The Landlords That Time Forgot

From today's Observer, three of the UK's greatest landlords. Lots more Rough Pubesque stuff in their fantastic pub supplement today. Makes me want a bloody pint.

Sorry We've Been A While...

Been working on new pub book (slowly, it must be said) and trying to get a new issue of Socialism finished (only taken two and a half years so far). Mag will be this autumn, book next autumn.

In the meantime have been...

Listening to - Bibio album on Warp / Manic Street Preachers "Journal For Plague Lovers" / Kasabian whatever that album is called / Pains Of Being Pure At Heart / Jimmy Cliff "The Harder They Come" soundtrack / Mastodon "Crack The Skye" / Empire Of The Sun

Reading - The Guardian pub supplement / Will Hodgkinson "Ballad Of Britain" / Caught By The River book (cough) / Jon Savage "England's Dreaming Tapes"

Watching - Flight Of The Conchords series 2 / "Sleep Furiously" / "Dirty Sanchez" the movie

Drinking - Milton Brewery's Sparta / Pitfield Brewery's Eco Warrior / Doom & Tribute / Cwrw Haf from Tomos Watkins / Meantime's Helles Beer / Brewer's Gold from Crouch Vale

The Vulcan - Three More Years...

Looks like The Vulcan in Cardiff has been given a reprieve... click here to read the news story... like to think we helped it along a bit, feels pretty good to hear this news!