People often say to me, this hating music malarkey must be a lonely profession. Well, my inbox is always open to perusal by naysayers to see how many people agree with me. Take Mark Turrell. I know nothing of him but just the other day he sent me a l[…]

Well, it obviously wasn’t music lessons was it.[…]

THE CORAL
I’m not an active person, but even a gin-swilling queen of the London social scene gets to go down to the seaside every now and then. I have little use for water in my dad to day life unless in its sparkling solid form making merry wi[…]

DJ FORMAT – The Hit Song
In which yet another one of those incessant stream of turntablists hooks up with a lousy no mark MC to make a hip-hop record. DJ Format is a UK turntablist, for which read someone who wants to be in hip-hop but realised[…]

GRAM PARSONS
Hmm, the clue to his drugs habit was in his name wasn’t it?[…]

NO GIRLS ALOUD
If we can thank Girls Aloud for anything, and I’m not sure we can, its for seeing off One True Voice. Them and the British public I feel have long since recognised that there is indeed only one true voice in this country, one voi[…]

JURRASIC ARSE – The T-Rex Story
What was the largest, most frightening creature ever to walk this earth. Before you answer, I’m not thinking of fictional creatures such as Emerson, Lake and Palmers Tarkus. Or even those terrible lizards, […]

ANTI-POP = PRO-WAR
I find it most amusing that Ms Dynamite has been twitching around, galvanizing the yoof of today to be against war. Why is she called Ms Dynamite then, if she is anti weapons of mass destruction? No, nothing has been more heartenin[…]

I HATE MUSIC RUBBISH SIMILE WATCH
MARVIN GAYE – Sexual Healing
Baby, I’m hot just like an oven, I need some Lovin’
Why did Marvin Gaye Snr bust a cap in Marvin Gaye Jnr’s ass? All sorts of rumours abound regarding drugs, infi[…]

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MEMBERS OF LAMBCHOP?
In a recent piece I discussed those stupid bands which have more members than revenue – or in the case of My Life Story more members than actual fans. What completely slipped my mind was the strange ca[…]