Gloria Goes To The Movies
Good ideas are not restricted to one blog round here, and an agitated pub discussion (what else) last Friday suggested Gloria might want to come to Do You See. After all the concepts of authenticity, pretension and critical […]

…and you will know us by the trail of dead: and the rest will follow
They are a real lower case sort of band, a sorta Archers of Loaf/Polvo/Iron Maiden mish-mash. I like this song for three main reasons:
1. It’s an anthem with a marching […]

SARAH’S POP POSER!
In “Negotiate With Love”, Rachel Stevens sings:
“The other day you said hello/We had a coffee/Now the next thing I know you’re playing me/Crap”.
Now. Is she saying, “the next thing you&#821[…]

Who’s London: plan your own walking tour for Saturday afternoon to get you in the mood, thanks to Diamondgeezer.[…]

Mike’s Pop Pilgrimages
No.5 – Wayne Hussey’s willy, London
I used to be a bit of a goth. No, that’s not true, I used to be a lot of a goth; a suede-booted, black-haired, cross-in-ear, bangle-wristed embarrassment to my parents[…]

GUESS MY THEORY #3 or #4

the one that isn’t dub dob dee = kerensky[…]

The Machinist is a film where Christian Bale plays his old nemesis Nick Dastoor and challenges for thinnest man in the world status. It is a psychological thriller which uses the plot twist du jour (cf Hide’n’Seek and Secret Window) but a[…]

Corporate Social Responsibility. Don’t you just love the sound of a phrase that is instantly abbreviated into meaninglessness as CSR. What does it mean? It means that those of us who run bars are socially responsible for making sure that the pu[…]

Mike’s Pop Pilgrimages
No.4 – Rachel and James, Manchester
A different sort of pilgrimage this time. Rachel was a college hanger-on. One of those lost souls who drifts about campus, knows everyone, but doesn’t technically belong the[…]

Or “The Bravery single”. This was the dread revelation that came upon me after buying Now 60, as headphone listening transformed “half-memorable blur on the office radio” into “sharp well-produced pop single”. Web […]