It appears that Cher Lloyd is winning even fewer fans now that the show is coming to an end with a Facebook group being set up called Cher Lloyd makes me want to vomit.

Even we think that this is a bit too much and have been asking ourselves what is it about Cher that people hate? From some of the comments we have seen on other sites and what the Facebook dedicated page has to offer seems to be pretty clear. And if she wins, what of the outcome? Well I doubt she will be getting number one if she did win.

Though Cher was negated in an online chat last night when the top three where being talked about. One Direction and Matt seemed to be the main focus with Rebecca facing either 2nd or 3rd, though from the chat there was clearly no real favourite.

X Factor

Its incredible to think that the US want this show after comments like this by Tom from Portsmouth:

Cowell just churns out generic singers with no personalities, charisma, originality or creativity. The sooner this shit is axed the better.Stop clogging up the chart with shitty covers to Cowell.

In a move many have been calling a fix Cher (who could have polled the lowest in the bottom two from the public vote) and Mary had a surprise sing off, something that wasn’t mentioned before hand which also saw Danny vote off Mary and support Cher. Something fans have seen as weird.

On another note it seems that the BBC News Website doesn’t want to mention anything of their rival show. They mentioned Strictly but have not mentioned ANYTHING of X Factor, pretty odd.

What are your thoughts, should X Factor be trashed?

The peaceful occupation of UCL but a large group of their students is facing eviction today at 2pm. Having been served with a possession order a few days ago the University and by 2pm it looks as though the fight for UCL may be over. You can help stop this by donating to their legal defence team via PayPal HERE!

Support for UCL has come from all corners of the world from Noam Chomsky and Billy Bragg to The Agitator and journalist John Pilger who had these words for the occupation:

“Your action, and the action of your fellow students all over Britain, in standing up to a mendacious, undemocratic government is one of the most important and exciting developments in my recent lifetime. People often look back to the 1960s with nostaglia – but the point about the Sixties is that it took the establishment by surprise. And that’s what you have done. Your admirable, clever, courageous actions have shocked and frightened a corrupt political class – Coalition and Labour – because they know you have the support of the majority of the British people. It is you, the students on the streets – not the Camerons, Cleggs and Milibands – who are the authentic representatives of the people. Keep going. We need you. All power to you.”

Their protest as very much been at the heart of this whole sub-movement that has been peaceful, thought-provoking, and steadfast in what they are demanding. Supporting UCL and stopping the University from taking such a drastic step will enable to fight to continue, if this one is lost then it is almost certain that all the other universities will do the same. UCL have held an incredible protest that has been as powerful it needed to be, they have fight left in them and need YOUR HELP!

Call For A Vote of NO CONFIDENCE in Aaron Porter & NUS

The New Current has tried for close to a year, to meet with NUS to discuss their plans, aims, and services that they are suposed to offer the many students they claim to represent. The last president of NUS, Wes Streering, set the ball in motion for NUS position in regards to the, at the time, proposed ‘graduate tax’. It was apparent almost instantly that NUS was no longer working for the better or benefit of the students who are affiliated to them. NUS’s self interest and their ongoing support of the governments plans on tuition fees and the top-up fees, and now their passivity in the new fees increase has meant the divide between them and the student has never been wider.

TNC is calling for a UK wide Vote of No Confidence in NUS President Aaron Porter. Having tried to call NUS and tried to get important information from them to assist with our news coverage as well as the information they know about the student protest has been non-existant.

These protest represent more than just a void between the national union and the student but an overwhelming sense that NUS has simply been allowed, by a somewhat passive student body, to get into the state they are in now. There is no real turning back now for NUS and the support they are offering is basic to say the least. The close to 170,000 students who have taken part in these actions needed much more from their national union.

Though some of these protest, Brighton particularly, are a little rag and bone with no real clarity in what they are aiming for, all have grown tired of the situation which allows NUS to take money from us but provide us with no real support. The peaceful protests that we have all witnessed from Newcastle, Kings, Edinburgh and many more show that this is much more than your average student protest, is about students refusing to take any more bull from the Government and their Universities.

TNC Editing team has just called NUS to ask what number of votes we will need to have a vote of NO CONFIDENCE in NUS President Aaron Porter, we where told to call back. Our ball is now rolling for a fresh change to the way students are represented on a national level. Aaron Porter’s failure to give the full and unrestricted support of NUS to the student occupation as well as funds and people is indicative to the issues we face when having a representative like NUS.

I have never really understood what a ‘Youtube Viral Video’ was until I saw “Gay Pirates” by Cosmo Jarvis. Quite simply its one of the most creative songs I have ever heard, each listen it gets more and more heart. After being on Youtube for just over 10 days he has managed to rack up over 100,000 views. He took the time to answer our world famous e-interview questions part 2 will be live tomorrow.

How did you get into music, has this always been something you wanted to do?

No not really, first of all I wanted to be a Jedi, then a astronomer, then a pilot, then diabetes fucked that one up and so for a short time I wasn’t sure. Then I wanted to be a actor and auditioned for ‘Oliver’ in Plymouth and was immediately rejected for not knowing the lyrics. Then I saw Amadeus and wanted to be a conductor, this was probably the first time I dreamned about playing music. I was taught piano for a while by a guy called Mr. Brennan.

He didn’t like my posture, musical taste or lack of enthusiasm when discussing written notation. I must have been about 7 at this time. I wanted to learn how to play blues and jazz because the ‘Blues Brothers’ was a very musically inspiring movie to me. So I started screwing around on the piano myself until I met this lady called Sarah Danning who taught me much better stuff than ‘Ode to joy’. Which I appreciate now but then it was like sitting though a church service when all you want to do is go outside and take advantage of drunk girls while on LSD singing stairway to heaven backwards – a real downer. My lessons with Sarah were short but were the catalyst for my interest in experimenting melodically and with different formats of musical presentation. I always loved music from having it played to me from a young age, I became a fan of harmony over anything else. Harmony and Aretha Franklin.

So yeah one day we got evicted from out flat and moved to Totnes where I knew nobody initially and, adopting some what of a hermit mentality to a change in my surroundings. I stayed inside most days after school and fiddled with a guitar until I considered myself to have reached a level of skill that wouldn’t embarrass me when playing with fellow students at school during lunch breaks in year eight. When I learnt the guitar I started writing songs in the privacy of my own room and recorded them using an illegal copy of Adobe Audition which was on my computer. School fell apart and I realised I was not cut out for academia in the slightest. I was argumentative and hated all authority, especially that that came with the academic knowledge of a school teacher teaching curriculum that didn’t spare time for the questions of a student who wouldn’t accept ‘because it just is’ as a viable answer to any question.

After my few months of trying to do sixth form, it was understood by the staff and myself that it was time to fuck off. So I went back to my bedroom and continued making recordings about events involving friends and girls and so forth, and I would burn them for my friends to listen to. Some songs went down well, others didn’t. Through making records by multi tracking all the instruments I slowly picked up bass, mandolin, Ukelele and whatever else I could get my hands on that sounded different. I always loved bass because much modern music has forgotten it’s importance and how to apply it melodically. And I guess that’s it. Just kept doing that.

How would you describe your style of music?

Genre experimental!

What do you write first, the music or the lyrics?

Depends entirely on the song. Sometimes a lyrical presentation in takes priority and a rhythm and melody can be found later. Other times a melody creates feeling or memories that require lyrics to be written and then wrapped around the melody. Sometimes it sort of happens in unison – I know what I want to share and as I think of how to share it I use an instrument to compliment the idea or should I say, write both the music and lyrics symbiotically to try to create a prefect spectrum of emotion for the literal content to be abstracted by!!

Have you always been creative, have there been any limits placed on your vision?

Only time and prioritising what must be done over what I want to do with respect to advancing any career. If I was a very rich man I would just create. Ease of creative freedom, it seems, is only possible with creative success. If I see something strongly enough though I will strive to witness its realisation no matter what circumstances engulf me.

As well as your music you are also a filmmaker?

When the music is getting busy I get to make music videos so that satisfies a certain hunger for creating motion pictures. I try to always keep both in mind as often as possible, they are so alike – that is the problem, I wish they could be the same thing. I act in my films and music videos and onstage and direct the production of a record similarly to a short film and then write the music for my films. Many musical projects see the creation of ideas for films and vice versa. Intention can fuel any medium I suppose. It’s harder for me to organise a film because I suck at producing.

But when everyone is there making a film, I find it more stimulating than making music because of how a film evolves during production and the many ways the music will assist a film in conveying emotion and mood (and we’ll never know till post). I know music evolves too but I don’t do studio stuff so there’s no surprise like when a producer comes in and shows me the final product; I just sort of tinker until it’s right and find ways of achieving sounds I hear or moods I feels translated into sonic information. Music, acting and filmmaking are my favourite things about this planet because everybody can get good differently at each, through their own processes and mistakes. I hate being taught things because I think that defeats the point of learning. If you find something that inspires you while your trying to master it you will always be giving all of yourself to learning how to do it well.

Does one get more time than the other or are you able to balance your time with them equally between them?

Hell knows, I just love them both and will do my best to keep on going.

England has missed out on the right to host the 2018 World Cup after football’s governing body Fifa picked Russia to stage the event, this will be Russia’s first time hosting the World Cup.

Russia beat bids from England, Spain-Portugal and Netherlands-Belgium to win a secret ballot of Fifa’s 22 executive members in Zurich. There had been controversy over Enlands bid after the BBC’s Panorama programme on Monday night highlighted some serious bribery claims at the highest level of Fifa, the sports governing body.

Prince William, PM David Cameron and David Beckham where on hand to try and give England the edge over the other bidders, this failed. There is little clarity as to why England would want to host the 2018 World Cup after their successful bid for the 1212 Olympics has meant the UK Government finding money from all possible avenues to pay for it. It doesn’t seem to make much sense as to why they would want the World Cup two years after hosting the Olympics.

It will be interesting to see if the BBC will be blamed for Englands loss of the World Cup?

Meanwhile, Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup.