Okay, for all my bigging them up – the Busted! album actually isn’t that good. Its perfectly serviceable in a pop way but very few of the songs ever quite reach the dizzying heights of silliness that Year 3000 or What I Go To School For d[…]

The lock-in is in danger. The licencing White Paper, with its attendent all night drinking will relegate the after hours boozer to the dumper of regulation and bouncers. I say this because of late I have become acquainted with a few lock-in pubs and […]

Guilty thought: I’d like this song much more as an instrumental or even as a ‘song’, not a rap. Everything just clicks: the processed guitar strum that’s like Shek’spere with dirt under his nails, the string swells, the[…]

People often say to me, this hating music malarkey must be a lonely profession. Well, my inbox is always open to perusal by naysayers to see how many people agree with me. Take Mark Turrell. I know nothing of him but just the other day he sent me a l[…]

Further perusal of the historic pub interiors list shows that we have most certainly been sold a pub with theis CAMRA survey. When is a restoration not a refit after all? Of the five pubs in Central London with authentic pub interiors, two are Sam Sm[…]

What is it about Crazy In Love, by Beyonce* that makes me think it isn’t finished. It just does not quite have a chorus, which bugs me a touch but considering the rest of the tune is a jittery, brass-led piece of brilliance it does not bother m[…]

CAMRA weeps: The Guardian reports on CAMRA’s report on pub heritage. It’s interesting that this pops up the week after Pete and I found ourselves inveighing against CAMRA’s failure to obsess about the pub environment. I’ve or[…]

Well, it obviously wasn’t music lessons was it.[…]

THE CORAL
I’m not an active person, but even a gin-swilling queen of the London social scene gets to go down to the seaside every now and then. I have little use for water in my dad to day life unless in its sparkling solid form making merry wi[…]

TOM’S GLASTONBURY SPECIAL TOP 10
JUNIOR SENIOR – “Twist And Shout/Push It”
BEYONCE feat JAY-Z – “Crazy In Love”
THE DARKNESS – “Street Spirit”
THE RAPTURE – “House Of Jealous Lov[…]