The kind of person who goes to the pub for a game of giant Jenga is called “a student”.
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Why is it that Outkast records sound so unlike anything else going on in hip-hop and yet sound so right? The Whole World is a bouncy barnyard of a single, infectious and as singalong as anything Outkast have released previously. But more importantly […]

The pool table research is interesting, as running a bar it is the only area where we have ahad any fights in the last two years. The question arises though on a like-on-like comparison between pubs with pool tables and pubs with giant Jenga, which c[…]

IHM APPOSITE BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: The Blockheads
Narrowly beating out The Dum-Dums at having the most fitting band name, The Blockheads managed to pick on a fizgog which summed them up to a remarkable degree. I would always hate them of course, sin[…]

Duel 2002 Round 1 Match 7

Which Of These Two Bands Is Worse?

The Stereophonics

The Strokes

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A handbag full of tar and a gladrag soaked in chloroform — Jesus, where do you even begin to ta[…]

Behind the 8-ball This research is fascinating but it isn’t the only report that SIRC have published on pub life. The seminal work Conflict and Violence in Pubs has some interesting comments on how to design pubs to avoid trouble between the […]

My word! Something which appears to be your actual research on the pub! I haven’t had time to scour this but it seems distressingly right-headed for someone like me who likes to disagree with things in a curmudgeonly fashion. I have to say that[…]

At first it was difficult to believe, Marilyn Manson’s version of Tainted Love – for all its chest beating machismo, is actually much, much camper than the Soft Cell one. Then I went home and listened to the original and realised it isn&#[…]

POP-EYE 3/3/02
Mist, velveteen and thick, slowly expanded to take up the space where previously merely fresh air lived. It rolled over this – the oldest of rivers its thick oily river snaking between the south of his past and the north of his e[…]

It’s obvious why this Pitchfork reviewer didn’t like the new Lambchop album – see for instance what he says about their last record, Nixon: “As the band’s makeshift orchestra performed horn and string swoops worthy of a […]