No smoking areas. I know these have reared their ugly heads before, and I know that there are arguments for and against both sides (not least that I know a number of people who have had smoking related illnesses recently). Nevertheless if there is on[…]

PROFESSIONS UNSUITED TO POPSTARS
1: Basement Jaxx : Doctors
This is not merely based on the fact that the two fellows from the Jaxx look almost as unhygenic as the inside of Badly Drawn Boys bobble hat. No, on their last single they asked the simple […]

TANYA’S ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILTH – SPECIAL
Chris de Burgh – A Spaceman Came Travelling
Okay, I know its a bit late, but this little bastard creapt up on me on Christmas day no less when I was cheering on the Nazi’s in The Soun[…]

TATTL, 3. The Dungeon Family Problem
Two artists nudge one another for positions on the lower end of any list I make – The Wu-Tang Clan and the Dungeon Family. Both late-release records by multi-member groups, neither of which I’ve had ti[…]

POP MUSIC LAWYER WATCH
1: Flavor Flav: “2002 – representing the Wu” Soul Power (Black Jungle) – Wu Tang Clan.
Suddenly it becomes all too clear why Old Dirty Bastard went down for five years. The Wu Tang Clan hired Flavor Fla[…]

A NEW YEAR FABLE
Here, let me tell you a brief tale for 2002, an update of an old favourite. Say, for instance the tale of King Midas, the man who wished that everything he touched would turn into gold. Soon he realised that this was not the heaven s[…]

In an attempt to help Tom out in his quest towards a Top Ten List I present that ever unreliable staple – The NME’s version. In this modern age of the NME not knowing who its constituency is, it is odd how old fashioned their Top 50 album[…]

Happy New Year to all those who occasionally rear their heads at the publog. Its January – which can only mean one thing – the pubs will be empty of those part time drinkers whose lack of knowledge of pub ettiquette make December that lit[…]

cantankerous jukebox: Jess’ novelty-fatigue is an illustration of why my wallowing in the mainstream this year – no, last year now, blimey – has probably been healthier than I credit. The only suggestion I’d make is that he dr[…]

Hooray! (a welcome return.)[…]