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Ahh, just when I thought I was getting a grip on my rampant nostalgia trip, BBC 2 broadcasts a look back at the brilliant Reeves & Mortimer ‘quiz show’ Shooting Stars, prior to a one-off return of the show to mark the 15th anniversary of its first broadcast (15 years?! Oh my God, I’m so [...]

Not that long ago I put out a call for help to find more new music so that I could write a Best Of post for 2008.
I felt like I hadn’t really listened to, or bought, that much new stuff. Quite a few people came up with suggestions and after downloading and listening to quite [...]

The Guardian are reporting that Lily Allen is in the shit with her record company after her mate Mark Ronson played Lily’s cover of Britney Spears’ new single, Womanizer.
“Mark Ronson asked me for something no one had heard to play on his radio show,” Allen explained on her MySpace blog. “Womanizer was the only song [...]

When I first wrote about This Time (I’m Gonna Try It My Way) by DJ Shadow it was as an aside in my post on Baby Charles’ cover of I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (they had covered This Time as well). But after listening to it properly a couple of days ago [...]

One of the many excellent things about my job is that I’m often tasked with finding new & interesting ways of using the web to connect with people. And recently, whilst doing just that, I was sent a link to the video above by my colleague Laurence from WCRS. It’s one half of a video [...]

As part of my ongoing nostalgia trip (I think it’s an end of year thing) & because I was on the subject of artists introduced to me by Gilles Peterson, I also checked out Ben Westbeech’s MySpace profile to see if he has anything new in the offering, and sure enough there was a new [...]

For a variety of reasons I’ve been having a bit of a nostalgia trip recently: digging out old photos, dusting off old mix-tapes, that sort of thing. And one of the things that surfaced during this journey into the world of rose-tinted spectacles (God, we all looked so young) was Everyday, the amazing track by [...]

As I mentioned in my last post I’ve just got back from Christmas in Paris (it was beautiful, thanks for asking, but boy was it cher). And whilst I was there, as has been the case almost every time I’ve been to France for the last few years, I heard a song that I’ve come [...]

I was on the Bakerloo line Tube back from Paddington after my Christmas in Paris when I saw this rather intriguing ad. Risking being taken for a lunatic by the assembled tourists I decided to take a photo as I guessed that it would be related to an interesting advertising campaign. And, on getting home [...]

Well, I’m off to Paris for Christmas tomorrow so this is likely to be my last post before Christmas Day. And as I’ve been so bad at sending Christmas cards this year I thought that I’d put a little festive message here.
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year - I hope you’ve had a great [...]