I’ve been a bit quiet lately cos of organising QUIZZES for The Charity. My original plan for last night’s quiz was to use Schnappi Der Krokodil for the incidental music on a hilarious ‘hilarious’ Draw A Celebrity round. Schni […]

What is this I see before me? — the nature of music and its availability being what it is, I really don’t ask for music as Christmas gifts anymore, though this time around I did ask for one specific thing, Black Sabbath’s Black Box.[…]

“Rock Legend” gets only 14p busking. I’m not surprised. It would only be polite to wait until he finished a song before giving the money. And half an hour is barely two and a half wives of Henry The Eighth.
This is a favourite news […]

Special Quiz Spoiler
If you’re from my work then here’s an easy point for you but this was too good to resist posting. In the anagrams round
HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB
translates to
TO EMIT BOMBASTIC MOAN AND HOWL
Hurrah![…]

Server Glitch
I’ve had a couple of emails asking where all our old articles have vanished to. The answer is that they didn’t get transferred when we moved servers the other week. I have them all on backup though so I’ll put them up […]

Stevie T has a blog. Typically elegant stuff, I hope it thrives. Read in particular the interesting Green Gartside interview.[…]

Quiz Appeal
I’m doing two quizzes at work to raise money for the Tsunami appeal. One is a pub quiz, which I’ve got pretty much sorted. The other is a pencil and paper quiz, which I haven’t. I need questions.
If you have any question[…]

I occasionally get press releases from bands and DJ’s offering their services to my University. Here is one I got today. Notice the so called “massive saving”.
FANTASTIC OFFER FROM ONE OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY’S BIGGEST NAMES! F[…]

More news in on downloading music
Compare “Record sales in the US have fallen because of people using the internet to download albums, a study suggests” and contrast “US CD sales rose by 2.3% in 2004”
(BBC news stories 3 days […]

“Schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp”
Sounds good to me. Can’t be worse than Mike Read, anyway.[…]