Fine Ray Charles piece by Marcello. (Update – also explore and listen to Tofu Hut’s memorial post)
I don’t know Ray Charles’ work well enough; another example of the (slightly shameful if hardly unique to me) syndrome where so[…]

The Streets, by Me: enormous thanks to Mr. Matos, not only for asking me to do this but also for his stern but excellent editing when I turned out to be embarrassingly ring-rusty in the ‘writing longer pieces’ arena.[…]

The Number One Songs In Heaven: new MP3 blog (they endure despite the yousendit catastrophe!) specialising in 60s – 80s soul, dance and funk – very welcome I think![…]

Notes On The International Workshop On Molecular Gastronomy – publogger Chris pointed me at this marvellous article, a cabinet of future-food curiosities including:
– foie gras and butter chantilly
– the science of making the perfec[…]

Foolishness Update: This has come true. Even aside from Mr.Boyle’s excellent points, as a marketer I’d like to add one more: if the defining characteristic of your ‘brand’ is that its best assets defect to another ‘brand[…]

Eau De Leathery Child-Man, anyone?[…]

In The Summertime
We’d like to remind you of the Club Freaky Trigger Glastonbury Reunion night, on Wednesday 30th June, at the Chapel Bar in Islington, from 7 until late-ish, FREE ENTRY, happy hour cocktails, yes it’s a Euro 2004 semi-fin[…]

Oooh ooh sidebar update!
Least Surprising ‘News’ Ever: cheers Ananova!
Dave Stelfox interviews the guy who designs those lovely Greensleeves sleeves.
Time to repeat my biennial cry for an actual release (OK ANY release!) of Osymyso’[…]

PopNose17: this would have been the next song I posted to the block-stricken A Million Love Songs. So you can have it instead. As ever, if you know what it is (and more of you will this time), don’t tell. I’m wondering about whether to di[…]

I realised the other day why I liked the Black Eyed Peas’ “Where Is The Love?”, Basically, it’s Americans doing a Europop tune – imagine One-T or better yet Dr.Alban doing it and you’ll see what I mean. It has just[…]