We're presuming you've heard all about the Kylie tour and that, having already set your alarm for ungodly o'clock next Monday morning, you might now fancy a gander at the 'Aphrodite - Les Folies Tour 2011' postery artworky official picturey thing.



Six months isn't so far off, right?

Have you seen it yet? HAVE YOU?! Oh, what does it matter, you're obviously going to watch it again, even if you seriously abused YouTube yesterday by playing it eight times on the trot. Anyway, right on schedule Kylie's dropped the video for 'Get Outta My Way', the second single form her cracking Aphrodite album. Delivering her best floor-writhing performance since the 'Slow' promo, La Minogue flaunts what she's got here in triumphant fashion - surrounded, of course, by yet more topless male models! She's clearly in her element - and so are we! Time for viewing #9...



Right then, marks out of ten?

You want your Friday midweek fix? Chartanatics, we got it.

Olly Murs is still fending off Katy Perry and Taio Cruz at the top, but Pepper & Piano have slipped to just outside the top five.

Ke$ha's 'Take It Off' has now cracked the top 20, while Adele's 'Make You Feel My Love' is a kitten's whisker outside.

Kanye West's 'Power' has made its way into the top 40.

Katy Perry's Teenage Dream is still top of the albums chart - and One Of The Boys has re-entered the top 40 too.

The top five's completed by Eminem, Mumford & Sons, Arcade Fire and Disturbed in that order, with The Pretty Reckless now a couple of places outside.

So, do we think Olly can hold out 'til Sunday... or might the future Mrs Brand be able to Do The Double?

You know what chartanatics, things are starting to get pretty interesting...

Olly Murs is still on course for No.1, but he's got Katy Perry snapping at his heels now the 'Teenage Dream' glitch has been corrected.

Pepper & Piano have been shunted down a spot as a result, but they're still inside the top five.

Adele's 'Make You Feel My Love' has slipped out of the top 20 since yesterday, but Ke$ha's 'Take It Off' is holding steady between the 25 and 30 posts.

Not too shockingly, there's no sign of Same Difference's bracket-tastic 'Shine On Forever (Photoframe)' in the top 40.

Katy remains ahead of Eminem and Disturbed at the top of the albums chart, with The Pretty Reckless right behind them and Everything Everything a kitten's whisker outside the top ten.

The Saturdays' album, meanwhile, is just adrift of the top 15.

If we had a beard, we'd be stroking it now while adopting our best "Hmmmm..." face.

Did you have a suitably relaxing bank holiday weekend? Great, glad you're rested and all that, but without any further dilly-dallying, it's time to get stuck into another week of chart-centric shenanigans. We won't lie, there's a fair bit going on today.

Olly Murs is on course for No.1 with 'Please Don't Let Me Go', with Taio Cruz's 'Dynamite' and Eminem and Rihanna's 'Love The Way You Lie' currently completing the top three.

We're presuming there's been some kind of glitch regarding Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream', because despite doing the business on all the download sites, it's nowhere to be seen in today's top 40. Any ideas?

Fearne Cotton will no doubt think this is UGH-MAY-ZING... Must Be The Music duo Pepper & Piano are heading for the top five with 'You Took My Heart'.

X Factor effect alert! Adele's 'Make You Feel My Love', which peaked at number 26 when it was released as a single back in Nov. '08, has zoomed into the top 20.

Ke$ha's 'Take It Off' continues to climb and now finds itself three places away from the top 20.

Over on the albums chart, Katy Perry's on course for No.1, trailed by Eminem, Disturbed, The Pretty Reckless and Mumford & Sons in that order.

Kerr-ikey! What do we think of that lot then?

It's not so much a starter-sized portion as a not terribly generous hors d'oeuvre - 15 seconds or so, in fact - but as we've always said, some Kylie is better than no Kylie at all.



Is anyone else feeling just the slightest bit, well, fluffed?

In the immortal words of Louise - and The Average White Band too, of course - let's go round again!

Taio's still holding Em 'n' Ri and Flo 'n' Dave off the top spot, with Roll Deep and Katy B completing the top five.

Brandon's 'Crossfire' remains a couple of places inside the top ten, with Rumer's 'Slow' a couple outside.

Hurts's 'Wonderful Life' may have charted at a mightily impressive number two in Germany, but it's slipped out of the top 20 over here.

Ke$ha's 'Take It Off' has inched forward another place, The Pretty Reckless's 'Miss Nothing' remains at the edge of the top 35, and Stromae's 'Alors On Danse' is right behind.

Em's still fending off Plan B and The Maiden at the top of the albums chart, but Klaxons are now a couple of places outside the top five... with The Sats breathing right down their indie boy necks.

Happy? Sad? A bit of both? Use the box below to let us know.

Of all the places for Rob and Gaz to bump into each other, outside a laundromat in middle America wouldn't have been our first guess. The long-awaited duet from the Take That lads may not be your typical Get-Up-Off-Your-Stools-For-The-Key-Change boyband number, but as they prove here, they've grown beyond such old-fashioned notions. With a Brokeback Mountain theme and plenty of bear-hugging action going on, we're not only convinced that their reconciliation is genuine, but also feeling quietly optimistic that the boys' bromance could last beyond the initial reunion hype. Hit "play" below and prepare to awwwww:



Anyone else disappointed that they didn't literally kiss and make up at the end?

No prizes for guessing what we've just listened to seven times in a row at a licensed drinking establishment in close proximity to Leicester Square.

1. It's called 'Back To Scratch' and it's the title track from her extremely intriguing new album.

2. It's essentially about trying to cling onto a broken relationship before realising, oh sh*t, it really is over.

3. "I tell myself 'Hold on, slow down / God is this me going back to scratch again?'" Chazza sings on the chorus. "And oh you'll know it at the dead of night / You're back to scratch, right back to scratch again."

4. At this point it's worth nothing that, though 'Back To Scratch' was "originally inspired by problems facing a close family member", Charlotte has since described it as "the perfect song for my situation".

5. To that end, those intent on sniffing out titillating tidbits to do with the Chaz 'n' Gav break-up won't be disappointed. "You were fundamentally too flawed to give what you received / And you believed I was yours to keep," she sings at one point.

6. BUT WHAT DOES THE SONG BLOODY WELL SOUND LIKE?! Well, nothing like 'Pie Jesu'... or 'The Opera Song (Brave New World)'... or 'Crazy Chick'...

7. In fact, it's an adult pop song that's not nearly as mournful at those lyrics could make it sound. 'Back To Scratch' begins in jangly, toe-tapping fashion - the verses are reminiscent of Suzanne Vega's 'Luka' - before the string-swathed chorus takes it an unexpected melodic direction, one that's a little bit ethereal, a little bit Celtic-sounding and maybe a little bit Kate Bush. Maybe. Charlotte's vocals are richer, fuller and more Welsh-sounding than you might remember, almost as if she'd been sipping on a glass of vintage claret and nibbling on a plate of creamed leeks before she entered the vocal booth.

8. 'Back To Scratch' takes a few plays to burrow into your brain, but once it's set up residence there, it refuses to leave for a fair while afterwards.

9. All things considered, the accompanying video is unlikely to feature anything along the lines of what's going on to your left.

10. Although it's currently slated for an October 24 release, the latest thinking is that 'Back To Scratch' will actually be available to download from September 19, having received its radio premiere a week or so beforehand.