It’s September kids, and the summer season – hiatus – pissing off on holiday whatever you may call it has finished. Here, riding over the hill like some Combined Science Teacher who couldn’t get another job, is Pop-Eye. Its be[…]

Spiders: creepy, crawly little critters which seem up to no good – hanging in the corner of your room, leaving webs around just to make a mess – definitely with their own agenda. Not the most obvious creature to base a film on. Yet Hollyw[…]

The ten cd’s/tapes you are most likely to hear in a pub. This list basically tells us what we already knew, that the Now That’s What I Call Music compilations (thankfully) have dominion over this market. If the choice was a Now or The Be[…]

Here is a different way of measuring the popularity of various types of music. Here are a selection of lists from the Performing Rights Society which run through the most covered artists by live acts, the most performed reggae, folk tunes and the mos[…]

De Hems is back up and running I noticed on a quick trip around London. Its a pub I have very mixed feelings about. To all intents and purposes it is a theme bar after all. The big exception is that there aren’t an awful lot of Dutch theme bars[…]

What was the most startling thing about Eminem’s ‘Stan’? The supposed sensitivity of the formerly cartoon yob? The genuine sentiment in its lyrics? The role-playing and success of Slim Shady being able to emote in both roles (not th[…]

Summertime: and – well as per usual the weather is lousy. Nevertheless while you can get it and we are talking about standards – George & Ira Gershwins ‘Summertime’ is easily one of the most covered songs in recording his[…]

It has been brought to my attention that the exploits of this years Trig Brother have not been publicised yet. Over the next few weeks, on and off, I will do my best to rectify this. For those of you that do not know Trig Brother is an annual pub cra[…]

Daniel Beddingfield (aka Bedroomeyes) has finally got a new single coming out. And unsurprisingly it sounds a bit like Gotta Get Thru This, with its jerky garage production – this time dripped in all sorts of whizzy-banging effects noises. Its […]

Cover versions are one thing, plagiarism is a whole different kettle of fish. Or in this case kettle of no fish – a classic silly season article which actually has a potentially important idea at the heart of it. Copyright exists for the reason[…]