The pub finder option on Scoot however is good to give you an address of nearby pubs if you put in your postcode. It doesn’t tell you how good the pubs are – but then that might be asking a wee bit much.[…]

Fancyapint – its been often derided around here but frankly it is the best starting point to find a pub in a part of London you don’t know all that well. So it may not be able to pinpoint somewhere by the street, but it can list a few pub[…]

POP-EYE 14/4/02
Guess what readers. Unchained Melody is still number one. Mr Gates (now sadly relieved of his white suit) holds off all comers yet again — not that the top ten reveals many artists who could be called comers in any sense of the […]

So The Bedford won the Evening Standard Pub Of The Year then. I had another trip down there at the weekend and it is an impressive pub. Two bars, two (or is it three) function rooms ‘ one with a club/late licence. It truly is all things to all […]

Indie Rock Bus Review: The search for the new continues, and on this short bus journey I was not going to be enlightened. I heard two very freah out the box good tracks, but I didn’t hear anything that I would call groundbreaking. First up was […]

This is your official Britney news on your official Britney station. Problem is of course that it is quite plain that Brit does not love rock’n’roll – not in the dirty, grubby sense that Joan Jett’s original manages to express[…]

‘Tis the season to pub garden. Actually it has just clouded over and our magnificent weather for the last couple of weeks have turned cold – but this reminds me of a pub garden truism. Never venture to outside drinking until at least May.[…]

True story. Once upon a time there was a racecourse in Alexandra Park, a horseshoe shaped one just down the hill from the Palace. It shut in the late fifties, when gambling was not quite as popular as now – these days the nearest tracks are all[…]

The Phoenix Bar – Alexandra Palace. As high as you can get in London – in the middle of Alexandra Park sits the faded grandure of the transitter housing Ally Pally. Like the Crystal Palace but made of brick so that when it had its lightni[…]

Hot on the heels of Mamma Mia and We WIll Rock You – a Stevie Wonder musical is premiering in Las Vegas. It appears to use songs in both the key of life and the other keys employed by Stevie during his career to tell a story – though unfo[…]