bianchi's are expensive because of their history, and their colour - people think they're the archetypal beautiful italian bike, but they're they're made in the far east these days. total overkill. For me, I don't get the single speed thing at all, but then i live in a place with hills, and i like t...

replying to simmo, the North starts at Sheffield or Liverpool/Manchester, depending which side of the pennines you are on (the east or the wrong). I've got a theory that the reason people are so violent in Nottingham is because of insecurities about not quite being "North". Once you get in...

Policy Exchange is one of the most influential right-of-centre think tanks and it has been credited with much of the fresh thinking behind the revival of the Conservative Party under David Cameron. I think we can safely ignore anything they say. The sooner that lot down south are under water, the b...

i nearly threw up my when i saw the result in the paper. This is the first time in about 8 years they've been above us in the table. It won't last.

hi daniel out of DRC. I know what you mean about tactics; I was disturbed that there was too much by passing the mid field by the defenders - they can actually play football, but weren't given the chance. It's reminiscent of Warnock's teams, but i don't care that much. I just want them to be honest ...

i just signed up to the league of slackers - i'm excited, having never done fantasy football before (except for the recurring dream where i play the sean bean role in When Saturday Comes). I also saw a bit of that masters game on t.v., because it was at bramall lane. i wanted to see how Bryan Robson...

mr watt! i was teaching a teenager to play the bass a while ago, he was into things like incubus and the like, and i gave him a mini disc of firehose and the minutemen. it blew him away. Now he's a massive Watt fan. I think if you play the bass and you hear Watt he will grab you and speak to you. I ...

hi tommy, we met in Aberdeen briefly when i was playing with crevecouer. my advice would be do it - i just put ubuntu onto an old machine and i think it's ace. I definitely qualify as a beginner, normally i just have to look at a computer and it breaks, but ubuntu has been a piece of piss to get my ...

for me, it's about the impact Slint made on me and my friends when Spiderland came out - we were at an impressionable age (18/19), and it sounded SO original - we couldn't understand where it had come from at all. So when I heard Mogwai, they just fit into that box, they didn't have the shocking ori...

my first band was called baby harp seal, we played from 93 - 96 when we broke up because of egos (mostly mine). we played kind of emo music, but not really - we were into hoover and fugazi and heroin, and two of us had a led zep fixation. we did a few 7 inches and one album, which i still listen to ...