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Archive for September, 2008

Celebrity, Music news

Kate Moss wants to quit modelling and become a singer

According to The Sun, Kate Moss wants to quit the catwalk and become a musician. “She first took to the stage with ex-boyfriend Pete Doherty’s band, Babyshambles, and performed on their album, ‘Down In Albion’…A source close to Kate confirmed: “She has told everyone she won’t carry on modeling after she turns 35. Songwriting and being a singer will slowly take over.”As the Guardian explained in 2006, Moss first flexed her music muscles on a track with Primal Scream, “in which she assumed the Nancy Sinatra/Lydia Lunch role on Some Velvet Morning.” Next she appeared in pop promos for Johnny Cash and then The White Stripes, which found her doing some pole dancing (Moss is multi-talented, remember?). “Can Kate Moss sing? Well, on the Primal Scream track she sounds a bit like Rachel Stevens or, to put a slightly finer point on it, like a session singer pondering what she might have for dinner.” Maybe that is why female Kills member, Alison Mosshart, refused to let Kate Moss come on stage to join her bandmate, Kills guitarist Jamie Hince, when he was dating the supermodel.

Jamie Hince and Kate Moss to reunite

Kate Moss makes tampax art

Kate Moss gets annihilated at London Fashion week

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7:09pm on September 30th, 2008
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Film about Lou Reed’s ‘Berlin’ coming out

Lou Reed’s 1973 album, Berlin, is said to be one of the most depressing albums ever made and was a commercial flop. In 2006, Reed, played the album live for five nights in St. Anne’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, which Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) filmed and then turned into a film. Featuring performances from “Fernando Saunders, Antony, Steve Hunter, Rob Wassermann, Rupert Christie and Sharon Jones, a seven piece orchestra and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus”, the film works “to create a captivating and enveloping world” says the film website’s spiel. “Lou Reed is able to take the audience with him as he bares witness to Caroline’s self-destruction. Julian’s set design create the backdrop of a hotel with greenish walls and with Lola Schnabel’s films displaying the beauty and tragedy of the narrator’s leading lady (played by Emmanuelle Seigner) the experience is devastating and beautiful.” A review in the Los Angeles Times says “the film shows Reed at his liveliest in the record’s poppier first half and at his most soulful in the bleak second half, as he describes in his inimitable voice how the decadent pleasures of the night lead to the desperate repercussions of the morning.”

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6:12pm on September 30th, 2008
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Lenny Kravitz gets tongued by Naomi Campbell

Or something like that. Naomi Campbell managed to extract herself from her usual community service sentence to come and dry hump Lenny Kravitz’s velvet leg. This picture from the Les Photographes Pour Patrick Dermachelier Party in Paris, France. Does he look like a Scottie dog about to start dribbling? At any rate, Kravitz can’t get enough of the high-maintenance divas. He’s also making an appearance in a film with Mariah Carey playing a Harlem social worker. The brilliant irony.

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5:54pm on September 30th, 2008
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Jack White and Alicia Keys duet for new Bond film

If Alicia Keys has only watched two Bond films in her life, Goldfinger and Casino Royale, what are the chances she even knows who Jack White is? Anyway, this unlikely pairing have recorded the next James Bond theme together, “Another Way to Die“, which at least saves us all from enduring Leona Lewis, or a lobotomised Amy Winehouse, both of whom nearly got the job. Said The Vancouver Sun recently: “We still have yet to hear what the sum of Jack White, Alicia Keys and James Bond will sound like, but thanks to the power of product tie-ins, the world has its first hint of the next Bond theme…Coca Cola is using a snippet of the theme in a new ad for Coke Zero.” Verdict: It’s not Shirley Bassey. It’s not even Sheena Easton.

Alicia Keys sexes herself up

Britney Spears sex tape

Tennesse Thomas versus Daisy Lowe

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WolfyJones

5:34pm on September 30th, 2008
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Recommended music

Musictoob recommends: Spaceman - The Killers

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4:26pm on September 30th, 2008
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Musictoob recommends: Kids - MGMT

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Looks like fun. Songs like this make it all worthwhile.

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4:22pm on September 30th, 2008
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Music news

More Oasis tour dates; Beyonce’s wig; DJ Am out of hospital, Janet Jackson in hopsital

Noel Gallagher / Photo by Alex Crick

Oasis announce extra live dates

Slash to release solo album

Ray Davies dissed by radio DJ

Burns victim DJ AM attends friends’ funeral

Janet Jackson rushed to hospital

Beyonce’s wigs are worth half a million pounds sterling

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pembo1

2:24pm on September 30th, 2008
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Celebrity

Paris Hilton dresses as a fairy for new perfume ad

Saucy ... Paris Hilton

The ad in question is for the Fairy Dust perfume. I’ve never heard of it either.

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2:08pm on September 30th, 2008
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Musictoob recommends: Electric Feel - MGMT

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1:46pm on September 30th, 2008
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Celebrity

Britney sex tape photos in full; first interview since breakdown

Are these pictures from the Britney Sex tape made by ex boyfriend Adnan Ghalib? The paparazzi is offering the tape to the highest bidder. As he told Heat magazine: “There is such a tape, but I won’t discuss prices for hypothetical enquiries. Unless there is a locked-in deal, I will go no further.” These pictures come from 97.9 KISSFM in Jacksonville, FL who say: “we can not confirm nor deny that these are Britney, but about six months ago, someone leaked these pictures, stating they were from Adnan, after a trip to Mexico. If you remember back then, she did have dark hair.” Musictoob says: As ever, you are the judge (and jury).

In other news: in her first interview since her breakdown, Britney Spears has revealed she plans to tour in support of new single, the aptly titled Womaniser.She told New York radio station Z100: “I like the fact that it’s so empowering for girls because it’s basically saying, ya know, we know what you’re up to.”It’s about guys cheating on other girls and stuff like that. And it’s kinda like a girl anthem, so that’s why I like it.” More nasty pictures after the jump.

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pembo1

1:13pm on September 30th, 2008
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8:08am on September 30th, 2008
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Free Death Cab for Cutie concert

MySpace is hosting a nationwide competition called the Ultimate College Bowl .The purpose of which is to find out which university can register the most voters. The prize is a campus concert from band, Death Cab for Cutie. Follow which colleges are in the lead on MySpace. Currently, SUNY at Albany is in the lead with 793 registered voters.

Who the hell does Molly Miller Mundy think she is?

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8:01am on September 30th, 2008
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Jamie Hince and Kate Moss to reunite

Reportedly, Kill’s guitarist, Jamie Hince, can’t live live without La Moss clutching at his arm. He called up to speak to Moss and daughter, Lila Grace, who was celebrating her 6th birthday at the weekend. Sources cite the reason for their split was down to Moss’s desire to have babies. Last week, it was claimed Jamie was planning to agree to have a baby with Kate to win her back. A source close to the 39-year-old musician said: “They split over her desire to start trying for a baby. Jamie told her he didn’t want to commit to that while things were going so well with his band and he was away on tour so much. But she argued that could remain the case for years and she didn’t want to wait that long. “He is ready to back down over the baby issue to save his relationship. He’s sure they can get things back on track.” What a great idea. Everyone knows that having a baby saves a rocky relationship.

Kate Moss makes tampax art

Kate Moss gets annihilated at London Fashion week

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7:54am on September 30th, 2008
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Celebrity

Who the hell does Molly Miller Mundy think she is?

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The “other woman” identified as Mick Jagger’s alliterative, youthful squeeze is, according to the Daily Telegraph “‘great fun, personable and chatty,’ says a friend of Molly, who is one of Prince Harry’s Gloucestershire set. She’s popular with the opposite sex and particularly with older men because she’s very confident.’ Molly, who bears a striking resemblance to Sophie Dahl, with whom Sir Mick had an affair when she was a voluptuous 24-year-old model, works for Nicky Haslam, the interior designer. She reportedly worked on a property in the same street in Chelsea where Sir Mick owns a house. ” Molly lives in more modest premises in Fulham.

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pembo1

7:29pm on September 29th, 2008
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Celebrity

Singer, Duffy, “on verge of nervous breakdown”

Duffy, who looks like she lives inside an episode of “Heartbeat”, owns 12 kittens, and writes on patterned stationery, has said she is on the verge of a freak-out. The Sun reports: “Stunning Duffy, 24, who shot to fame with No1 hit Mercy, confessed: “I thought I was superhuman. But there are pressures about being in the public eye. I’m borderline on a nervous breakdown. I’m never calm any more. I think: ‘Can I handle this? Do I want to disappear?’”Picture below showing her looking like the Welsh cute version of Rumpelstiltskin.

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WolfyJones

6:10pm on September 29th, 2008
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Music news

Anastacia strips off

The singer, Anastacia, strips off for her new single. She recently came clean about her age: as in, she is 40, not 34, so there. She told the Guardian recently, “I didn’t know my success was going to be so big and that I would become ‘the subtractor’, always subtracting six years. In the last few years I started saying, ‘I’m in my 30s’, which I thought was a good cop-out.” If I look this good naked at the age of 40, I’m going to be stripping off too, although note the Botox spam she is rocking.

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5:46pm on September 29th, 2008
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Celebrity

Ekaterina, 20, wants to marry Rolling Stone Ronnie, 108

According to reports, Ronnie Wood’s Russian teen-girlfriend has said she hopes his wife Jo divorces him, so that they can marry. A pal of cocktail waitress Ekaterina said: “She wants to marry him. They’re besotted.” God it must be love. Yeah. It’s definitely got nothing to do with the fact that you are a waitress and he is a millionaire.

Mick Jagger won’t be outshone by Ronnie Wood: report links big lips to 23 year-old woman

Love rat Ronnie Wood faces £50 million divorce payout as he continues to embarrass himself with Russian waitress

Ronnie Wood’s girlfriend, Ekaterina Ivanova, is in a bikini

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WolfyJones

5:40pm on September 29th, 2008
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Celebrity

Britney Spears sex tape

Britney clearly has no idea what’s going on. It’s like watching the film where child and adult swap bodies. Britney got inhabited by an entire kindergarten class. Britney’s revolting ex and tabloid pap, Adnan Ghalib, smelt the dollars when he started a relationship with pop’s-most-troubled, and is now trying to cash in by selling off a sex tape allegedly featuring the star. The two-hour long video is rumoured to show Spears with nothing more than a pink wig on. Ghalib, “the lucky lensman”, says Radar, “whose fortuitous proximity to Spears during her highly public mental breakdown allowed him to take full advantage of the damaged diva’s total unmooring” is now looking to make money from his time with Spears. He says: “There is such a tape, but I won’t discuss prices for hypothetical enquiries. Unless there is a locked-in deal, I will go no further.” What a guy. Her new single, Womanizer, is released today.

Britney’s mother dishes the dirt on her own kids

Who is Tennessee Thomas?

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WolfyJones

5:22pm on September 29th, 2008
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Celebrity

Lily Allen wears huge heels but doesn’t flash boobs today

Fluorescent day wear and flashing your nipples is pretty much banned from the fashionable French capital, so Lily Allen obeys Parisian rules by going all demure and sophisticate on us. Except for the huge slut heels of course. The £415, 4in, black Yves St Laurent shoes belong in a porn film. The Mail reports that “looking groomed and chic, Lily made stops at Chanel, Prada and Goyard” and then informs us that Lily “has worn a variety of fascinating footwear this month.” Thank god for serious journalism.

Lily Allen insults Bono

Lily Allen won’t say ‘no’ to drugs and thinks her music is bad

Lily Allen bitch slaps girl in street. Dignity flees

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WolfyJones

4:25pm on September 29th, 2008
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3:07pm on September 29th, 2008
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Music news

Latest news on Guns N’ Roses decade-old-new-album, Chinese Democracy

Closure for the long-awaited Guns N’ Roses album?

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2:23pm on September 29th, 2008
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Celebrity

Tennessee Thomas versus Daisy Lowe

Mark Ronson loves his kooky, hot Brit chicks yo. So, if you pit new squeeze, 23 year-old Tennessee Thomas, against, recent-ex, 19 year-old Daisy Lowe, what do you get? Both women grew up in London, but with nearly five years of age difference between them weren’t likely to bump into each other at school. Thomas lived in Richmond before moving to LA when she was 14, while Lowe is a Primrose Hill darling. Lowe now lives in New York, while Thomas is based in Los Angeles. Both have a drummer father/stepfather: Tennessee’s is Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello and the Attractions) and Daisy’s is Danny Goffey (Supergrass). Lowe is a model who created a lot of press attention during London and New York Fashion weeks by wearing almost nothing on the catwalk. She has recorded with Ronson at his New York studio and appeared in a music video, NYC, by Armand Van Helden. Thomas is a drummer in Californian indie-rock band, The Like and appears in her own music videos. For more news on the Ronson-loves-English-girls sagas, watch this space.

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Britney Spears sex tape pictures!

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WolfyJones

11:08am on September 29th, 2008
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Recommended music

Musictoob recommends: All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem

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Old one but a good one.

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pembo1

11:00am on September 29th, 2008
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10:53am on September 29th, 2008
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Celebrity

Mick Jagger won’t be outshone by Ronnie Wood: reports link big lips to 23-year-old woman


What is it with these Rolling Stones and their constant need for young and nubile flesh? Grandad, Mick Jagger, detemined to show Ronnie Wood a thing or two, is reported to be “getting close” to the Sloaney 23 year-old Molly Miller Mundy, a daughter of one of Mick’s aristocratic friends. “I’m thrilled it’s not Paul McCartney,” says her father, record producer Mark Miller Mundy. Yeah. Thanks for being so discerning dad. Pensioner-lover, Molly, works for an interior design company based in Fulham, West London.

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WolfyJones

9:41am on September 29th, 2008
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Celebrity

Happy 36th Birthday Dita Von Teese

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9:40am on September 29th, 2008
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Travis Barker recovers; Morrissey and Marr collaborate again; Oasis loves Blur

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Morrissey and Marr’s new collaboration

Bob Dylan previews new album online

Oasis loves Blur’s Beetleebum

50 Autumn albums previewed

Travis Barker is leaving hospital

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8:29am on September 29th, 2008
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Celebrity, Music news

Wannabee singer Ashley Dupre’s first days as a hooker revealed

High-end hooker, Natalie McLennan, having recently served time for prostitution-related charges has managed to unearth from her memory “some sexy new stories to tell about Ashley Dupre, famed hooker to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer and a former working girl alongside McLennan” in a new book, says Gawker. These stories involve cocaine and the rapper, Nas. Dupre’s music career hasn’t taken off, since the spring scandal, which is unsurprising. Her myspace page has hits in the millions, but she remains unsigned six months later. Thank goodness.

Eliot Spitzer prostitute inks deal with Mariah Carey’s manager

Who is Tennessee Thomas?

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WolfyJones

5:58pm on September 28th, 2008
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Love rat Ronnie Wood faces £50 million divorce-payout as he continues to embarrass himself with Russian waitress

Getting your oats away with a girl barely out of her teens at the age of 61 is sadness personified. It’s like when you see those crumple-trousered men, with nicotine stained hair, stumble into the betting shop at 11 in the morning. Or the pee-stench of the old guy on the bus who tries to strike up a conversation with anyone or thing: man, child or window. That is where Ronnie Wood is heading. His wife, Jo Wood, has now called in her lawyers as his relationship continues with the Russian 20-year-old, Ekaterina Ivanova. Homewrecker, Wood, 61, was photographed enjoying a romantic meal with his too-young girlfriend at the London restaurant Locanda Locatelli. The Mail says “humiliated Jo has taken legal advice about the break-down of her 23-year marriage and is understood to have been told she is in a ‘terrifically strong position’. Apart from taking half of Wood’s £75 million fortune in the split, Jo, 53, is also believed to be angling for a portion of the Rolling Stones guitarist’s future earnings since she has consistently saved his career from disappearing into a haze of drink and drugs.” Jo Wood has been out partying with Jerry Hall recently, so maybe she’s getting some good tips on dealing with loser rock star husbands who can’t keep their brains in their pants.

Ronnie Wood’s girlfriend looks like a toddler - and not in a good way

Ronnie Wood’s affair with Russian waitress “vodka-based” which makes it okay

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WolfyJones

5:15pm on September 28th, 2008
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Music industry, Music news

Metallica fans think new album too noisy

Metallica fans are signing an online petition for the band to re-mix and then re-release their latest album, ‘Death Magnetic’ as it has been slammed for being too loud. “Sonically it is barely listenable,” say The Wall Street Journal. According to this report, “Metallica and the album’s producer, Rick Rubin, declined to comment. Cliff Burnstein, Metallica’s co-manager, says the complainers are a tiny minority. He says 98% of listeners are “overwhelmingly positive,” adding: “There’s something exciting about the sound of this record that people are responding to.” However, the man who mastered the album, Ted Jenson emailed one complaining fan to say: “Believe me, I’m not proud to be associated with this one.” All this griping serves to do is reinforce the fact that metal heads are all slipper-wearing Coronation Street (or the equivalent) watchers.

Who is Tennessee Thomas?

Carla Bruni meets Metallica. James Hetfield acts like an ass. You can’t take that juvenile dude anywhere.

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WolfyJones

3:56pm on September 28th, 2008
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Music media, Music news

The least sexy lyrics ever written

Towards the end of the leaked Diddy come-back track, Swagger Like Puff’, this week, the Guardian notes the cringesome lyric, “Suck it ’til your hymen pops” and ponders some of the least sexy lyrics of all time. Possibly the winner of this onerous award would go to Oscar-winning rappers Three 6 Mafia who provide this tasty morsel: “Slob on my nob like corn on the corn…Juicy is my name, sex is my game.” However readers of the piece generously add their own suggestions on the subject: Kunt & The Gang’s tender ballad: “Use my ars*hole as a c*nt”, for example. Bootsy Collins (from I’d Rather Be With You): “I’m gonna stick my love in your eye, baby. You can see me coming baby, just coming all over you” or as one reader describes it, Ronan Keating’s, “ballad to date rape: you say it best, when you say nothing at all.”

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11:29am on September 28th, 2008
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Fatboy Slim good DJ, rubbish restaurateur

English seaside resorts used to be all about simple pleasures, like fish ‘n’ chips in a cone, or arcade games. Not since Fatboy Slim A.K.A DJ Norman Cook hosted his first party, Big Beach Boutique, on Brighton’s seafront in 2001. It all went swimmingly, until the second event the following year. Around 250,000 descended on the modest-sized town and all hell broke loose. A couple of deaths and some tabloid lynching later, Cook and family legged it away to France, on the advice of his next door neighbour (Sir Paul McCartney). The third Big Beach Boutique was sent off to places like Romania to contemplate the error of its ways. Yesterday, 20,000 people, attended a carefully controlled Big Beach Boutique IV and no-one fell off a balcony or had too much bad MDMA. Er. Probably. Well, hopefully last night’s success is overriding the outrageously bad review in Observer magazine that Norman Cook received today for his Japanese Brighton-based restaurant, Oki-Nami. This begs the question, why won’t celebrities just stick at what they’re good at? “Brighton’s Oki-Nami is a disaster - Dodd runs a really lousy Japanese kitchen. As in, serving some of the worst Japanese food it has ever been my misfortune to eat - or not, because we didn’t finish everything - If I wanted to eat frigid, slippery, fishy stuff I’d raid my cat’s lunch.”

Fatboy Slim to help his own wife at the airport

Who is Tennessee Thomas?

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11:02am on September 28th, 2008
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6:15pm on September 27th, 2008
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Iggy Pop in Crocs: has the world gone mad?

Iggy Pop pictured in Cannes prior to his show at Palais des Festivals tonight. In Crocs. What more is there to say? Iggy earned his right to these bad boys. It just proves it is possible to be sound of foot and wild of mind. The lopsided wedge effect is due to leg-length issues. Iggy told Rolling Stone last year, “I have one leg about an inch and a half shorter than the other. When I was thirteen, I was run over by a big guy playing junior high football, and the right leg ended up a quarter-inch shorter. By my midtwenties, it was a half-inch.”

Who is Tennessee Thomas?

Gays hate black music

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WolfyJones

5:54pm on September 27th, 2008
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Kids rock: under-age over-achievers

Check out this hilarious compilation of the top ten rockers under the age of 10

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5:20pm on September 27th, 2008
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Who is Tennessee Thomas?

Tennessee Thomas, 23, is Mark Ronson’s new squeeze, following his recent detangling from gorgeous stripping teen queen, Daisy Lowe. She is the daughter of Elvis Costello’s long time drummer, the Sheffield-born Pete Thomas. “My father is a musician, so I’ve been going to shows since I was a baby. I can’t remember the first concert that was something I chose to go to. It seems like I’ve just always been doing it,” Tennessee said in an interview. Tennessee has Californian pedigree, graduating from Marymount High School in Beverley Hills in 2002 and is a drummer with Los Angeles band, The Like. A bio on the band’s blog says this: “Tennessee Thomas hits the hep-cat groove with a lazy shuffle not heard since Tony Sheridan’s beat combo years, maybe she was born nostalgic but she has an Alice in Wonderland quality mixed with a Southern Californian laid back confidence, combined with a razor sharp understated black humor characterizing her performance with a unique signature.” Is that the longest sentence in the world, I wonder? She has also dated Rooney guitar player, Taylor Rocke, who was Mischa Barton’s arm candy for a while earlier this year.

 

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4:37pm on September 27th, 2008
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Gays hate black music

Or so say Radar magazine, who recently ran a piece pondering why gays hate black music, following a list of the 100 greatest, gayest albums of all time was published in ‘Out’. Headlining at number one, was David Bowie’s, ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars’. Other selections included no less than four albums by The Smiths, a handful of riot grrrl bands, a bit of Tracey Chapman, and then some George Michael. The Radar feature sparked a storm of outraged commentary from readers who understood the writer, Choire Sicha, to be equating ‘black music’ with hip hop. “The gays are afraid of urban-ness, and the gay culture is dominated by the white gays. And that is boring and a problem” said Sicha. “I mean, I’m not looking for Eazy-E on this list, or in the gay clubs. But it’s true that the majority of gays only now socially listen to the new disco, which is light pop soul: the Beyonce, whatever, and as black as it gets is Mariah.” Says one commenter, “Somehow I just don’t connect with music that talks about bitches and hoes and makes all sorts of allusions to wet pussy.” But the person who made the most sense was this one: “I would actually say that gays hate WHITE music. After all, there wasn’t a country album on that list was there? Just because someone’s white, doesn’t mean their music is.”

Jay Z is a massive diva

Hip hop is gay

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2:37pm on September 27th, 2008
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Kylie Minogue to pen West End musical with ‘Mad Cow’, Kathy Lette

Kylie Minogue is to pen a musical based on her hits with collaborator, Kathy Lette, the Australian novelist, bestselling author of  books like, ‘Mad Cows’ and ‘Foetal Attraction’. Lette was described recently in the Telegraph as “doyenne of the chick-lit novel and groansome wordplay…an easy-to-digest Germaine Greer in a tight designer dress”. Combine her with  the frothy Ms. Minogue and it all makes for a slightly strange collision: like Janet Street-Porter and Girls Aloud doing The Vagina Monologues for the Christmas play at school. As if the twinned might of the two London-dwelling Australians wasn’t enough, Danni Minogue has also been roped in. Apparently, there are a distinct lack of sad songs for the weepy moments, so Kylie might have to go and make some songs that don’t revolve aorund her ability to shake her sculpted bottom to a beat. Lette said: “We’ll weave all her hits together into a great storyline. Kylie never does anything naff. She’s got a finely tuned c**p antenna and we don’t suffer from an irony deficiency.” Kylie never does anything naff? Did I miss something?

Kylie Minogue: I am cold, heartless and alone

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WolfyJones

11:37am on September 27th, 2008
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