
Being contrary sorts, while everyone else is Twittering away 20 times a day we prefer to post occasional but quite long blogs. They’re usually written by Andrew, who, believe it or not, spends most of his days writing for money.
In theory there’s supposed to be a new one every Sunday but life usually gets in the way. Keep checking back though, or read some of the older entries if you’re really bored.
A bunch of precocious teenagers staging a near riot. Two old tramps doing nothing, twice. Compare and contrast…
Pop quiz time. What do Adele and Will Young have in common?
With her bone china skin and enormous yet oddly blank saucer eyes, St Vincent looks like an extra terrestrial hazarding a guess at how a human pop star might behave…
What exactly is the difference between blackface and drag? If you think blackface is offensive to black people, do you not also need to argue that drag is offensive to women?
The Instal and Kill Your Timid Notion festivals are a national treasure, and aren’t shouted about often enough…
Having grown up on the Pet Shop Boys, OMD, New Order, the Human League, Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode, I couldn’t be happier about the current ubiquity of electronic pop.
I’m struggling to keep track of the number of new Edinburgh bands starting up from week to week…
The world is going to end just three years from now…
I’ve just spent four days at the National Review of Live Art, which involved a lot of standing in dark rooms watching naked people doing not that much, extremely slowly…
Lily Allen’s new album comes out on Monday. It includes, to nobody’s great surprise, lots of swearing…