www.savethesession.com: A website built to ‘save’ Radio 1’s Evening Session. Actually includes a compelling dossier of evidence in favour of early evening “regime change” e.g. “Coldplay were given that all importan[…]

Top Of The Pops: The Stars Remember. “Because it’s run by the government and it’s at BBC Television Centre, all the rooms in the back are exactly the same as the ones you go to when you’re signing on” – useful prep[…]

A sacred cow to the slaughter?
a few birthday drinks for a friend were scheduled at the George (you know, the one in Borough), a pub i like but, as Tim says appears to be one of London’s sacred cow pubs. Always un-dissable, never criticised, a[…]

I’ve found my self drinking in dives for the last few months. Not working class pubs, but really honest dives. The ones w beer stained carpets, laminate tables, and chipboard walls. The ones where you only drink beer in bottles, and you only dr[…]

Tom’s Top Ten!
This could have been a top 20 very easily – so much good stuff reaching my ears right now! No write-ups, though I want to write up some of them separately, we’ll see.
MISSY ELLIOTT – “Work It”
BREEZE[…]

www.reggae-riddims.com – Blimey! (thanks Tim)[…]

POP-EYE RINGTONE REVIEWS!
Forget this “singles” nonsense! The “kids” today rate their “pop” based on one thing only – how does it sound coming out your PHONE when you get a call and your “mates” a[…]

Eight Fragments For Barry Gibb: an excellent little essay by Mark Richard-San, about disco revisionism. The sort of thing I’d absolutely love to have run myself, actually.[…]

The Old Dairy on Stroud Green Road holds two quizzes each week. Their music quiz is held every Thursday but we were there on a Tuesday for the general knowledge quiz. The crowd was youthful and lively (i.e. brash and drunk), with the exception of a[…]

Mobos 2002: The nominees: like most UK awards there’s a faint tinge of the unneccessary about the MOBOs, and the polite fudge that “music of black origin” needn’t be “music made by black people” is typically Britis[…]