The new Dizzee Rascal single (“Stand Up Tall”) is very pop, very fast, pretty incoherent, more “Lucky Star” than anything else he’s done, and the backing reminds me more than anyone else of… Komatrohn![…]

Alas Hits: to while away a journey recently I bought a copy of Smash Hits. I am so far outside the target market for SH as to be on an entirely different archery range, so the following grumblings can, maybe should be dismissed as the drool of a sad […]

Who’s a posh boy then?: parrots invade the London suburbs![…]

Two questions about GROCERS
I will swap you them for a FACT about grocers I learned in my book on Krakatoa, viz. the name comes from the London Guild of Pepperers, who were licensed to trade spice in gross amounts. The spice must flow!
Here are the q[…]

The curious case of Daara J: Daara J, Senegal’s biggest-selling hip-hop crew, provide a neat illustration of what Alex below (and Marcello in the comments box) are complaining about. We stumbled on Daara J at Glastonbury, playing late on Sunday[…]

Lazy Links For Idle Hands
Fat Planet – MP3 blog, wide-ranging like a (slightly) less pop-friendly Fluxblog.
This story made me think of Robin C.
“It’s a very sexy statement.”[…]

Science, you’ve gone too far this time.[…]

Addis, Kings Cross: “Laid back service” but “great food” at this Ethopian place, according to web reports – OK, sounds fair enough, we have the whole evening after all. And the decor is just right – long couches, s[…]

“Dalek-like behaviour”: no sign of this on the Times website, so this is quoted without comment from a (koff) prominent Dr Who news website: ‘According to an article in the June 26 The Times, Sylvester McCoy, with the help of Camden[…]

Well, that was fun.
Headline watch: many variations on “Acropolis Now”, and both the big tabloids went for “Grecian 2004”. The winner though is surely The Sun’s “YOU’RE ATHEN A LAUGH”.
Isabel has fallen[…]