Wedding Present in Doncaster

We once passed a happy night in Doncaster waiting for a coach by climbing to the top of the multistorey car park and looking at the town.

No, the local police didn't believe it, either.

Still, there's more fun to be had there this month with Doncaster Live, an event which the Wedding Present have told us about:

The Wedding Present will be playing on the first night of "Doncaster Live 2007," a free weekend music festival that takes place at various venues around the town centre of Doncaster in Yorkshire, England on Saturday the 21st and Sunday the 22nd of July. The event, which is in its third year, starts at 10AM and will finish around 11.30PM. Together with street performers and DJs, other bands performing are: Ego Parade, Vegas Child, OPM, Tiny Dancer and The Paddingtons. For further information about the event, please contact the Town Centre & Markets Event Team on 01302 862478. The Wedding Present are scheduled to appear in front of the Corn Exchange [in the Market Place] at around 10 pm on the 21st. No tickets are required for admission.

In the same blog post, the band mention they're rubbing shoulders with Courtney Love in Hollywood. At least she seems to have got past the punching David Gedge thing, then.

Mind out, it's the Buzzcocks

I learned a very long time ago - watching Southern Television's Houseparty, in fact - that you should be leery of meeting your heroes as they seldom live up to your expectations.

Of course, the cookery expert who imparted this advice didn't suggest that you'd wind up having a fight with them, but that happens, too. Paddingtons drummer Grant Dobbs met Pete Shelley at the Skye Music Festival and was shattered when Shelley revealed the main motivation these days for the Buzzcocks is the Greenbacks:

"I can't believe it. Pete Shelley and I had a set-to in the hotel. I wanted to talk about music being his biggest passion, but all he could talk about was making more zeros on his bank account.

"It wasn't what I expected from a legendary punk rocker who is meant to be anti-establishment. I was upset and started to argue with him about it, challenging him in the bar, and asking at what point he sold out.

"I couldn't believe it and things got a bit heated. We ended up having to be separated by other people in our bands.

"Actually Steve Diggle, The Buzzcocks guitarist, came over and told me not to bother with him."

Presumably Diggle said to leave it, he wasn't worth it. Unless they could arrange a pay-per-view revenue stream for the fight.