Month: February 2007
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Carling Cup Final
Up bright and early to head off to Cardiff to see Arsenal v Chelsea in the Carling Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium. The traffic was awful, and it took far longer to get there than it did a few years back when we drove up for the FA Cup Final (also against Chelsea). Leaving…
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Boeing Boeing
Boeing Boeing is a new production of a French farce dating from the sixties (and filmed a couple of times). Bernard (Roger Allam) lives in a Parisian apartment, and at the play’s start we meet him with glamourous TWA air stewardess Gloria (Tamsin Outhwaite). But he has a secret. Aided and abetted by his world…
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London in Maps
I must admit that I’m complete sucker for maps. When in another city, the first thing I want to get hold of is a map. So I finally got around to going to the British Library’s London in Maps exhibition this weekend. It’s an exhibition detailing the evolution of London maps from the earliest examples,…
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Lynx
As you may well have seen in the ads, Lynx (website “temporarily unavailable”) has a new style lockable can. You can see it in the picture above. The idea is that you can twist the cap and rises slightly locking the spray mechanism. It’s to stop the cans going off in your bag – something…
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Sky v Virgin Media
Over in Broadcast (no link, sorry), Guardian Unlimited’s Emily Bell writes that she thinks Sky has no intention of really launching a new DTT box and removing channels like Sky News and Sky Sports News from the Freeview platform. She believes that it’s a move to muddy the waters around the time that Setanta are…
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Why I Won’t Be Getting A Playstation 3
(At least not yet). I got a PS One when they first came out – although I must admit I did win it. When the PS2 was released I’d reserved one at HMV and duly trooped down there on day of release to pick it up. I was very excited, and like my PS One,…
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New Band’s Web Presence
It must be awfully difficult being an up and coming band. Sure, making the records and touring must be hard work, but maintaining your online presence is truly daunting. Since taking an advantage of an offer on the Virgin Radio site for a free track from the band Ghosts, I’ve ended up on their mailing…
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Tesco
Which supermarket do you use? Is it Tesco? The chances are it is. We’ve all heard that one pound in every eight of money spent in shops, is spent in their stores. Is this healthy? Last Friday, Shopping the Supermarkets concluded a week of programmes with a detailed examination of Tesco’s attempts to get a…
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I Hate The Brits
Wrote this last week, but I forgot to put it live, so better late than never. And there’s yet more original research in this! I hate the Brits. I hate hate hate hate hate hate them. I really don’t like them at all. Now this is completely irrational, and I can’t exactly explain why. I…
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Five Live
A very interesting piece on BBC Radio Five Live by Tim Luckhurst in this weekend’s Independent on Sunday. He was an assistant editor of the station when it launched in 1994. I’m not sure that I altogether agree with everything Luckhurst has to say about the station. The basic tenet of his argument is that…
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The The
No, not the band. But the current obsession with bands whose names begin “The —-.” It can’t just be me, but there seem to be evermore of them – particularly in the indie/rock genre that my employer plays. It’s certainly true that there have always been bands with names that start “The”. Most obviously bands…
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Next…
We escape Valentine’s Day, and this morning an email drops in my inbox: “20% Off Mother’s Day Gift Ideas” It’s one after the other…