“NOT FOR LAGERBOYS” read the shirts of several Great British Beer Festival helpers. How I mocked but it seems the joke was on me as I vomited copiously into my bathroom toilet at 2AM. Det. Insp. Occam would have opened and shut this case […]

List of Fictional Curse Words
A cleaner, geekier, telefantasy-biased, version of Rogers Profanisaurus. You fracking knuckleheaded McSpazzmatron.[…]

World of Twist were never a lucky band, and prone to bad timing. Their album came out midway between press fads baggy and shoegazing, and nobody much bought it. They lost a deal and I heard – vaguely – about all sorts of feuds and bad bus[…]

Tracks:
Top Of The Pops – The Rezillos
Something About You – Lovely Jamelia
The Only One – DangerMouse & Jemini
Kid N Play – 2 Hype
Altern 8 – Active 8 (just 3 seconds for the DYS factor)
I Love Rock and/or Roll – Hector Nash feat[…]

I LIKE DRINKING LAGER. There I said it. Lager is – at its best – crisp and beautifully refreshing with a subtle flavour, a wonderful drink for the genuinely thirsty. I’m sure the related articles will show that I’ve made this […]

Branding expert Mark Ritson in Marketing magazine this week, in his article on the “Ten Branding Lessons” to be learned from ToTP’s demise.
 Brand naming is always more important later, rather than sooner. Yes, Top Of The Pops was […]

Something that would be banned if I WAS IN CHARGE: those radio and TV quizzes where there are three answers and two are obviously wrong, because there’s some law preventing people from just doing prize draws on TVs. Either change the law or bri[…]

You have to hand it to the Guardian. When it comes to dipping their toes into new media they pretty much out do all the other trad news sources in the UK, with on the BBC’s online content coming anywhere near close to navigability and comprehen[…]

Hello. You are probably here because this page, on a pop culture site, is #6 on searches for “porn” on Bing.
There is no porn here. There never was porn here. There used to be an article about how using the word ‘porn’ as a me[…]

I like Ken Loach, I do, but he don’t half like tragedy. Looking for a Loach film with a happy ending is like searching for an original idea in the head of a horror film producer. And whilst happy endings aren’t very realistic, and often s[…]