Open fires in pubs. Attractive? Yes. Bloody uncomfortable if you are sitting three feet away from them? Double yes. As part of the soon to be announced Pumpkin Publog Pub Of The Year award we will be taking into deep consideration comfort of heating.[…]

THE STREETS – Too Much Brandy
There has been much excitement in Freaky Trigger circles about The Streets album Original Pirate Material but I must admit that it was something that did not quite click with me. Listening to the single Has It Come[…]

Is this your CD collection?: they stole our idea!! Well, ILM’s long-running “12 CD” trope, anyway, which here gets a Guardian style going-over. It’s quite a funny article but leaves a bad taste in the mouth – I bet Stuar[…]

Your Ananova correspondent is busy expanding her international borders by looking at Spains version of Pop Idol, Operacion Triunfo! From what I can tell there are three winners, one is a fan of the hippy look called ROSA! Sadly she bears a resembalan[…]

Will reveals ‘superstar’ image on debut single cover – since our usual Ananova correspondent is clearly infatuated with Will Young it falls on me to ask the key question – does this person, o readers, look like a “true s[…]

Kym Marsh vs Jonathan King: a short – and possibly even controversial – article by Mark Sinker on Jonathan King, and Hear’Say, and showbiz cynicism.[…]

No wait I take it all back!: “”Extending oneself beyond monosyllabic utterances is usually an indication one is more educated and learned,” said the researchers about analysing the average length of the words in each artist’s […]

Marcello is right: well, half-right. One of my biggest regrets last year was not finishing parts 2 and 3 of the ‘Death of Pop’ articles. The plan was to draw a line under the bullishly pro-pop attitudes we’d been espousing here, to […]

1: Play Harmonica like Bob Dylan in three easy steps:
1. Put harmonica to your lips
2. Blow
3. Suck
Repeat for the length of the solo but whatever you do, to be true to the unique Dylan style, do not move your mouth. This may introduce other “n[…]

We do give a damn about our friends: intense excitement accompanies the new release of a split single by Clock Strikes Thirteen and The Clientele, covering one another’s songs. The Clientele are long-standing FT favourites of course, but for ad[…]