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[…]

“The horror….the horror….”. Five of us set out on Operation: Blue Posts. And it must be said that five returned, though with Magnus it was a close thing. It has long been a contention of mine that the pub conversation is manki[…]

Bye Bye Select: Select has, of course, been crap for years. But I know that for a few of the people reading this it was something of a bible during its early-90s heyday, with endless articles about how great Julian Cope was, genuinely witty features,[…]

Here’s something that’s been worrying me lately: how on Earth do teetotal people ever get off with anyone? To illustrate this, in the pub last night I saw two couples.* One was sharing a bottle of wine – her face was lively, nay a l[…]

Where is Pop-Eye? I hear you sob. Well, ah, the thing is….I didn’t listen to the charts this week. And there’s not really that much to say about “Independent Women (Part 1)”. It’s a good record, I’m pleased t[…]

Like Life Without Buildings, this is on Tugboat Records, who make their CDs lovely, with fold-over waxy cardboard sleeves. There’s a strict two-tracker policy going on, so I’d guess the aesthetic is to get CD singles as beautiful and cont[…]

Good packaging is so important, and Life Without Buildings records look supercool, really hard post-punk fonts at angles, light green and off-white on stark black background, minimal information but not making a point of it. They look like they could[…]

This was published in the old version of NYLPM, which was never archived. But I liked it so I resurrected it.
AFGHAN WHIGS – Lost In The Supermarket
Now let me say first of all that I don’t know The Clash at all, not being one of those pu[…]