Smashmouth: Buns don't kill people; people do

Smashmouth's dwindling career has reached the point where they're now playing The Taste Of Fort Collins, a college town food-fest.

It didn't end well, either as, as if the good people of Colorado were channeling The Great Hall at a public school, the band were hit will a hail of bread rolls. The band didn't take it with good grace:



Think on, Steve Harwell. Give it a couple more years, you'll be hoping that the audience throw you some food during a set.

John Elway takes on the punks

There's a band in Fort Collins who took the name Elway, as a way of (a) dumping their original, rotten name of 10-4 Eleanor and (b) paying tribute to their roots through John Elway, who used to play American "football" and sell cars in Denver.

John Elway found out, and was not flattered. He's now instructed his people to send a letter to Elway, the band, asking them to not use the name any more.

They're going to stick with the name. Not least, you suspect, because a band who by their own admission usually play to "about 30 people in a basement" are suddenly picking up coverage from CBS, Yahoo, and USA Today. Albeit the sports pages, but still, it's coverage.

Elway insist that they're not actually using Elway to mean John Elway - instead, they're using him as part of the local vernacular; Mr Elway, to be fair, hasn't sent a legal cease-and-desist. Not yet, anyway.

Venuewatch: Fort Collins freezes new venues

More recession-fun-wrecking: Plans to open two music venues in Fort Collins, Colorado have been put on hold. Good news for the neighbours of the proposed performance centers, though: they were planning to campaign against them anyway.