Let's hear it for Slag Bag!
Who needs real pop stars when the best music movies are about fake bands?
Note: Bob Stanley writing about his Pop Fiction Film Festival At The Barbican on Feb 7, 21, and 28 See Timeline

Birth of the uncool
With cardboard drums and songs about hating sharks, the DIY music movement was tiny - but intense. Bob Stanley celebrates the UK's most underground underground scene

The vinyl frontier
Accruing knowledge from gazing at the small print on 45s isn't really something to show off about, but decades of this kind of activity has finally earned me a proper job. Universal - the largest record company in the world - has offered myself and Saint Etienne buddy Pete Wiggs our own reissue label, Eclipse.