BREAKFAST OF BANALITY 1: SUPERTRAMP – Breakfast In America
“Take a look at my girlfriend – she’s the only one I got,
Not much a girlfriend – we never seem to get along”
Now I’m no relationship counsellor but […]

I wonder why the music industry had never thought of this before. If you don’t want people pirating Eminem then put out loads of bogus Eminem files on the web. It certainly comes under the definition of fighting fire with fire. Even better tha[…]

Just an addendum of the pub history stuff, I walked past the board outside the Bull & Mouth on New Oxford Street last night which has a detailed history of the pub and its name. The only part of this it that really interests me is at the end. Th[…]

No More Moby!: Why on earth is he so popular?: A Slate writer seems to believe it is APE LAW that all music must rock, and with that, a promising anti-Moby rant turns to dog food.
OK, once more, with feeling — the antirockist position in a form[…]

Andrew WK: I Get Wet: Pitchfork Review: Remarkable write-up of the Andrew WK album from Ryan Schrieber, Pitchforkmedia’s editor-in-chief.

Remarkable because it gets Andrew WK’s music so descriptively right – “Nothing co[…]

Tom’s Top Ten!
THE RAPTURE – “House Of Jealous Lovers”
LIGHTNING SEEDS – “3 Lions (Osymyso Remix)”
NELLY – “Hot In Herre”
SPACE COWBOY – “I Would Die 4 U”
HAPPY MONDAYS &#8[…]

THE BREAKFAST OF BANALITY
What is the most important meal of the day? I was asked this by some pesky consumer survey thing which had been popped through my door which was sitting upon the pile of unopened Britannia Music Club application forms and de[…]

josh blog is back, you’ll be pleased to hear.[…]

I am always a but suspicious when I see stories like this: Beyonce Knowles warning kids not to become pop stars. This is not that dissimilar to the bitching Michael Jackson did about the music industry at the weekend, though Beyonce has decided not t[…]

Old English cities are built of pubs: I just spent the weekend in York and like Oxford which I am well acqainted with, and even smaller towns like St Albans, the place is stuffed to the gills with pubs. There is something quite heartwarming about wal[…]