Pop The Vote
Pop The Vote On the I Love Music board I am running a poll to determine ILM’s Top 100 albums and tracks of the decade so far, what with being pretty much halfway through it as we are (unless you’re one...
View ArticleLong Dark Tunnel
Long Dark Tunnel (Confessions Of A Metropolitan Claustrophobe part 1) Living and travelling around and through London is easy on the Tube, despite all it’s flaws. But take it away and the nightmarish...
View ArticleMetropolimbo
Metropolimbo Perhaps the biggest disadvantage with growing up in a surburban satellite such as the towns within the Zone 5/6 boundary is that while you feel comfort in being able to experience both...
View ArticleResFest
ResFest looms once again – along with OneDotZero this is a key event in the medium of artistic digital film, primarily showcasing cutting edge film-making, animation and effects. Needless to say I will...
View ArticleCatch them on the Flipside
Innovative, audacious, useful…unimaginative, cowardly, lazy…You could apply any or all of these adjectives to Channel 4’s new late night show Flipside, that consists of a bunch of K-listers (MTV...
View Article‘Greatest’‘Greatest Chatshow Moments’‘Moments’
‘Greatest’ ‘Greatest Chatshow Moments’ ‘Moments’ 1) The camera was on the presenter from the start but took about a minute to inch slowly forward enough so we could actually see her face properly,...
View ArticleThe Fall And Rise Of Fiorentina
The Fall And Rise Of Fiorentina As related here, an extraordinary sequence of events has ensured that Fiorentina will play in Serie A only two years after being stripped of the rights to their old...
View ArticleI have a stupidly early flight tomorrow morning…
To delightful Amsterdam – one of my favourite things about the place possibly being it’s relative proximity to where I am now. An hour in the sky and you’re back on the ground, wham bam. My attitude to...
View ArticleLore! That new Robbie Williams single may be the worst thing he’s ever released…
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...
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Human After All
Human After All For many of you out there, there may be none more seismic a newsflash over the festive season. The prospect of a new Daft Punk album has excited me for some time, but hang on, it’s not...
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THE SQUARE TABLE 25 / KYLIE MINOGUE & THE SCISSOR SISTERS –“I Believe In You”
POP FACTOR: 760 CONTROVERSY RATING: 187 This one has it all!* – Classy Cocktail Kylie but with added good song! – Smooth and modish production – Genuinely good lyrics (“I don’t believe I’d fall in love...
View Article45 RPM
45 RPM As in, 45 resolutions per minute. That’s roughly the number of them I seem to come up with every sixty seconds. Now the hangover has worn off it’s time to put one’s money where one’s...
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Great Pop Discovered Whilst On Holiday #1 (New Series)
Bikstok Røgsystem – ‘Cigar’ One of the great things about visiting other countries: lying in bed in the hotel room after midnight (in this instance I was in Stockholm) flicking through the selection of...
View ArticleTHE FT TOP 25 ANIMALS – 9. Hedgehogs
I never really understood the porcine reference in the name as the little beasts have much more of the rodent about them than the darling/delicious pig (and indeed they are closely related to the mole...
View ArticleThe ‘ain’t goin’ to Glasto’ mix…
For those of us not down at Worthy Farm this weekend who sort of wish we were, 30 seconds out of every minute. Alvin Lucier ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’ Dru Hill ‘In MY Bed’ Samantha Fox ‘Love House’...
View ArticleSounds like a wet one…
When you’re not AT Glastonbury but feel as though you should be a curious conflict can develop in your mind as well as in the media. Radio 1, NME and other portals capitalise on the festival’s...
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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
As A Tim Burton Event and even as a remake, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory feels a little TOO predictable and ‘robotic’ at times (Hollywood/ILM/Elfman etc. TOO well-oiled a machine now!) – the...
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Ultramix 93
Ultramix 93: Party like it’s 1993 with this EPIC online mix – part of an ongoing series. High on chart hits, club classics and more unusual rarities – maybe even a bit of indie…how many do you remember?
View ArticleLily Allen vs the world part 3487
Apparently Alesha Harvey disapproves of Lily Allen’s bitching of other pop stars. But Alesha’s attitude may itself be a far bigger problem – this seemingly programmed attitude of goodwill to all (other...
View ArticleChart Runs
Chart Runs. An invaluable site for finding out which Cookie Crew (or, I suppose, any other band) tracks failed to make the top 75. This site collates chart data published in old Record Mirrors and...
View ArticleRockists Night In: Set The Fire To The Third Knob
Methinks the lady doth protest too much Those of you not yet middle-aged, criticise BBC Three while you still can! Really though, the channel’s future seems as safe as their schedules and as a result I...
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Kissing the pink goodbye…
FreakyTrigger in ‘easy on the eyes’ scandal?! There’s a new stylesheet named ‘nu’ which you can select at the foot of the sidebar if, like me, you’re a bit sick of the pink colour scheme the site’s...
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Pop World Cup Update & Ro16 Preview
So after nearly three months of managerial mind games and exciting encounters the group stage is finally complete. Sixteen sides have been eliminated and sixteen sides remain. To confirm, the draw for...
View ArticleTop Of The Pops – The View From The Floor
‘Is you is or is you ain’t my baby….top of the pops top of the pops’ So sang my dearly departed Grandad within earshot on more than one occasion during my childhood. Sadly his follow-up ‘Is that a man...
View ArticleOne of the more arresting and memorable exhibits at Bilbao’s glorious
One of the more arresting and memorable exhibits at Bilbao’s glorious Guggenheim for me was Pierre Huyghe’s ‘One Million Landscapes’ from 2001, the somewhat retro-futurist CGI reminiscent of Shynola...
View ArticleWhat does the latest round of Guiness (Extra Cold) adverts suggest
What does the latest round of Guiness (Extra Cold) adverts (a follow-up pastiche compilation of previous classic Guiness ads) suggest? That they’ve run out of ideas and are squeezing the last drops of...
View ArticleIn this month’s Four Four Two…
In this month’s Four Four Two (a good read tho not enough coverage given to Euro 2004 review I thought – then again I guess we don’t need yet more pages and pages devoted to THAT disallowed goal)...
View ArticleI have just given You Whores a cursory glance for the first time
I have just given You Whores a cursory glance for the first time and I was amused soon enough. The idea’s seeming unoriginality quickly dissolves once you recognise the quality of craft and content...
View ArticleMobb Deep ‘Got It Twisted’ (Jive)
Mobb Deep ‘Got It Twisted’ (Jive) It shouldn’t still happen should it? Taking hits from the 80s hasn’t sounded so crazy for a while, even as that trend has reached it’s fulcrum in the post-millennial...
View ArticleI recorded then watched Channel 4’s ‘X Rated: The Pop Videos They Tried to Ban’
I recorded then watched Channel 4’s ‘X Rated: The Pop Videos They Tried to Ban’ the other day, and spent much of it’s duration begging Jayne Middlemiss (unfair to single her out, and hardly new to pick...
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