Here we are, at BBC Television Centre. It's New Year's Eve, so sadly everybody is off still for Christmas, but we thank-you for tuning in for a celebration of the worst yet most important moments of 2012. We've got a whole host of special guests in the audience, including a...

Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the British Comedy Awards. Having missed my opportunity to do so two years in a row previously, I was naturally excited to be in a room surrounded by my favourite British comics, the CIA bloke out of Homeland and gallons of free...

We've all seen the latest Chanel advert starring Brad Pitt, as he waffles about love and fate whilst taking home $7 million. The internet is awash with confusion, and nobody seems any more likely to buy their products than before. It seems baffling that for such a high-end brand, starring...

This week I went on a dreadful training course, one I'll forget quicker than what I was supposed to learn. On the first day, I was slightly late. It was a combination of not being able to use the maps on my iPhone properly thanks to Apple's recent updates, and...

At V Festival in August, I was invited to interview Reverend and the Makers backstage at the Carling Refresh Rooms. Having only briefly met lead singer and spokesman for the band, Jon McClure, once before at an NME Awards, the prospect of chatting to someone on camera didn't seem as...

There's a lot of things to do this weekend. Go to the park. Have a picnic. Go to Essex... what?! Yes, go to Essex. It's somewhere I visit strictly once a year, to a little festival known as V. Once known for being the only place on the planet that...

When I was born in 1987, my mother had already been a vegetarian for quite some time. I can't remember how many years previous she had been, but after seeing a documentary about factory farming, she gave up eating meat, fish and already hated milk anyway.

So when her first-born...

I first saw Kieran Leonard perform in 2009, when we both shared a bill supporting Carl Barat's Dirty Pretty Things at the Manchester Academy. We never met that day, but through mutual friends our existences were acknowledged, and over the course of the following three years we kept on bumping...

Last week I attended a party thrown by Bacardi to celebrate their 150th birthday party. At one point, I found myself stood next to a prolific music blogger, the lead singer of a popular up-and-coming indie band and a lad who at the time of this tale, was notoriously known...

And despite what I'm about to say, I actually had a bloody good time.

By the time I'd got on the RedJet across to West Cowes on Friday lunchtime, I was singing The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army as if I was in Ukraine supporting our boys, not knowing...

This weekend I'll be returning to the Isle of Wight to watch bands, drink some pints of Carling and regularly pray that it doesn't rain. Last year was my first Isle of Wight music festival, which I deemed a success thanks to brilliant performances from Pulp, Hurts and the beginning...

In the autumn of 2005, I was persuaded my now good friend Andrew Aveling to join his band as an eighteen-year-old big-haired skinny-jeaned tambourine madman. He had already recorded a song with Pete Doherty, who had invited his band, Littl'ans on an upcoming tour with him. As the aforementioned tour...

It was a long old weekend for me as I embarked upon celebrating the nuptials of my dear friends Benjamin and Sam. They met in modern times - online on a dating websites and fell in love almost immediately. Certainly, they are one of my favourite couples: zero drama, lots...

A few years ago a film that kick-started the 'made for geeks by geeks' genre was released. It was a tongue-in-cheek yet brilliantly made zombie film featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as two mates who end up having to save their loved ones from an unexpected army of the...

It's been just over a week since I declared my new-found sobriety upon y'all through this very website and it seems only right to update you all on my progress: I think you would all agree it's been a terrible week to give up. Whilst I've spent most evenings in...

Ah, alcohol. It's the mainstay of hundreds and thousands of years of culture. The discovery of late Stone Age beer jugs has established the fact that purposely fermented beverages existed at least as early as 10,000 BC. It's a liquid that is used not just for celebration, but to mark...

Last night's Later With Jools Holland featured a rather provocative and extremely popular performance from rapper-turned-singer-turned-actor-turned-rapper-turned-spokesperson-of-our-generation, Plan B. No doubt a millionaire in his own right thanks to an annoyingly catchy song where he sings from the dock of a courthouse and raps his plea in a Jekyll & Hyde...

Music is great. If you have never been touched by music, you are either in denial after discovering that Gary Glitter was your first childhood gig, or you're probably dead. In the heart. In the soul. In the mind. In reality. Whilst the current state of "THE MUSIC INDUSTRY" is...

In an ambitious and somewhat over-the-top procedure this week, all of my worldly possessions are now covered in a white powder. No, I haven't been on a massive cocaine binge, but instead I've been trying to rid my little flat of little bastards known to the world as ants.

"It is something I consider to be an illness, and therefore more of health matter than a criminal or judicial matter. It is more important that we regard people suffering from addiction with compassion and there is a pragmatic rather than a symbolic approach to treating it."

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