The Decemberists
It’s somehow December already- a fact which confuses and terrifies me. I swear that a minute ago it was January. January 1991. Even if time does seem to be passing at an alarmingly accelerated rate,...
View ArticleGloomy Sunday
The outside world looks rubbish these days. The skies are grey, everything’s blowing around in the wind, and there’s not even any snow to make up for it. Pah. This is definitely the time of year for...
View ArticleHark! Songs for Christmas
Miss Penn’s TV wishlist and the recent slew of Christmas-themed episodes (especially the Parks and Recreation one) have convinced me to embrace the holiday spirit. Even if I can’t be bothered to think...
View ArticlePretty Good Year
2011 is revving up to zoom off into the past, and to leave us all in its resultant dust. It was the year of Van der Memes, the London Riots and the great PCP takeover. So I think it’s fair to say...
View ArticleMake Me Feel Like I’m the Only Girl in the World
I have a few issues with Rihanna. Mostly that she’s the same age as me, is a multi-millionaire, award-winning recording artist and has achieved more than I ever will. Also, not to be a prude, but the...
View ArticleHave You Got the Moves Like Jagger?
So, in the spirit of sexual equality, it’s time to have a go at Maroon 5 front-man-slash-guitar-playing-man-candy, Adam Levine. ‘But he’s so pretty!’ I hear you cry. Yes, yes he is. But so is Rihanna,...
View ArticleCowboy Junkies
It occurs to me that despite the fact that Cowboy Jensen has earned his rightful place as our mascot (and his friend Cowboy Jared sort of hangs around as a back up) we haven’t written nearly enough...
View ArticleBryter Layter
This Search Term Sunday comes to you from the addled mind underneath my brand spanking new haircut. I now look eerily like Nick Drake, and let’s face it, who wouldn’t want that? Since the last track...
View ArticleSmells Like Buddha’s Spirit…
Happy sort-of Nirvana Day/Parinirvana Day! This Buddhist festival (which marks Buddha’s entry into Nirvana) is celebrated by some today (February 8th) but generally on Feb 15th. Still, we have an...
View ArticleFiction vs. Reality
I’ll admit it: I’m all about the fiction. I mean, I exist, in reality (as far as I can tell), but I really don’t get what’s so great about real people. I prefer fictional constructs. I would much...
View ArticleSearchin’ every which a-way
It’s time, once again, to delve into the mixed grab bag of what people have been tapping into google in order to end up here over the last fortnight. Just in case you hadn’t realised: people scour the...
View ArticleSummersongs
Well what do you know? It’s April, and the sun is shining, plus the weather is sweet. Here comes the sun, little darling, which clearly makes everything all right. The sun has got his (or possibly...
View ArticleSpooky Sounds
Happy Hallowe’en boys and girls! Well ok, the actual All Hallows Eve was in fact last night, but themed parties will be going on all weekend, so I say we keep the festivities going. And, uh, it’s All...
View ArticleNo Good Excuse
Well hello peeps! I know we haven’t updated in a while (sheesh, since November? Really?!) but, uh, we’ve had good reason. You see we all got eaten by a bear and had to claw our way out of its stomach,...
View ArticleParty Like it’s 1999
Hello and welcome to the PCP Party Conference Playlist, aka a sing-along story of the current Coalition Government! This year the Conservative Party Conference is being held in Manchester from Sunday...
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