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On the corporate hand guiding indie/alternative. From February this year.... POP impresario Simon Fuller - famed for creating the Spice Girls and talent show Pop Idol -is looking to play a different tune by putting his money into cutting-edge indie bands. Fuller is a founding director and...

Caught something on a black London radio station last night, not sure which one (turned off pretty quick), about this incident. Highly emotive language. Talk of the 'Taliban youths'. And of Ramadan being a factor. Alarming how these unsubstantiated rumours have spread and the...

I agree, remember laughing at my little sis years ago when she was eagerly telling me about a band called the Sugababes playing at her school, but they're more than another teen band fad. Their greatest hits is going to be right up there. My fave is Situations Heavy from the Three album. I've...

Deep in the manor where the poverty’s physical There’s not a lot sweet so most look miserable. Dizzee, Get by Polly Toynbee move aside.... ;)

A friend of mine suggests Laughing Stock is the Pet Sounds of our time but I reckon Spirit of Eden is even better...

I think they disintegrated when Source went under. I saw two offshoots in London earlier this year: The Garden (singer plus drummer) - clarinet pastoral goingson and Dolorosa (bassist plus drummer) - louder and faster than the Garden with a ian curtis-esque frontman I was disappointed with...

Was listening to one station last night and the MC kept chatting about dropping bombs, I'm sure it was just part of his usual flow, but wasnt right. Did Tim Westwood do his bomb soundeffects this weekend?

This Nick Cohen article from yesterday also provides a good slum-dunk of Galloway http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1461621,00.html Although you live in Singapore, Backjob, will you be voting in the UK?

My minidisc recently broke. Unable to afford a new one let alone a fancy ipod gizmo, I've dug out my battered but much-loved Walkman. Rediscovered loads of great tapes and two sides of an album. Seeing a much trendier friend he tells me Walkmans are the new cool. What with every tom dick and...

Didn't realise there was such close connection between this thread and that event! ;) Went on Friday, enjoyed it, particularly the utopian city made of rubbish and the belly-dancer trying to gyrate to the French national anthem, and staying on topic, discovered that Kano is a city-state in...

Big big thanks for this mix. Its revived my passion for reggae. Somewhat questioned my love of all things Jamaican when had the piss taken out of me repeatedly by my Jamaican boss. But it's the UK connection, seen...

Sinclair apparently spends most of his time in Hastings nowadays - moving out from the centre as London expands to fill a post-M25 concentric circle including places in commuter reach, such as Hastings. What I'd like to do is get a crack team together and go round Hastings cleverly inserting...

Thought my trip to the Royal Festival Hall last night might throw some light on possible African connections (musically/culturally) with E London grime. Anyone else at this? Dizzee was advertised as collaborating with the Nigerian-born afro-beat drummer Tony Allen. Thought might prove...

Hi Ned, this may be of help...