Ananova Poll: for mercy’s sake STOP DIDO![…]

Poor Brian Harvey, just been attacked in Nottingham by YOOFS with a machete. Where does one find machetes in Nottingham, I wonder? How puzzling. Is a machete usually the scalping instrument of choice in the Midlands? Either that or there is a MULTINA[…]

Dreams: Propaganda 1985: I’ve been listening to Propaganda all day. Here’s some articles and reviews from their time (’85) – here’s an excellent Tangents piece on them.[…]

Martin Creed just won the Turner Prize (ILE is discussing it here). He was the lights-going-on-and-off guy. He’s also got a band, Owada, who are kind of Art too. Here are the words to the songs on their CD.[…]

I’m here for ALE, not GALLIANO! Blimey charley I must say that my Local Pub (the Hero of Switzerland just across from our flat which is the nearest pub is local ‘local’, if you know what I mean) is a seething mass of contradictions.[…]

DURAN DURAN – “The Chauffeur”
1. The Title: “The Chauffeur”. This song, you know, is going to be cod-elegant and faux-decadent and as icily pretentious as anyone could wish. You think, perhaps, of Pinter. You think, mayb[…]

Just to counter the Scrit-Bit below, heres Kevin Pearce on them, from Tangents. He tears into Songs To Remember, Scritti Politti’s just-reissued 1982 album, essentially accusing it of a kind of treachery, and asserts that history has judged wha[…]

End Of An Era! “You know how the Beatles broke off, they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger.”[…]

“The sound of Scritti Politti 1978 to 1985 is essentially the sound of Green Gartside getting better in bed.”
Evidence:
1978-1979: lived in horrible communal squat. Would probably have presented you with itemised bill (sorry delineation o[…]

THE ESSEX GREEN MING
I can SMELL it coming and it honks like a bastard. It smells a little bit like a very old pair of corduroy flares bought from what those crazy Americans call a thrift store. They’ve seen a lot of action and the bottom is ra[…]