Week of Quiz suffered a weekend lapse, owing to unsurprising lack of quiz to be had on a Friday and Saturday and urgent need to end a commitment of some six-months standing, namely the final episode of 24. Undeterred, ‘Jack and Nina’ spe[…]

The ten cd’s/tapes you are most likely to hear in a pub. This list basically tells us what we already knew, that the Now That’s What I Call Music compilations (thankfully) have dominion over this market. If the choice was a Now or The Be[…]

Here is a different way of measuring the popularity of various types of music. Here are a selection of lists from the Performing Rights Society which run through the most covered artists by live acts, the most performed reggae, folk tunes and the mos[…]

Week of Quiz continues at The Shepherds on Archway Road. No sign of any minor celebrities this evening but still the place was packed out. Those attending were “treated” to a pre-release listening to Coldplay’s new album which was[…]

I Love Music and I Love Everything have MOVED: They are now to be found at www.ilxor.com. From now on you will no longer be able to ask new questions on the old sites, and as much as possible we’ll be disabling posting too and redirecting speci[…]

SUNSCREEM – Love You More
‘You can make the sun turn purple, you can make the sea turn turtle
But you know you can never make me love you more.’
Don’t look for a rose in a cess-pit is an adage I’ve followed much of my li[…]

SUGABABES – “Round Round”
Higgins. Cooper. Cowling. Powell. Coler. Buchanan. Buena. Range. Pflueger. Stecher. Hofmann. Spadavecchiaand. These are the twelve people who wrote “Round Round”. This is twice as many people as[…]

Steve Earle-John Walkers Blues
It has had controversy, and then controversy about that controversy and then call outs about how the artist is doing this for the publicity, which makes Steve Earle’s John Walkers Blues an official meme.
I have […]

A Manifesto, by Various Geezers
Geezaesthetics was coined by ILE’s Jerry The Nipper as a one-word summary of our critical stance. What did he mean? Only he knows (printing this is at least partly a nudge at him to tell us!) – we took it as an[…]

NIght three of the Week of Quiz and things go a little awry. Despite having several chalkboards saying that the quiz was on Wednesday night, it turned out that the Winchester, on Archway Road, holds its quiz on Thursday. The Winchester was much imp[…]