Last week I went to Hackney Empire to see The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie, produced by Bill Kenwright. The play was written in 1958. I’m not clear how faithful to the original script this production is, but it had a few signs, mainly of[…]

If you were at the Poptimism night, and if you took a CD home, here’s what you heard.

TURISAS – “To Holmgard And Beyond” (from the album The Varangian Way)
TRASH YOURSELF AND THE TOXIC AVENGER – “Song 2” (so[…]

Guinness cheese! Because Guinness needs more fat.[…]

Nick Southall on the end of Stylus and how web 2.0 has changed the criticism game.
Blogged as a marker to myself, really, though one sensible response on my part would be to stop thinking so much about music criticism and just get on with some.[…]

Methinks the lady doth protest too much
Those of you not yet middle-aged, criticise BBC Three while you still can! Really though, the channel’s future seems as safe as their schedules and as a result I don’t think Bennett needs to act qui[…]

As a marketer it gives me shudders of appaling delight to see phrases like “moving up the Value Funnel” in a music comments box, so you can imagine I’ve found Hypebot’s posts on “the rise of the Musical Middle Class&#822[…]