Dylan And Me: caution, if you’re the kind of reader who thinks autobiographical detail doesn’t belong in pop criticism, you won’t like this. Also up today – Familiarity Breeds Surprise, another personal essay, this time by Bil[…]

A quick point of order re- this whole etiquette thing. Pete – a man so rude as to not remember a young lady’s name (it was Nicky) – did not in fact offer the bar stools to us laydeez but sat down with great speed and smugness. Tut t[…]

I thoroughly disagree with John’s dislike of the pub table grab. Improving ones situation in life is something which we should always strive for. We go to a pub because we like its ambience, because we like the beer, because we like the pub. Th[…]

Further to Pete’s LJR story below, I think he made an initial error. The Pub Table Grab is a manoeuvre that should never be attempted. I can’t think of anything which makes me feel less comfortable in a pub than looking around hawkishly[…]

THE BE GOOD TANYAS (like hell I will)
In the film Candyman you needed to say the name of the films bogeyman (and particular nasty sixties kiddies song which is much more horrific) six times in-front of a mirror for him to appear. To invoke me all you[…]

And the last time I was in a Mr Q’s pub, a dog had been sick on the carpet. Difficult to say if this is representative of the chain.[…]

Okay, another pub story, another treatise on pub ettiquette. Last week I, Mr & Mrs Carsmile, Emma and A.N.Other (whose name has been forgotten) were in that most haunted of London boozers the Lord John Russell. For all its charms the place is qu[…]

I’m not quite sure what kind of reception Adam F’s KAOS project has got in hip-hop circles, but I for one know that the records that have come out of it have been a damn sight better than his previous noodlings. Is there a distinctive Bri[…]

DUEL! 2002 – Round 1 Match 9

Duel 2002 Round 1 Match 9

Which Of These Bands Is Worse?

Belle And Sebastian

Travis

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Our Scottish Correspondent S.Clarke says –
“It’s the triangular fac[…]

Back from the brink of bankruptcy, Pitchfork is on fine roll-your-eyes form with this review of a Def Jux sampler. “The beats on DJP2 are dark, jagged, and intriguing, and not a single one of them could in any way be deemed “danceable.&#8[…]