The London is halfway up Ludgate Hill, and is tolerable enough in its way. Its way is a Youngers / S&N pub which likes to pretend it’s more traditional than it is. It was closed the other day when I was considering nipping in for a swift s[…]

Not strictly musical: anyone who misses Blue Lines may be interested to know that I’ll be returning to the ‘weblog community’ for one week only, taking over Wherever You Are while Vaughan has a rest. From this evening, or tomorrow. […]

Hopefully bringing this to a conclusion, I feel I should draw your attention to a couple of pubs in Brighton – the Brighton Tavern (fair enough) and the charmingly named Doctor Brightons (not fair enough). According to my researches, it has &#[…]

A Pumpkin Publog correspondent informs me that the Cambridge Blue (on Gwydir Street, round the back of Mill Road, where there are a couple of great balti restaurants) is quite a good pub. Apparently, it has a welcome no-mobile phone policy and is al[…]

Pop Eye: thankyou to Pete, who sent me Pop-Eye extra early this week and reckoned without idleness, AICON and the pub. It’s up now – Westlife, Gorillaz, et al. and two polls.[…]