When they're good they can produce some of the best moments of your clubbing career, but they can also go spectacularly wrong and leave you questioning your life choices in a room full of oddballs. The afterparty is a tough beast to tame...
Your suspicions were justified: the guy pouring your sixteenth Guinness and half-heartedly laughing at your weak puns really does hate you. Read on and cringe...
As a younger man I had a wanking habit that would have blinded everyone with 20/20 vision. Here's a few places I whacked one out...
It could probably happen to anyone. The weekends become Mondays, then people start looking at you slightly differently....
You may think that you became a hipster because skinny jeans suit you (they don't) or turned into a lad because you can finish a centurion without being sick. It's all lies. You're the way you are because of the cartoons you watched as a child, it's time to face up to the fact...
Ever wondered what it feels like to get the absolute shit kicked out of you? Well, wonder know more...
In great cocktails, like great art, sometimes it just takes one man to see things differently.
At its best, an old-fashioned boozer is a joy to behold. At its worst, it's where dreams go to die and mutants congregate in packs. Here are Esse...
In the first of a new series, the American troubador picks apart his drink and drugs addled ode to a toxic relationship...
Some people had major events that shape their life - love, marriage, death - but for me, it was alcohol that made me who I am and these drinks in particular...
Be it on television or in film, a good pub has been the centerpiece of many of our best loved bits of entertainment...
Christmas is over, you're being shafted by work and you can't even drink to forget it. Forget all that, and read w...
A slag-ish mix of carbs, protein, fat and salt that keeps you thirsty enough to stay for another drink, and just th...
When faced with a girl on the bus, which word automatically comes to mind? Maybe it's a case of national pride, but...
Spend less, spend wisely, drink more. That's our wine expert's advice as he guides you through the supermarket wall of wine.
Sod the partridge in a pear tree and 12 drummers drumming, what Christmas is really about is getting warm and cosy in a good pub, with a foaming ...
In a time when old fashioned gangsters rode around with Tommy guns, the police thought it'd be a good idea to ban all alcohol in America. This is...
Remember when music documentaries weren't about Katy Perry and Justin Bieber? When they were about, oh, what's it called...music? Here's a rundow...
The golden age of Hollywood was famous for many things, not least actors who would drink you under the table...
Have you ever overheard your sexual performance being compared to a soft drink? If so, you may have been a victim o...
It's not just all struggling football teams, music and steel, Sheffield is the best beer city in the UK.
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Giving up beer is hard work enough without having to spend ages trying to find an alternative, this guide to the be...
The countryside might be lacking in anything remotely useful or practical, but drinking in rural pubs beats the city every time.
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Where else can you find intelligent Beckettian drama featuring addiction, depression, fatalism and gastronomy?
For the love of yoga, please leave the alcopops, talking about your emotions and special dietary requirements to the ladies.
Wonderful beer, cracking food and the most attractive women in Eastern Europe - I love the Czech Republic.
Moonshining and backyard distilling is an art that’s approaching something of a renaissance. That said, it’s no...
It's been a British holidaymakers' favourite for a while; scratch beneath the surface and you'll fnd a country full...
Twat or hero? Owen Blackhurst and Harry Harris had a row, so we asked them to write about it...
Real-life parties have always left me cold, but now I've read Suzette Field's excellent book on literature's greatest parties I know why...
One of the few things worse than a drugged up twat, coming up on MDMA or down on a spliff, is a drugged up twat in your own house.
Getting fleeced by dealers, shagging on a Sunday, and carrying more booze than your body can handle. We've all been there....
I'd always thought making one's own booze was the preserve of the bearded and lonely. Until, that is, I got engage...
Like booze? Like old stuff? Then you've come to the right place...
Had he not been injected with some yellow anti-ageing solution by Matt Groening, Bart Simpson would now be 33, and ...
In a decade which would spawn the speed boat, Nascar, US Coast Guard, Las Vegas and the modern cocktail, it was the...
Are these two lads from Liverpool the next big thing in ambient?
Fresh from beating Scotland at the Cricket World Cup, Tim Wigmore reveals how th...
This just in..... I had some beers with lunch.
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Including an RKO vine...
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