Football chiefs after Ant & Dec for World Cup Song: Hmm, football chiefs might be on to a slightly better bet that Bubble and Dean anyway. Ant & Dec (who knows, maybe they will resurrect their PJ & Duncan identities) of course were nom[…]

The Gossip, The Point Oxford, sometime in August
There I am running rivers of sweat down my neck, down my chest, down my belly and through my shirt, and I’m dancing harder than I’ve ever danced to a rock band. (more…)[…]

Bubble and Dean write World Cup song: misty-eyed foreigners who yearn for UK pop scene please note.[…]

Blacked Up Female Jackson 5 in racist shockah![…]

SPECIAL MOTH – SQUAREPUSHER STOLE MY BARBEQUE
It’s probably wrong to have a music obsessed boyfriend and ask him what he thinks of your record collection. But IF LUVVIN YOU IS WRONG, I DON’T WANNA BE RIGHT or in other words, I went […]

The Origin Of The Species
The tape itself is some fifteen years old, from a time when buying new blank tapes seemed as big a thing as buying shoes, so the same four or five were recorded over again, and again, matted with sound and fuzz. This one pro[…]

HELMET – “Unsung”
Sounds like Black Sabbath – “Ironman”, to be exact. A bit faster (of course), and the guitars are extra-shiny, but Page Hamilton’s barking marches in step with Ozzy’s caterwauling. T[…]

daveyblog: this is the bloke who I got that chart of bootleg MP3s from. A link as promised![…]

“I’m thrilled that Sting has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Next for his KNIGHTHOOD!”: the UK music business provides one moment of rock-solid entertainment every year – no, not the BRIT Awards, but the Talking P[…]

JIMI HENDRIX – “Drifting”
Notes enter, chiming like church bells, repeating and ringing over each other. Then a light patter of drums, a brief reminisce of old sounds, running backwards now, before that voice comes. Floating, drifti[…]