I think the level of globalisation which we each perceive there to be is pretty subjective. Robin argues that we, the globally aware, may overestimate others. The difference I see, though, is that it’s not just internet users or amateur global […]
Robin, I see what you mean but I’m not sure I agree with the idea of the US’s attitude towards Britain being a problem. Have you considered that the authors (and audiences) of these news stories about Violent Britain are likely to be much[…]
Beat generation: The Observer looks at the growing phenomenon of the UK Garage scene. There’s only a little bit of interest here to the reasonably aware UK music fan, but US readers should definitely take a look to find out a bit more about wha[…]
The beauties and evils of Napster: I download an interesting (and apparently “rare!!!”) track but I don’t really know what it is. Please, somebody, tell me where this is from, what it’s meant to be or why it was made. It sound[…]
Netscape Communicator 4.72 being what it is (less stable than 4.7 for one) my follow up to this was lost in the blogging ether. As it stands, you’ll have to suffice with this summary: Napster and the MP3 revolution increasingly mean that each d[…]
I drifted away – the Guardian reviews the Festival Of Drifting. The mysterious asterisk next to the name of the event is actually the rating out of a possible five stars; one star, the paper tells me, means “terrible”. Is it just me[…]
1. Wookie – “Battle” (MP3, forthcoming single) Underground soulful 2-step ex-Soul II Soul man UK Garage. Would be big except for the fact that I’ve not heard it on the radio yet. Perhaps the Dreem Team are playing it? Large se[…]
Anyway, here goes… Napster: The Computing Equivalent Of Unsafe Sex – and so the backlash continues. A band named the Tabloids (nope, me neither) have launched a site named StopNapster.com with the intention of spearheading guerilla tactic[…]
Enough intellectualism! On a far more interesting note, I find on Teletext today (Channel 4 p141 for anyone who’s interested) that your favourite crossover R&B/UK garage star Craig David is the subject of a bidding war between two US majors[…]
“One of my cymbal patterns is more rebellious than their entire recorded output, which is just a waste of plastic” – Liam Howlett of the Prodigy on Chumbawamba. Fred asked a few months ago what people felt was the reason that they l[…]