What’s worse than not going to the Camden Crawl? Answer: Not going and unknowingly giving them your mobile number. There’s nothing like an hourly text message telling you the length of queues at the various …

“As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation.” Humphrey Lyttelton
Humphrey Lyttelton, a …

These are serious times for Archway. First Quasar closed down, depriving Londoners of one the few chances to run around shooting your mates on the roof of a Co-op superstore. More importantly Puregroove Records, an …

In a bid to save my vinyl from physical assault by a stylus as old and wonky as a rusty nail I’ve avoided using my record decks for months now. Thankfully I’m now 50 quid …

The basement walls of 100 Oxford Street have reverberated to the sounds of every possible musical genre in its 60+ years as a music venue. From its roots in the Jazz of Humphrey Lyttelton, through …

Last month marked three years since musiclikedirt.com first stumbled into the world of musical blogging. So self congratulations to myself for keeping going that long, or alternatively self flagellation for not “getting a life” in …

Holy F**k featured in this months podcast (mixed with a little Spank Rock), they’re out on tour right now, and to stoke the fires of hype a little more, XL just sent out a crafty …