I never met a diva, and I wasn’t expecting to when I went to see Tiffany’s free concert in the plaza of my university. I don’t know what I was looking for, maybe a fleeting moment of pop perfection, or maybe a chance to see some his[…]

Tribute Songs: vastly useless compendium of cash-in dreck. Beatles feature heavily. Found via a search for Cats UK’s “Luton Airport”, obviously.[…]

First things first. I would like to severely condemn the King’s Head and Railway Tavern in Crouch End on their shameful record on crime prevention. Having been the victim of a cruel handbag thief in Crouch End on a Friday in March I return from[…]

RADIOHEAD – “Pull/pulk Revolving Doors”
The bass is a black hole and Thom Yorke’s voice is stretched to a ribbon around it: there’s a factory thump and suddenly and often the song decompresses into garbled lift-music hea[…]

GrokeMixOne: so I have a new stereo, and I got to make my first tape in two years. What better way to mark the occasion than self-indulgently posting it to Art Of The Mix. Only I am to blame for the track selection but you can blame Kathleen for the […]

Gasp! Choke! – a teen star with a brand image? whatever next? (via everywhere).
Observation: real music fans’ stagey shock and outrage at a teen star being caught with a marketing plan is an amusing mirror of media stagey outrage at a roc[…]

Sound in Leicester Square: it’s better than the ICA. TRUE OR FALSE?
The ICA has English Sea Power. Sound has “Bow Wow (Thats My Name) by Lil Bow Wow.
Bottle of beer in ICA = ‘3.00. Bottle of beer in Sound = ‘3.50 plus compli[…]

The Ben Crouch Tavern accurately assessed – all I have to add is that it seems to be the HMV staff hangout. Poor bastards – after a long day serving scrofulous teens their Crazy Town wares the last thing they need is piped Goth Odyssey. O[…]

Celebs in the Pub – A Note On Etiquette So we’re in an unnamed pub in an unidentified district of North London. We have just finished last in a pub quiz. Several excuses were forthcoming for this poor performance. All of us had drunk […]

The more articles I read about nu-metal, the more I like nu-metal: this pretty much has me heading down the tattooists to get “Durst Rulez” on both forearms. Nu-metal pieces are starting to follow a set pattern: jaded twentysomething bitc[…]