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[…]

From today’s Times (thanks Magnus):
“According to the experts on The Times arts staff, there are now so many distinct types of music that different factions tend to do their own thing and ignore each other. The only way in which they can […]

Blogcritics has launched, promising the ‘best writers’ online talking about music and stuff. I didn’t recognise any of the names myself but that’s fine, right? An opportunity to find some good new online writers. The issues so[…]

Week of quiz – Night Two A well supported night of quiz ends with limited success. First, we went to the Settle Inn on Archway Road. The last time I went to the Settle Inn, it proved to be a particularly enjoyable quiz, which was why it was d[…]

Leicester Square is generally a very poor place to try to get a drink. Pete is right that De Hems is your best bet in this area. Further options range between the limited number of other OK-but-very-full pubs or the numerous unspeakable-but-full pu[…]

De Hems is back up and running I noticed on a quick trip around London. Its a pub I have very mixed feelings about. To all intents and purposes it is a theme bar after all. The big exception is that there aren’t an awful lot of Dutch theme bars[…]