What have the great and good of the music world been up to this week? Have the Sex Pistols said ‘fuck’ on a TV show and caused national outrage? Has Mick Jagger been accused of a frankly disconcerting fusion of sex and dinner with a glucose-based chocolate bar and Marianne Faithfull? Has someone called Matt Bianco ‘a bunch of wankers’ on kids TV?
No. Sadly, nothing so epoch-shattering to report. But still, we’ve space to fill and that, so here goes….
Kasabian, Prodigy and the Specials set to headline this years Benicassim. It seems the world are not getting tired of seeing Leicester’s foremost Happy Mondays tribute band top the bill at such events – they seem to have been touring non-stop since 2006. Similarly road-happy are Liam Howlett’s limp novelty dance act, still playing to packed-out venues bursting with concentrated idiot. As for Terry Hall and co, it turns out the ‘last chance to see!’ re-union has been extended. Again. I fully expect you’ll be able to see eight versions of the ska pioneers at various Butlins by 2011….
Sigur Ros have apparently binned an almost-completed new album and have decided to have a break to ‘have babies’, according to reports. Except the singer, you’d suspect, as he’s gay.
Susan Boyle’s having a bad week. That’s not a metaphor, by the way – she’s a good age, after all – but she doesn’t have her troubles to seek. Her idol, hatchet-faced boot Elaine Paige, rather uncharitably called the mannish chanteuse ‘a virus’. Speaking to the Daily Mail – she fucking would be – the singer stated that Boyle was ‘a girl with no experience of anything to do with theatrics, the music business, or art in any way.’
Presumably Paige is merely upholding a high artistic principle and is upset that Boyle doesn’t have a Performing Arts and Stuff NVQ or something. I’m sure it isn’t jealousy that the unlovely one has shifted 10m albums by all accounts.
As if that wasn’t enough, SuBo’s brother fears she will be assassinated after she was pestered by a stalker. This is indeed worrying, but were we the only ones who wondered if…well, y’know…the stalker was real and she hadn’t just imagined it?
Robbie Williams is to re-join Take That! Knickers presumably moistened and credit cards to hand, expect the ladies of the UK (and nowhere else) to shell out silly money for more stadium gigs this summer.
Alan McGee has called for the Brits to be scrapped; they should ‘just scrap the Brits’, he said, presumably expecting someone to care.
Paul Weller has announced details of his new album, which he says will be ‘political – oh dear – and ‘royal-baiting.’ Expect Parliament to call an emergency session to deal with the corresponding constitutional crisis. Or another tour where people politely wait through the new stuff for ‘A Town Called Malice’….
Pete Doherty was fined again, this time for turning up to a court date with heroin on him at the time. Fuck me.
So, there you go, enough vital info and salacious gossip to see you through any upcoming parties. Oh, and light a candle for SuBo if you’re out, the little lamb.
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Weller’s hair looks like my mum’s these days. A kind of grey-green-tinged verdigrise style mod-mullet.
22 Dreams isn’t bad though. Although he has turned into a right boring moany bastard these days.
No that’s pish. He’s always been a torn-faced cunt.
And he used to go on about voting Tory. That might just have been to annoy Strummer and Co, though.
I think it was. He did Red Wedge, after all. I think he’s fairly apolitical, into his spiritualism and all that shit.
spiritualism. holy lumping fuck!
Man, I love Springsteen. He’s the bomb!