Thankyou very much to the people who voted for this site in the bloggies, something I’ve not been mentioning because I think, what with one thing and another, that it’s a bad idea. I might write about why it’s a bad idea somewhere e[…]

Swish Cottage writes about the Kirsty MacColl memorial service.[…]

Elision Fields: good review of the Magnetic Fields’ 2-night London shows. Harder core Merritt fans than I might demur but I found a lot to agree with here.[…]

The complete text of Stuart Home’s Cranked Up Really High, which is a rather good book about punk rock (very rude to Greil Marcus!). It’s in super-unwieldy text format but I’m sure you techie people can work out a way round that.[…]

A special AICON plea: can we please have some of you men reading FT sending your pictures in? This is not to say that women sending their pictures to Am I Cool Or Not are unwelcome – in fact when I started the feature I thought I’d be luc[…]

This weekend I finished Paul Morley’s Nothing which I urge everyone to buy. A response – belated, possibly, though that’s the (a) point of the book – to the suicide of his father, it’s one of the most intelligent and aff[…]

Smells Like Steve Perry: “wannabe Chuck Eddys”, we were called by Mark Richardson on ILM recently, and there’s a fair bit of truth in that. This though is the best refutation (best cause it’s only partially refuting things) of[…]

Am I Cool Or Not? – Cool or Fool: the decision, once again, is yours.[…]

cutoffaPOPear – via Tim this is James Lucas’ blog and he gets an extra big fat link which you must all click on to make up for the fact that I’ve not responded yet about the CDs he so kindly sent me. Sorry James, I’ll get to i[…]

WU TANG-CLAN – “I Can’t Go To Sleep”
In Robin Carmody’s review of the Clan’s The W album, “I Can’t Go To Sleep” comes in for particular criticism – Robin sees the stricken lachrymosity of Gh[…]