When Ur A Clone…: blog I hadn’t seen before, linked by Oh, Manchester… who correctly calls it “poptastic”. Has the midweek charts – the interesting thing is that David Sneddon’s only sold 19,000 records so fa[…]

I’ll admit it, I didn’t like ‘What I Go To School For’ when it first came out, I thought oh no, not a boy band with guitars, and no drummer, what new evil is this? But then as time went by it clicked, these guys aren’t s[…]

THE CHEEKY GIRLS ACCORDING TO WILFRED HODGES
If “We are the cheeky girls” then “You are the cheeky Boys” = True then you can touch my bum.
“We are the Cheeky Girls” is (unfortunately) True.
“You are the Cheek[…]

The other new pub to visit on the Euston Hexagon after the (yet again visited at the weeked for ruin) Dun-A-Ri was The Boot. The Boot from the outside is a quaint little place just off of Judd Street. Painted green, with darkish windows and a cute al[…]

Into ’03 With The Real Music Martyrs: well, not really because despite a staggering five Reality-Pop singles in the charts this week the only thing that’s been pushed out is “Addicted To Love” by Shake vs Robert Palmer, which […]

The Dun-A-Ri – yes that is an Irish name and hence it has been given the epitaph of The Irish Bar. High praise indeed to be given the definite article in a city full of Irish pubs after all. However it is more an echo of The Spanish Bar (which […]

BOREDS OF CANADA (Do You See)
Look out parents. All over the world there are grubby, unkempt men hiding in bushes near playing fields, schools and outside sweet shops. No, it is not Gary Glitter or any one of his paedo gang – this is something […]

Lunes Felices: “Diagnostico confirmado: Pete Baran es un nabazo.”. A run through various inadequate translation software doesn’t tell me what precisely Pete Baran is but it does tell me we have a dissatisfied and thoughtful reader h[…]

“Six years ago, my record collection reflected a human being who was quite limited. Now it reveals an interesting adult.”: Future Sound Of London – they’re back and they’re still talking about their record collections.[…]

Everybody’s favourite new rock band The Libertines do the interview thing with The Guardian. Surely Michael Bracewell designed them in a lab??[…]