No Rock And Roll Fun

At this point, a quick tip of the hat to WayneClancy1's YouTube stuff , which is a veritable Oobertrove of goodness, before moving on to...

More dodgy camerawork, and a vague "yonks ago" as Ooberman play Stormtrooper at Madame JoJos: [Part of Ooberman weekend ]

This is not, perhaps, the finest hour. The track is brilliant, but the re-release as a final single for Independiente Records saw a clunking...

Hull used to proud of its white phoneboxes, a symbol of civic independence. Their phones had never been subsumed by the Post Office, and as ...

It's a bit over-generous to describe the Dolly Rockers as "X Factor losers", when they got 12th place. Also-rans, maybe. But, ...

Over on Electroqueer , Darren Hayes responds to the flap about his recent interview about gay media stereotypes . Especially that he never g...

Something of a sidesway diversion now, as - at some festival or other - Ooberman belt out Danny Boy. If you have tears, prepare to look away...

Interesting. Gordon returns once more to the Cole-Tweedy marriage, running a photo of Ashley Cole rubbing his eyes in a swimming pool . To t...

Last weekend, in the comments on the Shonen Knife story , the conversation turned to Ooberman, and if it wasn't about time there was an ...

The worry is, I rather think we're meant to be impressed with this : Diners at the swanky Gilgamesh bar in Camden got more than they bar...

John "Marmaduke" Dawson has died . Born in Michigan, Dawson's lucky break was joining Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions...

Naturally, the story about "kinky German swingers in rubber" crashing Dizzee Rascal's video shoot is two parts hype to one pa...

It always seemed unlikely that HMV would keep two stores running in those places where it had taken over nearby Zavvis, and so it is proving...

It can never be stressed enough that the music industry does what it does not for the backroom guys who love the smell of money, or to keep ...

You'll recall the Daily Mail doesn't run paparazzi photos any more. Not since the death of Diana, when their team decided that it wa...

Well, that's the Slovak votes up for grabs, then, as the Czechs decide they're not interested in Eurovision any more : The Czech Rep...

Heinz Edelmann, the man who created the Pepperland sequence for Yellow Submarine, has died at the age of 75 . The New York Times obituary no...

@timwestwood : Excerpts of Jay-Z interview got leak - I'm heavy out there on the web. Called the Game a groupie & crushed the Chris ...

Lily Allen is seeing a decorator, according to this morning's Gordon Smart showbiz carousel . Or, as Gordon puts it: Lil has found love ...

Janes Addiction are delighted to have photographers come up and take pictures of their shows. Oh, providing they sign paperwork passing all ...

It's not her fault that the stage for her French gig collapsed, killing two men. And her reaction to the horrible event has done her mu...

Noted costumier Mr Liam Gallagher had a nasty fit of the vapours last night when he found himself too close to the people whose monies keep ...

Here's how 3AM are covering a supposed airline incident featuring Little Boots and The Saturdays: She may be a pop princess but there w...

The long fight between Jackson Browne and the McCain presidential campaign is at an end, with the Republicans writing cheques and issuing ap...

Pete Samson - now, of course, The Sun's US editor - does some serious investigation into Michael Jackson's upbringing by, erm, watc...

Yahoo is incredibly generous to Jet tonight, almost as if they know what it's like to be a hotly tipped property which suddenly runs ou...

Spotify might still not quite have thought of a way of making money, but they're spending the cash they don't have in very imaginati...

No, seriously: what's the point of a shortlist for an award for the best album which features Kasabian at all ? Sure, there's lots o...

It does make it so much easier to choose sides, doesn't it, when the team captains are Sarkozy on one side; Catherine Deneuve on the ot...

Hey! Do you run a showbusyness gossiping column in a national newspaper? Do you struggle to fill it with people that your readers might have...