THE PUMPKIN ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL: December 4. 4-5% by volume
CARLING BLACK LABEL
No-one ever said that every door on this advent calendar had to be nice. Instead a few musings on Britain’s most popular lager. Cheap, nasty, stuck in a no-[…]

We’re trying to invite Mr Q onto NYLPM but the invites are snarling up. Meanwhile, here’s his review of…
SCORPIONS – ‘Drifting Sun’
track from Fly to the Rainbow, 1974
Krautrock was the most escape-obsessed genre e[…]

THE PUMPKIN ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL: December 4. 3-4% by volume
BATEMANS DARK MILD
Sometimes certain drinks take on a legendary status in ones life. It may be as a result of their being consumed during important days (or years), it may be because […]

Everyone has a secret love in art, and mine is horses and dogs, hunting scenes and other nostagic anglophilia (more Byron then the Beatles. Taking that in mind, Christie’s “Sporting Art” Auction, to be held at London in the next cou[…]

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I need to know’ Is she my grandchild? Don’t get rid of our baby’ I’m no cheat. And my personal favourite, Wife ‘ Stop Disappearing. All recent subtitles on Trisha, which is followed on ITV2 by the far superior Trisha Ext[…]

Not much to add to what yer (other) man Farrell said here about interMission. Except what is it with that typesetting. It is almost as if the word Mission ought to be important to the film. It isn’t.
A more pertinant question might be to ask ab[…]

THE PUMPKIN ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL: December 3 : 2-3% by volume
TESCO’S VALUE LAGER
The good old red, white and blue. What feelings does it provoke in you? Patriotic pride at the Rugby? Shame at the way it was co-opted in the seventies as […]

Christmas songs are a good thing, no? Well, if you like Christmas they are. If you don’t then no doubt somewhere on the web there is an MP3 of Will Oldham playing ‘We Three Kings’ on a zither that you can adopt as your ‘favour[…]

B3TA’s worst record ever poll
Makes for depressing reading really – if you like B3TA. I had no idea most B3TA readers were such fun-haters. A lot of hate for R&B a lot of casually worded violence for anything (eek) pop, and then just ran[…]