Perhaps it’s too tempting to compare The Crouches with Second Generation. After all, they only have anything in common from a single (white) perspective which assumes that all attempts to represent non-white sides of British life must somehow b[…]

The British Film Industry (aka Richard Curtis) has been doing pretty well by knocking out “Hugh Grant vs a Pretty American” films for ten years now. The new one, Love Actually, looks a bit different, partly due to the decision to do witho[…]

JAMIESON – Complete
Slow on the uptake as ever, this song only really grabbed me when I heard it being played in Next. Is there something about retail outlet sound-systems that makes great pop stand out? The acoustics? The relief from the horro[…]

Playground Songs: Poetry is of course an essential part of the Brown Wedge and you don’t get much more poetic than this:
Daisy Daisy
Give me your tits to chew
I’m half crazy
My bollocks are turning blue
I can’t afford a johnny
A pla[…]

It seems slightly ironic that the first day I pitch up in my new place of employment as an Educator (of sorts), I should also be going back to school myself in the evening. Having commuted back early from Glasgow to be able to attend, I am now offici[…]

I rarely eat supermarket sandwiches, Uxbridge has a couple of very good sandwich shops in Scoffs and Pumpernickels who will custom build you the sandwich of your choice. However today I went into Marks’ in search of a change and found there sm[…]

Archigram-Carnival
Being a house obsessive means records are constantly jostling in your memory to be the ones which remind you of great nights out. There must be about 100 I absolutely love, and 100 more I dance to and enjoy. It’s always diffi[…]

City were on the Telly. It’s a rare thing that my lot get shown live on the box (it’s happened I think five times ever) and it’s not something most Exeter fans relish. We have a proud tradition of failing to impress when the live TV[…]

The entire pub experience remains a bit of a mystery to me so I’m allowed to ask #1: re The Lamb in Lamb’s Conduit Street (and any other pubs this applies to).
1. Snob screens: why?
2: Little two-inch-high nautical-style brass rails round[…]

SOAP BUBBLES. Why? Why they make them is obvious – a chance to see your ‘favourite’ characters up to their antics out of context. So we get Bianca Butcher nee Jackson getting Rickay entangled with drug lords in Manchester. The Holly[…]