If I can distract you from the current posting spat going on – I have sad news. Apparently according to Tim Hopkins “The Ring” is no more. Now it would not surprise us if the Ring – a gem of Southwark – was being spruce[…]

NAPALM DEATH
If you ask anyone it the music business about Napalm Death you will invariably get just the one response. “Lovely chaps” – they will say, almost as if they were the Kray Twins. You would expect them to then extoll upon […]

Shut it you cockfarmer.[…]

Hey! Has anyone seen this yet?[…]

Pop-Eye, 28th April 2002
Truly dreadful No.1 hits are rarer than you’d think – leaving out charity singles and Westlife’s perennially useless stool-pop, I can’t think of a really ghastly, what-has-gone-wrong-with-our-species t[…]

102 Beats That: the last twelve pieces, wrapping up the first leg of this feature. Enjoy them, and come back in June for the second stage. (Oh yeah, also link this feature you bastards! I think it’s good and deserves a wider audience.)[…]

CRAZY, SEXY, COOL
1. In Finland, two songs followed us up and down the country — Simply Red’s ‘Fairground’ and TLC’s ‘Waterfalls’. I didn’t listen to much soul music then but the contrast was obvious &#[…]

(Ooops. I fear the alcohol has killed my brain cells and buggered up my short term memory. Let this be a warning to you all. )[…]

Spazmo! I blogged that on the 19th, you mentalist. Do you not even read your own publog?! Anyway, a local has been found, a Very, Very local. Dodgy boozer Shennanigans is right opposite our house. It looks very much so like an estate pub. But never m[…]

“Without Me” is sadly not Eminem’s self-obsessed answer to Harry Nilsson’s “Without You” – though like most Eminem tracks it is stupendously self-obsessed. And like “The Real Slim Shady” this is y[…]