CALL ME TANYA SAURON
Well as Jackie Roper says, if I’m going to talk down on Led Zep, I might as well talk down on musicians everywhere. And you know that poor girl touched a nerve with me. Not that I was being too harsh, after all what I do is[…]

A LED ZEPPELIN FAN WRITES
“Dear whoever,
If your gonna talk down on led zepelin like that you may as well talk down on musicians everywhere. Led Zeppelin is one of the best rock and roll bands every. I am appalled that you would ever show you[…]

FRANK AND NANCY SINATRA- Something Stupid
There is a whole layer of hell reserved for Robbie Williams, whilst Nicole Kidman – for attempting to revive the musical in 2001 – gets at least two or three levels to herself. But taking the song[…]

INTO TANYA’S MAILBAG
I get a goodly amount of post, as you might imagine. Much of it centers on a particular question – “What kind of music do you like, then?”. As I believe I have said before, somewhere on this site, I hate m[…]

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[…]

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[…]

PUNK ROCK LYRIC WATCH SPECIAL
THE CLASH ? London Calling
A bunch of middle class punk chancers or the only band with something to say to come out of Britain during the late seventies? Well, on the evidence of London Calling it?s pretty much neither. […]

WHICH ONE’S PINK?
I have always been a firm believer in doing the work you love and loving the work you do. That’s why my CV includes spells as a librarian, a sensory deprivation engineer, and a special liason for the Metropolitan Police&[…]