There’s a ghost in this (public) house. Those who know him would agree that Tim Hopkins is a pub goer without equal. Despite an enforced absence from the cut and thrust of the pub scene of late he is a man you would never expect to commit a pu[…]

A good range of Grman & Blgian beers I said below – and I’m not repeating it here merely for the deliberate and funky spelling. Things like this make me like a pub, despite the fact that I rarely actually drink them. I suppose it is […]

2002 is the year of the…..flute. Well okay, a pretty poor observation and one which will almost certainly not be borne out by – say – March even. However I cannot help but notice that two big tracks for January prominently feature a[…]

Is it Be With Me by Mis-teeq or B With Me – even the bands website is not clear how it wants to spell it. Spelling aside I had a chance radio encounter on the bus (the best place to encounter new music) and it made me break out in a broad grin.[…]

If there is one thing worse than the closing and makeover of a once beloved boozer, it is the slow lingering death of a pub – which still looks like the pub you used to love, but has gone bad. This happened to the Rising Sun on Tottenham Court[…]

I normally wouldn’t go near a Wetherspoon’s with much more than a bargepole. Problem is, some of their pubs are so cavernous that they could quite happily accommodate a fellow with a bargepole slung under his arm. The Coronet on Holloway […]

POP-EYE 6/1/02
What an inauspicious week to restart Pop-Eye. However we start as we mean to go on in the year 2002 (palindromic which must be good – just like that classic pop year 1991). Let me explain, pop music sales work a bit like a sawtoo[…]

Backstreet Boy Arrested. Of course a certain kind of rock station morning jock would follow this up with some sort of gag about crimes against music, but this is NYLPM. We have a soft spot for the Backstreet Boys, as previous “Shape Of My Heart[…]

The Prince Monolulu is back. I shall say no more until I have further explored, but if you are up the Warren Sreet way, why not pop in to see if this famed boozer of old have been resurrected properly or – as I fear – they’ve brough[…]

Nutter popstar given heave-ho by label, or as the BBC will have it “Mariah’s ‘£35m golden handshake’”. Well, poor love she’s had a rough time of it over the last fifteen years, what with single handed inventing dan[…]