I’ve been continuing my nostalgia trawl through the 80s & 90s today, picking up albums by The Wonder Stuff & Mansun. But along the way I also stumbled across this 1998 stone-cold club classic: Music Sounds Better With You by…
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Ciarán Norris blogs about music, media and much ado about nothing
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Where’s thelondonpaper’s Iconic London Flickr Group?
Daily free-sheet thelondonpaper is currently running a competition to capture iconic images of London. However, rather than stock-pictures of the changing of the guard or Houses of Parliament, they’re looking for images that represent the true London: the one that…
Suede – The Next Life
Hunting around for something to listen to this morning I alighted on the eponymous début album by Suede and was rather taken aback as I’d forgotten quite how good it is. I remember that at the time that Suede burst…
M|A|R|R|S – Pump Up The Volume (From Nokia 5800 Ad)
I’ve just seen an ad for the new Nokia 5800 on TV and it brought the memories flooding back with its use of the seminal Pump Up The Volume by M|A|R|R|S. The Nokia ad featured little more than lines from…
I Wish Tuomo Would Visit London
A while back I was doing quite a bit of writing for music site Fly and whilst a lot of the stuff I got was pretty average, there was album that really stuck with me. My Thing, the debut album…
Lost Gloves #17 & #18: Wimbledon Village & Oxford
After the rather stylish glove spotted in Islington, I was hoping that I might find some more that broke out of the plain black mould. But it seems I was being overly optimistic. Whilst Wimbledon Village is a lovely place,…
Posted in Lost Gloves
Lost Gloves #16: Angel Tube, Islington
I spotted this rather lovely brown & beige glove on my way to SES London earlier this afternoon. It makes quite a nice change as nearly all of the lost gloves I’ve seen so far, other than the kids’ gloves,…
The Wonder Stuff – Don’t Let Me Down Gently
As you might have guessed by now, I’m on a 1989 nostalgia trip at the moment, sparked by the fact that this year sees the 20th anniversary of the release of The Stone Roses eponymous début. However 1989 wasn’t just…
Lost Gloves #14 & #15, Vauxhall & Walsall
I’ve been a bit poor with the Lost Gloves recently, so hope that you’ll accept my apologies and a double-bill which includes this site’s first bit of UGC. The glove above was one I spotted at Vauxhall Station earlier this…
This Man’s Best Friend
I am so bloody relieved I’m prepared to let my blog fall prey to the “they’re just websites for photos of cats” cliché. Welcome home Domino.
Posted in Personal
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