Today's headlines...
U2's Bono awarded British knighthood (AP)
The Money Shot: "You have permission to call me anything you want — except sir, all right? Lord of lords, your demigodness, that'll do," he told reporters afterward. Because he is an Irish citizen, Bono won't have the title of "sir" before his name. That honor is reserved for citizens of the United Kingdom or British Commonwealth countries. Ireland left the Commonwealth when it became a republic in 1949.
Oasis in new indie war of words (Metro.co.uk)
MS: Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke hit back after Liam Gallagher dismissed them as "a band off University Challenge".
Okereke told Uncut magazine: "I think Oasis are the most over-rated and pernicious band of all time. They had a totally negative and dangerous impact upon the state of British music. They have made stupidity hip. They claim to be inspired by the Beatles but, and this so saddens me, they have failed to grasp that the Beatles were about constant change and evolution. Oasis are repetitive Luddites."
Radiohead Deny Starbucks Deal (Yahoo! Music)
MS: "Radiohead are currently in the studio working on their next record. They are not negotiating a new record deal with anyone, and will not even consider how to release their new music until the album is finished. The rumor that they are about to sign with Starbucks is totally untrue."
Snow Patrol, Flaming Lips Ensnared For 'Spider-Man 3' (Billboard)
MS: "Peter Parker never seems to get over his introverted lack of confidence, at least in the classic comic books I remember," Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne told Billboard.com today (March 29) in the midst of a tornado warning in his Oklahoma City hometown. "I was looking for some excuse to write a fight song, and then this came up. It has the chiming of the bell when they go into the ring. It's silly, but with the right storyline, it can be a lot of fun."
The 50 greatest film soundtracks (Guardian Unlimited)
MS: 12. Trainspotting (Compiler: Danny Boyle, 1996) Danny Boyle's energetic screen rendering of Irvine Welsh's novel was the Clockwork Orange of the Nineties - a movie which redefined the face of modern British cinema, leaving an indelible impression upon contemporary youth culture. Essential to the film's success was an audaciously scattershot jukebox soundtrack which perfectly embodied the film's anarchic charms. Listening to the CD is like watching the entire movie in your head, from Iggy Pop's frenetic 'Lust For Life' (the opening high-street chase sequence), through the ironic melancholy of Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' (Renton's heroin overdose), to the blood-pumping climax of Underworld's chanting heartbeat 'Born Slippy' (our anti-hero's gleeful escape).
The Gossip's Beth Ditto Speaks Out (The Independent)
MS: "I've been loud and obnoxious my whole life and never really understood why I'd get into so much trouble for talking when the whole room was doing it. When grunge came along, I wanted to sing like Tori Amos, then Mama Cass. Later, when I listened to Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill and Hole, I realised my voice didn't have to sound beautiful."
Partying This Hard Is A Full-Time Job And The Black Lips Just Got A Promotion (Eye Weekly)
MS: Every band needs a story, and playing 13 gigs in four days during the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas is the kind of outsized stunt that great biographies are made of. It has the hallmarks of rock legend: after years of toiling in obscurity, scrappy garage punk underdogs play every show they can and finally seize the attention of the music business, one crowd of nerdy rock critics and fauxhawked A&R reps at a time. But every journalist always wants something juicier to write about, and when The New York Times labelled them “the hardest-working band at SXSW,” the rest of the media picked up on what these Atlanta natives The Black Lips were known as beforehand: the hardest-partying gang of drunken fools ever to hit, and piss all over, the stage. They haven't quite lived it down yet.
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