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Seven days on No Rock and Roll Fun

The ten most-read stories have been:

1. Beth Ditto strips for NME
2. Glastonbury 2007
3. Lily Allen swaps her clothes
4. R Kelly's sex video to be shown in court
5. Travelling Wilburys return to number one - has Britain got talent?
6. RIP Tony Thompson
7. Blake Fielder-Civil enjoys married life
8. Heather Mills was a porn star, you know
9. San Francisco Treasure Island festival announced
10. We're not sure why, but the 2003 NME Brat award nominations have been popular this week.

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Five years ago:
Chad Kroeger was voted ugliest man in rock, an award he's held ever since; R Kelly pleaded not guilty to charges arising from alleged underage sex, a plea he's held to ever since; the 2002 Glastonbury festival announced proudly that the new fence was all the security it needed and accused the V festival of being over-sponsored; Jon Entwistle of the Who was found dead; the Broadcasting Standards Council upbraided Neil Fox for calling Simon Cowell a "retard"; Mis-teeq planned to take a packed lunch down to Glasto; Moby suggested his records might be selling disappointingly because his fans were smart enough to file share them while lumbering Pearl Jam fans were too dull to manage and still had to buy them, and Trevor Dann announced a pay-per-view video channel for Sky. We don't think that's appeared, yet.

We mentioned these this week:


We love the way Simian Mobile Disco is a kind of rave Angel to Simian's indie Buffy


Jack White goes East End - it's more Pie and Mash than Hackney Marshes, but interesting


Catherine Fenny has moved from LA to Norfolk - and swapped pedalsteel for Britfolk


This week's Icelandic soundscapes comes from Amiina. The title, Kurr, means cooing.


Single of the week is Kate Nash's Foundations, which besides being great in its own right shows exactly what's missing from Lily Allen's work


A great start-here pack for newcomers to Julie Christy


Hoping to build a Screamo market in the UK: Virgin America's Red Jumpsuit Apparatus


Shortbus, or A lot of sex and the city: From the Hedwig stable with a Yo La Tengo score


Two Lane Blacktop, from 1971, in which Harry Dean Stanton discovers some things hurt more than cars and girls


While the TV World Of Pub never worked quite as well as the radio version, surely it shouldn't have taken six years to get a DVD release?