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Everyone has a personal moment at Glastonbury. A moment that is their own. In the past for me it has been hearing Blur play “This Is A Low” as the sun goes down, or […]

Hello, some of you may know me as Cabbage, however someone on Blogger has already knicked that, anyway, I like pubs, a lot.
Have you ever seen a pub and thought to yourself that it looks fantastic, like the sort of place that you could spend some ser[…]

More on covers: I know what Tom is getting at below, but I think he has allowed himself to step out of the realms of the subjective when he tried to explain the difference between oft cover standards and specific covers. The obvious difference to me […]

TOM’S TOP TEN!
ABBA – “Under Attack”
STEPS – “One For Sorrow”
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – “Losing My Edge”
NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – “Juicy”
MONTAGEM – “Vai Serginho”
WIRE[…]

BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 4: BLUR – Coffee And T(ea)V
B-b-but – says you the foolish music lover – the song is just called Coffee And TV. Well yes, but inherent in this clever word playing title is the contrast between Coffee (a breakfa[…]

EVERY TIME IT HAPPENS IT HAPPENS SO FAST
A hot Friday night, Summer 1985. Inertia everywhere – there’s not a lot left here for me, in 6 weeks I’ll be gone, leaving for London. But tonight something special – Factory Records ar[…]

The Balanescus’ severe and beautiful string arrangement of “Autobahn” sparks familiar questions: what is the point of a ‘cover version’? What makes a good one? Can a distinction – for once – be made between s[…]

The Jubilee Stuff is a five-part piece by The Pinefox, an 8,000 word quasi-diary of a week in June. It will be running every day this week on Freaky Trigger.
Also up on FT is His Wotanic Majesty’s Request, a very entertaining review of some Sca[…]

A subject which often comes back up here is that of televisions in pubs. We all know the horror of the TV showing MTV while the jukebox is banging out something completely different. And we are all aware that no matter what is on a TV screen the eye […]

NELLY — “Hot in Here”
This is how softcore porn works, right? Woman complains about the heat, woman takes off her clothes, woman wants to have…THE SEX! Or maybe Nelly just do some nasty dancing out on the dance floor. Or maybe[…]