There could only be one choice today. Buzzcocks, and interrelated Magazine, were my favourites of their generation so this is another sad day. Love the video too because that’s what things looked like back then. Thanks Pete.

Sorry I haven’t done one of these for a while. This is from Kiran Leonard’s excellent new album Western Culture. I get that it will not be to everyone’s taste but it is one of the best and most imaginative releases of the year. (He’s on tour and in Newcastle tomorrow night)

Not that it matters one iota to me, I understand that the Artic Monkeys latest has had a bit of a critical panning. To my mind it’s the best stuff they have done in a long while – here is the title track.

Legal Aid procurement rounds have been going on for years. They have never been hassle free though the most recent Civil round and the “dual contract” Crime debacle of 2015 do stand out as particularly chaotic. Fortunatley we got all our charges safely home last week to great relief. There have, therefore been any number […]

Hopefully the chaos that has been 2018 Civil Contract verification will resolve itself by the new final, final deadline on Midnight next Monday, 1/10/18. Here is the LAA communique. If you have ANY outstanding issues, and you want to discuss them with us, please do so asap so that we can get everything ironed out […]

Onsite office verification visits are starting, and one client asked for an itemised summary of the requirements, so we thought we would bung it on here too. Most bids require and office with “permanent presence” The Office must be open and physically accessible to Clients and/or members of the public for at least 7 hours […]

We have seen Eliza Shaddad a couple of time now, electric performances on both occasions. I have been waiting on this video appearing in order to post her latest offering from her debut album “Future”. Love it.

My eldest is 30 and this has its 20th anniversary today. Feeling old. Happy Birthday both. It is also THE most joyous live experience* especially the night they did it at the Sage with a full f**k off orchestra in tow. We have a 30th anniversary to celebrate next year and are really tempted by […]

This is just lovely.

We simply have not had time to run advance Webinars on the new 2018 Civil Contract due to the pressure of other areas of immediately demanding work. We hope to do this sometime in September or October but appreciate that this a little after the fact. We have however been directed to this change in […]