ABS – “What You Got”
Abs Five (now Abs One?) rides the “Uptown Top Ranking” riddim and nicks the chorus too – are we to believe he actually goes out on the pull inna khaki suit an ‘ting? The ladies seem impre[…]

Morrissey on Craig Kilborn
He wears a cardigan and a lavender lace up shirt. A mimes broad patrimonies gesture almost deflects his doughy face. He has gained forty pounds and he looks tired.
He has wrinkles and gray hair and a collapsed pompadour.
My[…]

Possibly the worst tourist pub advice I’ve ever seen, from something called the Travel Ape. Nothing wrong with the pub review (if anything it’s a bit too positive about a pub I love but whose sacred cow status concerns me). But advising p[…]

“The Last Pop Star” – that’d be Morrissey, then. Directionless overview of the great man’s career which doesn’t get to the heart of things (but then what does?). One line sparks interest – “It seems dis[…]

VITALIC – “Poney Part 1”
There’s something magical about singles which are built around just one floor-destroying sound. You can imagine the look of humbled awe on the producer’s face as they stumble upon that noise, wai[…]

Exploration! After Cabbage’s post about the George’s transformation, finding ourselves in London bridge last night, we decided that we would try going to SHOCK GASP HORROR, Another Pub. After meeting in the dreadful, dreadful Barrowboy an[…]

MARIANNE FAITHFUL – “Sliding Through Life On Charm”
Everyone knows Marianne Faithful:
She was the Stones Number One Groupie
She was found with a mars bar up her cunt and/or wrapped in a white fur rug in a drug bust in the country h[…]

MORTON FELDMAN — “Why Patterns?”
Indeed, why patterns?
Well, repetition can lead to knowledge, and knowledge can lead to predictability, and predictability can lead to comfort, the comfort of knowing you live in a predictable univer[…]

TOTP chief says top 40 has lost its “credibility”: Chris Cowey slams first-week-discounts for UK Singles and says the chart doesn’t reflect what’s actually popular. His arguments don’t wash. Firstly while sales are an im[…]

Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
“Once. Then no more… ever. But to have been as one, through but the once, with this world, never can be undone.
“So we persevere, attempting to resolve it and contain it in our grasp, in overfilled ey[…]