Why is it that Outkast records sound so unlike anything else going on in hip-hop and yet sound so right? The Whole World is a bouncy barnyard of a single, infectious and as singalong as anything Outkast have released previously. But more importantly […]

The pool table research is interesting, as running a bar it is the only area where we have ahad any fights in the last two years. The question arises though on a like-on-like comparison between pubs with pool tables and pubs with giant Jenga, which c[…]

At first it was difficult to believe, Marilyn Manson’s version of Tainted Love – for all its chest beating machismo, is actually much, much camper than the Soft Cell one. Then I went home and listened to the original and realised it isn&#[…]

POP-EYE 3/3/02
Mist, velveteen and thick, slowly expanded to take up the space where previously merely fresh air lived. It rolled over this – the oldest of rivers its thick oily river snaking between the south of his past and the north of his e[…]

Just a quick note to anyone this might apply to (and its none of the regulars round here) but if I can hear your voice distinctly while I’m in the toilet – you are talking too loud.[…]

bloated US version of the Brits. Sure the BAFTA’s are the Oscars poor relations – but the Grammy’s look like the dullest thing ever. 101 awards in one night – I’m not even sure how they fit all that in. How many catagori[…]

Apparently the Brits were an embarrassment. Especially that bit at the end when the old fella did a Half Monty and pranced around the stage. Oh – its Sting who said it was an embarrassment, well I would certainly be embarrassed if I was him. On[…]

THE GEORGE – Borough High Street
“Hello: I’m a London pub guide – would you mind if I fawn over you?” An imaginary conversation held twixt The George and every bloody pub guide out there. Why? Well undeniably the George […]

Ananova supplies us with this marvellous picture from what was from most reports a pretty lacklustre Brits. We get to see tonight I suppose (though I’ll be in the pub) but easily the most interesting part of the night is also almost item number[…]

Records which should not be played in pubs: Tom brings us to the awful spectre of Radiohead in pubs. I have nothing against the odd playing of Creep, Just or even bleeding Pyramid Song in a pub – the whole point of a jukebox is to throw up the […]