Like the Queen’s Christmas speech on the BBC, Noel Gallagher is making an annual event out of criticizing the
Glastonbury line-up. Last year he denounced the idea of
Jay-Z headlining, earning a sarcastic burst of “Wonderwall” from the man himself. Unsurprisingly, old nemeses
Blur, re-uniting for a headline slot this year,
couldn’t go without mention...
“If you’re a Blur fan since the however many years it is they’ve not done nothing and you’ve almost waited a lifetime to see them, it’ll be quite exciting, I’d have thought,” he said.
And for good measure…
“If I’d had anything to do with that bill, Franz Ferdinand wouldn’t have been on it.”
I wonder if Noel and Liam will sit down and play
Beatles: Rock Band together. Bless.
If you were on Team
Blur during the Britpop era - as I was - then John Harris’s interview with the band in the
Guardian this week was an interesting trip down memory lane, chronicling the highs and the lows of all four members, including Coxon’s departure from the band
after sobering up at the Priory.
Blur played their first comeback show last night, at the same tiny venue they played their first gig at.
NME was there.
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You’ve got to hand it to
SuBo. She hasn’t even released an album yet, but she’s already been to the Priory and staged a victorious “comeback”, according to
The Sun. The Mirror
loved it too ("
No word of a lie…the first night of the Britain’s Got Talent live tour was one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life. Amazing!") Tomorrow, if she has time, SuBo will cut off her hair and shoot someone in the face. Perhaps.
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3 out of 5 stars for the
Gossip’s
Music for Men album, according to
Alexis Petridis, who says they’re still more memorable for her than the music. :-(
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Did you know “that more than 40 per cent of adult men in Japan sit on the toilet when they urinate”? You do now, thanks to The Independent’s report on Japan’s “
Generation XX”.
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Here's a Dazed interview with
Wavves, conducted the day after their “epic meltdown” on a stage in Barcelona.
“Don't know why I chose the biggest platform I could imagine to lose my shit, but that's life. You live and you learn.”
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I had no idea that Sam Rockwell’s buzz-worthy movie
Moon was directed by the son of David Bowie. But then he did change his name from Zowie to Duncan.
Royksopp’s collaboration with
Robyn, 'The Girl and the Robot', has now joined
La Roux’s 'In For The Kill' in the 2009 hall of fame. The Guardian’s
Jude Rogers sat down with the trio to find out how their collaboration came about, and also touches on Robyn’s previous best, 'With Every Heartbeat', and how it inspired Royksopp to create “bolder pop songs”. Well done, Robyn.