PETE BARAN AND SARAH CLARKE – “Paranoid Android”
Live performance, the King Of Corsica pub, 4th May 2001.
Karaoke is the final destination of pop, the point where the gap between song and listener rubs thinnest. In the space karaoke[…]

Pitchfork Reviews Kirsty MacColl: 7.0 is about right – the self-congratulatory tone Richard M Juzwiak takes over his faint praise is all wrong. We know you don’t like melodrama, Richard, we could have guessed that from your dismissal of &[…]

Hmmm, my huge-round-buying generosity stimulated, no doubt, by the fact that it’s nearly my birthday and I’m trying to spread an air of bounty and largesse amongst my friends.
However the really impressive thing was the way I remembered […]

GET THIS MAN TO BUY YOU A DRINK TONIGHT
John left the pub last night just as the large round reached it’s critical mass. And it was his round. The cur, and I had to pay for the taxi/ambulance. This on-line dissing is intensely liberating.[…]

Radio Plus gives you Emm! Pee! Threes! of stuff that John Peel is playing. All the usual suspects including Most Annoying Song Ever “I Have The Password To Your Shell Account” by Barcelona, the band who make Baxendale look like Kraftwerk.[…]

Yaara.com: “should really be linked by NYLPM” says Sterling on the forum, and who can disagree? Indian pop online – Bollywood, bhangra, pop, ‘Asian underground’. Neat.[…]

The Thirteen Year Itch – until I get my 29-year theory sorted out, Tony Wilson’s theory (Beatles in ’63, punk in ’76, acid in ’89) is the best bet because it gives you a little bit of breathing space for Something to Hap[…]

(Yes Pete does do laundry, thus explaining my emotional and psychological upset at occasionally having to witness his underwear hanging around the flat. Rather than drying it in the fresh open air of our kitchen however he hangs it in the dark dank &[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 4: No Smoking Areas REACTION NUMBER TWO
The major problem with Pub No-Smoking Areas is that the only way to guarantee their being smoke-free is to open all the doors and windows nearby so the No-Smoking Area is also the Dra[…]

THE PUB SEVEN DEADLY SINS: 4 : No Smoking Areas REACTION NUMBER ONE
Taking a partial an unilateral view on a subject. Not something that Mr Baran has been un-guilty of before (Year of New Racism eh? Not quite unilateral if you count the Tory back-b[…]