KATE BUSH — ‘This Woman’s Work’
What Isabel likes about Bush is her range — ‘lots of variety; most of your CDs get boring after a few tracks’ — and I kind of agree, though one Kate Bush song is more lik[…]

The honour of a nation is saved! – by, erm, Dirty Vegas.[…]

‘We can live in the
empty spaces of this life/my baby says ‘Far away/the STARS ARE COMING ALL UNDONE/oh but that’s far away, and we’re young!/If the Devil comes, we’ll just shoot him with a gun’[…]

LATA MANGESHKAR – “Zamana Yeh Samhja Ke Hum Pi Ke Aaye”
Now as you may have noticed questions of authenticity and the circumstances surrounding the making of records don’t really bug me much. Head for ILM and nose around if yo[…]

More from the FT archives – and we’re only on the letter ‘D’. (A couple of pieces seem to be unformattable and I’ll try and find some other way of uploading them, too). Rescued from limbo today we have:
– Layo and […]

Is it bollocks. ‘Tacky, camp and glamorous, ‘Sunglasses At Night’ is the perfect antidote to dad house, flu rock, ‘Pop Idol’ and every other blight on the current pop landscape.’ Or so says NME.
Spurred on by simi[…]

(Wahey! I posted something NOT from Ananova!)[…]

If the world of the Dudley Corporation is currently a lonely one then THEY SHOULD NOT YET DESPAIR! For the power of my subconcious has come to save them!!! The Corpo, you see, have saved my faith in rock music many a time! In a world where the rockis[…]

The Devil has all the best tunes, as the saying goes – though he certainly did not use one for Sympathy For The Devil. I’m not so sure though, because recently I have been stuck on Dum Maro Dum by Asha Bhosle – which is from the fil[…]

Tom’s Top Ten! – now we’ve got a comments function this might actually serve some vague non-ornamental purpose.
SUGABABES – “Freak Like Me”
HOLLY VALANCE – “Kiss Kiss”
NO DOUBT – “Hell[…]