About 5 or 6 months ago I finally got round to buying a new PC, because the old one was getting so old and unreliable. The new one came pre-...

I doubt I realised it at the time, but Carl Giles was almost certainly responsible for my love of comics. Long before I'd ever read a Bu...

Bugger! Just like last year I can't quite do it! So this year my top 5 consists of no less than 7 albums! In 4th place it's... Elbow...

Unbelievably, it's time once again for my traditional top 5 'best of last year' run down.... I say traditional... I've done ...

Well I hope everyone had a good Christmas and stuff?? Mine was OK, but I came down with the dreaded flu bug thing... gawd I was rough. I bla...

Well so far I've covered the good, the bad and the Cheesy! But the final part (for this year anyway!) of this rummage through my Christm...

So little time, so many dodgy Christmas albums to share with you!! I did a post some time back on the genius of Richard Cheese ... So it...

I've already resigned myself to the fact that the X-Factor has now cornered the market for Christmas number ones (believe it or not, thi...

Continuing the delve into the stranger side of my iffy Christmas record collection..... Slade's 'Crackers' album was originally ...

I heard that she had suffered a heart attack last week, and had been in a coma ever since, so I was kinda expecting the worst. Yet the news ...

OK, I admit it... I'm a Christmas album pervert!! You hear these rock 'n roll stories where bands are living in such debauchery, tha...

What's the deal with these Bavarian\German\French markets that seem to pop up in the High Streets in November and December? The one that...

I was gutted to hear that THREE of my favourite venues all got a cyanide pill in the post today. Transport For London have issued The Astori...

My first proper blog post was a piece titled 'When Bands Go Bad' , about the heartache an embarrassment that can happen when a band ...