(A fairly desperate attempt to restore some reviews of actual current and forthcoming singles to NYLPM begins…)
CORNERSHOP – “Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III”
A sub-circle of pop hell is surely reserved for songwrite[…]

In the Library Pubs are ideal locations for a solitary read. As I had reached a very interesting bit in the book I’m currently reading while coming in on the tube today, it seemed reasonable that I go to a pub to continue perusing at lunchtime[…]

STRIPEOUT!!!! If you love old school style computer games and the White Stripes (imagine that Venn diagram if you will) then you can play Stripeout, a new online game from the White Stripes. The two-piece have thought of this absurd gimmick to get a […]

The finalists for the Evening Standard’s pub and bar of the year have been published.
I don’t have much to say about the bars on the list, because I haven’t been to any of them. Baltic is two doors down from the Ring, and I know wh[…]

Cider Armadillos were a new one on me. Having been at a football related event all day, with football fans from many clubs, much beer had already flowed, and arriving in Euston at 9.30 in the evening, the Head of Steam it was.
Some of these fellow f[…]

The Ring is, I suppose, a theme pub of a sort. Situated on Blackfriars Road near the long-demolished first home of English boxing, the Blackfriars Ring, the place is a one-room shrine to old boxers, and one gets the impression that a good portion of […]

Amusing to see (17th January) a confirmed Northern toper of confirmed Northern beer dismiss anything as ‘froth’, given how much one hears from our friends in the North about the merits of having a quarter of your pint taken up by just tha[…]

RANDY NEWMAN – Short People
Is it just me but is Randy Newman’s baiting of short people not dissimilar to the kind of Nazi propaganda which was spread in the 1930’s against the Jews? Utterly foundless, logically flawed and just hate[…]

THINGS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE (But Pubs Expect us To Do): 4
Believe that any food served within has actually been prepared and cooked on the premises. Home cooked is a phrase often bandied about, but what it actually means is it was cooked in someone&#8[…]

What is this nonsense! REM and No Doubt to play at a celebration of Bono gig. Let me get this straight. This is not a gig for humanitarian causes, it is a gig to honour a humanitarian, in this case the old puffed up, pompous leather sofa of rock hims[…]