Pete’s fine attempt at a Busted comic (see below) prompts this vital question over at I Love Comics. I’d never really given it much thought before but it seems odd that there was never a Beatles comic, or a Bay City Rollers comic, or a Mo[…]

Go! Go! Go! to Enthusiastic But Mediocre where you will find me getting into a FITE with some European pop music from the land of the Moomins.[…]

VISITATIONS
Visitations
ANNIE
Anniemal
Good lord last week was busier than I thought when it came to work, and then when I went home I either had committments or didn’t want to write much or anything. So hurrah for what may or may not be a bri[…]

I’m proud to present the third batch of CD treasures for re-housing. If you want to see the list of items, go to TMFD and click on the link below the totaliser. If you want to see them in their full glory, follow the links below:
Frankly not ev[…]

(As drawn when drunk at the Pop Justice 20 Quid Music Prize, and later lettered and cleaned by me – cleaned both physically and one offensive joke about the fella from McFly removed. Though Busted were robbed.)

(With thanks to Steve Mannion fo[…]

MAUL MY MEMORIES II
If I was the sort of person who posted to ILM here is a thread I would post: “Things you knew would be ‘cult bands/albums/records’ the moment you heard them”. The clumsy phrasing of that suggests that I hav[…]

POP FACTOR: 774 CONTROVERSY RATING: 190
Girls Aloud take their mockabilly strut a little too fast, there’s a lockstep urgency to the rhythm that makes the fun more frantic by giving you the feeling they’re just a trip away from falling […]

Public and large thanks to
Edward at Enthusiastic But Mediocre
Jessica at Into The Groove
John at The Tofu Hut
Keith at TTIKTDA
for their help with a piece on MP3 Blogs I’ve been writing, which I finished and sent off last night. I’ll let[…]

“badgers couldn’t compensate at twice the price“!!
(for the benefit of the non-aged this is a roxy music reference)[…]

Lore! That new Robbie Williams single may be the worst thing he’s ever released…
but combined with the new Beastie Boys single ‘Triple Trouble’ it has prompted me to think about the pros and cons of putting on a silly accent i[…]