R N’BEDROOM is back. Only this time it’s prised open the door of the bedroom, kicked off its bedroom slippers, torn off its bathrobe, slipped downstairs and headed straight for the kitchen where it’s thrown open the door of the refrigerator and proceeded to stand stark-bollock-naked in front of a dazzling neon shower shaking its ass and flapping ...

Stray Point Agenda by Foreign Beggars

Vice-president, Al Gore once described postmodernism as a ‘combination of narcissism and nihilism’. Umberto Eco went one further, describing it as the sense that the ‘past is restricting, smothering, blackmailing us’. So when you consider Blair’s zero-point agenda for change in Iraq please bear a lit ...

She doesn’t want us to read her biog, see her profile or wave to her in the street. She doesn’t want us to prevail on her upbringing on Long Island, New York as one of six children. She will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. She just wants her music to speak for itself. And it does, with no small ...

It’s one thing not to believe the hype; it’s quite another to remain unaffected by it and I doubt there’s a creature in the industry who hasn’t braced themselves for what probably amounts to the most significant musical event to have happened in fookin’ ages; those wiry and septic social observers of the North, the Arctic Monkeys, are about to r ...

Fair enough, it may be tongue in cheek, but it really doesn’t justify the kind of french-kissing enjoyed by the needlessly self-prolific ram-jam rap intro that comes courtesy of ‘Curriculum Vitae’. Perhaps it’s just Swedish humour, I don’t know, but whilst it caricatures the customary rap arrival, the hype and the u ...

Last year we lost our own Dad to cancer. Born in 1928 he was roughly the same age as Mr Hazelwood but sadly never achieved the same cult status. Jarvis Cocker never cited my Dad as an influence and artists like Primal Scream, Nick Cave, Lambchop and Lydia Lunch never covered any of his songs. When he did die, it wasn’t after some prolonged, her ...