Freaky Trigger Reminder Zone: just to remind you that you’ve only got a couple of weeks left to do your follow-up articles for 102 Beats That (if you’re taking part) and your Focus Group votes (if you want to take part) – links are […]

‘… As the Tiger is in space’
I’ve hated the Astoria for as long as I can remember, with its godawful sound, terrible sightlines and general joyless hostility to the paying audience. The building is riddled with black-painted tunn[…]

God Save The Toddlers: Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.[…]

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The weather matters. Saturday 1st June: 8pm, and the sky out of my window is still fading pale blue, weightless, benevolent. A jubilee weekend of rain would be a symbolic down: but then, we are long used to finding a meaning in the rain. Not just w[…]

10 things of recent vintage that i’ve been listening to:
conway – “lisa’s got hives” (from here)
rap-rock that won’t appeal to rap-rock fans — too much estrogen, too much, well, fun. it seems to me that the b[…]

The return of a popular feature! (No, not DUEL! That’s back tomorrow). I’ve found some more CDs I want to see the back of. They’ll be posted up on Alan’s Music Swap Shop tomorrow.
DAVID SYLVIAN – Dead Bees On A Cake: com[…]

The RIAA can just…no, no…we won’t get into that again. So, in a completely unsurprising move (perhaps only mildly shocking in just how long it took), The RIAA have finally sued Audio Galaxy, the peoples choice in the post-Napster f[…]

It’s Mike Oldfields CHILLOUT ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!! *hides in corner*
The terrorists have won. This was apparently GESTATED in the midst of a prolonged stay in Ibiza which is surely the final nail in the tacky holiday resorts coffin!!! The chillout […]

Suprisingly enough, I wasn’t a big fan of Jason when it came to ‘Especially For You’. It took a few years and a drunken singalong walking back along steep deserted tree lined lake district roads for that one to mature like a FINE WI[…]

OK, now this is just really pathetic…[…]