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Higher Than The Sun: Saint Etienne Presents Songs For A London Winter
Originally written for the splendid Feeling Listless blog as part of their look back at 2014, here's a review of Saint Etienne's archaically-festive compilation Songs For A London Winter...This has...
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Higher Than The Sun: Come Together
An extract from Higher Than The Sun looking at Screamadelica's problematic second single...Yet while he was making overtures to Teenage Fanclub, Alan McGee once again had his hands full with Primal...
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The TV That Time Forgot: Rubovia
Not On Your Telly includes The TV That Time Forgot, a series of articles looking at my top ten examples of TV shows that were highly popular in their day but are all but forgotten now. At number three,...
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The TV That Time Forgot: Skiboy
Not On Your Telly includes The TV That Time Forgot, a series of articles looking at my top ten examples of TV shows that were highly popular in their day but are all but forgotten now. At number two...
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The TV That Time Forgot: Kelly Monteith
Not On Your Telly includes The TV That Time Forgot, a series of articles looking at my top ten examples of TV shows that were highly popular in their day but are all but forgotten now. And at number...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
Watching The Fierce Flowers again - which isn't easy, as the DVDs have been out of print for quite some time - the first thing you notice is that each episode of Battle Of The Planets originally opened...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
Roger Finn thundering through the 'Broom Cupboard' and telling a departing Andy Crane live on air that he'd done a "bloody good job". Caron Keating more or less having an orgasm whilst getting a...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
When we last left The Fierce Flowers, Princess was still trapped inside a now-miniaturised Fierce Flower, and G-Force were wrestling with the moral complications of weighing up the need to set the...
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TV Tea
It's not normally the done thing around here to just post a load of photos with very little context or explanation, as, frankly, we're more about Buzzfax than Buzzfeed. But just recently, whilst...
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"...And This Is Our Two Hundredth Edition!"
 Well, it looks like this is the two hundredth post on this blog. And to celebrate, I've put together something rather special...Back in the sixties and seventies, especially in the throes of the...
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Doctor Who Fan Wars, 1964 Style
Although there's a lot to be said for the simpler, less media-intensive times in which the likes of Doctor Who, Monty Python and The Kinks put in their earliest appearances, the unfortunate flipside to...
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All The Fun Of The Flares
If there ever was a happy medium between the ha ha ha ha look at the big telly like they used to have in school shhhhhhhh fingers on lips!! work night out lol abba are so retro banality of I Love The...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
As we've already discussed at some considerable real-Nesmith-hatted length here, the BBC didn't in fact commence their early eighties repeats of The Monkees with the actual first episode, Royal Flush,...
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Bits And Pieces - Some Small Snippets Of Radio 1 Comedy You Might Have Missed...
To tie in with Fun At One, and following on from the collection of rarely heard shows, here's a handful of shorter and equally elusive clips of Radio 1 comedy...Peter Cook and Dudley Moore chat to...
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The Al Stewart Syndrome
Here's a nice surprise from the 'archives' - a previously unpublished piece from circa 2004 about seventies AOR megastar Al Stewart. This was originally written for Simon Scott's somewhat ahead of its...
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Blurb
Here's a free mini-ebook collecting some of my old fanzine articles about Blur, in their original scanned-page format, along with a couple of more recent pieces. You can get it from here, and if you'd...
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Eat This, Sissons!
Another eBook-styled Free Gift, this time taking the form of a previously unseen history of On The Hour and The Day Today. This is based on a series of articles from my old nineties fanzine Paintbox,...
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Britain's Best Drives: Re-Driven
In the throes of the recent muddle-headed debate about the need for a 'root and branch reform' of the BBC, a number of self-qualified and self-appointed 'experts' have focused in on BBC Three and BBC...
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Geoffrey Haze
This look at some of ITV's seventies lunchtime shows for younger viewers was originally written as a promo piece for the excellent Look-Back On 70s Telly - Issue 1 DVD set released by Network a while...
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This Was England '90
Hidden somewhere deep within a photo album at my parents' house, there's a snap of myself and my siblings on Christmas Day in 1989. In amongst the tableau of hastily unwrapped hair straighteners,...
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