Patsy Montana- I want to be a Cowboy Sweetheart.
It hasn’t been camped up or reclaimed by anybody and not really known as well as it should be, considering it was the first song written by a woman to sell a million copies. Its not ironic and i[…]

Ahem. The counsel for the defence says: I would have loved to be sitting close enough to the ashtray in order to use it. Or indeed to have been sitting at all in a very crowded pub on a Saturday night in the centre of town. It is far more antisocial […]

The Ultimate Fop-Pop Explosion
When I hit the astroturf I knew it was serious. By the time I got to Battersea the next morning, my ankle resembled the Graf Zeppelin and each gear change felt like an angle grinder slicing through my leg. Only another […]

The Most Ultra-Romantic-est Songs in the World… EVER! I’m guessing no-one reading this is likely to celebrate Valentine’s day by buying their Signif. Other (or anyone they happen to want to get jiggy with) a double CD compilation of[…]

TANYA HEADON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (OF POST PUB MUSIC TELEVISION)
From the off let’s get one thing straight. Post pub means but one thing to me. A dystopian future when all these lovely gin palaces have been destroyed and all the beautiful juniper[…]

I haven’t had much luck with live music. During high school, it proved cost-effective and adolescently satisfying to define my tastes, myself, against the blockbuster pick-of-the-late-90s alternasomething concerts (Live, anyone?) I didn’t[…]

Vindicated! I honestly never in my life thought I’d come across anyone else who liked ‘Calling America’ by ELO, which I heard once on the radio driving somewhere in a car when I was like, 12 or something. Years later, it was still i[…]

Kelly Osbourne – More Than Life Itself
Shut Up is an album of loud rocking songs, no doubt about that, don’t mess with Kelly O, oh no! Track eleven is the one you really need to hear, a bombastic hard rock ballad, that could have been sung by[…]

My very rushed comments didn’t make it in though my kewl ballot did – anyway here is what I said about The Streets!
First of all the idea was that Mike Skinner was reinventing UK Garage, but perhaps understandably a music built on confide[…]

Everclear-Soccer Mom
The porn girl who “fucked in the bathroom of her highschool prom” and had a three some with her sister and her bf turns into a safe suburban republican “volvo driving soccer mom.” Instead of being upset, […]