An idea which shouts through a megaphone that it was conceived on the back of a beermat- The Ghosts Of Pac-Man asks a number of searching questions about the blamanche-like spooks in the early eighties video arcade game. An idea not fully developed o[…]

Mixing it. I have long entertained the theory that Snakebite was frowned upon by the landlord community neither for legal reasons nor for tap-contamination reasons, but for pub contamination reasons. That is to say, they don’t want their pub co[…]

Having barmaided quite a lot in my time I know that Snakebite was frowned upon – I was given the impression that this was because the landlord didn’t like the idea of one glass potentially ‘cross contaminating’ 2 pumps. On re[…]

Two things I heard last night:
i) Axl Rose has found God,
ii) Snakebite is actually illegal because you can’t guarantee the ABV. Pete, is this true?
I also got to put the ‘on own in pubs’ theory to the test. What I did:
a) mooched a[…]

(Continuing the review re-runs, while I do other stuff…)
BUCKCHERRY – “Lit Up”
Don’t don’t do it: my hunch is that more great music has been made on cocaine than on any other pop star drug. Certainly the 90s had a […]

Pitchfork review the Clientele – don’t like it much. Memo: more exotic instrumentation and high-concept song-suites next time, Alasdair![…]

“The Seventies Were The Coolest Decade Ever….Because Of All My Mates!” – it’s Victor Bockris talking about the 1970s as the nexus of all good things in post-war American culture, actually quite interestingly. Possibly he[…]

The Vocoder Revival, drawing the comparison – obvious but one which had passed me by – between the fact that Vocoders are all over 00s pop like measles and the 1970s wah-wah boom. A thought occurs to me: possibly the Vocoder plague is a s[…]

(With customary apology to newcomers to the relative obscurity of this item. I rip the piss out of John Lennon below. And indeed on most of the other pages too.)
A tribute to both classical prodigy and early death boy Mozart and the late eighties US […]

As any publican will tell you, you do officially have to be 18 to get served alcohol in a pub. I can assure you that by the age of 18 any girlie worth her MAC lipliner will have been practising the application of makeup for, ooh, at least 10 years. T[…]