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Coming to Club Popular?
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Coming to Club Popular? Stuck for suggestions…?. The contest (scroll down) is still open…[…]

Chants laureate appointed
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Chants laureate appointed: If you thought the entire scheme to appoint a chants laureate was a misguided notion fated to produce ‘chants’ that are over-elaborate and not very funny… then you were probably right.[…]

Major Sidebar Revamp!
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Major Sidebar Revamp! Since downloads of our lovely PopNose files have declined rather I’m putting them on the sidebar (including new PopNose 14) – I’ll still put an entry here for the increasingly scarce comments and of course the […]

Transylvanian Blood Vodka
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Transylvanian Blood Vodka
Produced in the foothills of the Transylvanian mountains to a recipe rputed to be the favoured drink of Count Vlad Dracula from the 15th Century, Blood Vodka is made with mountain spring water distilled twice for extra quali[…]

You’re listening to the…
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You’re listening to the…: The Streets’ new album is out today. Lots of people, me included, think it’s great. But what – or who – does it actually sound like? NYLPM presents its dinner-party guide to names to drop […]

TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
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TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
Now if there is any nationality who knows about drinking, it is the Irish. Unfortunately if there is any nationality that knows about maudlin drunken sing-songs with instrumen[…]

The Honeymooners is a low budget Irish romantic comedy
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The Honeymooners is a low budget Irish romantic comedy with a solid script, attractive leads and a nice flair for naturalistic characterisation. At least it is when the camera is pointing at the action, and not flipping all over the gaffe. It is quit[…]

In the last ten years there has been no Central London venue suggestion
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In the last ten years there has been no Central London venue suggestion that made the heart sink more than ‘Let’s meet at the Moon Under The Water‘. Even if you disregard that they are Wetherspoon’s pubs, one needed to conside[…]

Everyone knows that Boogie Nights
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Everyone knows that Boogie Nights was loosely based of the life of John Holmes, right? That was the justification for putting the let-down last quarter in. The heist gone wrong section of Dirk Diggler’s life seemed out of place in the otherwise[…]

Judge Dredd bans Emo
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Judge Dredd bans Emo (really this should go in tomorrow’s links round-up but I can’t access ILX at work).[…]

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