ROBERT FORSTER – “Baby Stones”
A friend of mine had just got dumped, and they were trying to write to their ex and say some stuff, they didn’t know exactly what because they didn’t know exactly what they felt: you can sy[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?: two weeks off and I can only come up with this??[…]

Godspeed You Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Absurdity is the central problem with Godspeed You Black Emperor! Their poetry-slam titles; their thick cardboard packaging; their interminable song-suites; their huge […]

Mazarin And My Indie Conscience
Hands plunged in pockets to keep the cold out; a rueful smile and a toss of the hair; a tumble of drums and a clotted voice –
“Hold on! (more…)[…]

Britney To Write A Book. I’m sure it will be excellent. I’m off on an unintended vacation from NYLPM (to do with not having a phone line in my new house), but one of the things we’ll do when I get back is rock books, I think. Meanwh[…]

Westlife: Better than The Beatles?: Hooray for BBC Talking Point, that weathervane for the crucial issues of the day! Hooray for Beatles fans, happy to rise to any bait! Hooray for pop music in all its shabby glory! Westlife can, of course, piss off,[…]

Are Novelty Afro Wigs Racist? Are At The Drive-In fools? And other questions. A bad gig experience, via Us Vs Them. Hey though, if Jeffrey wants to wear his afro and 70s shirt with pride, he should head for a 70s nite in Clapham (which has the added […]

Excellent ruminations on Pete Wylie and Bill Drummond, from Sink. What evil bookshop goblin erases the memory of 45 from my mind every time I go into one, I wonder?
Incidentally, come on Team NYLPM. I’m moving house, dammit, I can’t conce[…]

The Etiquette Of Drink Numbers – Lesson One: went to the pub last night with Frances and her new boyfriend. Four pints were consumed: the first was bought by me, not part of a round, as an atonement for lateness (this is good pub practice). The[…]

Oh yeah, I’m the boy who doesn’t do ‘guilty pleasures’, that’s right. All the nostalgia stuff, I despise it: you either like a song or you don’t, damn it, and the songs you like you come right out about, you don&#8[…]