There’s dissent amongst the middle-aged heroes of yore in Manchester. In a scene familiar to anyone who has made the mistake of going on-line after a few drinks, Stone Roses/Primal Scream bassist Gary ‘Mani’ Mountfield had some rather choice words for his ex-bandmate Peter Hook last week.
Things must have got rather tense in Freebass, the band that until earlier this year also featured Smiths’ bassist Andy Rourke, before tarmac-voiced Mani lost it on twitter.
There was a time when a man could have a rant about his bandmates, safe in the knowledge that it wouldn’t go much further than a disinterested manager… however, this is the age of the internet. Read More >>>
10 – Angry nuns. You heard – Darkbeige
9 – Kelly Clarkson (sort of) rips off Beyonce, refuses to shut up about it – Amy Grindhouse
8 - If you’ve been watching David on Big Brother and thinking “But where do I know him from?”, here’s your answer. You’ll thank us for this – Watchwithmothers
7 - Do you have a dog? Are you painfully lonely? Do you like the idea of making people run away from you in terror? Then do WE have the invention for YOU! – Geekologie
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There are three medical levels of depression – level one is where you listen to Joy Division, level two is where you emotionally identify with Joy Division and level three…
Level three comes when you get so weirdly enamoured with Joy Division that you suddenly decide that you have to own the gravestone of someone who was actually in Joy Division. Which someone did earlier this week.
Police are on the lookout for the thief who stole the gravestone of singer Ian Curtis from a cemetery in Cheshire on Monday night. Nobody knows exactly why anyone bothered to go to the effort of nicking Ian Curtis' gravestone, but police believe it's either the work of an obsessive Joy Division fan who wanted to be closer to his hero, or someone who needed to prop a window open or something. It has been quite hot lately, after all.
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