The Newton Arms, Holborn
What a difference an hour or two makes. Squeezing my way in to this pub on Friday at half six I was pretty sure it was the worst boozer I’d been to in a long time. With precious few tables (though a lot of stools) and a[…]

Site News: All the old articles should now be back, and also all the pictures, including the Ultimate Future Shock.
Also! I cornered our lovely host in the pub last night and said “I wish we could do MP3s again”. “Wellllll…..&[…]

Songmeanings.net
May well keep you occupied for hours. For example, an insight into “Fake Plastic Trees”:
“He’s saying they’ve made the Earth sp wso worldly it wears the (w)hole Earth out, him. Circumcision though not sa[…]

The previous post, summarised[…]

DJing The Office Party: what I learned.
i) Even rockists like “Love Machine” (when they’ve drunk their way through a five-figure bar tab) (I should have trusted Pete on this)
ii) Whatever the shortcomings of the Chemical Brothers as[…]

This particular Gloria really came into its own a few years ago, when Atomic Kitten’s “The Tide Is High (Got The Feeling)” was number one. Not many people (apart from the quite a lot of people buying it) liked the Kittens’ tra[…]

How Soon We Forget!
Greeting me at the tube the last couple of morning has been a poster for HUFF, a new sitcom starring Hank Azaria. “At last” sez one of the pull quotes, “Hank Azaria gets the starring vehicle he deserves…&#8[…]

Fake Dancehall vs Real Dancehall: very interesting ILM thread started by Chuck Eddy. So interesting that I almost posted – but what’s the answer?
I think the difference is one of inclusivity – the ‘real’ stuff in these s[…]

In January 2005 Blog 7 was a blog about resolutions.[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
91. Ike And Tina Turner – “River Deep, Mountain High”
At the time, notoriously one of the biggest records ever made. But if there’s one thing the recording industry has worked at since 1966, it’s mak[…]