Music Maps

Country House is Blur’s worst ever single. As part of “The Battle of Britpop” in the summer of 1995, its release date was moved forward a week in order to clash with Oasis’s Roll With It. It was a clever PR exercise, and one which led to Country House comfortably beating Roll With It to […]

[Read more →]

Opened in 1947, Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, is the bizarre tourist location featured in the promo to Supergrass’s low key 2005 single Low C:

As you’ve hopefully gathered from the video above, Weeki Wachee is famous for its performances by ‘mermaids’. It’s an odd place, and one probably best explained by a visit to its website.
Possibly […]

[Read more →]

This one’s purely to remind you that you’ve got just over 24 hours to register if you want to buy a ticket for Glastonbury 2008.
If you do, then head over to Glastonbury Festivals and complete the registration form before midnight on Friday, otherwise you simply won’t be able to buy a ticket when they go […]

[Read more →]

I really love Pulp, and so I was pretty excited to stumble upon PulpWiki this weekend, which “aims to become a comprehensive user-generated resource for everything related to the band.” It’s in-depth stuff (personally I’d like to see a bit more ‘trivia’ on there - and if you know where the cafe on the Common […]

[Read more →]

Mr Sifter sold me songs, when I was just 16
But now he stops at traffic lights, but only when they’re green
Truly awful lyrics, but that didn’t stop them helping Sifters Records in Didsbury, just outside Manchester, from becoming famous after its name check in Oasis’s Shakermaker single.
Rumour has it that the lyrics were penned by […]

[Read more →]