I know what you’re thinking – what the hell is this post? I’m not sure I can even explain it. My brain gets stuck on these strange tangents at times; a lot of them pass through and are forgotten, but every once in a while one gets caught in there and the only way to [...]

I spent last night trying to take an objective, journalistic view on The Brits. Let’s remember, this award show grew from a music club advertised in the Sunday supplements.
For the uninitiated, you signed up and they sent you an album of the month. Quite how this ended up as the yardstick or UK equivalent [...]

So I pretty much blew it. Haha. Got all the easy ones though.
British Female Solo Artist
My Pick: Bat for Lashes
Winner: Lily Allen
British Male Solo Artist
My Pick: Calvin Harris
Winner: Dizzee Rascal
British Breakthrough Act
My Pick: La Roux
Winner: JLS
British Group
My Pick: Friendly Fires
Winner: Kasabian
MasterCard British Album
My Pick: Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
Winner: Florence & the [...]

The Brits are taking place tonight (or probably right now – damn time difference), so I just thought I’d remind you of who’s in the running and what’s what.
First up, we have the performances. There’s been talk that Lady Gaga will be bounced to later in the broadcast because producers became irritated with her [...]

Well, we’re 3 months in to our Best of 2009 Reader’s Poll, and I think it’s pretty obvious who you folks think had the record of the year: The xx. Phoenix was very close, but still a few votes shy of the London trio’s top spot. I was originally going to close the voting on [...]

Oh let’s be honest, the sound quality here is far from excellent, but just about anything Jarvis Cocker does is wonderful. As for the song itself, I’ve never been quite sure what to think. It’s slightly creepy, isn’t it?
I took a knife and cut out her eye
I took it home and watched it wither [...]

The Reader’s Poll results haven’t changed too much for the past few weeks, but I realized I hadn’t given any statistics on the write-in poll. As 14% of the total votes have been for write-in answers, I thought I might be giving some folks the shaft by not calculating the results. Unquestionably, the funnest part [...]