A few songs into my shift at the Birkbeck end-of-term party a guy came up to the decks. “Do you have a card?” “What?” “I’m getting married this year, I wondered if you had a card, you know, with your mobile on it.&[…]

SOUL DIMENSION – “Trash-An-Ready” (aka PopNose2): I have been able to find out almost nothing about this track! Search parties came back empty-handed save for an offhand reference by the all-knowing Woebot to early hip-hop/dancehall[…]

Zaha Hadid Rules !
The thing with Zaha Hadid is that she does not do much theory, or the theory she does is a bout buildings and not cities. Her buildings are about the logical extensions of material and form–so radical in many ways that she is[…]

I was blown away by this last night. It was stunning in so many ways.
The ENO production pushed the humour to the front and the comic foil; Papageno hammed it up to the crowd. There is a lot of character and location movement in The Magic Flute and t[…]

“There’s a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road – that’s where I’ll always be….” Zatoichi is The Littlest Hobo. With a sword. And lots and lots of bloodshed. The kind of blodshed that would not have been[…]

Much as the Publog keeps a keen eye out for new snack food produce, Proven By Science will occasionally cast its eye at the scientific (and more probably pseudo-scientific) domestic products. And they don’t come more domestic than Domestos Pink[…]

Troubled Diva is playing a game comparing ‘this week in pop’ across the decades, with a sort-of megamix for each day. Great idea, well executed. Currently the 1960s are winning: a shame I think as my own pop researches suggest that 1964 w[…]

PopNose V2.0
NYLPM is four years old today, and it’s time to freshen up the format a little bit. What I’ve decided to do is bring PopNose, our MP3 blog, onto NYLPM. Hits ahoy! But PopNose itself wasn’t without its problems, which is[…]

Fluffy Dub! Reasons to love Kelis’ “Trick Me”.
1/ Dancehall borrowings in R&B are a wonderful thing but lifting your groove from pop-reggae is more unusual and – yay! – more fun too.
2/ Kelis’ delivery of th[…]

The Breakfast Club Night can be counted a success, I reckon. We had a devil of a time getting the decks sorted out but once that was out of the way everyone had a good time. The venue – The Chapel in Islington – is a good one, just the ri[…]