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Welcome to my site. I hope you won't be bored. Try the FAQ for more info. If you're looking for something to spice up your CD collection and you're bored of Keane and Coldplay then try my Kraut Pop guide. Updated occasionally when funds permit and remarkably quickly when German producers send me free CDs. This is the third incarnation of coletti.co.uk and came into being on 3rd February 2007 using the popular Wordpress Open Source application. It's the natural progression from my first attempt in '02 (created using the much underrated development tool notepad.exe) and my second in '04 (created using the ...

One scallion please, and hold the entrails…

According to Lonely Planet's China guide: China has one of the finest cuisines in the world, and from back-alley dumpling shops to four-star banquet halls, travellers surely won't leave disappointed You've got to ask if this is yet more Lonely Planet chicanery? I've never been to China but if my experience in rural Thailand and Laos is anything to go by, I'll bet the vast majority of the population have never seen the delights on offer down London's Chinatown (crispy fried aromatic duck, pork-belly stockpot etc etc) . Far more likely for your average Chinaman the daily grind of the above menu ...

Rogues, Barfly, 28th October

Ever wondered what happened to the the cast of the Lost Boys? Expensive haircuts, cool shoes and feathery earrings all feature when Rogues hit the stage. Hell, the bassist is called Frog and frontman/guitarist Sam James even looks like Corey Feldman. Welcome to 1987, leave all preconceptions at the door. The following review appears in the latest edition of London’s premier music ‘zine, London Tour Dates.

Drive Thru Review: Real life surfing

If you like surfing then you probably like surfing DVDs. At which point you hit the same problem all surfers over 9-years-old face: most surf films are either cheesy, sentimental homages with waves bigger than houses that try to get into the 'soul' of the sport (like the awful Laird) or just lame excuses to play droning Type O-Positive B-sides with the odd 'ironic' Bee Gees track while some drooling Goldie-ite talks about 'charging'. Update 25/4/08: My new Drive Thru soundtrack listing page is here.

Kraut Pop

If you're looking for something to spice up your CD/MP3 collection and you're a wee bit bored now with Keane, Coldplay and Embrace then I recommend you take a look across the channel to Germany. Since the early 90's there's been a stream of quality rock n' roll and pop coming out of the likes of Düsseldorf and Berlin and not all of it in native German. My Kraut Pop Guide consists of a growing list of album (and the occasional live) reviews. Right here. I also have the occasional podcast with some brief tasters. They are listed below. Alternatively you can ...