Vain attempt to demonstrate the pop supremacy of “Touchy!” by A-Ha (don’t forget the “!”, philistines!). A quick look at Amazon and other reviewish sites confirms my loneliness on this point – the reviews made mise[…]

What meat-eater hasn’t had a revelation along the lines of: “If all vegetarian food were this good, I’d give up meat today”? I’ve had a few over the years, the most recent being a vegetable stock I discovered when lookin[…]

Good question, Riley. The answer is: 10 inch, solid aluminium costing $5000 each. Bling! etc[…]

Dare You!: I’m glad this ILM thread is getting going, I was a bit worried it would die a death, or just turn into people ‘daring’ people to listen to something they know the other would hate. I am not sure I’d have heard to an[…]

Catterick
The new Reeves and Mortimer (writers and stars) sitcom, on BBC3 at present, is for the most part as odd an affair as you’d guess. Lots of strange characters played by a great cast including Matt Lucas, Dennis Healey, Charlie Higson, M[…]

Patriotism Corner: God bless you, T A Harley! “These pages contain information about one of my favourite interests, the British weather.” He’s not joking either! I’ve already put some of it to ‘good use’ on Popular[…]

Tyrone Davis and a genre’s 10th percentile
I was listening to a fine old soul twofer, Tyrone Davis’s Can I Change My Mind/Hold Back The Hands Of Time (a bargain at £5 from Fopp) and thinking of recommending it here, which I guess I&[…]

Coming Soon!!! by John Barth: What’s it about?
I’m not sure how useful the above question is in general, but it’s something we all ask and I guess almost all reviews try to address it too. I was thinking of this while reading John B[…]

Teaching The Indie Kids To Dance Again is a new MP3 blog. A noble aim I’m sure – I recommend “Ay Ay Ay Ay Moosey” by Modern Romance. Anyway it seems to specialise in ‘punk-funk’ so check it out if you like that, or[…]

Is greyhound racing a sport? Well it is a battle to determine physical perfection, which might be one of the definitions. However do the dogs really know that they ae racing, do they know that their job is to beat the other dogs, and more importantly[…]