Happy Christmas! Zavvi has gone into administration, with 2500 jobs on the line and the immediate future of British music looking VERY SHODDY. (International readers: Zavvi is/was one of the…
A couple of years ago, when Sandi Thom released her first hit single in a whirlwind of dodgy claims about webcasts from a Tooting basement, we stuck the single sleeve…
This is an official list and is not open to question… 1. Trees Trees are all very well but they don’t tend to contain songs called ‘UMBRELLA’. We said that…
If it weren’t for Mark Ronson, both the Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse albums would probably have been a bit shit. At the very least, they certainly wouldn’t have been as good as…
We once saw Patrick Wolf on the bus eating a doughnut. Another time we saw him on the London Underground trying to navigate Earls Court with an old lady’s shopping…
During ‘the summer months’ we had a chat with Lou Pearlman — inventor of pop groups like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. The reason for our chat was to discuss Lou…