Oh NO!: thread bemoaning the apparently imminent floppage of “Chewing Gum” by Annie. I agree that it’s the lack of airplay and supermarket stockage that’s done for the song. I can understand why Radio 1 and Asda have stayed aw[…]

The ‘enhanced’ CD of “Love Machine” is well worth your £2.99. You get a great sleeve, a version of the song which has actual bass on it unlike the MP3 doing the rounds, a Girls Aloud ‘game’ which won’t […]

I’m in an internet café, and its nearing one and this place is a buck an hour, so there are no head phones, but they have Kaaza?so I am listening to Tim McGraw, in an attempt to remember what else I want to put on a list of contempary chart co[…]

current chart(ish) popgothnoise as subliminal politix
(i haf only skimmed this and am anyway currently so under-the-gun that i find world affairs soothing forsooth, so my opinion is worth little prob)[…]

Should club nights* have ‘standards’?
There are two schools of thought on this. One says that no, they shouldn’t – it makes good records turn stale and means the evening becomes predictable. My feeling is somewhat different. I[…]

Club Popular:
Just a reminder that
– Club Popular returns on the 30th September, at the Chapel Bar in Islington, free entry, only #1 hits will be played. 7 until late(ish).
– It will be really good.
– A real actual No.1 pop star mig[…]

Musical Emotions That There Are No Specific Words For Part 1 in a series of oh come off it
The sensation when the CDs that looked so great before leaving the house turn out to be exactly what you don’t want to actually listen to when you get to[…]

My status as the ‘office DJ’ seems to be cemented. The latest commission is for our annual biggest-of-the-bigwigs convention, this year in Cape Cod. Sadly I’m not being flown out, box boy in tow, for a superstar set – I’[…]

Mr. 82
This fellow is one of the more intriguing coves posting on ILM. His posts, several on the same thread, are always under different names, rarely does an identity appear twice. His modus operandi tends to be to reprint a music news story and ask[…]

MAUL MY MEMORIES!: An occasional series (‘series’) where I post tracks I used to really, really like and that I’m now – well – not so sure about. Most of them will hail from that den of frauds and jokers men call… […]