“I’m thrilled that Sting has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Next for his KNIGHTHOOD!”: the UK music business provides one moment of rock-solid entertainment every year – no, not the BRIT Awards, but the Talking P[…]

JIMI HENDRIX – “Drifting”
Notes enter, chiming like church bells, repeating and ringing over each other. Then a light patter of drums, a brief reminisce of old sounds, running backwards now, before that voice comes. Floating, drifti[…]

Top 11 Bootlegs of 2001: while we’re on an MP3 tip. Includes “Strokes Of Genuis”, “Smells Like Booty” etc. This is via somebody but I can’t remember who – someone called David whose blog I hadn’t seen b[…]

Back by popular demand: 4 unreleased Morrissey songs, on MP3. Hopefully the links still work.[…]

Fandabidozie: Just as a way to stop boring all my friends whenever they travel on the bus with me I shall repeat the constant conjunction which has unfortunately been made in my head. Why has Pink taken to doing impressions of Little Jimmy Krankie in[…]

Pub Ettiquette: Christ knows I’m the last person to talk to about how to behave in pubs, but there really ought to be a guide on how to avoid people in pubs. London should be big enough so that various parties do not collide if they do not wish[…]

From indie music to pop music.: the Pitchfork message board faces a worrying conundrum. To them I say: join ussssss…[…]

POP-EYE 13/01/02
Twelth night has come and gone, but the second chart of the year still finds pop suffering seasonal after-effects. Most of the big stars, and all of those lazy indie types, are still sleeping off their over-indulgences, and so this w[…]

PRINCIPLES
A couple of years ago, when I was 16, I remember listening to Never Mind the Bollocks a lot. In particular I remember a family holiday to France that summer where I swelled with anger at having to stay in a nice hotel in the Dordogne and b[…]

TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH: Orange Crush – R.E.M.
There was a time in the UK when you could turn on the radio and you would not instantly hear an R.E.M. song. If you were listening to the right radio station you would not hear any music a[…]