No Rock And Roll Fun

EURO2004: THERE IS NO BLOODY ESCAPE: If you're hoping to use gig-going as a handy way of tryin to avoid the European Football Championship, don't count on it. Clearly, music is planning on signing up to the 'nothing moves without a reference to the championship' law for the month. Even David Bowie, who should be so far above this sort of thing, taking the trouble to stick a massive screen in the venue for his Prague concert so that footie heads don't have to choose between Czech Republic versus Germany and seeing David Fucking Bowie. This is a bit of stupid pandering - first of all, shouldn't Bowie say "Look, pal, this is your chance to see the guy who sang Space Oddity, Ashes to Ashes and Absolute Beginners live and in the flesh - if yuo think watching a match on the telly is more important, sell your ticket on to someone else"? Secondly, what if the Czechs play badly? He's going to be coming on going "Prague! Are you ready to rock?" and the audience will be sobbing like babies. For God's sake man, tell them to video the bloody football and watch it later if it's so important...