Paper Planes – M.I.A.
Can I Get Get Get – Junior Senior
Doing It Right – Go! Team
Me, Myself And (I) – Darren Hayes
Her – Kissy Sell Out
You’re Out – Dead Disco
One More Chance – Candie Payne
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2. House of Pain – Jump Around
Is this the most ubiquitous student disco song ever recorded? (more…)[…]

BALLSY! That’s no the first word that springs to mind when I think of Will Young. And perhaps BALLSY is the wrong word to append to “Leave Right Now”, a sappy song of monumental wetness. But let me tell you why I have recently reali[…]

The crisis in the UK’s prison service has come to a head today, with the staff of UK prisons walking out. In some cases this has left 2,000 inmates being guarded by governors alone, that’s about 5 people to look after 2,000. A watching br[…]

This year food science day moved north of the river. Not that Tim, our generous host of previous years (one and two) was not happy to let us re-use his excellent venue, but we thought that it might be best for his upstanding in his community that the[…]

OMNOMNOMNOM.com. Crudely drawn faces on inanimate objects turning them into gobbling monsters. TERRIFIC![…]

There are a lot of great record labels out there. look, Apple as a brand has already appeared in this list. And for a bunch of music fans knocking together a list of memorable and great brands, it is inevitable that a few record labels would show up.[…]

Sex Drums Rock n Rave
Awful artwork, terrible title. A compilation of the rocked-up dance scene (do not call it by its name). A high hit rate for a compo, and some of the tracks are storming. Amazon[…]

I got mail. Well a comment from someone calling him/herself TamilTyger after my comments about Mika’s probable blindness*:
Dear Tanya, this is a bit of a cheap shot, even for you. Not to mention the fact that whilst that is a terrible cover, I […]

Its really really lazy to compare two films from completely different traditions, different funding and different production histories just because they have come out in the UK at the same time and because they vaguely have something in common. It wo[…]