HOW TO WRITE AN ELASTICA SONG
1: Nip down the Record and Tape Exchange and find a few old battered New Wave albums. Wire albums and Fall albums are especially useful.
2: Nick a song off of one of those records.
3: Sleep for two years.
4: Wake up, rea[…]

Sosho. No thank you. I’ll stick to Tottenham Court Road, where the pubs are grotty and you get served an honest – if overpriced – pint. Take lunchtime Monday. Myself and silent member of this publog Ant had a thoroughly mediocre lun[…]

Oh yeah, it should also be said that if you’re planning to sign up for Amazing Pop Game (Hurry Hurry! Only 12 places left!), then don’t expect instructions or explanations until Pete and I have written them. It probably also helps if you […]

Do you want, O loyal readers, to take part in some kind of fantasy pop league game? Many have attempted this holy grail of interactive pop community content technology bleeding edge interface killer app, but all have been shite. Until now! We have in[…]

The Limey There were some seriously drunk people in the Lime Bar by eight o’clock. So drunk, in fact, that they were dancing at the bar to The Best Big Beat Anthems In The World…Ever! which was being played on a loop. It was enough to m[…]

FIVE… Only bottled beer served. Fine if you like the Polish beer “EB” (unlikely).
4… Club Nite Tonite and every night. Fine if you like jazz/funk.
3… Buy a drink and get your change back on a plate. Do they really thi[…]

Sloshed in Sosho Here’s the much-delayed report of last Thursday’s boozathon. Not much in the way of pub action here – it’s all bar-related, I’m afraid. Time to find out how the other half drinks.[…]

DON’T LET ME FUCK UP, WILL YOU?
Freak Scene was apparently named after someone saw J Mascis and said ?I?ve just seen a freak?. Spelling was never the beating heart of the grunge seen – I mean scene. Not that Dinosaur Jr were grunge of cou[…]

POP-EYE 14/1/01
I get all the best weeks. Tom has to grope around trying to write interesting things about Rui Da Silva – a known impossibility – whilst I get the pop charts version of an extremely rare astral conjunction. In this case it[…]

Renovation: I have updated the links list and kicked off a few of the ones which are either defunct or retired or I really never go to. I have also – a large but actually quite pointless if you look at my stats page task – updated the arc[…]