That hairy seed-pod we all know and love
I was in Memphis last week for the Tortoise concert (they kicked ass, thanks for asking) and George* and I started off with dinner at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant, Pho Saigon. Before our food came out I […]

Sunday Afternoon. Four thirty. I know it is the end of the football season, and pretty much everything is decided, but how many people do you think might be in a Battersea bar watching, on a very generous big screen, the Arsenal Fulham game? If we le[…]

The sound went ker-fluiieee when I went to see Van Helsing on Sunday. (Yes I know, I too fear that I am becoming a jinx). So my experience of the film is tempered by
a) Missing a bit in the middle while I went out to notify/complain to the management[…]

TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
Gin Soaked Boy – The Divine Comedy
This sacrilige on my favoured tipple makes me physically sick, unlike the lovely drink it is based on. The Divine Comedy of course was Dante’s recolections of his travels t[…]

THE FOUR TUNES – “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” (aka PopNose 11) – bluesy doo-wop from 1953, the Four Tunes’ last RCA release according to this site. I love this record – it’s drenched in resigned sorr[…]

Why Superman is rubbish. Or to be more precise, a Time article on why Superman is rubbish at the moment. If one bypasses obvious small reasons like Chuck Austen writing one of them, the article misses out the real reason. Superman is, with one except[…]

Linkses:
Nick Southall’s review of The Streets is one of the more sensible ones.
Speaking of The Streets, comparisons pour in. The Specials, Serge Gainsbourg (duh!), Chas N Dave, Dexys, J.Pac, and Posey Simmons’ Gemma Bovary! Ive also see[…]

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

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! 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 […]