26th, March 2014
Flashback
SURPRISINGLY, Damon Albarn used to be a smackhead. You'd never have guessed would you? More than that, he said that heroin "completely changed" him as a musician and he's written about being on the brown in a new song on his 'Everyday Robots' LP... More »
26th, March 2014
Flashback
CHELSEA have played at Stamford Bridge ever since 1905, the year after "Mr H A (Gus) Mears and his brother, Mr J T Mears, obtained the deeds, having previously acquired additional land (formerly a large market garden) with the aim of establishing a football team there on the now 12.5 acre site"... More »
26th, March 2014
Reviews
LOCAL news Watch spots the Nottingham Evening Post exacting a delicious revenge on Billy Davies... More »
COLIN Farmer was 63 when he was handcuffed by police October 12, 2012. He is partially sighted. He carries a white stick... More »
26th, March 2014
Flashback
IN the late 19th Century, you could buy The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage. Presented as hand-tinted stereographs, they tell the story of the Bashful Lover and his pursuit of the chaste maiden.... More »
26th, March 2014
Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann: Anorak's look at the missing child in the news. Today the Daily Mirror has a scoop... More »
26th, March 2014
Celebrities
Elton John mugs up for the cameras... More »
26th, March 2014
Flashback
1 The Iron Curtain rusted away, the Russian pop music scene was as vibrant as a Moscow hooker's eyeliner. Look out for moustache power ballads, Susan Boyle and the Russian Cliff Richard... More »
26th, March 2014
Key Posts
WHAT the Mad Men of advertising's Golden Age would have made of today social media experts can only be guessed at. And our guess is they'd have made them unemployed. Anyone with a spark of creativity louder than a gnat's fart would nowadays be hailed as social media guru... More »
26th, March 2014
Flashback
2 ANY clue who these guys are? They're the band Supertramp. If you didn't know, it's either because you are way too young to appreciate this article or it's due to the fact that almost all Seventies rock acts looked relatively similar - like a generic group of hairy drug addicts... More »
25th, March 2014
Celebrities
AND so it came to pass that Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are no longer together. She made the announcement on her website Goop. They have not split up. They have had a "conscious uncoupling". The message reads... More »
25th, March 2014
Film
1 The latest such film of this type is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), but that popular franchise is far from original in depicting man’s easily-distracted nature. With that in mind, below ares six of the most savage "bread and circuses" games of the near dystopian future, as imagined by filmmakers... More »
25th, March 2014
Liverpool
The collective sigh of a nation was palpable when BT Sports announced that Michael Owen was joining their team in co-commentator capacity at the beginning of the season, as subscribers suddenly realised that they were in for at least a season’s worth of beige footballing clichés and banal, perfunctory observations from a man who more or less talks in binary code... More »
THE Manuel Pellegrini story is getting to be a bit like George Bush's plastic turkey. You know that story.? It's the one about the then President George 'Dubya' Bush feeding the US troops a Thanksgiving dinner of plastic turkey. It was utter balls... More »
25th, March 2014
Celebrities
Cannon then shared and pointed at a picture of Robert Downey Jr's 'Blackface' character from the movie Tropic Thunder. He wrote with the photo, "Shout out to @RobertDowneyJr This is one of my favorite characters of all time! Hilarious!!! There is a big difference between Humor and Hatred."... More »
25th, March 2014
Celebrities
ELTON John is 67 years old today. In looking through the archives here at Anorak Towers we cams across what might be the greatest ever picture of the Watford Warbler. Taken on 01/03/1976, The picture is captioned.. More »
OK, so he's rich anyway, both from inheritance and also from a previous venture. But $3 million is very different from $966 million, that's for sure... More »
25th, March 2014
Books
THE Fukushima nuclear power plant failure didn't trigger the end of the world. But it did make lot of news, and now it's a manga cartoon... More »
25th, March 2014
Fashion
Teenage girls are all steamed up these days about straight hair. The steam iron is replacing the huge rollers on which countless teens slept every night to achieve the height and curls... More »
25th, March 2014
Flashback
Forget Google Glass, Android Wear, Smartwatches or contact lenses that give you night vision. Instead let’s talk about the awesomeness that is this 17th century Chinese abacus ring. It’s wearable tech from the Qing Dynasty, perhaps the world’s oldest smart ring... More »
25th, March 2014
Flashback
Brighton and Hove Albion manager Freddie Goodwin shows off the motivational posters which he pins up in the dressing room... More »
25th, March 2014
The Consumer
THIS is the most accurate toy representation of a real cat ever... More »
25th, March 2014
Reviews
MALAYSIAN Flight 370 ascended sharply to 45,000 feet, descended to 23,000 feet before changing course again,changed course many times and then crashed into the Indian Ocean... More »
25th, March 2014
Flashback
9 AS things heat up in Ukraine and the ever-precarious Middle East continues its pattern of unrest, we feel a tinge of concern for our Western economies hanging by a thread and our natural resources plundered at an unsustainable rate. In such a state of affairs it is only natural that we, as a global community, band together and take a look at some truly awful toys. It’s the right thing to do... More »
25th, March 2014
TV & Radio
"It’s just an idea. I want to do a tour, a little tour – and people think they’re seeing a tour. I film it, but actually it’s Brent who thinks he’s making a Scorsese-type thing of On the Road. Of course, behind the scenes, it is so much sadder and more poignant. It’s Spinal Tap meets sad Scorsese meets Anvil.".. More »
