Why are band bios on websites so stupid usually ( Read more... )

Hey guitar noobs, it's that time of year again ( Read more... )

Hey fashion kids, TV on the Radio are playing Koko on Friday November 10th. Just a headsup ( Read more... )

The worst train I ever have to get is the late night trains from Liverpool Street in East London back to Romford, sort of 11pm to midnight on a Friday night ( Read more... )

My friend Martha, she gets around. She's half Thai, half Philippino, comes from Stratford, goes to university in Glasgow studying languages, spent a year in St Petersburg, and just got back from a year in the Czech Republic ( Read more... )

Yeah so I went to the Edinburgh Fringe for a week. I felt like I'd been lied to at some point in my life because I didn't smoke, walked 7+ miles a day, hardly drank, ate whole grain bread, lots of fruit and veg, and few desserts, and I thought that was pretty much all that was necessary to feel like Tiger Woods. But I got a cold. People who eat ( Read more... )

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"The New York Times recently reported a new trend sweeping American bars and British pubs. Drinking establishments that have installed "infinite jukeboxes" - those hooked up to a seemingly limitless database of music - have found them hijacked by Wire-reading fans of "difficult" music. They load them with coins and program them to play hour after ( Read more... )

Yesterday I re-watched Sex: The Annabel Chong Story, and there's one bit where she's in London when things are starting to go bad, and she says "There's something about big cities that has this undercurrent of loneliness and desperation ( Read more... )