B-b-but Jel – what of the shock news that not only is the three way battle of Brian Harvey, Girls Aloud and One True Voice- but for some strange reason Avril Lavigne is also releasing Sk8ter Boi on the 16/12/02. Only TV advertised Christmas hop[…]

www.pubmaster.co.uk suggests a mastery of pubs which is not so much borne out by a cursory examination believing that The Dog on Archway Road and the Railway on Hornsey Road still exist. Its area, listing and map format is rather useful (big maps too[…]

Policeman’s breaking arm prevent Doors Cult from performing. There is so much that is funny about this story. The Doors reformation replaces original lizard king dead guy Jim Morrison with Bradford slow worm guy Ian Astbury. That I can more or […]

Call me a pub elitist, but here comes the three weeks of hell. The three weeks when the pubs slowly fill with the punters who don’t usually go to pubs. Now I’m not sure what the knock on effect will be this year, previous years have seen […]

So you form an incediary rock band to change the face of music. You have a manifesto, you have the soundbites, you eventually learn to play your insturments. Your debut album is a double and will be “the last album you ever release”. It d[…]

The death of the jukebox. Way back when in the mists of time (cliche alert) when th publog was almost stillborn, one of our founding tenets was a mnifesto that good pubs generally had jukeboxes. SInce that moment jukeboxes have slowly been becoming m[…]

JENNIFER LOPEZ FEATURING JADAKISS & STYLES – “Jenny From The Block”
Why is:
“Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I’ve got
I’m still, I’m still Jenny from the block” the catchiest pop couplet fo[…]

The publog goes west. I spent last weekend in Bristol and of course took in a couple of its pubs. Just a couple because the first one I was in I liked so much. The Brewery Tap is very near the centre of town as defined by the bus station and not obvi[…]

Sofas in pubs: there is something alluring about the pub sofa. “Come sit in me” it suggests “I’m better than your poxy stool”. The poxy stool sits there making eyes at the standing punters. But I’m not sure that so[…]

PUERTO MUERTO – Jean Lafitte
What is the secret of a good record? Innovation often swings it, or even better the fine crafting of someone else innovation. It can be the pure buffing of production, or the raw excitement of something lo-fi and en[…]