Buttocks Brown

Fckin' 'ell. Sleater Kinney - Entertain

Sleater Kinney - You're No Rock n' Roll Fun

Pogues - Waxie's Dargle

Kooks - Eddie's Gun

I just flicked over and then flicked back. What is wrong with their lead singer? Too many nights on the lash maybe? He's got red blotches all over his face. Looks bloody awful.

McLusky - To Hell With Good Intentions

Rage - Vietnow

They remind me a little of the Go Gos too. Songs like Vacation. More good pop music and they had Belinda Carlisle.

Superb stuff isn't it? It's nothing original but I love that sort of Ronettes sound and there's not much around like that today. I think that the album is going to be brilliant pop music. Pull Shapes video for anyone interested.

The Pipettes - Pull Shapes If there was any justice then this would be the pop tune of the summer.

The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me

He's fighting back. 3-0 up in the second set.

United 93 The '9/11 movie' which has been given ***** by all and sundry. Filmed in a kind of docu-drama style, it mainly focuses on the fourth plane (which crashed before it reached the Whitehouse). About 10 minutes in, the film switches to real-time with the next 90 minutes following exactly what happened on that morning with the FAA realising that planes were being hijacked and the action (or lack of) taken by the military. Meanwhile, United 93 is delayed by 30 minutes and by the time that the four hijackers take the plane, word has reached the passengers that two planes have crashed into the WTC and that there's been an explosion at the Pentagon. In essence, they realise that they're travelling inside a weapon and that they're unlikely to be alive much longer. Pretty tough to watch. Supposedly, the last thing heard from relatives of passengers on United 93 was that a group of them were going to take on the hijackers. This is how the film plays it...... Well worth seeing and very tastefully done. The last 30 minutes were watched in stunned silence by the almost full cinema I was in. 9/10 Poseidon Run of the mill action movie. A mindless distraction for a couple of hours. Kurt Russell drowns. 6/10

Finished reading this last night. I heard about this guy a few years ago and found the book in a second hand shop recently. He was a kind of George Best figure who played 4th division football for reading in the 70's. He was a big centre forward with a lot of skill who helped Reading to promotion. He was then signed by 2nd division Cardiff before going completely off the rails, retiring from football and he died at the age of 38. He was a real extrovert who once removed the helmet of a policeman and kissed him on the head after he scored. He also turned Bobby Moore inside out when Moore played for Fulham. Moore went mental after Friday grabbed his balls. He also scored a stunning goal where he flicked the ball over his head and then volleyed it in from the edge of the box. Amazingly, the referee, Clive Thomas, stopped and applauded it. He's still a hero amongst Reading fans and probably would have gone on to play for England had he not been a complete nutjob. The book's written in a kind of diary style with match reports mixed with words from his family, team-mates, managers, etc. Really good read with some brilliant anecdotes. I rattled through it in a couple of days. It's written by Paolo Hewitt and Paul McGuigan. McGuigan was the bassist in Oasis when the book came out.

The Fall - Hit The North

The new Snow Patrol song with Martha Wainwright. Loving this, not a great SP fan but a huge MW fan and this works really well. Whodathunkit?

Envelopes - Free Jazz

The Noisettes - Signs

Jose Gonzales - Crosses Am thinking of buying his record. I think that it would be great for dreamy, hot summer nights.

Bob Dylan - Sara

I've got the album and it's excellent. Definitely worth seeing them live.

Idlewild - Everyone Says That You're So Fragile

I'm reading Laidlaw by William McIlvanney at the moment. Not really one for crime thrillers but this is excellent. There's been a murder...

Nirvana - The Money Will Roll Right In

The Automatic - Raoul