Return of The International Pop War. Ian at Bleeding Ears has brought back the feature that inspired the Freaky Trigger anti-Charlotte Raven comparison of the charts of 2000 and 1981 here . OVer the next couple of weeks he will be taking the UK and […]

The ten nominees in a day sounds like a tall order to me. I mean, it’s clearly achievable within the space of a drinking day, with a bit of planning, discipline, careful use of the transport options available and so on. The Eastern (Limehouse) […]

It’s a thin line between paper and hate
friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights
Now it is relatively unclear what Mr Nastradamus is trying to say here. I would agree that when it comes to automatic weaponry and their armaments that po[…]

The Seven Stars I knew Tim had reviewed this last year but I couldn’t find the review, else I would have linked it. I had forgotten about the toilets, so I didn’t check ’em out.
Evening Standard Top Pubs It would require an awful l[…]

I’m reminded that one of the things I praised in that review of the Seven Stars was the absence of a jukebox. I also note that, of the pubs I know on the Standard’s shortlist, I’m not sure any has a jukebox. Is there a pattern here?[…]

Looking down Tim’s list I am in a pretty similar position to him with regards to visiting this selection of pubs (and certainly a publog outing should be on the cards). However I can add knowledge of The Bedford in Balham. It was the last pub o[…]

The Seven Stars is lovely – so lovely that I’m off there tomorrow to start a little Fleet Street crawl. Tim wrote a little review of it last year . Since that time some restructuring work has been done to it. The loo with the shower is no[…]

(A fairly desperate attempt to restore some reviews of actual current and forthcoming singles to NYLPM begins…)
CORNERSHOP – “Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III”
A sub-circle of pop hell is surely reserved for songwrite[…]

In the Library Pubs are ideal locations for a solitary read. As I had reached a very interesting bit in the book I’m currently reading while coming in on the tube today, it seemed reasonable that I go to a pub to continue perusing at lunchtime[…]

STRIPEOUT!!!! If you love old school style computer games and the White Stripes (imagine that Venn diagram if you will) then you can play Stripeout, a new online game from the White Stripes. The two-piece have thought of this absurd gimmick to get a […]