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I am friends with his god-daughter, actually. I haven't asked much about what he's like (mainly because I don't care), but I can't imagine him not being a right twonk. The Poet Laureate's daughter was a couple of years below me at the sixth form I went to, and she's really sound. When I used...

I made a start on actually sorting out the piles and piles of records on the desk/shelves/floor of my bedroom, and I think I'm going to get rid of some for the first time ever. Not because I need the money, simply because I just can't take owning five Dream Theater albums anymore. There's a...

Definitely. They should've had it done by the beginning of summer.

Cargo got mucky when that got dropped at the Wiley launch party. I think Skepta and Riko were MCing over it too, cant really remember...

Those people were the worst. They were even worse than Debby Harry.

I still don't get how Akon is treated as a respectable artist. If you or me did Mr. Lonely, it would be a long time before anyone took us seriously again...

Nah, it's Nellie McKay. I've always meant to get some Kirsty MacColl records in though. Like your average pleb, all I have is a Fairytale of New York 7''... ;) I don't really know what I'd think about Sweet Escape if it was a girl. There's something proper mental about the chorus; desperate...

I usually defer to the missus' opinions on things like that, so I'll give you my answer in a minute. ;)

Okay, that's fair play. I haven't listened to the mixtape (can you get it in Rhythm Division? UK Record Shop seem to buy up everything now), but I doubt it's that blatant if people are arguing about it. But I'll withhold my opinion until I actually hear it.

That's basically what I said. Completely agree. Thing is Logan, you're talking about facts and opinions: just because you're a grime DJ doesn't mean that when you mentally place something as grime it should be the bench mark that all other grime fans have to set their watches to. Music triggers...

Surely the pop song of the year is Matthew Dear's 'Deserter'. I remember reading a blog (don't remember which though) that said it sounded like Johnny Cash with a vocoder, which is a great description. I'm a sucker for songs that sound like a massive statement of an artist's life, and this fits...

Quite. I think what's always been one of the appeals of grime is that there aren't stringent requirements something has to meet to be it, you can just tell if something's grime or not. It doesn't necessarily have to be hard, or done in a certain tone, or at a certain tempo, it just has to be...

Honestly, who still even talks about rockism? Don't we have hauntology now?

No, you probably shouldn't. Just as you probably shouldn't bother arguing with the equally ignorant 'anti-rockists' who think guitar music is a load of old noise. Musical ignorance is widespread beyond boundaries of rock and non-rock; there are millions upon millions of blinkered, stupid fans of...

You knows it. I think it's from 95 or something, but Eazy E's 'Sorry Louie' is also quality early horrorcore. I've been all about this stuff lately. I'll second Stunts, Blunts and HipHop and 93 Til Infinity and throw up Del the Funkee Homosapien's first (I think) LP I Wish My Brother George Was...

Brilliantly, my mate was DJing at some thing in Guildford recently when some prat who'd been hanging around by the decks all night started trying to scratch. After he'd ignored a few requests to piss off, my friend's girlfriend (who I went to school with and always considered quite passive)...

I was going to see them at Shepherd's Bush Empire, but they played the same night as the Wiley launch party with double the ticket prices. Still, I'd love to see them, they're miles ahead of any hiphop act on the planet right now.

Didn't he say something the week before about what a horrible time he had that year, with Biggie and Princess Di snuffing it within three months of each other. I hope he did.

I didn't dare to watch it, but from looking at pictures the worst thing about the evening appeared to be Elton John's suit...

Sleeper's The It Girl is full of them, and is one of about three albums associated with Britpop that I still actually like...