Surplus to Requirement: SXSW Coverage - Did you just eat and drink out there or what?

No matter what vitriol pours out of these fingers onto this webpage, they will read like the words of a jealous person. No amount of cajoling and convincing will help. So instead let’s dive straight in. Those journos, bloggers, photographers and other such media lightweights who attended: did you just have a holiday that you decided to write about?

Surplus To Requirement: The Top 10 List of Top Album Lists of 2008

The Top 5 Top Albums of 2008

Because it’s that time of year, when every publication suddenly decides it has listened to every record worth listening to and compiles them into a numerical list of cultural impact and importance, it seems appropriate to compile a top five list of top album lists of 2008. Let’s see how relevant, exciting and forward thinking they were. Yes. Fight fire with fire, I say.

Surplus To Requirement: Musicians Don't Like The Independence They Fought For

Musicians – you need to get a real job. Sorry. I thought you already knew this?

Surplus To Requirement: We Should All Stop Moaning, Now

Hello. You don’t need to know much about me, apart from I’m a music industry stooge, and I say what’s on my mind. Generally about the music industry.

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