Are Novelty Afro Wigs Racist? Are At The Drive-In fools? And other questions. A bad gig experience, via Us Vs Them. Hey though, if Jeffrey wants to wear his afro and 70s shirt with pride, he should head for a 70s nite in Clapham (which has the added […]

Excellent ruminations on Pete Wylie and Bill Drummond, from Sink. What evil bookshop goblin erases the memory of 45 from my mind every time I go into one, I wonder?
Incidentally, come on Team NYLPM. I’m moving house, dammit, I can’t conce[…]

The Etiquette Of Drink Numbers – Lesson One: went to the pub last night with Frances and her new boyfriend. Four pints were consumed: the first was bought by me, not part of a round, as an atonement for lateness (this is good pub practice). The[…]

Let me let you into a secret – Tom will kill me but he’s at least one hundred miles away now and there is no chance he can catch me with that kind of head start. One of the problems with a team blog is that the other members of the blog c[…]

DR. TANYA LOOKS AT SPECULATIVE POP
H.G. Wells’ “Things To Come” was a seminal piece of work which predicted much of todays reality way back in the 1920’s. Whilst the film version is a bit pervy (in a 1930’s sort of way) […]

DR. TANYA’S WORLD OF BIOLOGY….
“Trouble” – Coldplay
Too right you’re in trouble, my lad, for your pitiful knowledge of the animal kingdom, sub-section arachnids. If you are in the “centre” of a web, the[…]

DR TANYA LOOKS AT THE SCIENCE IN….
“Save The Best Til Last” – Vanessa Williams
“Sometimes the snow comes down in June”
You cannot argue with this one. Sure, those of us in the Northern Hemisphere may mope that its […]

Oh yeah, I’m the boy who doesn’t do ‘guilty pleasures’, that’s right. All the nostalgia stuff, I despise it: you either like a song or you don’t, damn it, and the songs you like you come right out about, you don&#8[…]

POP-EYE 5/11/00 (in collaboration with I HATE MUSIC)
“Tanya?”
“Yes, Tom?”
“I’m moving house on Monday, and I’d like you to fill in for me on NYLPM.”
…..
“Tanya?”
“Now, Tom. Haven[…]

POP-EYE U.S. – 11/02/00
finally, some movement in the top five on billboard’s hot 100 charts. it seems music fans countrywide have come to their senses as christina aguilera’s “come on over baby” falls from its perch, re[…]