STOP YOUR SERICULTURE
A sort of reply to Dave’s post:
The point about the Human League, of course, is that their tours aren’t reunion tours – they never broke up (well, they did, but before they got famous). They’re still a wo[…]

More on the nation’s top pop story i.e. the white female Jackson 5 tribute band. They are to fight on you’ll be pleased to hear, and NYLPM will fight on with them for as long as we can be bothered to check Ananova. Full story here![…]

Wisdom Goof: shock! A music weblog full of tiny personal essays (Good Thing) by somebody who isn’t part of our jaded macro-clique i.e. no links to the usual suspects. Explore at leisure.
(Update: I’ve been doing just that and it really is[…]

The Gossip, The Point Oxford, sometime in August
There I am running rivers of sweat down my neck, down my chest, down my belly and through my shirt, and I’m dancing harder than I’ve ever danced to a rock band. (more…)[…]

Bubble and Dean write World Cup song: misty-eyed foreigners who yearn for UK pop scene please note.[…]

The Origin Of The Species
The tape itself is some fifteen years old, from a time when buying new blank tapes seemed as big a thing as buying shoes, so the same four or five were recorded over again, and again, matted with sound and fuzz. This one pro[…]

daveyblog: this is the bloke who I got that chart of bootleg MP3s from. A link as promised![…]

“I’m thrilled that Sting has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award. Next for his KNIGHTHOOD!”: the UK music business provides one moment of rock-solid entertainment every year – no, not the BRIT Awards, but the Talking P[…]

Top 11 Bootlegs of 2001: while we’re on an MP3 tip. Includes “Strokes Of Genuis”, “Smells Like Booty” etc. This is via somebody but I can’t remember who – someone called David whose blog I hadn’t seen b[…]

Back by popular demand: 4 unreleased Morrissey songs, on MP3. Hopefully the links still work.[…]