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Published: 29 October 2009

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• WAR has broken out in the office. We’re split into factions...over N-Dubz.
Some say they should have featured on last week’s front page while others (the grumpy boys) fought to keep the face-painted children pic – and won. To my colleague Richard – he’s the baldy one who so eloquently attempted to write his rambling, embittered, back-page football analysis in the style of N-Dubz, while feigning ignorance of their existence last week – I say : allow. I’d retaliate in football speak but I’d only get as far as “at the end of the day”, and “the boys done good” before my column would be left blank.
Back to my defence. With all the money, huge production, frills, musicians and orchestras thrown at last week’s Electric Proms, it was N-Dubz’s stripped-down early morning show that was the most memorable.

• It feels like only yesterday we were traipsing along Camden High Street talking to strangers in queues at the Camden Crawl. Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Mpho, Ou Est le Swimming Pool and special guests play the charity launch at Blues Kitchen, Camden, on November 4, in aid of War Child.

• To any Egyptian readers. I met Hakim on Saturday, he promised to return for a charity concert. He was the ultimate gentleman, and very handsome.

• Return to Mars’ Martin Freeman is a devout Motown follower. He watched Smokey Robinson intently, almost studiously, from the Roundhouse rafters during the final night of BBC Electric Proms. I tried to catch his eye but he was unwavering.

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