Caribbean cover versions with the wrong words
Among the many pleasures in reggae cover versions is that they don’t take a great deal of trouble to get the lyrics correct. This was spurred by listening to yet another Trojan Box Set, this the Reg[…]

As mentioned almost a year ago, probably my favourite artist is Ed Ruscha. But, until last weeked, I had never seen any in the flesh. I had survived pretty much on They Called Her Styrene by Phaidon and a few web covers. One of the appeals to me of t[…]

VANISHING LONDON…
1: Mole Jazz
(Part one in an occasional series, done partially under protest because one of the best things in London is the constant renewal – good and bad.)
Mole Jazz used to be right at teh bottom of the Gray’s […]

HOORAY FOR ACID RAIN. Okay so the pH3 drizzle might not be so good for your car paintwork over time (though not a bad as the throwaway culture we live in eh readers), but it might be saving us from global warming. I love this kind of science. It is a[…]

If you look at that map Steve mentions, there’s lots of new activity, all welcome no doubt, but very little bid spending, crossrail aside. The Hackney-Chelsea line has bitten the dust, even though preservation powers were taken on the route ali[…]

More Woody: The title gag goes as follows “Do you ever wonder about the futility of life, the horrific impending spectre of death and the fact it seems impossible to relate to anyone in this world?”
Cab Driver -“Well you know, it&#8[…]

John Michael Montgomery
Letters To Home
All the country stations I listen to are attaching this track to pro-war/pro-soldier campaigns. This is because it manages to combine the concrete and the abstract in a really banal way. Nothing is metioned abo[…]

London Threatened
Not that many Doctor Who stories are set mainly in London, and in fewer still is the city directly menaced. Okay, yes, in one story an embarrassing Loch Ness Monster waves its head around near some Bankside office blocks, but gener[…]

I could spend hours and hours looking at this, although obviously it should be called “Putting Transport on the SCHEMATIC.” If (and it’s a huge if) this does all come to fruition, will this new map (whatever) change the way we thin[…]

PRESENTERATOR
an occasional series rating the modern British television presenting animal out of 10
#2: “The Curious Case Of” SUZI PERRY
Suzi Perry, for the unfamiliar, is first and foremost the presenter of the Moto GP (i.e. big fuck-off[…]