Day 11: So Lonely
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES

I awoke strung up on some sort of makeshift crucifix. Upon further examination it seemed to be constructed from a sun lounger and my wrists were bound by the elastic used to keep the cushions on. […]

OK Listen Up
There are only TWO days to go until Club Freaky Trigger’s special 00s night. This will be one of the best Club FTs ever and you are strongly recommended to come. It is, as usual, at the Chapel Bar in Islington. Fingers crossed we w[…]

Not being terribly well yesterday I wanted to curl up and watch some cinematic comfort food. I picked Raiders Of The Lost Ark, which I’d not seen since I was 13. It was interesting how different the film is from the version of the film I’[…]

I was hurt on Saturday, and could not explain why to myself. And then I worked it out. Good friend and TMFD editor Tim was reticent to talk about the football game we had both been to, down different ends, which was remarkably unlike him. At the time[…]

On Team America: World Police

Politics I: Any real ideology is eclipsed by the need to make things funny.
Politics II: If they were really evil republicans with an axe to grind, wouldn’t they attack people loved by the left and hated by the ri[…]

Day 10: Deeper Underground
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES

I must have walked for miles in that cave system. Everytime I seemed to be getting closer to the source of the infernal noise, it turned out to be another echo chamber. Much of the system[…]

BLOG WHAT YOU SEE
After once seeing a certain chocolate bar in the shop round the corner, and then never seeing it again EVER in my life (expect me to blog the full story when I have access to a computer at the same time I have access to several bott[…]

Resolved: Visit one new (to me) football ground a month
January:
Teams: Leyton FC vs Wealdstone
League: Ryman Premier
Entry Price: ‘8
Programme: ‘1.50
Stadium Architecture: Won’t trouble the Stirling Judges
Leyton FC claims […]

During The Goldrush
Never let it be said that I won’t take one visit to one club and grossly inflate it until it becomes a ‘state of the nation’ piece about a kind of music I don’t even like anymore![…]

Club Seal and the Indie Boom
You can tell a band has a particular grip on people when fans turn up to discos and dance only to their songs. Club Seal, on Friday in Islington, was the first ‘indie club’ I’d been to for about three ye[…]