the fyrehaus

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.

• 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]

The Jarmans, wary of getting to comfortable as a three-piece band, have announced that Johnny Marr (The Smiths) is joining them to record some new material.

Marr, who has also played with US indie rockers Modest Mouse, met bassist Gary Jarman at a barbecue in the USA.

Gary told NME: “I was a bit defensive at first - I was like, ‘Who’s this other English guy at the barbecue?’

“He came up and started talking to me and then the penny dropped about who he actually was. We became mates, then one day we went out for afternoon tea. We drank a few pots of this white tea he’s really into, and decided to work together.”

They’ve already started writing songs together, recording could be released some time this year.

I don’t know what’s cuter, feeling threatened by another Brit at a barbecue, or them sitting around drinking white tea.