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.

The BBC Sound of 2008 poll is out, and the top ten is:

1. Adele
2. Duffy
3. The Ting Tings
4. Glasvegas
5. Foals
6. Vampire Weekend
7. Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
8. Black Kids
9. MGMT
10. Santogold

You can check out the bands at the BBC site, and the other links are the “I told you so’s” from the Fyrehaus. (Of course, I’m guessing the Guardian critics probably voted in the BBC poll, ya?)

And the Guardian both reports, and blogs about the list.

Alan McGee tells you what bands he thinks will hit in 2008. I’m interested in Glasvegas, which look to be a wee bit too arty, but I think I might love them anyway.