Monthly Archives: June 2006

The Longest Day/The Greatest Run
How far would you go to run? I asked that question in early April after missing the first race of my Running Club’s Grand Prix: I had chickened out of...
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June 23, 2006

Pitchfork, So much To Answer For
American-based music fans who visit this site will surely be aware that Pitchforkmedia has become the NME of the online world. Snarky, sarcastic, frequently vicious, often hilarious, its news items...
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June 22, 2006

Why England Won’t Win The World Cup…
OK, so the USA has just been knocked out by Ghana and while, to use that very American term, it “sucks big time,” there can’t be too many complaints. It...
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June 22, 2006

Marsheaux: A Correction
Search engines have a lot to answer for. I wouldn’t normally expect to go to Greece for a concert, post a review of a DJ set by an act I’d...
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June 21, 2006

Festival Fun
Every one knows the Americans can’t do rock festivals like the Europeans. Not for us over here the full weekend of camping in the mud, getting wasted on bad cider...
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June 20, 2006

Words To The Wisened
“I do keep getting arrested. They do it because I’m a mug. I keep going out with stuff on me. And they have to make an example. It’s the law...
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June 19, 2006

Face Saved…
“Nor do you need a high IQ to know that if you lose your opening match 3-0 to the Czech Republic and your next game is against Italy, you should...
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June 17, 2006

Remix of the Week
You know how, occasionally, you hear a piece of music so damn other-worldly that you just have to tell everybody about it? Well, I do, and it’s at such moments...
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June 16, 2006