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Is that the one with a yellow facade that's between burger king and the dole office? I've admired the window display many times but never been in. My favs... Baron Menswear - the most vulger men's clothes shop in Brixton, and that is saying something because the competition is stiff. Also...

I get lots of reptilian imagery on shrooms. Mud starts to look like tough crocodile/lizard hide. I once saw a wet road turn into a river of snakes, that was fun.

I'm loving some of Gek's responses on this. :D SCENE: 3AM, at a rave. A dealer approaches. DEALER: "Get some of these in you, man. They literally manifest Foucauldian power discourses as vector patterns." RAVER: "Blinding! There is certainly jouissance in unpleasantness!"

It's all about 'shrooms. If I could keep them, and have a smoke once a week or so, I'd let everything else go no problems. Maybe keep NO2 as well, that is jolly good fun it must be said. Coke is a very tedious experience for me. H is like chemical buddhism - don't fancy the whole constipated...

This and Funcrusher Plus were pretty much the only hip hop I bought between 1996 and 2005. i get chills off the opening: "Tell me about it... it's a cold world out there... sometimes I think I'm getting a little frosty myself... Anyone know where that sample is from? And stress rap is one of...

A fair point, if that's what he'd set out to do. But it clearly wasn't.

I went to see this on Friday night, and it is shocking. Shocking. I didn't go in with high expectations, and I quite enjoyed it in a so-bad-it's-good way. But this is an exercise in squeezing JD into a NME approved noughties indie template. Ian Curtis is an absolute gift to the experimental...

Another vote for P-Funk Earth Tour.

I think it's valid to say that a lot of critics confuse 'developments' in music culture with music itself. To be gloomy over the lack of development is a meta-critical position that doesn't reflect the reality of how most normal people use music. Critics tend to think that people engage in music...

Up until the 80s professional engineers recorded, mixed and mastered albums for vinyl, as it was the predominent medium. They knew what they were doing, and I am inclined to think that any CD remastering process, no matter how carefully carried out, will always be 2nd best to the original master...

Are there any? I've been racking my brain but none have fallen out so far.

London Acid City - seminal acid techno, still regularly rinsed at free parties. See also One Night In Hackney.

It's not music itself that's dying out, it's the critical culture around it - which to those of a critical bent often looks like one and the same thing, hence the baleful nature of a lot of contemporary commentary. But there's more music being made than ever before, and the barriers to access...

I went to a free party in mine once and everyone thought I was a copper. There was a gang of lads shouting 'OLD BILL TAKE IT UP THE ARSE!!' at me at one point. Funniest thing ever to happen to me at a free party, my mates were paralysed with laughter.

Bring back the Campri ski jacket I say.

Yeah I agree. Black bands have tended to be functional entities. That ideological thing of 'the band' as an outlaw gang on the edges of the system, the Stones-MC5-Ramones-Clash tradition, is nowhere near as apparent in black band history. I guess you could argue that Sly Stone and Parliament had...

Other option for seriously warm winter coats is a proper crombie. Not the most versatile of garments though, you often end up looking like either a crap gangster or a weekend goth. And if you get it properly wet it takes a fortnight to dry. TBH if I was going to the midwest for winter i would go...

They were playing the promo in sounds of the universe on saturday. It's really good, tremulous emotional stuff. Is anyone else making dubstep like this, or is Burial effectively a one-man genre?

Lot of it in Brighton, but then there's a lot of pretty much everything in Brighton.

Someone I knew at uni was organising the freshers fair and gave the SWP an extra bit of space around their stand "in case you need to have a schism halfway through" - it didn't go down well.