Christmas Number One Fact Of The Day: The first ever Christmas number one was a piece of sheet music - in 1945, nobody bothered to count the singles sales. And what were your grandparents rocking around the piano to on Christmas day 1945? Nothing other than cheery ode to casual sex I'm In Love With Two Sweethearts by Issy Bonn.

Today, we're looking at Christmas Number One contenders by Nizlopi, Sugababes, Will Young, Bloc Party & Kaiser Chiefs and Delta Goodrem, and we've got the Christmas Number One betting odds right here, with help from SportingOdds.com...

Let’s knock the good quote out of the way from the get go. According to Chad Sexton, drummer for 311 the following occurred. Scott Stapp:

“…came into the Harbor Court Hotel bar while Sexton and bandmates SA Martinez and P-Nut were watching basketball on television. He stepped in front of the screen and said, '311, I am ready to fight.'”

If that don’t beat all.

Manson got married to his long-term girlfriend Dita Von Teese at the weekend - and the ceremony, which took place in Ireland, was full of the usual 'woo, aren't I scary and subversive and clever' Marilyn Manson touches. Like having a Best Man and a Worst Man. Oh man, that guy is just crazy.

There is a famous saying that says "Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us." It's just a shame that idiots like Rachel Stevens and Dido decided that they wanted their music out of their bodies before they die.

It's time for another hecklerspray gig guide - all the finest acts touring the country in the next seven days squidged onto one cyber page for your human eyes to digest.

This week's hecklerspray gig guide features Doves, Foo Fighters, Bob Geldof, Kubb, The Levellers, LCD Soundsystem, Madness, Maximo Park, Mercury Rev, Oasis and Primal Scream.

It's time for The Word to be culturally re-evaluated. And who better to do than shouty northern tearaways The Cribs?

The video for You're Gonna Lose Us by The Cribs is such a spot-on parody of The Word that - just for a few moments - we got mistily reminiscent of the brief time in the early 1990s when Mark Lamarr was something other

Nicole Kidman must be sick of Tom Cruise getting all the headlines all the time, so she's doing something about it - Nicole's officially got engaged to country music star Keith Urban.

Or she might not have done. But she probably has. Perhaps. Someone said on TV.

Prog is, and will always remain, a dirty word. And it's also a word used a lot when people try and describe The Mystery Jets. Thing is, though, they're wrong.

Think of prog and you think of nine-hour synth solos within songs about medieval pixies. But The Mystery Jets are far too scruffily melodic to fall into that trap, judging by their spiffy new

Some religious leaders are made through turmoil-filled life experience and inspiration. Others are formed in Britney Spears’ ovum.

Spears has changed her new son’s room into a gigantic nativity scene, with a life-sized toy donkey, cow, and wax figures. The central role of the baby Jesus is played by none other than young Sean Preston himself. Is this a prolific gesture? Is it prophetic, predictive and prognostic?

We here at the ’spray can’t help but wonder if this clairvoyant ability is also how she knew to make an ominous song about hitting her baby. Child services!! Quickly now!!