The theme this month was cover versions, so if you got a copy of this, here’s what you heard, and if you didn’t, well, you can go and make your own. Apologies for the serious lack of ‘flow’ on this disc!
1. JOAN JETT – &[…]

The Yeti is another quite explicable inexplicable phenomena: either it doesn’t exist, or it’s probably a bear. But unlike some of the other notables of cryptozoology, like the quite blatantly non-existing Nessie, the Yeti is tantalisingly[…]

The work pop quiz last night threw up an unexpected dilemma:
– It is the final round of the pop quiz, the round where you draw a pop star in a minute and your teammates have to guess who it is. You are the last team up: if you guess the drawing[…]

I was standing in the foyer at my work talking to Mr William Bloody Swygart and he said, “Oh, have you heard about Simon Reynolds’ new book?”. I said “No” and he showed me on the Interweb, there was a special site to it […]

Rocket Racing League – this is videogames come to life!!OMG except hold on – what’s this –
“Spectators will be able to follow the races by looking at the exhaust plumes in the sky and on hand-held GPS tracking devices.&#[…]

From the Popular mailbag:
” hey honnnnney lantree you was sexxxxxxy back in the 1960s on those drums i liked you so much years later i went and bought myself a set of drums i still think your sexy i don t care how old you are my name is kato s[…]

The Campaign against Political Correctness: somebody had to start it, the duty has fallen to one Laura Ridgeley, and we should be glad it’s as rubbish as it is. You know what this is going to look like even before you click on it, and in a way […]

Science meddling in matters it cannot comprehend, the concept of ‘needs a refill’ is a terribly flexible one, and much better managed by the trained eye observing the ‘cheeky line’ than this robot nonsense.[…]

I don’t know why I put my RIP Helen Cresswell notice on NYLPM but it allows me to go into more detail here about the BAGTHORPE SAGA. This series of books doesn’t rate much as a ‘cult’ children’s book, there seem to be no[…]

In two weeks time (October 14th), we have another POPTIMISM night – hurrah! This is the good news.
The bad news is, it’s our last at the Polar Bear, as they don’t need us any more. We don’t know whether this is just us, or a w[…]