More PopNose to your right. PN15 is a sort-of Coxsone Dodd tribute, PN16 is robot romance.[…]

Laughing On Records
I dislike the Frankee record. I was a bit worried this was down to my deep-rooted misogyny but listening to it just now on Capital I realised why it is rubbish: it has laughing on it. Specifically it has laughing on it after a jok[…]

Club Popular was by most accounts a triumph, despite early jitters caused by the look of disbelief on The Chapel owner’s face when Al Martino started bellowing out across his boozer. A sequel is likely, but the next club night will most likely […]

364,417 words: That’s the sum total of my blogging output, a genuinely disturbing (for me) number. It’s more than the guy who co-founded Blogger. (And that’s not counting stuff done under pseudonyms, ahem.)
That has nothing to do wi[…]

Pleasant surprise of the day! The gentle and effective flute part on Morrissey’s “I’m Not Sorry”. The rest of the record is a bit weak – it works fairly well as an executive summary of the Morrissey Brand, I suppose. The[…]

HOW DO YOU EAT YOURS?
You have some sweets, let us say skittles. Do you:
a. Eat them at random?
b. Eat one of each colour at a time, letting colours run out?
c. Sort them and eat selectively to get an identical number of sweets of each colour, then e[…]

FOODS EATEN IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS #1: Seed Cake – a perennial it seems to me in early 20th century children’s lit; the Wouldbegoods and Treasure Seekers were surely always noshing it. Not just children’s lit – it turns up […]

THE FOUR TUNES – “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” (aka PopNose 11) – bluesy doo-wop from 1953, the Four Tunes’ last RCA release according to this site. I love this record – it’s drenched in resigned sorr[…]

Linkses:
Nick Southall’s review of The Streets is one of the more sensible ones.
Speaking of The Streets, comparisons pour in. The Specials, Serge Gainsbourg (duh!), Chas N Dave, Dexys, J.Pac, and Posey Simmons’ Gemma Bovary! Ive also see[…]

Coming to Club Popular? Stuck for suggestions…?. The contest (scroll down) is still open…[…]