Play that funky music, white boy

Whitest Boy Alive

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(Bubbles)
Erlend Øye’s Whitest Boy Alive may sound like the worst band name to surface in recent years, but the self-deprecatory moniker seems somehow apt when listening to this album. A laidback funk album made by a skinny bespectacled Norwegian and his band just seems plain wrong, especially when nasty comparisons to Jamiroquai or [...]

Get Your Hair-Cuuuut!

BECAUSE EVEN STARVIN’ BLOGGERS NEED TO GET THEIR EARS LOWERED FROM TIME TO TIME…
Farley’s Hair Salon is proof that around even the darkest cloud, there’s still a bright-and-funky silver lining. The Hitchin-based eco-salon was set up by husband and wife team Felix and Charlie Camfield-Walker, following Felix’s lucky escape at the hands of a near-fatal [...]

Don’t forget your CHIP & PIN!

Lunch time, Monday 11 May 2009, for all its routine niceties; Red Leicester and tomato sandwich, salt ‘n’ vinegar crisps and a water, came with a hint of realisation.
Not something you can sprinkle on sliced, fried potato, bag-up and win a prize for, mind. But certainly a familiar flavour of months passed. I’d wandered into [...]

Giving Blood pt. 2

I gave blood again yesterday and after a few hours took the plaster off. Walking into Sainbury’s, I handed over the money for my hummus and the woman behind the counter recoiled in utter horror at the track mark on my arm. Instantly she believed I was a heroin user! Why are we not at [...]

Who wouldn’t want to be saved? – Rogue Party – HEROES AND VILLAINS!

Hey we’ve got another Rogue Party – and this time it’s at the legendary Club 85…!
Get yer cheap tickets online: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/49860
Or see below for more details.
GENERAL BOVINE & THE JUSTICE FORCE 5 – http://www.myspace.com/thejusticeforce5

FREUDSTEIN – http://www.myspace.com/freudsteinofficial

PLUS: We can exclusively reveal that the Mystery Guest will be the [...]