Just Another Social Profile Really

Anyone who’s familiar with SEO will remember those golden days when it was possible to Googlebomb people. When you could get George W. Bush’s homepage to rank for the term miserable failure. Or Tony Blair to rank for liar. Or, best of all, John Prescott to rank for the phrase f**kwit. Unfortunately those days are [...]

I’m just browsing around YouTube this afternoon and, via Hendrix, The Beatles & The Rolling Stones, ended up at the amazing live version of Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan that forms the ending of the documentary No Direction Home and is available on the documentary’s soundtrack.
It was famously recorded at Manchester’s Free Trade [...]

It only seems fitting that as The Olympics draw to a close I should be writing about someone who has added so much to our enjoyment of the games. I’m not talking about any of Britain’s medallists, although they’ve obviously helped. No, I’m talking about Damon Albarn, the man responsible, with his friend and artistic [...]

The wonderful people at Airside just made my Friday by emailing about this fantastically timely t-shirt (which I’ve just ordered). What can I say? Buy it, wear it in to the office and scare the shit out of your team.

I was out with some friends the other night and we were chatting about the passing of time. As we reminisced about this & that something came to me which truly made me feel old. I realised that next year will be the 20th anniversary of Stone Roses eponymous début album.
It only seems like yesterday [...]

A couple of weeks ago I got a t-shirt that I’ve been meaning to blog ever since. It’s produced by Brownswood, Gilles Peterson’s excellent record label, and you can see it here.
The rather strange text on the tee, Death Jazz, refers to the supposed sub-genre of music produced by bands such as Soil & “Pimp” [...]

I’ve spent the weekend listening  to the music of just two British artists, each of whom I think have every right to be thought of as the best of the last 30 years and even to be considered with the greatest British musicians of the 20th Century, such as Lennon & McCartney, Bowie & Ray [...]

My good friend Chungaiz is leaving our office today to go and work on his favourite brand. But one good thing about him leaving is that we got to find out about his starring role in the Martine McCutcheon song, Over You, that you can see above.
If you like what you see, you might be [...]

This morning saw the first official airing of the new single from Oasis, Shock of the Lightning, on Virgin Radio and already some enterprising young soul has slapped a clip of it being played on Radio 1 onto a still image and posted it to YouTube, which I repost here for your listening pleasure.
As anyone [...]

I’ve been having a bit of a play with blip (the musical Twitter) this evening and have continued an early 90s nostalgia trip that started on the train home tonight. Basically I’ve been listening to lots of bands that, rightly or wrongl, were categorised as shoe-gazers back in the day.
My journey home was made a [...]