This is a super-simple non-authentic take on BOUILLABAISSE = Provençal fish stew. For the PROPER THING, you need MANY FISH TYPES inc.RASCASSE (left), plus monkfish, red gurnard, John Dory, prawns, eels ect ect. However unless you live in THE CAMARG[…]

The main problem with sequels, particularly those in the middle of an Actual Trilogy (one part then a bigger sequel cut in half) is trying to figure out what it was in the first film that worked, that gave it the boost which made your terrifying oppo[…]

ok so p^nk s the high lord sükråt cunctør* took plebian form at the JERUSALEM TAVERN** to dally with the puissant lords woebot and kpunk and duke pill of box, plus also another fellow called matt who HAF NO BLOG TITLE :0 but was instrumental in ge[…]

My god, what an appalling, patronising, ill-informed, load of tosh The Edinburgh Show (spin off from The Culture Show) was last night (BBC2, in the Late Review slot). The Ron Mueck piece was the worst piece of contemporary art “reviewing”[…]

If it really was on a wall in 1979.

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According to the latest issue of Marketing, Budweiser UK are ‘very pleased’ with their “You do the football, we do the beer” campaign, which has caused a record sales month for the generally declining brand. This will horri[…]

I was one of the party at the beer festival last week. Championing perry, cider, porter and pickled garlic. But Earls Court is a big place, and the literal treking from Scotland to the South West had taken its toll on our ickle feet. Ten of us descen[…]

aqua: lollipop (candyman)
There’s a device in film soundtrack music which may well go back to 19th-century opera — or actually operetta, something just round the corner of memory is whispering (bizet, it whispers, bizet) — where ban[…]

A couple of years ago, big brand record stores started to BRING BACK VINYL. They had noticed that 12″ vinyl was still the format of choice of DJ’s and the Oxford Street stores were losing trade to the Berwick Street and other gangs which […]

I should have seen this coming, but I don’t have anything for you this week. Well that’s not strictly true, I have a couple of tracks, but I’m going to skip one and come back refreshed next week. Let’s say it’s to celebr[…]