Flute Watch – update: As I have deemed this the year of the flute it is my duty to notify you of another big flute tune doing the rounds. Dance For Me, by Mary J. Blige has another great use of this most lilting of instrument. Well, okay, it mi[…]

When is All Bar One not a pub? There seems to be a quiet acceptance from some of the punters round here that All Bar One is in some ways a pub. Whereas I will happily set it outside the realm of being a pub by its own very attemps not to be a pub. Th[…]

V2 records say that court ruling is unbelievable. So you have a band who decide to name themselves exactly the same thing as an extant – if relavitely unsuccessful – band. Original band takes them to court, and considering that the all n[…]

GEORGE JONES: Fighting Side Of Me
I’m both an early starter and a latecomer to country. The first record I probably listened to at length was Glen Campbell’s 20 Golden Greats, which my mother used to play incessantly when I was about two.[…]

THINGS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE (But Pubs Expect Us To Do)
1: Have a shit whilst holding the toilet door shut with out feet.
The cubicle door is always too far away, and the effort expended in keeping the door shut whilst extending the leg appears to clo[…]

THE SEVEN DEADLY PUB SINS: 5. Menus On The Table
The pub deadly sins have been quiet for a while. That is because past the first four I could not think of anything which seem so severe as to be a deadly sin. Plenty of annoying incidents occur in the […]

POP-EYE: 20/1/02
Tom has said he never wants to do the first week of the year for Pop-Eye ever again. Last week had a blitzkrieg of new releases – many of them dance tunes which had finally chanced their way into the charts via the seasonal sal[…]

It’s nice to see that quality shines like a beacon even in the complex mire that is the US charts. Its our little pop princess Kylie taking the US charts by – if not storm – at least a mild shower. Firstly I like the way the British[…]

I disapprove of even noticing celebrities in pubs – not that either Sean Hughes or Paul Morley can be described as celebrities in any usual sense of the word. And as has probably been mentioned here before – the Hogshead is the chain pub[…]

Bookies refuse to run a book on the Brits… And I don’t blame them. Not because I think they are fixed, though some of the picks for members of the so-called Brit Academy may seem somewhat odd (coughs). I would trust the Electroal Reform S[…]