Peter Watts

Begs the question: what's the least customer-friendly song you've ever heard or played on a pub jukebox?

(The below is 'Sense of Doubt' by Bowie, btw)

40 years ago

Please stop.

New Coke: A Warning from History If, like me, you’re British then your knowledge of New Coke is likely to be (a) it was a massive failure, (b) everyone hated it, (c) it was a terrible business decision, and, if your go-to re…

I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.

Lament for a lost London | The Observer

In The Observer, I’ve reviewed Songs Of Seven Dials: @tricksterprince.bsky.social’s fascinating, detailed history of the changing streets of Covent Garden through the early c20th. From race to jingoistic media to gentrification, a book full of resonances today

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Another Saturday another Arsenal women game, shaking my head sadly during North London Forever.

I am genuinely having to factor in an additional 15/20 minutes for every bus journey due to stops to regulate the service, change of drivers and, worst of all, ‘the destination of this journey has changed’.

Precisely so! Extend the journey a little!

London has fallen.

See also/‘the destination of this bus has changed’, a pox on whoever invented that abomination.

Service regulation is a lie. It is a conspiracy.

My 68 bus which was being held at a stop to ‘regulate the service’ has now been overtaken by another No 68. It’s a scam!

They want to make the Barbican easier to navigate. Cowards!

All modern reboots are post-modern, fanboy, wink-wink affairs, but Gremlins 2 already did that - and satirised it at the same time - 35 years ago. Where do you go from there?

Wait what, there is going to be a Gremlins 3?! I really don't know how I feel about this.

His whole shtick is ignorable dog whistles and this destroys that cover. And now there is a chance more people will come forward from university and working life onwards.

Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84 Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.

RIP — Cropper was responsible for some of the sweetest electric guitar playing ever committed to tape. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Looks like Chelsea are planning to give us yet another delightful December.

Get Chopper on.

I talked to the Captain, Rat, Dave Vanian and friends about The Damned then and now - from Brian's days in Bastard to the long-awaited reunion via Phil Lynott's mum's speakeasy and Lisson Grove labour exchange...

I sat down with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about Seven Dials, Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, and the making of modern London. You can listen to the podcast at newbooksnetwork.com/songs-of-sev...

#history #london #sevendials #newbooks

Zipcar is shutting down its UK operations, basically the only car club that worked in London. Massive kick to anyone who tries to live in capital without owning a car. Having been a customer for 17 years and used Zipvans to move house repeatedly, this is.... very bad! (Zipcar is owned by Avis)

Yep. Possibly those injuries helped shape his great mentality - and sets an example to players like Lavia and Colwill and Fofana

I don't think people are talking enough about how incredible Reece James was yesterday.

Guardian MBM having a normal one.

Not much is!

Although I was actually tempted, when walking up a deserted Harley Street to get away from the crowds, to join the grift and make a video about how London was dead at 7pm on a Saturday.

Hollister is definitely still a thing, and apparently a thing worth queuing for!

Yep probably.

For starters, I have been some shoddy looking trains but never one that looks like this post-apocalyptic shit.