I saw it yesterday, and its impact will continue for some time, I reckon. I wasn’t so taken by Dean Charles-Chapman’s acting, and so felt that the punctuation points provided by Daniel Mays, Scott et al were all […]

If it’s unashamed hi nrg pop, then this Bobby O classic is as bang on the money as it gets. Always loved it in my early 80s clubbin’ days…

That’s the one. It does include the awesome Ring Ring, always a delight.

Good point. And in the midst of the poor run, bizarrely, they released their first Greatest Hits album, which had grim stuff like Nina, Pretty Ballerina on it. SOS was the single that got them and the world in […]

I wouldn’t bother. If I were you.

Excellent. Ta for that.

Heaven 17 were supporting Squeeze last autumn at the Brighton Centre, and gave a storming account of themselves, a kind of ‘go on, follow that!’ to the headliners. Sat next to me, though, was a bloke who was doing […]

I f****** second SteveT’s endorsement of End Of The F****** World and Don’t **** With Cats. Purely Netflix-wise, I liked the recent series of Top Boy, and I binged season two of You last week.
Highly […]

Exactly! (In ‘Accrington Stanley’ voice)

Given that 6 Underground only came out a couple of weeks back (and with none of the preamble fanfare of The Irishman), I’m not entirely trusting Netflix here. Having said that, Afterlife is excellent, as is ST3 […]

We cross paths on occasion in Brighton, and he seems a top chap. It’s on the list.

My thoughts, too, re Homes Under The Hammer. Literalness beyond the parameters of Viz’s Mr Literal. Someone rings a doorbell, they play Let ‘Em In, but not the ‘knocking at the door’ bit, only the ‘somebody’s […]

Oh man, I’ll be shelling out on this one, partly because the first ever journalistic trip I did was to Sheffield to interview Chakk, Hula and Workforce, all of ’em on here.
Amrik Rai, who championed the scene […]

Munchen? Being Pirates you’d have thought their favourite German venue would’ve been in Aachen.

‘If the kids are united…then they’ll be able to escape from their dyslexic kidnappers’ .’

The Pirates’ Out Of Their Skulls live EP almost causes re-condensed sweat to drip off the ceiling.

France, Versailles, tourists aplenty, royaume famille zero.

If Christmas Eve lasted as long as Barry Mcguire’s Eve of Destruction (50 odd years and counting), then far from it being possible to celebrate christmas every day, it would occur as often as the twelfth of never. […]

Yebbut it’s a double negative. So he can.

My pal Richard Lowe (RIP, gone far too soon) edited Ver Hits in the late 80s, and his favourite Hits-ism was ‘click brrrrr’, used when phones were hung up by popstrels who were riled by the journalists’ questions. […]