Rosemary Squires – “I Poured My Heart Into A Song”
Irving Berlin wrote many songs about music, about singing and showmanship; ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’ and ‘Just A Couple of Song and Dance Men&[…]

TANYA?S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH: Indigo – MOLOKO
I often wonder exactly what would have happened if the bloke out of Moloko had replied – as obviously would have been the right answer – ?no?. The famous (as famous as any story about Molo[…]

TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH XTRA: The Blues
“I woke up this morning”. cf: Any blues song ever written.
I wish you hadn’t.[…]

THE SEVEN DEADLY PUB SINS: 5. Menus On The Table
The pub deadly sins have been quiet for a while. That is because past the first four I could not think of anything which seem so severe as to be a deadly sin. Plenty of annoying incidents occur in the […]

POP-EYE: 20/1/02
Tom has said he never wants to do the first week of the year for Pop-Eye ever again. Last week had a blitzkrieg of new releases – many of them dance tunes which had finally chanced their way into the charts via the seasonal sal[…]

Everlasting Pop and Dexys Midnight Runners
There is pop, and there is popular, and then there’s popular. And there’s also “timeless”. Sometimes when people say that a record is “timeless” – let’s pick o[…]

It’s nice to see that quality shines like a beacon even in the complex mire that is the US charts. Its our little pop princess Kylie taking the US charts by – if not storm – at least a mild shower. Firstly I like the way the British[…]

I disapprove of even noticing celebrities in pubs – not that either Sean Hughes or Paul Morley can be described as celebrities in any usual sense of the word. And as has probably been mentioned here before – the Hogshead is the chain pub[…]

TANYA’S RAINBOW OF RUBBISH: Blue Monday – NEW ORDER
New Order Question One: How do you replace a dark genius like Ian Curtis?
A: You get the drummers wife in.
New Order were – as everyone knows – formed from the ashes of Joy D[…]

My Chain-pub Hell continues. Hogshead last night with fellow-pub-loggers Pete and John. However, Crouch End’s famous ex-funeral parlour venue was graced by not one, but TWO celebs. Sean Hughes and (I think) Paul Morley, only I was too star-str[…]