This week just gone

Seven days on No Rock and Roll Fun:

Ten most popular stories:

1. Radio One at 40 index
2. Fun at One remembered
3. R Kelly's sex video will be used in evidence
4. Steve Wright used to have Fridays off
5. Beth Ditto strips for the NME
6. Mark Radcliffe's magic competitions
7. Radio One's dramas
8. Is KT Tunstall gay?
9. Blue Jam versus Mary Whitehouse
10. Radio One in your neighbourhood: the roadshows

The popularity of the Radio One pages may be something to do with this.

Also this week:
MC Hammer is inflating his comedy trousers one more time; the Libertines announced a grubby compilation; John Lydon attacked Sting for cheap comebacks while, erm, promoting a Sex Pistols comeback; the Vodafone Live Music Awards and MOBOs battled for your attention; a second Mika threatened to sue the other one and Bell Canada's attempt to co-opt punk wound up laughing at the Holocaust.

Five years ago:
The BPI tried to take EasyInternet to court to stop them revealing details about attempts to settle the ridiculous case they were fighting (the BPI was suing the cafes for having CD burners); Feargal Sharkey was put in charge of Northern Ireland radio; Suicide were on their way back while Simply Red stuck out their own record. Oh, and the RIAA chose Britney Spears as the face of anti-downloading. As an upstanding member of society, of course.

Discrete fingers in the direction of commerce:


We're really looking forward to this: Watch The Fireworks from Emma 'Delgados' Pollock


Scouting For Girls: "ideal for a BBQ" says Amazon


Even without the whole staring into the eyes of the big D, always great to having something new from Edwyn Collins


Although they've not been "away" in any meaningful sense, a new Turin Brakes album always has the feel of a comeback


You have to mention Manu Chao's La Radiolina - it's some sort of law, apparently


New Zealand... new indie... new Shocking Pinks


Debbie Harry's new collection: less necessary, more evil, apparently


Gorkys' Patio gets relaid as part of a re-release frenzy


The Rumble Strips continue their "giant drum" sleeve theme onto the new album


Cranes' Forever: indie miserabilst borderline Goth reissue fun