Wrongs #5 – The Enemy and The Public

A guaranteed route to second album success is to significantly alter your sound. Or, more accurately, a guaranteed route to second album success is to make people believe you’ve significantly altered your sound. Coventry rock trio The Enemy are about to release their second album after their debut, We’ll Live And [...]

Wrongs #4 – Emotion and Oasis

Yesterday, at 5pm, Oasis unveiled the video to their new single Falling Down. The video itself shows nothing immediately troublesome as far as this loose series of entries goes, though it does exhibit a worryingly worn anti-Royalist focus on values that would’ve looked old hat a decade ago. The nothingness of the song itself is [...]

Wrongs #3 – Frank Turner

Some time ago, upon the release of his second solo album, I wrote a reasonably indignant and probably quite insulting review of Frank Turner. The album in question, Love, Ire And Song was, suffice to say, not imbued with the traits I’d normally consider worthy and attractive in musical expression; everything [...]

Wrongs #2 – John Lydon

This time, it’s an obvious one. Obvious because there rarely has been such an apparent about-face in ideologies spread so widely, albeit in hilarious fashion. So we all know about that. Forget that. Here’s the offending article:

The problem with this insane concept for an advert is that it works. Annoying though [...]

Wrongs #1: Connie Talbot – Three Little Birds

In the first entry of a new category for PM (JESUS CHRIST etc.), there’s room for a truly boggling amount of inappropriateness. The seven-year-old (although probably now at least fourteen and in possession of a rapidly increasing chemical habit of some sort) runner-up of the Britain’s Got Talent mediocrity pageant Connie Talbot has recorded a [...]