Policeman’s breaking arm prevent Doors Cult from performing. There is so much that is funny about this story. The Doors reformation replaces original lizard king dead guy Jim Morrison with Bradford slow worm guy Ian Astbury. That I can more or […]

SFIAB 4: DAVID BOWIE – Low
Is that a description of sales or quality Dave?[…]

BLUR – “Don’t Drop The Bomb When You’re The Bomb”Hmm. It’s not electro, it’s not indie rock, it’s not house, it’s not pop, it’s not coherent or consistent, it’s not techno; I could pr[…]

Quite frankly, if ever I encounter the inventor of The (quirky and preferrably plural) Noun for Garage bands, I’ll hit him with my special edition Stratocaster. But for all you Datsuns/Barracudas and Vipers loving fuzz-freaks, I direct you to t[…]

Call me a pub elitist, but here comes the three weeks of hell. The three weeks when the pubs slowly fill with the punters who don’t usually go to pubs. Now I’m not sure what the knock on effect will be this year, previous years have seen […]

SFIAB 3: NICKLEBACK – Never Again
Oh – please, please.[…]

So you form an incediary rock band to change the face of music. You have a manifesto, you have the soundbites, you eventually learn to play your insturments. Your debut album is a double and will be “the last album you ever release”. It d[…]

The death of the jukebox. Way back when in the mists of time (cliche alert) when th publog was almost stillborn, one of our founding tenets was a mnifesto that good pubs generally had jukeboxes. SInce that moment jukeboxes have slowly been becoming m[…]

SFIAB 2: NICKLEBACK – Too Bad
Usage: As in Too Bad to be allowed to live.[…]

Farben – Silikon
11 pm on Thanksgiving night, a bunch of suitably overstuffed Americans. I want to put on some music to sleep to, as the last several days had been filled with the oldies station on the four hour drive to Bellingham and Nancy&#[…]