The ever-quotable, erstwhile Smiths icon, Stephen Morrissey, has struck a blow to those franchises expecting to make a packet from his instantly sold-out MEN Arena gig on May 22nd from flogging you half-cooked, runny hotdogs and such. "It would be hypocritical to sing 'Meat Is Murder' amid smells of hamburgers", and has demanded that no stalls selling any meat products be allowed on the premises. Not content with that, he understandably thinks that all the contestants on Pop Idol and its ilk "should be put in a cage and sent to Thailand."
On a similar, but far more sinister culinary note, Good Riddance camped outside the KFC in Manchester this afternoon on a PETA protest. For the initiated, PETA are off their crazy little vegan tits, even if they do have a point about The Colonel and his secret blend of spices and de-beaked poultry.
Just as their 'I Brought You My Bullets...' début album finally gets an official release over here, tapped-in-the-head noisemongers My Chemical Romance will put out it's follow up, 'Three Cheers For Revenge' on June 8th. Speaking of MCR, frontman Gerard Way went, ahem, away for a couple of days last week without telling anyone, sparking a nationwide search. The excitement!
The Blood Brothers return to these shores in May supporting New York oddballs, The Liars, and continue through mainland Europe for the rest of the month. More info can be found at their eye-achingly designed website. While we're talking about support slots, Scottish mob, Aerogramme will do the honours for Thursday's forthcoming UK jaunt.
The band originally known as (hed), then successively hed(PE) and hed (Planet Earth), have now reverted back to their gramitically poor original monicker, albeit with a mostly different line up. The indecisive 'new' band will be nipping into the studio this month to record and EP for an unspecified label. Keep on scraping that barrell, lads.
...and finally. The Darkness really are taking over the world, with a plot being hatched for a street in their native Lowestoft to be named after the band. The Darkness Passage, or Hawkins Heights, anyone?
If you're interested, here's what I'm listening to at this very moment (possibly)....
1. THE DIVINE COMEDY - Come Home Billy Bird
2. THE GET UP KIDS - How Long Is Too Long
3. DECKARD - I Dream Of Dynamite
4. HUMANFLY - Humanfly Insect Party In My Mouth
5. HUNDRED REASONS - Harmony
EVERYONE READ BIZARRE!
If you've got ANY suggestions, then please tell me what I can improve on. I'm useless at that kind of thing, so your idea will probably end up being implemented. Ta.
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