i’ve been meanin to blog this for weeks — as you journey by buses down cambridge heath road and in along old street, there is POTATO ART available
it uses cocktail sticks and paint it is pretty[…]

Over on our sister site, Poptimists, our exploration of the history of pop via NOW albums has reached late 2003, and the landmark represented by ahead-of-his-time capped balladeer Gary Jules and his cover of “Mad World”. (Younger readers […]

Tom said it all last year. Here is the archive of all Liz Daplyn’s posts on FT, and still worth a re-read.
Liz’s mum, Pam, read out one of her posts out loud today. A part of me wanted it to be an episode of Indie Chicken, but it was How […]

(Posted on ILG some weeks back, but I wanted to be the first to post a youtube on nu-ft)
[edit: old youtube gone, so updated it][…]

= if you click the “related articles” thingy enough times you reach the PITCHFORK BLACK HOLE of NO RETURN[…]

Lots to get through this week – covers, Minogues and PopWorldCup finalists. Go and vote on the PWC in the poptimists LJ forum.
Tracks:
Whole Lotta Love – CCS (intro)
So Under Pressure – Dannii Minogue
Giving U Up – Zeigeist
Se[…]

In the latest issue of Marketing an analyst describes the financial services sector as “a very vanilla industry”.
By this he means that it’s an industry in which several big players can co-exist in relative peace, presumably as oppo[…]

The first time I played this I got the sample wrong – a thrill of shocked recognition as I heard the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” intro, run crudely under the beat. Great choice, I thought – Brian Wilson&#8217[…]

Do you remember 80s film Flight of the Navigator? I have seen it about ninety grillion times – the story of a boy who gets abducted by ALIENGS and then ends up returning to his family about 10 years in the future or so to find his brother is OL[…]

The point is Clive, the main thing we have against you is that you CAN’T FVCKING SHUT UP about “that night in barcelona” so mentioning it in the first answer is hardly going to change anyone’s mind on you, is it?
Furthermore, […]