What do you talk about, when you talk about music? Because I don’t remember. I remember sitting in a car at two in the morning, waking the neighbours with the talk. I remember beers and hoarse throats, the hush of listening, the glee, the mocke[…]

PREEYA KALIDIS – “Shakalaka Baby”
This could and should have been a lot stronger. It’s the lead single from Bombay Dreams, the West End’s first ‘Bollywood musical’, with tunes provided by A R Rahman, the youn[…]

BY WAY OF EXPLAINATION
I have been missing in action again dear reader, and as with previous enforced absences my lack of posting here has not meant that I have not been doing good out there in the real world. Indeed I spent much of the last month bu[…]

Some excerpts from my aborted notes to Mark Sinker’s epic “noise” essay (themselves a bastardization of an aborted essay on Lester Bangs/Richard Meltzer [just be thankful I left out the two paragraphs comparing Steve Albini to Dean […]

I am almost certain that the music that gets played at School Disco.com (though what is with that stupid suffix?) is more enjoyable than the music that gets played at Cream, but I still share the undercurrent of unease running through Alexis Petridis[…]

Grokepile is back!: I can upload again! (Get your requests in now.)[…]

Freaky Trigger vs The Cockfarmers – slight return.[…]

Hotter Than July? Hey, its a short piece on the ker-azee weather we’ve been having – but actually I rather appreciated the open fire being on in the Yorkshire Grey (Latham Street) last night. It dried me off no end. But I suppose a questi[…]

GEORGE MICHAEL – Shoot The Dog
Not the first person you would imagine knocking out an anti-American political song – George Michael. Certainly it is not the first time George has wandered down the route of po-facedness – both Songs […]

As Tim’s backstreet boozer search continues I keep being dragged back and back to the same old pubs. A pub name which has gotten a disproportionate amount of publicity from this site is The Blue Posts and there was a time when a week did not pa[…]