THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
96. Belle And Sebastian – “Sleep The Clock Around”
Dave Boyle says:
I wasn’t one of the participants in drawing up this list, so if you don’t like this song’s presence in it, i) don’t bla[…]

Day 5: North Atlantic Drift
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES

After the first days stormy sea, today we seem caught almost in the doldrums (except I know where the doldrums are). Captain Jack, a surprisingly young sea dog who has the most appalling[…]

Please please please please please let a bunch of teenagers and a strangely human-like dog have been instrumental in solving this mystery! What’s Polish for “meddling kids”?[…]

HELP MY THEORY. I am probably wrong, so help me out before I make a big fool of myself. Has Clint Eastwood ever died in a film? Watching Million Dollar Baby yesterday it struck me that old actors are a wee bit wary of actually dying in films (unlike […]

SECRET RESOLUTION REVEALED
Okay, here is one of my benign, pointless resolutions revealed.
I have been sleeping the other way round in my bed since Jan 1st. Apparently a change is as good as a rest, and since I have been resting as well as making the[…]

Set yr videos. Just a quick reminder (mainly because I know I’ll forget). The BBC is repeating The Power OF Nightmares this week on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday after Newsnight. And handily just before you go to sleep and have actual nigh[…]

Crisis upon crisis: Arsenal running out of shirts.[…]

Refurb Update
Pre-Christmas I noted that one of my locals had undergone a substantial refurbishment. The Shaftesbury, in Upper Holloway, had been shut for four weeks – which is why I tagged it substantial .On further examination though they hav[…]

Maths Vs Music!: computer program predicts hits by number science and comes up with Norah Jones and Maroon Five OH NO! The article gets a bit muddled over what the mathematics of HSS can actually do (I doubt for example it can recommend ‘mathem[…]

1000 Number Ones
What a let-down, eh readers? No Rock And Roll Fun explains why it’s a bad thing, and Mike Troubled-Diva is running a poll to find the best of the 1000 No.1s – through ILM I think, rather than his website, but his website […]