the fyrehaus

• Peaches Geldof is annoyed she was sat next to The Enemy at the NME awards last night. [DS]
• Owen Gibson at the Guardian wonders if NME will be successful at making money off the awards. (This is the first time they’ve paired the awards with a gig punters could get into.) [Guardian]
• Loads of random gossip, my favorites being: Alex Kapranos giving his number to Glasvegas’ James Allen, and Kate Nash and Billy Bragg crashing Vampire Weekend’s table to sing along to the Cribs. [NME]
• Yet more random gossip: Pete Doherty was bleeding from a cat scratch, and Alexa Chung got food poisoning, but her Arctic Monkey boyfriend Alex Turner held her hair back in the loo. [Guardian]
• And Vampire Weekend got in a car crash. Drummer Chris Thompson is awake and will probably be released from the hospital this afternoon. [NME]
• To round out the NME awards detrius: pictures! [DS]
• A Heroes soundtrack will be released next month. It will include: Bob Dylan’s ‘Man in the Long Black Coat’, David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’, Wilco’s ‘Glad It’s Over’, Panic at the Disco’s ‘Nine in the Afternoon’, ‘Not Now But Soon’ by Imogen Heap, and ‘He’s Frank’ by Brighton Port Authority featuring Iggy Pop. [DS]
• Did you know Ja Rule was born on February 29th? So was Antonio Sabato Jr! [DS]

Highlights from the NME blog:

During ‘I Predict A Riot’, Wilson tried to dive into the crowd, but security guards thwarted him and sent him back to the stage.

Anthony Rossomando, Dirty Pretty Things: “We’ll be out here for a while caning it on the cigarettes. I’m sure they’re gonna be Nazis about it inside!

Kate Nash on the Cribs: “The singer’s quite fit I guess,” she laughed. “And the drummer and the bassist too, I guess! They’re the best.”

Alex Kapranos, Franz Ferdinand: “We just got a lift with Anton Corbijn in a golf cart which was quite weird. They abandoned us at the side of the road because they thought there was a fire and then we got picked up by the golf cart. I’m excited to see Gallows tonight. I was out with The Cribs last night, it was a beer, wine and whiskey night. I’m feeling it a bit today.”

Apparently the Cribs are every musician’s favorite band. Ricky Wilson even asked the audience why they didn’t vote for them. (I left out the less witty comments.)  Also, I think there’s a party at Anthony Rossamando’s place.

Anyway. Awards. Blah blah blah Arctic Monkeys for pretty much everything, yay Muse for best live act, Glasvegas for Phillip Hall Radar award which is the official tipping award, I guess. And no Cribs. Pfft. Full list, including who lost, here.

Last summer’s Wembley Stadium gigs will be shown on the big screen in the UK:

Coinciding with the band’s DVD release of the concerts, the film will be shown at selected Vue cinemas on March 11.

The concerts will be broadcast in high definition and 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound.

Muse performed at the stadium on June 16 and 17, and their set featured gymnasts suspended above the stage and a stage set based around satellite dishes.

Details are out for All Points West (NYC’s sole festival), and they are stupid. The days are broken up weird, and it’s $90 A DAY (well, $89 a day or $258 for the weekend).

Friday, 8/8: Radiohead, Underworld, The New Pornographers, Spearhead, The Go! Team, Girl Talk, CSS, Forro in the Dark, Juana Molina, Little Brother, Andrew Bird, Mates of State, Duffy

Saturday, 8/9: Radiohead, Kings of Leon, Animal Collective, Chromeo, The Roots, The Black Angels, The Virgins, The Felice Brothers, Alberta Cross, Sia, K’Naan, Nicole Atkins, Your Vegas

Sunday, 8/10: Jack Johnson, Cat Power, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Amadou and Mariam, Youssou N’Dour,, Secret Machines, Black Kids, Jason Isbell, De Novo Dahl, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Earl Greyhound, Rogue Wave, Neil Halstead

Even if all the bands I liked were on one day, I don’t think I could talk myself into $90. I am just not that into Radiohead anymore. (Thanks to Oh My Rockness for the info!)

• Coral, Supergrass to headline Summer Sundae Weekender, August 8-10 in Leicester along with Simian Mobile Disco, Lightspeed Champion, and Whitest Boy Alive. [DS]
• The Streets, Supergrass, Groove Armada, and Young Knives will be at the Wakestock Festival in North Wales and Oxfordshire. [NME]
• If you go get this week’s NME, you can get a cd of wacky covers including Kate Nash doing The Cribs’ “Men’s Needs”, Manic Street Preachers doing “Umbrella”, Does It Offend You Yeah doing “Whip It!”, and My Chemical Romance doing “Song 2″. And send me a copy. [NME]
• REM’s gig at the Royal Albert Hall will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2. [NME]

As reported by Brooklyn Vegan and Punknews.org, the Futureheads have started their own label to release their own music, including their new single “The Beginning of the Twist,” due out on March 10th. This Is Not the World, the band’s forthcoming third LP, will also be released on the label, dubbed as Nul Recordings. This comes after publicized problems between the band and their past label, Warner Brothers, and a canceled US tour that was blamed on an injury but rumored to do with these label woes. They have just started a UK tour.

This is all well and good, but what I really want to talk about is Barry Hyde’s outfit and accessories in that above photo. Am I crazy, or is the bow tie kinda hot? And the trumpet! There is some weird Marcel Marceau stuff going on over here and I’m into it.

• Blur drummer Dave Rowntree to stand for election to Parliament for Labour, for the Cities of London and Westminster seat. [DS]
• Prince needs hip replacement surgery. [DS]
• The Prodigy, Panic at the Disco, and Stereophonics have all been added to the Oxegen festival this summer, July 11-13 in County Kildare. [NME]
• Winehouse to get her own lines of fashion and makeup. Hell, I’d buy her eyeliner, that stuff lasts for DAYS. [NME]
• Spiritualized and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. lined up for Dot to Dot Festival in Nottingham, May 24 - 25. The 1990s and Caribou are the only other bands on that list I recognize, and I will refrain from making a crass, American joke about Robin Hood. [NME]
• The Von Bondies have completed their 3rd album, ‘Love Hate and then There’s You’ set for summer release. They also completed a 4-track EP entitled ‘We Are Kamikazes Aimed Straight For Your Heart’ which is available from their MySpace now. [NME]

Remember how we were talking about Vineland, that festival that was a partnership between the people behind Glastonbury and the guys over at Austin City Limits and scheduled to take place in Jersey? That got cancelled. Because the guys behind Coachella announced a New Jersey festival for that same weekend.Let me just point out that this is ridiculous. The Northeast has no festivals, and then we have two, but they’re on the same weekend. Boys, boys, boys. We can all play together.Anyway, the lineup is out for All Points West, scheduled to take place August 8-10 at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. The lineup includes Radiohead’s only NYC date, and also Jack Johnson. (Jack Johnson?) This could be one really awesome day if they streamline it right.  Metric, CSS, Rogue Wave, Girl Talk, Chromeo, Secret Machines, New Pornographers, Radiohead. That’s a decent day. So there’s no way it will turn out like that. I will definitely be forced to sit through Animal Collective, and probably also Michael Franti & Spearhead.

This post is mostly to note that Goldfrapp’s new album is supposed to be folky. Alison says so herself. She also says that if we don’t like it, we can fuck off. She’s a spitfire. But seriously, I am not up for folk. I am up for more awesome euro-tronica. (I just made that word up, but it describes Goldfrapp pretty well.)

Also, while I’ve got you on the horn, the lineup for T in the Park is insane. If you are really rich or own an airline and would like to sponsor the crack Fyrehaus team to cover it, let me know.

And I promise I will update the calendar. Today? Tomorrow? Quick as I can, love.

The head of popular music at the BBC (Lesley Douglas) has decided to be an idiot and say that men are more intellectual about music and women more emotional.

Addressing the issue of making 6 Music more accessible to women in an interview with Radio 4’s Feedback programme, Douglas said: “It’s partly how you talk about music. For women, there tends to be more emotional reaction to music. Men tend to be more interested in the intellectual side of the music, the tracks, where albums have been made, that sort of thing.”
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It seems undeniable that many women have been subjected to long and serious discussions between male friends concerning the merits of one amp or another on some obscure Doors recording only to be left questioning their own instinctive, emotional reactions to favoured pieces of music: reactions which often involve shouting declarations of love and heading for the dancefloor.

Perhaps the geeky qualities that music can evoke in gentlemen across the globe - the need to hoard a copy of every Haitink recording of the Bruckner symphonies or to outwit an opponent with a little-known fact about the Clash’s first drummer - is simply a reminder of man’s prehistoric beginnings. “The detailed facts that [men] can use in conversation with other collectors [is] a medium of exchange,” Cornell University ethnomusicologist Marc A. Perlman told the New York Times. “This is really a way of creating an identity for oneself”.

I think they’re is that there are obsessive jackasses in the world and they’d like to have more casual listeners, since obsessive jackasses tend to be a small listener base. Also, neither men nor women have a monopoly on jackassery. I’m sick of being told that intellectuallism is male and emotion is female, because it’s just easy and reductive, and contributes to a cycle of stereotyping that’s wholly false and unnecessary.