.9million.

‘The Town’ is pushed down to #4, taking just $0.1million less than it’s usurper, whilst ‘Easy A’ closes the top 5 with $7million in ticket sales.

Elsewhere in the chart ‘Case 39’ is a new entry at #7 with $5.4million, just slipping ahead of fellow newbie ‘Let Me In’ which debuts with $5.3million at #8. Wow it’s a close cut thing this week.

Tune in tomorrow for the UK Boxoffice chart!

The Top Ten in full:

1. (-) The Social Network - $23,000,000
2. (2) Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'Hoole - $10,900,000
3. (1) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - $10,100,000
4. (-) The Town - $10,000,000
5. (4) Easy A - $7,000,000
6. (5) You Again - $5,600,000
7. (-) Case 39 - $5,400,000
8. (-) Let Me In - $5,300,000
9. (6) Devil - $3,700,000
10. (8) Alpha And Omega - $3,000,000

Christian TV - When She Turns 18


Another brand spanking new artist today, (apologies for the huuuuge delay in posting...modern technology's not all it's cracked up to be...) in the form of Christian TV, who will be releasing his debut solo single 'When She Turns 18' from his forthcoming album 'Diary Of An 80's Baby.' However, Christian TV is definitely not a baby, and is a lot less innocent than his name may suggest...


Opening to a weird spoken segment, the track feels a little off course, and you may be thinking 'what the hell's this...we're not trusting icespicevice again...' BUT DON'T TURN IT OFF!!! Yes it sounds like the build up to a pretentious folk song, until a huge electro slab kicks in...which does still make the spoken part feel a little pretentious but we're not going to hold a grudge.


The track has a sick, forceful beat which perfectly compliment TV's rough and ready, rockish vocals and will have you reaching for that volume control and whacking it up full blast in no time at all. Being addressed to Christian's adolescent girlfriend's father, the lyrics show him to be a bit of a bad boy, although let's just hope he's only a couple of years older than her so it doesn't get weird and a bit icky...


The chorus is a stomping techno-pop riot, with a taunting hook which comes across as being a bit sexy due to TV's obvious lack of respect for rules and his general gloating/arrogant air. Whilst the lyrics are good, the last couplet of the chorus fail to impress. "When she turns 18, she'll choose between me and you, and guess who she's gonna pick..." leave the listener feeling frustrated as it doesn't conform to the consistent rhyming scheme set up throughout the rest of the track and definitely throws you off when you're singing along...not that we do that here...ahem...


Overall the single can be said to have a McFly-like quality to the sound although this track is definitely a lot more in your face, with Christian pulling no punches. For a teen-pop song, this is quirky, independent and full of vigour which makes for a major debut.


9/10 - Spice

Monday, 4 October 2010

The X Factor Final 12 - Promo Shots!

So after an emotional show last night the final twelve contestants for this year's X Factor have been revealed!


Fighting it out for Cheryl are the girls, Cher, Katie and Rebecca...


For Dannii, its Aiden, Nicolo and Matt...


With Louis are Storm, John and Mary...


And finally Simon with his three groups, Belle Amie, FYD and One Direction...


Furthermore, there will be a 'big twist' on next week's first live show, with many suggesting that viewers will be able to select a wildcard from the other contestants eliminated at the judges houses...