Vote Beaker: “the nation’s favourite fictional boffin” is the BBC’s latest wheeze.[…]

Round-up
Head of Frampton found on bikini
I really really dislike “Year Of The Rat” by Badly Drawn Boy. Just so you know. The perils of the mid-paced rocker: don’t try it kids.
Handy summary of the current file-sharing flap.
What fo[…]

You know those things? Toys, right, and you have a horse on a pedestal or sometimes a man, and you can push the bottom of the pedestal and it relaxes the wires in the horses legs? And so the horse can dance about? And if you push it right in the hors[…]

There is a type of critical practise which I have decided to call Carmodism (cf). It involves hearing echoes of political events in contemporary pop records and vice versa – divining invisible connections that can, when the intuition is right, […]

[/emerges from XFM induced catatonia]
Tatwatch and Square Table back tomorrow. For now, the news (no news to most I’m sure) that “Dry Your Eyes” is apparently going to be No.1 on Sunday*. Crikey.
*(and credit where it’s due, M[…]

Grumbleweed Facts for Andrew. I remember nothing about them.[…]

The Advert Channel: standard pub ‘what if’ joke comes true. I particularly like the idea that there will be actual adverts inbetween the, um, other adverts.[…]

The Nags Head, Kinnerton Street, London SW1: A lot of the pubs we write about here have unpromising exteriors but great atmospheres. This is a pub which looks great and has a really promising, trad-boozer interior but feels lifeless. Its position in […]

It is going to be a long day. XFM on in the office and already they’ve played “Size Of A Cow”.
Reciprocal linking leads me to this breezy blog.
Just heard an advert for TSB – “You don’t still play your first record[…]

State Of The Music Industry: it’s fair to say you probably haven’t read a music blog quite like this one before.[…]