I wrote a blog but my tablet gobbled it up. I described myself as overwhelmed by poignancy, like Proust in a Travelodge. This is this...

Not all bloggers have lists of potential song (or anything) titles hidden away, but the ones that do should exploit them. So here´s one...

Michael Blastland´s book The Hidden Half : The Unseen Forces That Influence Everything doesn´t say much about Simon Cowell´s influence on...

Salt ´n´Pepa´s Let´s Talk About Sex isn´t about sex, it´s about talking about sex, whereas Man Don´t Give A Fuck by Super Furry Animals...

Taking the scaffolding down once you´ve finished doesn´t count as a ground breaking approach in construction circles. But builders don´t...

Grab your vaccination visas etc because this time we’re doing a song dash, with a purely continental slant. First up, it’s Marie...

Before every genre, there comes the Proto-genre tracks, Proto Speed Garage tracks for example, or Proto-Nightbus. Those tunes where the...

Similarities between being in heaven and looking at your Facebook feed have not been much explored, so now seems like a good time to give...

Francophilia normally gets counted as a virtue, but what about full on sneaky, cheating Francophilia? There´s a case of it right here....

Colacao is one of those Spanish brands that helpfully takes culture shock, pops it in a tin with a yellow label, and then fills shelves...

One proper musical shock of 2018 was discovering that Gazelle Twin lives in rural Leicestershire. Her album was called Pastoral, so that...

Where do you see the hand of the artist? Araceli, a friend and an entertaining art guide, asked this question while she was showing a...

Cultural eye openers are a classy way to kick off so here goes, in Spain there is the concept of the La Cuesta De Enero (In Galicia,...

If you’re travelling London alone by taxi at night, does lockdown make a difference? Inside the cab everything is the same, but outside...

Aside from that massive urge to drag everybody into a truth-proof spiral of churning misinformation, those little algorithms that run our...

Theorising is one of the principal duties of the blogger, and one I’ve pretty much neglected up until now. So here goes, this blog’s...

See that straggly tinsel remnant stuck in the corner, pick it up and put it on. In Spain, the Three Kings rule and they only did their...

Jamaica might not seem a massively festive location for most people, but they don’t have access to the Christmas ´76 cassette that lives...

Milk chocloate is solely a December thing for me, active frowning is my reaction if offered it at other times of year. December is...

That series 24 starring Kiefer Sutherland never had me as a viewer, and yet I seemed to have picked up a decent chunk of knowledge about...