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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 Stardust (a one off collaboration by a bunch of French musicians, including one of Daft [...]

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 millions of us live, work & play in. As someone who loves photography, and even [...]

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 onto the music scene I was rather cynical of the hype: proclaimed as the best [...]

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 the lyrics flashing up on the screen whilst the tune played in the background. For [...]

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 by Finnish soul singer Tuomo, was an absolutely lovely record: not original or ground-breaking but [...]

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, and ever so pretty, it seems that its inhabitants are no more adventurous than the [...]

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, have been black. I’m normally rather dismissive of North London but maybe they are a [...]

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 a great year for the Roses, a whole host of other bands were also releasing [...]

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 week. It was bloody freezing that day, so I’m amazed the person in question didn’t [...]

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.