Sony/PIAS warehouse
As riots spread across London for a third night last night, the Sony/PIAS warehouse in Enfield was set on fire. It’s thought that stock belonging to hundreds of independent record labels has been lost. Fans and members of the music industry reacted on Twitter throughout the day, and there are already moves to help compensate the labels that have been so badly affected by the fire. … Continue Reading
Tickets to three dates from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, have been sold out within six minutes of going on sale.
The gigs will take place in Dublin, Edinburgh and London:
Dublin, Olympia Theatre – 23 October
Edinburgh, Usher Hall – 27 October
London, HMV Hammersmith Apollo – 29 October
The gig in Dublin will be Noel’s first live performance since his headline slot at the Teenage Cancer Trust shows in London’s Royal Albert Hall last year, and his first ever live set with the High Flying Birds.
Ixnay on the foreignersay (pic: Man Alive!)
In Devon during the 1980s and 1990s, we all grew accustomed to reading, and then laughing so hard we puked about, the mad ravings of an anti-Europe and excruciatingly right-wing local businessman, operating under the pseudonym ‘Tripehound’.
On and on he would yell (in print format, strewn with capital letters and bizarre jokes, sitting on an ivory throne in an anti-world that multiculturalism and sub-editors had been driven from) while simultaneously advertising his bucket-and-spade shop come amusement arcade come bumper car circuit, Trago Mills.
At one stage he cost three local newspapers many thousands in libel damages after a run in with Ted Heath. It was, frankly, hilarious.
It is this memory of creasing over double reading Tripehound’s latest textual vomiting on Fritz the German that springs to mind when I imagine Morrissey in comic book format.
If you're here, who is guarding all the Red Bull? (pic: Karen Blue)
Madonna fan Grzegorz Matlok was in court yesterday to deny three counts of breaking into the star’s Marylebone mansion and nicking a can of energy drink.
The court heard that Matlok had allegedly used a rope to climb to the balcony of the townhouse, broke through a window and then went into the two properties next door, also owned by Madonna, who was not there.
If he HAD done the crime, (and it’s not for us to say, legal beagles) and wriggled his way into the £10 million 10-bedroom house in one of the FITTEST bits of London, a can of Red Bull would surely amount to about the lowest value thing he could possibly find in there, no? Awful lot of effort…
Oh wait, says Contact Music’s report on the fiasco, “Matlok was arrested on March 12, after being wrestled to the ground by bodyguards at the 52-year-old star’s home after being found clutching several of her possessions.” Gross.
A senior police source was none too impressed by aforementioned bodyguards, saying: ”Something dreadful has happened here. The security around the world’s most famous pop star should be impregnable.”
Come on fellas, Wendi Deng can’t be everywhere.
Hank Williams (photo: Fabio Bruna)
American singer songwriter and country music legend Hank Williams died in 1953 aged just 29, but his influence has seeped into the alt. rock royal family tree and has remained there for several generations. Now, The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, a collection of previously unheard tracks has been recorded by famous fans of Williams’ work, including Bob Dylan, Norah Jones and Jack White.
Despite his early demise and short career, Williams managed to record 35 singles, five of which released after his death, that skyrocketed to the top 10 Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart.
Despite lead singer Caleb Followill flouncing off the stage in a spin out reminiscent of Stephen Fry running dramatically out of the room biting his hand on Twitter for the bajillionth time, and despite brother Jared Followill telling his Twitter followers that it was all going a bit boobs up, the band have now released a statement to say they are not splitting up. NOT SPLITTING UP. Got it?
Hmn, I think we’ve got it…
Just when it looked like they’d be the 2011 answer to the Captain and Tennille, the two GIANTS of the hop-hop world, Jay-Z and Kanye West have had a big old fall out. Maybe. If reports are to be believed. And if it’s not just hackneyed promotional attempts by their people. Etc etc etc.
The superstar collaborators release Watch The Throne next Monday on iTunes (I’m not going to lie, what I’ve heard is bloody awesome) but the New York Post says the two (who call themselves The Throne – cute!) are barely on speaking terms.
“Sources say West wants flashy concerts with ‘next-level production,’ which would cost more than $400,000 per show. Jay-Z is said to be meticulous about costs.”
Drake - Headlines
We’ve already heard a couple of leaks of new material from Drake, which may or may not appear on his second album Take Care, due for release on October 24th. However, ‘Headlines’ looks a little more official – it’s available to download from Drake’s blog now. … Continue Reading
Spanish ‘sexpot’ and son of crooner Julio, Enrique Iglesias, took to the stage in Australia despite suffering a fever. He may wish he’d just crawled into bed with a bottle of Night Nurse and a cold compress.
Following a comment from a fan in the audience about Iglesias’ “good looks”, the singer countered: “What does Spanish good looks have to do with the size of your penis?
“Maybe I have the Spanish looks but I have the smallest penis in the world. I’m serious.”
It gets better.
Like the sour-faced girl at the back of the class, muttering about the beetle blood in your lollipop, Morrissey has turned his spite to the Norway tragedy of last week.
Performing in Warsaw on Sunday 24 July, two days after the massacre that left nearly 80 dead, Morrisey told the crowd: “We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown…
Though that is nothing compared to what happens in MCDonald’s and Kentucky Fried S**t every day.”
You’re a vegan, we get it.
Over five million died in Poland during World War II, why not tie that into the real contents of the hot dogs you get at the fairground while you’re at it, Moz?
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