Barmy Army: having said, oh, there’s loads in the Guardian today I might as well blog some of it. This is an excellent review of Alan McGee’s first offerings on his new Poptones label, identifying and parading the reasons why the whole la[…]

THE UNBEARABLE SHITENESS OF IAN
This title was originally reserved for a piece on Ian Dury, until somone pointed out that since the monotonous one died recently it might be in bad taste. I will indeed revise that piece, not so much for taste purposes[…]

“A knowledgeable fellow of excellent taste” (it says here), Lee Jackson was also an a.m.a. regular in the good old days, when he posted as keyserfleck and demonstrated good humour and mighty learnings on the subject of the psych-pop-noise[…]

A lot of stuff in the Guardian today, but the most amusing pop-related story isn’t linked, sadly – William Hague, the balding runt currently leading the Tory party into saloon bar oblivion, has fallen foul of Massive Attack, after choosin[…]