MORE TOP OF THE POPS MEMORIES
Since it would appear I am incapable of thinking of more than one subject these days, I must refer to you a conversation I overheard in a pub the other day. A man, let’s call him Gerard, was surrounded by a number[…]

A desert of pubs – that’s what the Finchley Road north of the wee bit too quaint Ye Olde Swiss Cottage is. Its all Supasnaps and empty restaurants. Where a major thoroughfare like this needs its pubs, it has hoardings over old cafes which[…]

I’m off until Sunday afternoon: if my fellow team members want to take up the slack, you may have something new to read anyway. Otherwise, have a good weekend![…]

Loving and Leaving the Phonograph; or; Napster for Record Romantics. Well-written overview of what Napster means for the way we consume and listen to music. Two points leap out.
First off is the way Harry Smith’s Anthology Of American Folk Musi[…]

All this scratching is making me itch. To placate Tom’s fear below I believe an in depth discussion of the scratching issue is exactly the kind of thing this publog should be doing. And for fear of alienating any US audience, said article about[…]

Help me with an urgent question on the I Love Music forum, why don’t you? The 90s revival starts here…..[…]

According to this article, some scamster in the States has published a diet book which makes use of pork scratchings (or ‘pork rinds’ as they are even less tastefully called over there) in its recipes. So sales of scratchings to dieting w[…]

What are the most-performed songs in Britain?: few surprises (is there no poll bloody “Angels” won’t do well in?) in this survey. The most-played songs in the UK’s DJ Sets list will no doubt please certain Phats-and-Small-lovi[…]

USounds presents Baxendale MP3s: offered without commentary because a) I haven’t heard them, b) I have a vicious hangover.[…]

The main problem with KP Pork Crackling is that the size of the bags is preposterous even by pork scratching bag standards. The huge transparent sacks of scratchings you can get in the North cannot surely be in competition with this microscopic speci[…]