Hey kids, there’s a fresh def new musical phenomenon doing the ’rounds’. Just imagine if you will the rapping from Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliott (unpleasant I know but bear with me), and then – get this – imagine that[…]

May I borrow your books of hairstyles? Pre-club trip to the Bricklayers Arms last night showed how randomness should be the order of the pub experience. A hair magazine was extracted for the purposes of discussing which haircut would be best for one […]

CLUB SUSSED IS BACK
If you don’t know about this already, you might not know that Club Sussed is the name of the club run by the estimable Carsmile Steve and No-Nickname Pete, at which Steve and I are the resident DJs. It used to take place eve[…]

A big thanks to boom selection (which would be in the urgent and key sidebar if my template editing wasn’t crashing the browser – in other words GO THERE) for alerting us to the King of The Boots night last night – most fun I’[…]

Speaking of pub crawls and jukeboxes, I put to you the proposal for Pub Idol (following the success of Pub Brother/Trig Brother last year). The rules are as before – ten contestants and an eviction process – but the determining factor is […]

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?[…]