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Above The Beat And The Sub-Bass You know the form by now. In 2004, I bought some records. In December 2004, I picked my favourite 18 songs from them and made a CD for my mates. And at some point far too late into January 2005, I wrote a piece for here about my choices, and offered you the chance to win your own copy (competition now closed, result here). Updated 20/01/2005
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Art Of Noise They've worked with Duane Eddy, Max Headroom and Claude Debussy. Their publicity photos used to be full of spanners. But now they're back, looking less tool-like than ever before. A brief history of one of my favourite bands. Updated 26/04/2000
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Cheap Sex & Sad Films More songs about football and prison rape (as Talking Heads very nearly said once) in the traditional round-up of my favourite tunes of 2000. There was a competition as well, but it was ages ago and you missed it. Updated 14/01/2001
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Damn Your Black Heart, Barbra Streisand This album is not available in the shops. Not unless you want to buy eleven albums, three singles and a CD writing unit, and recreate my compilation of the best tunes of 1998 in the privacy of your own home. Which is, of course, illegal. Full recipe included. Updated 11/01/1999
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Dance A Dickless Jig Another musical year squished onto a single 74 minute CD for your listening pleasure. Find out what my favourite 16 songs of 1999 were, and why. Updated 15/01/2000
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Fin de Siècle "Actually, I don't even know if worms have sperm." (Neil Hannon, Neon, October 1998) Another album of literate, tuneful, biologically inaccurate pop from The Divine Comedy. Features a WORLD EXCLUSIVE interview. Updated 02/10/1998
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Fleadh 2001 30,000 punters, 29 acts, 0.12 inches of rainfall. Welcome to North London's premier fully irrigated live music festival. Updated 17/06/2001
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Half Man Half Biscuit It was twenty years ago today, Nigel Blackwell taught the band to play. Well, they probably knew already, but you know what I mean. A look back at the first two decades worth of records from the only Merseyside band worth a damn. Updated 01/12/2005
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Here's A Picture Of Me Bum For the tenth year in a row (2002), my favourite songs of the previous twelve months are assembled under a title crudely grabbed out of context from one of them. You could have won a copy of the CD in one of my traditionally unpopular competitions, but you're too late now: here's the result. Updated 18/01/2003
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In Relation To Me Getting Out Of Bed The famous Spank The Monkey went to Rome to see the Pope, and the Pope said to his aide... "How can I win a copy of Spank's CD of the best songs of 2001?" Well, you've missed the competition, Your Holiness, but you can find out who won it here. Updated 06/01/2002
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J-Pop Jamboree From high-velocity Japanese psychobilly to ten-year-old fish propaganda songs, here's a wholly uninformed analysis of the current state of Japanese music, based entirely on whatever I happened to hear during a two-week visit. Updated 25/05/2002
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Lisdoonvarna Festival 2003 Lots of fun and lots of frolics, Pioneers and alcoholics... After a twenty year absence, Ireland's most fondly remembered music festival returns to the county Clare, only to discover that the local council doesn't remember it quite as fondly as everyone else does. Updated 11/09/2003 |
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The Somerset House Series Five nights of open-air concerts, featuring PJ Harvey, Lemon Jelly, Bebel Gilberto, Belle & Sebastian, Afro Cuban All Stars and Orchestre Baobab. The last London-based outdoor music festival I reviewed ended up with me nearly drowning. Doesn't bode well for this one, does it? Updated 24/07/2004
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T.M.F.Y.T.T.F.T. It's time once again for my roundup of the year's best music, in the form of my Pick Of The Year CD. Read about my favourite 18 songs of 2003, and learn how you've missed your chance to win them in our Spot The Acronym competition result. And yes, pedants, it is an acronym. It's pronounced 'tumfytuft'. So there. Updated 08/01/2004
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V2000 Music makes the people come together! Music something bourgeoisie something rebel! Oh, you're talking rubbish, Madonna. But find out what music did to sixty thousand people in a Chelmsford field one August weekend. Updated 21/08/2000
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