An observation It can be exasperatingly difficult to fasten a button-fly when drunk. Acutely embarrassing fumblings next to the pissior may occur. It’s much safer to ensure that, when off for an evening of alchofun, one is wearing trousers t[…]

No Rock & Roll Fun is another of those pesky music weblogs. I like this one because it is rude about music and quite funny with it.[…]

Interview with Oxide And Neutrino by one of the Hyperdub people. Not desperately articulate but definitely passionate and they touch on some of the stuff Tim’s been talking about in his garage coverage here.[…]

(More Single Review re-runs from FT’s dark ages: this one’s for Maura)
L’TRIMM – “Cars With The Boom”
I’ve dreamed about getting hold of this ever since I first read Chuck Eddy’s magnificent Accidental […]

Empty exercises in formalism are the lifeblood of rock criticism (see 1000) and hence I am delighted that Nick Mirov of monosyllabic has turned his webthing over to an alphabetical rundown of all the albums he heard in 2000. Good reviews, too.[…]

How To Be A Feisty Rock Critic (via Bleeding Ears). So sad, so true. Spot the bits where I cringed.[…]

Now, I like Fancy A Pint. I find it useful, and it has directed me to a few really decent boozers (like the Eagle on Marylebone Lane, although their recent redecoration leaves plenty to be desired). If I’m meeting someone in a pub featured on t[…]

More on the Artillery Arms on Bunhill Row. One of the great pleasures of drinking there is that the graveyard you walk through to get there is a Wesleyan graveyard (there’s a statue of John Wesley near there and he had his headquarters there or[…]

(Note: This feature is in a way a tribute to the generous Dial-A-Song service which They Might Be Giants used to run, which would have a fresh song every day. As was pointed out in the pub the other day, freshness is not always a good thing. Every sh[…]

Maura reviews some singles over at her site. Good writing: about 60% right, too. Go L’Trimm! (she also isolates the appeal of the increasingly irritating Queens Of The Stone Age: nostalgia-rock for ex-grungers feeling the first-time bite of the[…]