“The Last Pop Star” – that’d be Morrissey, then. Directionless overview of the great man’s career which doesn’t get to the heart of things (but then what does?). One line sparks interest – “It seems dis[…]

VITALIC – “Poney Part 1”
There’s something magical about singles which are built around just one floor-destroying sound. You can imagine the look of humbled awe on the producer’s face as they stumble upon that noise, wai[…]

Exploration! After Cabbage’s post about the George’s transformation, finding ourselves in London bridge last night, we decided that we would try going to SHOCK GASP HORROR, Another Pub. After meeting in the dreadful, dreadful Barrowboy an[…]

MARIANNE FAITHFUL – “Sliding Through Life On Charm”
Everyone knows Marianne Faithful:
She was the Stones Number One Groupie
She was found with a mars bar up her cunt and/or wrapped in a white fur rug in a drug bust in the country h[…]

MORTON FELDMAN — “Why Patterns?”
Indeed, why patterns?
Well, repetition can lead to knowledge, and knowledge can lead to predictability, and predictability can lead to comfort, the comfort of knowing you live in a predictable univer[…]

TOTP chief says top 40 has lost its “credibility”: Chris Cowey slams first-week-discounts for UK Singles and says the chart doesn’t reflect what’s actually popular. His arguments don’t wash. Firstly while sales are an im[…]

Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
“Once. Then no more… ever. But to have been as one, through but the once, with this world, never can be undone.
“So we persevere, attempting to resolve it and contain it in our grasp, in overfilled ey[…]

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[…]