Big events I learnt last night that the Football Association was formed in 1863 in The Freemason’s Arms on Great Queen Street, near Covent Garden. And there’s a pub, just south of Fleet Street, that claims to be the place where the good-[…]

Like many people I firmly believe that music has a social responsibility. Where I and – say Bono – differ is in what that social responsibility is. The ironically challenged U2 lead singer may say that the role of pop music in this day a[…]

Publoggers Deadly Sins No. 1: Not drinking. So in the midst of a pre / post Xmas / New Year fug I decided to quit drinking for the month of January. Then I chickened out and plumped for 2 weeks taking it one day at a time. Then I realised this was to[…]

A note on architecture, since we are being all erudite and general today. There is a school of thought that says that pubs built in the sixties are bad. Especially if they were attached to an equally impoverished (architecture wise) housing estate. A[…]

And so – as Sarah notes below – surely the fact that Johnny Henshall is dating Lisa Steps – would make the world cry out FIX. Can we really be led to believe that Johnny (pro dancer that he is and ex-member of top tweny no marks Boo[…]

Welcome Johnny Shentall to Hear’Say! Or don’t cos he looks EVEN ORANGIER than Ricky Martin and Enreekie Iglesias (that’s what they call him in Scotland) sharing the Love That Dare Not Speak It’s Name! Urgent and Key Facts. Joh[…]

It was easy. It was cheap….: well, free, actually – a bunch of music apps that YOU TOO can use to produce joke IDM versions of popular rap hits![…]

From weekly to weakly: Observer overview of the music press which really infuriated me when I read it on Sunday but now doesn’t, making this rather a feeble way to start a day’s NYLPM posts I suppose. Not that this is a good article &#821[…]

This Heat – “Cenotaph”
Cliches For A Reason: Not Knowing What Else To Do, Singers Sing Songs About 9/11 is an article @ the Village Voice by Douglas Wolk about sifting through a mountain of tapes culled from a call by the Voice for […]

Hear’Say accused of ‘beardism’: apparently in their search for a replacement for Kym Marsh Hear’Say have been turning away people with beards. They have now been accused of beardism by the Beard Liberation Front. To fans of th[…]