I am starting to reach a similar conclusion to Alan (see below). For me, though, it’s not a lack of interest that’s making me slightly regret the games investment (are you counting the cost of the consoles too? Eek.), it’s a lack of[…]

Mine’s A Galaxy[…]

TINY TIM – “(Ever Since You Told Me That You Loved Me) I’m A Nut” (aka PopNose10): A track from Tiny Tim’s biggest hit album, God Bless Tiny Tim. Whether it’s representative of this novelty-act-cum-cult-figure I do[…]

Karmic payback for my not-listening-to-radio comments: the Gods of Pop have decreed that my new office will have the radio on all day. Hurrah! But wait – the station of choice so far has been XFM, which is so far confirming my every lapsed-fan&[…]

Stop this madness: can all readers of FT visiting record shops this week please hide these objects behind, oh, a Hilary Duff single or something?
RELATED NEWS: Choose wisely British public.[…]

POPTIMISM SPECIAL EDITION: Unedited notes on Top Of The Pops, BBC1, 7.30PM, 16th April 2004.
Joe – trad loverman stuff, looks quite saturnine, R&B always a bit hampered by the live thing, cold brit fish like me want to hear the drum sounds[…]

Harsh! Football’s real actual fashion police take a hardline stand. I’m not sure what advantage the one-piece kit could have given Cameroon anyway – it would make shirt-tugging harder, I suppose.[…]

Mars has also just launched its Mars Delight brand extension, which I tried out this afternoon. Two skimpy finger-biscuits in a long wrapper, it’s clearly a light summery kind of chocolate snack, over in four bites, and just as well since even […]

Simon Reynolds’ Curious Transformation: I’d love to confirm that my pop life is this full of energetic glee but it’s just not so. Actually my Poptimism hides a dirty secret, namely that I never really listen to the radio (aside the […]

Profoundest apologies for the Easter shutdown – nothing to do with religion, everything to do with leaving my job, the attendant hangover, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually get the flat tidied up. I’ve also had the pedantic[…]