This World Cup tends to really eat into your day, doesn't it?

Anyway, I noticed that rumours about the White Stripes relationship (brother/sister or ex-husband and wife?) have been in the news again. For those of you who haven't seen it yet, here is a copy of their 'alleged' marriage certificate. There are claims that it is genuine.

Sorry, I am rubbish, but the relentless march of new content has been halted because I've got flu. Also, I had to completely rearrange the archives as they all vanished from the blogger site. The last three months can be found at the bottom of the left-hand column, the rest of them have gone forever. By the way, that column seems to have narrowed itself in the process...

Old farts at play in London during June => Damo Suzuki, New Order, Brian Wilson, David Bowie, Television, Sonic Youth, Arthur Lee and Love....
Apart from Bowie (which is well sold-out) I'll probably go to most of these. Mainly due to the rave reports from everyone I know who saw Brian Wilson in January, I am still looking forward to his show, although at his brief appearance at the Jubilee nonsense yesterday he looked kind of spooked. I suppose after years of mental illness and inactivity I guess it's amazing he's even doing these shows again.

I'm off to an Irish- Australian wedding in Donegal tomorrow, back to "normal" on Saturday. My flight lands at 12.30 which is the exact kick-off of the Ireland-Germany match, which is mildly frustrating to say the least!

A few new releases to look out for -
Piano Magic - Writers Without Homes Debut full length for 4AD at last. Also playing the Spitz in Spitalfields tomorrow (5th)
Olympic Lifts - Horizontically Vertical 12" and Cd single out at last in UK, album follows on July 8, big launch in London July 6th.
Dj Shadow - The Private Press Mixed reviews so far but I like it! Long awaited follow-up to the classic 'Endtroducing'.