Counter attack: the Christmas party season and a hideous workload have served to nip the NYLPM renaissance in the bud rather – sorry about that, normal service etc. Here’s an article about the race for the Christmas No.1 to keep you in th[…]

Ethan P on Roots Manuva: “Who gives a fuck about “ten pints of bitter?””. Well, not you Ethan, cuz being American you’re not old enough to drink it yet.
(Serious response – the Roots Manuva album is a bit overrated[…]

Got Your Money Shot: sloppy, slippery, disappointing Village Voice piece on Britney (maybe there’s just not much to say about it, and her, any more?) – the increasingly common and cheap e-mail exchange format doesn’t help.
Almost e[…]

Old – here’s a question I’d like people to answer.
We all get into bands or records or scenes – get excited about them, get passionate about them, live for them. That music becomes you, becomes part of you. There’s not […]

Ananova Poll: for mercy’s sake STOP DIDO![…]

Poor Brian Harvey, just been attacked in Nottingham by YOOFS with a machete. Where does one find machetes in Nottingham, I wonder? How puzzling. Is a machete usually the scalping instrument of choice in the Midlands? Either that or there is a MULTINA[…]

Dreams: Propaganda 1985: I’ve been listening to Propaganda all day. Here’s some articles and reviews from their time (’85) – here’s an excellent Tangents piece on them.[…]

Martin Creed just won the Turner Prize (ILE is discussing it here). He was the lights-going-on-and-off guy. He’s also got a band, Owada, who are kind of Art too. Here are the words to the songs on their CD.[…]

DURAN DURAN – “The Chauffeur”
1. The Title: “The Chauffeur”. This song, you know, is going to be cod-elegant and faux-decadent and as icily pretentious as anyone could wish. You think, perhaps, of Pinter. You think, mayb[…]

Just to counter the Scrit-Bit below, heres Kevin Pearce on them, from Tangents. He tears into Songs To Remember, Scritti Politti’s just-reissued 1982 album, essentially accusing it of a kind of treachery, and asserts that history has judged wha[…]