More musing on the Wetherspoon’s experience. My misfortune dumped me in the Metropolitan Bar at Baker Street last night and there was little I could do about it. is a flagship Wetherspoon’s with award winning toilets, and aircraft hanger[…]

While we’re talking lists and such…
“The Best Albums Ever…Honest” is a list by Wire critic and Telstar Ponies main man David Keenan. It’s problematic (aren’t they all…) because it falls squarely betwee[…]

A rock version of Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas is a long-cherished project of mine. Like most of my long-cherished projects, somebody’s gone and done it while I sat on my arse: hats off to Jonathan Valania for this magnificent[…]

Freaky Trigger Needs YOU: a while back I was planning to redesign NYLPM and turn it into something different, and I wanted writers. Several people got in touch. Then all sorts of bad things happened and the project fell apart. But now NYLPM is back o[…]

So Solid Crew recruit more members: thirty was not enough. One of them is Trigger off TV’s Only Fools And Horses! Possibly. Also Romeo is to release a solo single called “Where For Art Thou Romeo?”, which has Romeo’s rapping b[…]

Just thought I’d point out that All Bar One is neither a pub nor a bar. According to its owners, it is a restaurant. Six Continents, which used to be Bass Taverns, has two main areas of operation: Pubs and Bars, and Restaurants. The outlets […]

Peggy Lee, RIP – new on FT, by Elisha Sessions, forgot to link to this last night.[…]

Tray etiquette: As a response to “Things which are impossible (but pubs expect us to do) 2”.We were in the Spreadeagle last Friday, myself and a good selection of publoggers. My round came rather late in the evening (I believe I may have […]

Flute Watch – update: As I have deemed this the year of the flute it is my duty to notify you of another big flute tune doing the rounds. Dance For Me, by Mary J. Blige has another great use of this most lilting of instrument. Well, okay, it mi[…]

YOU KNOW, FOR KIDS
It’s very difficult to remember the music you heard when you were a kid. I’m not talking about the music that was playing. I’m talking about the music you heard. Twenty years on I know that I was allowed a record […]