A CONVERSATION WITH A PEPSI PUBLICIST CIRCA 1995
PP: Hello
Brett Anderson (for tis he): Hi, can I interest you in a song for an advert?
PP: Who is this?
BA: This is Brett Anderson, of the fantastic British Indie, I mean Rock band Suede.
PP: Never hea[…]

Another Best Of 2000 List: a.m.a. veteran and mailing list pal Kris S. provides a heavily annotated best-of for an end of year poll I’m running on said list. I like it so much I ask to run it on the site. So here it is![…]

Jamie Oliver lookalike? And isn’t that Lee doing a solo bit?[…]

POP EYE 7/1/2001
Right you fuckers listen up. It’s January. Outside it is cold. I am forced to wear a coat which makes me look like a 1982 Echo And The Bunnymen fan. The potential indignity of falling plum on my arse is near-constant. British w[…]

The dog ate it: I had a whole list of links to give you and forgot to e-mail it from work. The one that won’t wait is this defence of Eminem, which gets it exactly right as far as I’m concerned (though is a bit mean on poor old Britney). […]

The inevitable All Saint’s split has occurred then. Or has it? Since it would appear that in the crowded jostling British charts you need to paint yourself red to be seen – any press is good press when you have a single out. Therefore, si[…]

thirteen days in sosho
I leave my job on the 26th Jan, and this marks the end of my weekday presence in what many would have you believe to be London’s finest bar zone. Hmmm. “Where are you going tonight?” “Well I thought I[…]

A couple of music-related postings from Maura’s site: this is a piece about Mary Lou Lord, among other things. I’ve not heard any of the woman’s music, but I can ‘relate’. And this, from this week, takes a curiously puri[…]

The Idler tackles Albion: it’s that old chestnut ‘English music’ again, though the Idler’s take on it seems a bit stuck in the past. “But in the Eighties, there didn’t seem to be much to connect music to the countr[…]

Am I Cool Or Not? is back, recovered after its New Year hangover. A new victim and a new judgement for your delight – and thankyou everyone who writes in, too![…]