Send for Duncan-man
You have to wonder what sort of a fight it is that can be broken up by the intervention of Duncan James, don't you?
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
Bono fears a "generation of cynics"
Yeah, Bono. Whatever.
Bono has popped up, as expected, hanging out with the other multi-millionaires at Davos - a bit of business here, round of golf there, quick speech and then lunch. He was mainly there, of course, to "put pressure" on the politicians to ensure they kept the already piss-weak promises he and Geldof let them get away with at Gleneagles.
Apparently, Bono thought a matey photo-op and a bit of joking about with Tony Blair would be the best way to draw attention to the failure to follow-through:
GUITAR-loving Mr Blair, set to step down this year, got excited as Bono said: “Let’s start a band when you leave.” The PM, who played in student band Ugly Rumours, said: “I thought great, at last!” But Bono added: “You know, to save Africa — we can be a band.”
Ho-ho.
Bono is worried that if things don't carry on looking like they're being done, it might breed a "generation of cynics". And you know why he's worried - imagine if a generation of cynics turned up outside Davos demanding real change. That could really put him off his golf-swing.
Jo: I'm not racist, honest
Unsurprisingly, during her eviction from Big Brother last night, Jo O'Meara insisted that, you know, she's not racist at all:
After being shown TV headlines about the furore and clips of her behaviour, O'Meara admitted: "It does look very bad, it does."
But she told host Davina McCall the edited version of events distorted what really went on.
"Looking at it like that, it looks absolutely terrible and it didn't feel terrible in there," she said.
"I'm not a racist person at all. My cousin is married to an Indian man for one, and my cousins are half-Indian and their family is with me all the time."
We're not entirely sure why your cousin having chosen to marry an Indian bloke would somehow "prove" you're not racist, any more than if you had a cousin who was a Neo-Nazi would mean that you would be a flag-waving fascist. Being able to demonstrate that you spend time with one person of a different background isn't proof of anything. Paul Dacre's Daily Mail managed to run a decent campaign calling for justice for Steven Lawrence, but even Dacre wouldn't try and suggest that this somehow cancels out the newspaper's usual xenophobic stance.
Pushed - as much as Davina McCall can push - over the way she treated Shilpa Shetty, Jo tried to demonstrate how much she loves Indians:
"I'm not going to deny that Shilpa did aggravate me a lot - I don't know why. You can't click with everybody you meet.
"It's not because I'm racist at all. I think she's a very beautiful, very elegant woman."
Davina asked Jo why she sat there cackling during what Channel 4 seem now intent on describing as an "argument" between Shilpa and Jade Goody (Goody's diatribe, more honestly) rather than trying to calm the situation down - O'Meara suggested, somewhat lamely, that she giggles when bad things happen.
Oddly, she wasn't giggling when she was shown the newsreel of global reaction to her behaviour.
There's now a Sham 69, and a sham Sham 69
The glorious resurrection of Sham 69 to peddle that, frankly shoddy, World Cup song last year has come to a bitter end, with the band in pieces.
Two pieces, and, like an earthworm cut in two, both bits have grown into a new Sham 69*. Neither is prepared to accept the other has any legitimacy:
Pursey said [Dave] Parsons had left the group, while Parsons said he and drummer Ian Whitewood had sacked the singer.
Pursey said: "He [Parsons] has walked out of the band. I am Sham 69."
But Parsons and Whitewood said: "Sham 69 have left Jimmy Pursey."
We were unsure the world needed one Sham 69 in 2007. We're certain we don't bloody need two.
* - we know earthworms don't actually do this, but we're not David Attenborough, OK?
Friday, January 26, 2007
Homorevolution calls out all the pretty rappers
What's being billed as the "first ever tour of gay, lesbian and bisexual rappers" is under way in the States. Not that Deadlee would actually say HomoRevolution is the first tour of gay rappers, just the first under that banner.
He knows what he thinks:
"Eminem was called out for his juvenile, hateful approach to homosexuality, especially in his song 'Criminal'
"He was the biggest rapper at the time and if he used the same song as a diss to Blacks or Latinos, he would probably be dead.
"Eminem likes to pick on the 'weak' but gays aint weak and he might be a fag himself. He knew all the subcultures in that song."
Come on, Eminem with his short cropped bleached hair and constant crotch grabbing dance gay? You'll be telling us DMX is gay next... oh...
DMX was next in the firing line. Objecting to the constant references to "faggots" and "homo-thugs" that pepper DMX's lyrics, Deadlee again went for the jugular:
"I find it crazy when his videos are very homoerotic," said Deadlee. "All the guys kicking it with their shirts off!"
But at least you know where you are with 50 Cent, right? Maybe not - less 50 Cent, more Thirteen Bob Note, reckons Deadlee:
He reserved the most hate for unfathomably titanic G 50 Cent, after he revealed last year that he "ain't into faggots":
"Fuck him. I don't like ignorant bitches around me, so he can suck my gun," retorted Deadlee.
"He is a classic man who had Homo-feelings and chooses to lash out because he is afraid he might act out on his true feelings.
"50 Cent has deep rooted homosexual tendencies."
Actually, Deadlee, we do think it's possible that 50 Cent shouts his mouth off not because he's repressing an innate desire to have a naked bubblebath with The Game, but because he's a homophobic mule-child. But we'd be happy to be corrected on that, especially if there were pictures.
Baby Spice
We make it now that we're only a Mel C child away from a second generation Spice Girls, as Emma Bunton announces her pregnancy.
Of course, if it's a boy, then as the male half of the DNA is coming from Jade Jones, it'll be a Kids of Damage instead.
Melly melee
Some worrying news from Sussex. Last night George Melly collapsed on stage in Hove; he was taken to the Royal Sussex County. His wife says that he was probably hyper-thirsty:
Speaking from their home in Shepherd's Bush, west London, his wife, Diana Melly, 69, said: "I believe he became dehydrated during the performance and just collapsed.
"He has been taking some new medication and I suspect it might have something to do with that."
Trooper that he is, it took his granddaughter to stop him going back on stage and see him of to hospital instead.
Knives at the ready
Union of Knives' wonderful Evil Has Never is getting a second shot at the big time - one of our tunes of 2005 is getting re-released next month. To celebrate, and to draw a bit of attention, they're touring, too:
Friday 16th February Cardiff Barfly
Saturday 17th Bath Moles Club
Sunday 18th Bristol Louisiana
Monday 19th London Barfly
Wednesday 21st Leeds The Faversham
Thursday 22nd Birmingham Barfly
Friday 23rd Manchester Roadhouse
Saturday 24th Nottingham Social
Thursday 1st March Aberdeen Moshulu
Friday 2nd Glasgow King Tuts
Saturday 3rd Glasgow King Tuts
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Razor-cuts
Did you know there was a "curse on Brits drummers"? No, neither did anyone else, until Victoria Newton tried to work one up, because Johnny Quinn from Snow Patrol and, now, Andy Burrows from Johnny Borrell's backing group The Razorlights have both hurt their arms:
You now have to worry for the safety of the other drummers who will be performing on Brits night — RONNIE VANNUCCI from THE KILLERS, ZAK STARKEY of OASIS, PADDY BOOM from SCISSOR SISTERS and CHAD SMITH from RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS.
Erm... no, Victoria, no you don't.
Burrows apparently woke up covered in blood - his first thought probably being "come on, Johnny, couldn't you have just sacked the band?" - and discovered somehow he'd slashed his elbow.
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