No Rock And Roll Fun

WE LIKE THE CHARTS PEOPLE: We've often wondered what the people who compile the Official UK Charts must be like - do they sit in a small room with a large abacus, a TV blaring The Box - for fun - and posters of Abs on the wall? Do they smile everytime they write "Gareth Gates" in copperplate handwriting on the rundown form? Is the thud of mail reporting a surge in popularity for Atomic Kitten's album enough to make them need to wee with delight? It seems perhaps not. The links page from the Official Official UK Charts Official website suggests that - rather - the staff must feel their jobs to be akin to being Adolf Hitler's butler. The band whose sites qualify for links from the OUKC site are Gomez, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Everything But The Girl, Haven and Mel C. Not a Nelly amongst them. Curious, eh?