This fortnight just gone

Last weekend, we were in Oberammergau for the the height of the German spargel season. So, here's two weeks in the life of No Rock and Roll Fun:

The fortnight's most-read stories:

1. Lily Allen changes her knickers on a train
2. Jury will watch R Kelly's alleged underage sex video
3. McFly try whacking bollocks out
4. Amy Winehouse gets married; magazine pays quarter million
5. Heather Mills - porn star
6. RIP: Rod Poole
7. Eurovision live blog
8. KT Tunstall - is she gay?
9. Avril Lavigne avoids skanky clothes by having her breasts airbrushed over the top
10. Paul McCartney's "daughter" claims Macca faked paternity test

Also this fortnight: We discovered the depressing truth about life backstage at a McFly tour - it's all condoms filled with custard; the Police overcame their vortex; Ofcom gave their verdict on the racist bullies from Celeb Big Brother; Doc Martens dumped Saatchi to try and save face in the dead punk shoe debacle; Liberty X split, having no future in a world ruled by Lily Allen; T-Mobile fudged the ticketing for Brighton Transmission; Pete Wentz became convinced Spiderman had stolen his identity and the House of Commons culture committee repaid the hospitality many of them had enjoyed from the BPI and Viacom by agreeing with their view on copyright extenstion.

You can read this week on one page; or the week before;
or skim the week before that in one post.

Five years ago, the decision to replace Atlantic252 with a 24 hours sports network flopped badly, Channel 5 dumped the Pepsi Chart; the weekly dance magazine 7 became a monthly, while Liam Gallagher refused to sing the word 'fuhrer' and NME called the Libertines 'idols in waiting'; James Palumbo trumpeted running drugs out the Ministry of Sound, although he seemed mainly motivated by the effects on his bar takings; Sony's trumpeted CD copy-protection could be beaten by, erm, drawing a black line on the disc while EMI promised a copy-protection system which could tell between 'legitimate' and 'illegitimate' copying - oddly, it's still not appeared; Eminem got grumpy when his new album leaked; The Band of Holy Joy reunited while Tony Wilson returned to Granada Reports.

We suggested these purchases from the new material:


Bob 'Field Mice' Wratten's latest Trembling Blue Stars album - everything you'd hope


The three year or so wait for Battles debut album is over; it's been worth waiting


Maps: A Steve Hillage for our times, or the new White Town. You decide.


It's Rufus Wainwright, produced by Neil Tennant, with strings and everything. So why does the sleeve look like a 1980s indie cassette-only compilation?


Sub-Pop finally pony up for a UK release for Band of Horses


If for nothing else, you've got love Funeral For A Friend for claiming God loves the Go-Rilla Biscuits


Of course, these days a new album from Wilco is greeted with something midway between the second coming and the launch of Gabbo's series


Crusading consumer journalists Popjustice reckon this is better than Amerie's lead-off single suggested

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1990s probably closer to Billy Joel than The Modern Lovers, as we've mentioned elsewhere

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On a recent Reunion, Sue MacGregor claimed Welcome To Milton Keynes was a "celebration" of No Rock's current home town. This timely collection points out a big 'erm, no'