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Buy some rubbish
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Buy some rubbish
Here’s what I’m selling on eBay: dear oh dear
These are not Grecian Earn items, by the way. All cash goes to me.[…]

Cocktail Clampdown
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Cocktail Clampdown: alcohol cannot, apparently, be linked with ‘sexual promiscuity’, so the likes of Sex On The Beach are out. The aphrodisiac properties of these names had escaped me – booze lowers inhibitions, and it doesn’t[…]

Fancyapint.com’s State of Pubbing Survey
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Fancyapint.com’s State of Pubbing Survey has a curious range of choices for its “biggest problem in pubs today” question. I’m no CAMRA head, as you’re probably aware, but to have NO option for anything relating to qualit[…]

The Last Ever Club FT
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The Last Ever Club FT
will be next Thursday, 24th February, at the Chapel Bar in Islington. Guest DJs ‘The Spy’ and Ken C will be joining the regulars to mark the end of an era (well a year, which is a long time in shonky pop nights). We&[…]

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GLORIA 2: THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE TANGLED TIDES
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GLORIA 2: THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE TANGLED TIDES
Apologies for the delayed results on this, which if your memories stretch back two weeks involved a match-up between The Paragons’ “Tide Is High”, Blondie’s cover, and Atomic Kit[…]

Shock defeat for fun
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Shock defeat for fun
(Caution: tenuous sporting link.)[…]

Alex Party Needs YOU
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Alex Party Needs YOU
Troubled Diva presents its third annual cross-decade chart challenge, a concerted scientifical effort to discover when pop was best. The #10 from this week is pitted against the #10 from ten, twenty, thirty and forty years ago (t[…]

Fightin’ Brian McFadden is back!
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Fightin’ Brian McFadden is back! These lyrics from his new single really take the cake, a worthy follow-up to “Real To Me” I’m sure you’ll agree:
There’s a world inside and a world out there
With that on tv you jus[…]

Decided on Sunday to stop drinking for a couple of weeks
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Decided on Sunday to stop drinking for a couple of weeks. I don’t drink at home much so it’s only in the pub that temptation strikes. Last night was the first test. Arrived, ordered a lime and soda, sat sipping it – this isn’t[…]

Animal Love Is Blind
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I am a pet lover myself and not a heartless man, but honestly, where is the dog? Where?![…]

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