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.[…]

LOU REED – Metal Machine Music
made me less sad last night.
You’re a joke.[…]

I think Boehlert’s implicit argument is that as record promotion becomes increasingly expensive, labels will be forced by economic necessity to be more cautious in what they choose to promote. This fear of risk would translate into an increasin[…]

I have no idea about the Oxford Blue – however I have been drinking at “The Oxford Pub” or to give it its full and rather more revealing title The Oxford Pub: It’s A Scream. It’s A Crime, more like, etc. This used of cou[…]

The London Pub, London Picking up briefly on Pete’s comment on the inn in Hendon called The Hendon, I agree that any pub named after the town where it is located is bound to be trouble. However, I have no facts to back this up – as I hav[…]

Pay To Play: expose of radio plugging practises which generally manages to exchange nostril-flared outrage for dry factuality and is the better for it. Except for that odd little intro: “Does radio seem bad these days? Do all the hits sound the[…]

Welcome aboard, Nanette! I notice though that you do not mention the video, which has Destiny’s Child prowling about an island in shipwrecked-cavewoman gear. It’s very artistic. Oh yes.
Judging from what I heard watching the video on CD:U[…]