LollapalYouTube

It's been Lollapalooza Weekend, and some of the footage is starting to turn up on YouTube:

Satellite Party doing Been Caught Stealing
Muse doing Hysteria
Daft Punk doing Technologic
Regina Spektor doing Fidelity
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists doing Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs doing Date With The Night

Of course, some of this has the quality of the roughest field recordings, but worth seeing nevertheless.

Something to not bother listening to: Satellite Party

Over on their MySpace page, you can currently stream all of Satellite Party's debut album. We imagine Perry Farrell is very relaxed about making this available online as, frankly, it's not really worth audiocapturing. We think Done Waiting pretty much hits it on the nail:

I understand the creative urge to keep producing new product, but like Harrison Ford's film career, I feel like each project Perry does tarnishes his earlier work which was nothing short of amazing.

Last call for New Order

It's not been so much announced as dropped into conversation by mistake, but Peter Hook has more or less admitted New Order have finally called it quits:

Peter Hook told Xfm that the band have broken up.

He said: "I spoke to Perry, and he asked me to play bass, as he'd heard about New Order splitting up. Well yeah, me and Bernard (Sumner) aren't working together."

On the split, he added: "Bernard went off for a break with Electronic, but that was different. But it's like the boy who cried wolf this time."

What's most interesting about this is that "New Order aren't working together" - a statement on a par for news value with 'Timothy Whites isn't on British High Streets' or 'Thatcher hasn't issued a statement about the local election results' - is still about sixty thousand times more fascinating than anything about Perry Farrell's Satellite Party super-ish group.