The Dun-A-Ri – yes that is an Irish name and hence it has been given the epitaph of The Irish Bar. High praise indeed to be given the definite article in a city full of Irish pubs after all. However it is more an echo of The Spanish Bar (which […]

BOREDS OF CANADA (Do You See)
Look out parents. All over the world there are grubby, unkempt men hiding in bushes near playing fields, schools and outside sweet shops. No, it is not Gary Glitter or any one of his paedo gang – this is something […]

Lunes Felices: “Diagnostico confirmado: Pete Baran es un nabazo.”. A run through various inadequate translation software doesn’t tell me what precisely Pete Baran is but it does tell me we have a dissatisfied and thoughtful reader h[…]

“Six years ago, my record collection reflected a human being who was quite limited. Now it reveals an interesting adult.”: Future Sound Of London – they’re back and they’re still talking about their record collections.[…]

Everybody’s favourite new rock band The Libertines do the interview thing with The Guardian. Surely Michael Bracewell designed them in a lab??[…]

Tee hee.
(Thanks to M. Matos for the link.)[…]

Dolly Parton-9 to 5
I think country is Dolly clicking her nails in 9 to 5
I posted this as an after thought to an ilm thread about defining genre, and i wanted to expand it. I think that country rests much more on improvisation out of necessity, or […]

Download This! (2002) – 40 to 21: almost there on my review of the year. I’ll say at this point that it’s been really great writing all this – and hopefully my enthusiasm will carry over to doing a bit more here and on the res[…]

ANDREW WK – I Get Wet
Well put up an umbrella then, would of course be my first reaction. But careful perusal of the album in the remainder bin suggests your wetness does not come from the heavens. It does not even come from remaking Pink&#8217[…]

The Euston Hexagon. This was a post Christmas, pre-New Year pub crawl which dragged a good fifteen people to some lesser known pubs in the Euston Area. That was the plan. As it happened the timing meant a couple of the pubs were shut. The original pl[…]