SPEARMINT – Sweeping The Nation
A single that many indie boys hold dear, because it fulfils all their dreams. You see most indie boys secret harbour a desire to be in a band. The fact that they are not in any way musically gifted is not the rea[…]

IHM LYRIC WATCH SPECIAL : DOUBLE NEGATIVE WATCH
A special edition – which of course in music terms means you are getting exactly the same as you would with the regular edition just paying more. Owning said special edition record will mark you o[…]

MORE TOP OF THE POPS MEMORIES
Since it would appear I am incapable of thinking of more than one subject these days, I must refer to you a conversation I overheard in a pub the other day. A man, let’s call him Gerard, was surrounded by a number[…]

MR AND MRS – Not Strictly Music
I know, its a gameshow. But I include it here for a simple reason. The gist of the show is that they ask one member of said married couple questions about the other member. And so that party two does not hear sai[…]

ALL ABOUT EVE – Martha?s Harbour
I have a dark secret, dear reader. You know I say I hate music. Well, I genuinely do. However there has been a time when I actually envied, actually wanted to physically be a genuine bona fide pop star. Well, a […]

SCOOBY DOOBY DOO
What do you answer when someone asks you what your favourite Kraftwerk album is, then? If you’re like me you say, “None of them”. If you’re like most people you’d say Computer World (1981) or Trans-Europ[…]

HE’S NOT JUST DRAWN BADLY
As loathe as I am to rise to the bait of something as half arsed and uninformed as the Technics Mercury Music Prize (I mean, the prize is named after a company that no longer exists) I cannot let this Badly Drawn Boy n[…]

KRAFTWERK
Anyone who cycles is a bastard. You have your pavements, for the use of the foot, and you have your roads, for the use of the car. Neither fish nor fowl, the bicycle exists solely to annoy pedestrians and motorists alike, to let middle-aged[…]

IHM LYRIC WATCH 7
“I’m back like Erin Brockovitch / You know that means apocalypse” – Method Man, Roni Size, “Ghetto Celebrity”
Hardly needs comment, really, but i) doesn’t rhyme at all even if you say it ver[…]

THE UNBEARABLE SHITENESS OF IAN
This title was originally reserved for a piece on Ian Dury, until somone pointed out that since the monotonous one died recently it might be in bad taste. I will indeed revise that piece, not so much for taste purposes[…]