Chris Cunningham, Aphex video guy, interviewed and his work profiled. Nice. (via The Morning News)[…]

“Blogger ate my post” may be a “dog ate my homework” for the 21st century, but you know, sometimes the dog did actually eat the homework (um…). Anyway, I was going to link to DAA‘s piece on Rolling Stone‘s po[…]

THE PUB OF MUSIC
(The Blue Posts, Kingly Street, Soho. One Round)
Kingly Street is busy – gradually Saturday afternoon has turned into Saturday evening and we are now hurtling headlong towards Saturday night, and we don’t even have a spec[…]

POP-EYE 3/12/00
Well, it appears we have an honest-to-god chart battle on our hands. It may have taken until December, and we may have had to endure tiresome run-offs involving bloody Spiller (or, worse, the Spice Girls/Westlife battle, which was in […]

Top Five Pieces You Yourself Wrote – from Rockcritics, a fantastic idea for a list, if it elicits confessions like this, from Mark Sinker (an excellent writer). “Written to convince myself of the uselessness of being in love with [xXx], a[…]

GUNS N ROSES – “My Michelle”
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “Expectations”
Axl’s belle’s some junkie latchkey kid he’s looking at (and yearning for, even if the lyrics don’t go that explicit), and Be[…]

Lennon tributes from a variety of mostly self-serving Celebs (Sheryl Crow has clearly been faxing the same winsome copy round all the broadsheets, f’r example). Do you want mine? It’s here (today only, then it’s in the archive, ha!)[…]

THE PUB OF POLITICS
(The Blue Posts, Berwick Street, Soho: Two Rounds)
The Blue Posts on Newman Street was, as ever, almost entirely deserted. Its Berwick Street namesake is rammed, and we’re forced into a pokey corner near the cig machine and […]

The Ten Best Hip-Hop Remixes: not actually much to be said about this other than that it’s interesting and mouthwatering. Always nice to find good hip-hop articles, too.[…]

THE PUB OF LIES
(The Blue Posts, Newman Street, Soho: three rounds)
The squad assembles, and conversation begins gently enough with a discussion of my new haircut, the rabbit/headlights difficulty of picking haircuts from a book, and the propensity f[…]