1. This is horrible, and my excuse for recent laziness. 2. Heidar Helguson is a genius. 3 goals in 2 games for the mighty Queens Park Rangers. There he is on the left celebrating, and rightly so. 3. This is great news. Everything this band has ever done has been fun, I'm sure this'll be […]

A most pleasant afternoon in slightly rainy Regent’s Park at the annual Innocent Village Fete. And amongst all the duck herding, ferret racing, farmer’s market and welly wanging (really) were two tents of live music. And amongst that lot a real gem in the form of a most admirable fellow by the name of Mr […]

A bit of a bonanza today. Firstly there are free songs (tasters from forthcoming albums) from Bob Dylan and Kings Of Leon to be had on the interweb. In October Dylan will release the 8th volume of The Bootleg Series, which is entitled "Tell Tale" Signs and runs to 3 discs (if you still do […]

In a recent issue of Word magazine in the UK there was an interview with Bill Drummond – him of The K.L.F. who signed off their career by firing a machine gun into the audience at the 1992 Brit awards and then burning that million quid. Interesting chap. Anyway he has a new band called […]

I buy a lot of music, it must be more than I need given the size of my waiting list of unheard music, but it’s a habit I like. I don’t think I’m just a marketing man’s dream, or possibly those marketing types are cleverer than I think. I do love a bit of hype, […]