Old Gold Dreams: a Friday Freaky Trigger update, since I’m having a quiet night in! Here we have a review of Steps’ greatest hits by me, and here the AMG’s Andy Kellman contributes to our C90 Go! feature, writing up a vaguely-themat[…]

Osymyso – pop troublemaker behind “Intro-Inspection” – has his own website, with lots of hidden MP3s and audio-snippets. He was playing at last night’s King Of The Boots, though I didn’t stick aound for his set. No[…]

Snap shots I had a very pleasant, unchallenging pint at lunchtime in the Edinburgh Tavern off Fleet Street. It’s a nice pub. The food looked pretty good, pie and mash on a Friday, though I restricted myself to liquids. For what it’s w[…]

WOODY GUTHRIE – This Land Is Your Land
Teaching children to sing folk songs might be about as rewarding as assigning them book reports on The Abridged Moby Dick. (Kudos goes out to the Langley Schools Music Project one more time, for bucking t[…]

The kind of person who goes to the pub for a game of giant Jenga is called “a student”.
Number of articles matching “Giant Jenga students” on Google = 69.
Number of articles matching “Giant Jenga taxpayers” on Goog[…]

Why is it that Outkast records sound so unlike anything else going on in hip-hop and yet sound so right? The Whole World is a bouncy barnyard of a single, infectious and as singalong as anything Outkast have released previously. But more importantly […]

The pool table research is interesting, as running a bar it is the only area where we have ahad any fights in the last two years. The question arises though on a like-on-like comparison between pubs with pool tables and pubs with giant Jenga, which c[…]

IHM APPOSITE BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: The Blockheads
Narrowly beating out The Dum-Dums at having the most fitting band name, The Blockheads managed to pick on a fizgog which summed them up to a remarkable degree. I would always hate them of course, sin[…]

Duel 2002 Round 1 Match 7

Which Of These Two Bands Is Worse?

The Stereophonics

The Strokes

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A handbag full of tar and a gladrag soaked in chloroform — Jesus, where do you even begin to ta[…]

Behind the 8-ball This research is fascinating but it isn’t the only report that SIRC have published on pub life. The seminal work Conflict and Violence in Pubs has some interesting comments on how to design pubs to avoid trouble between the […]