Another indie kid rant about the NME

So the NME are running the 25 most exciting bands to come out of America in a ‘We heart America’ special this week. Leaving aside that the list format is the most redundant, laziest fallback of the music journalist (Q might as well run a cover of the top fifty Q top fifties, then write [...]

The Corpse is Downloaded

A little late in the day, ‘cos my finger is SO HOT on the media pulse (ahem), but the Indie are doing free downloads of ‘cult classics’, i.e. dodgy B movies you could probably pick up in a charity shop every day until Sunday. Today’s offering is Bela Lugosi’s The Corpse Vanishes, which I actually [...]

I have licked your daughter’s nipples

This and other winning bits of geek-love humour over here, courtesy of Randall Munroe. This one provides a salutary lesson for me in advance of next week’s holiday parent-meeting.

So Oxford boys The Winchell Riots are the Guardian’s band of the day, it would seem. Although it’s not exactly headlining Glastonbury, it shows that they’re starting to get somewhere, and as such fills me with an undue sense of pride, having supported the band via my website and reviews in the local music mag [...]

explaining the spider hill

Thought I might as well start off a blog, since my job now requires me to become a blogging/social networking whizz and de facto IT consultant. I’m going to try to make this space a centrepoint for all the other crap I do all over the place on Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr and all that crap.
Expect [...]