Holy moly

Yes, yes, the Libs (minus John, who was apparently busy with, um, Yeti) reuniting for a gig is very, very, very exciting.

BUT PADDY PLAYED WITH ZEE SHAMBLES AGAIN!!!! PATRICK MOTHERFUCKING WALDEN!!!! PLAYING 'PIPEDOWN!!!!!'

TO THE YOUTUBE!

Babyshambles played a set before the reunion, taking the stage at 2:15am (BST) to play seven songs: 'I Wish', 'Killamangiro', 'Delivery', 'UnStookietitled', 'Back From The Dead', 'Baddie’s Boogie' and 'Albion'.

Then to the sound of screams and cheers from the crowd Barat took to the stage and strapped on a guitar, while Powell set up behind the drum kit. Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell remained on stage to complete the four-piece.

The four-some launched into a frenetic version of early Libertines hit 'What A Waster', with Barat and Doherty sharing a microphone as they sang the lyrics.They then played 'Up The Bracket', 'What Katy Did', 'Can't Stand Me Now', 'Time For Heroes' and 'Death On The Stairs', with Doherty leaping into the crowd near the end of the short set.

Barat and Powell left the stage to more cheers then Babyshambles' Adam Ficek and Mick Whitnall returned – plus a surprise guest.

The band were joined by their former guitarist Pat Walden, now playing with three-piece Big Dave, for the finale, playing 'Pipedown' and 'Fuck Forever' to close the eventful show in kinetic fashion.

Random ten

1. Man In the Cornershop- The Jam
2. Standing Next to Me- Last Shadow Puppets
3. Ovary Stripe- Kasabian
4. Do You Wanna Touch?- Gary Glitter
5. 8 Days a Week- The Libertines
6. Strawberry Fields Forever- Jim Sturgess and Joe Anderson
7. Going Nowhere- Oasis
8. Waterfall- The Stone Roses
9. No Good Advice- Girls Aloud
10. She's Tight- Cheap Trick

Bonus-
11. My Way- Aretha Franklin
12. Baby, I Love You- The Ramones

'Untouchable'- Girls Aloud

Their best video to date, y/y? (Even with Chezza's prison ink)

Things I could do without

Receiving emails from my mother that include "GOP" and "Teabagging" in the title line.

(And yes, she knows what THAT means)

You try to raise your parents up right....

Awwwwwwww

America's first family have chosen a six-month-old Portuguese water dog to be the first pet.

President Barack Obama's daughters, 10-year-old Malia and
seven-year-old Sasha, have settled on a black and white pup, a White House official told the Associated Press last night.

The dog, a gift from the Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy, who ownsseveral Portuguese water dogs, will make his debut on Tuesday afternoon.

The Washington Post reported that Obama's daughters chose the
name Bo for the pup because Michelle Obama's father was nicknamed Diddley – an apparent reference to the singer Bo Diddley.

According to the newspaper, the dog has "tuxedo-black fur, with a white chest, white paws and a rakish white goatee".

Sad

Miss Goody may have been many things, but 27 is awfully young to pass on to the next world...

Despite undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Goody learned in February that cancer had spread to other organs and was warned she had only a short time to live. The prognosis propelled her to try to secure the financial future of her two young sons – Bobby, five, and Freddie, four – through a series of media deals thought to be worth £1m.

The former dental nurse shot to fame on the 2002 series of Big Brother where she was ridiculed by media commentators for her appearance and ignorance – she asked whether East Anglia was "abroad" and thought Rio de Janeiro was a person. She came fourth and spent the next couple of years making the most of her fame – producing keep-fit DVDs, opening a beauty salon, writing her autobiography, launching her own perfume and appearing on television shows including Wife Swap and Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes.

The public turned against her in 2007 after she was accused of racism and bullying towards Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on Celebrity Big Brother. More than 45,000 people complained to the media regulator Ofcom about Goody's behaviour towards Shetty.

Goody visited India to apologise for the distress her actions had caused and had hoped her appearance on, Bigg Boss, the India version of Big Brother would also help to make amends.

Hopefully this will lead to increased numbers of women seeking cervical cancer screenings.

RIP, Jade.

Random ten

1. Fire Woman- The Cult
2. Baddie's Boogie- BabyShambles
3. Mamma Mia- ABBA
4. Black Cherry- Goldfrapp
5. Goody Two Shoes- Adam and The Ants
6. She's The One- Robbie Williams
7. Driving South- The Stone Roses
8. Neil Jung- Teenage Fanclub
9. Two Hearts- Kylie Minogue
10. I Wanna Be Adored- BabyShambles

Bonus-
11. Ready For the Floor- Duffy
12. Fast Movin' Train- Restless Heart

Happy St. Paddy's!

Boy,

The Vatican is batting a thousand these days....

Pope Benedict XVI provoked a furious response from Aids campaigners on the first day of his visit to Africa when he declared that distributing condoms only 'aggravates' the problems inflicted by the condition.

Imagine...

Around $1.2 million in illegal drugs was seized over the weekend as 75,000 fans descended on Hampton, VA for the reunion of Phish.Over
$68,000 in cash was also seized and 194 people arrested at the event, which saw Phish perform three nights in a row after almost five years away from the live circuit.

Man,

this shit is FUCKED UP.

Nine years old. NINE. I played with damn Barbies till I was 13. And they excommunicate her mom. And the damn doctors.

Not her alleged rapist.

"More serious" than raping a 9 year-old.

This? THIS IS WHY I NO LONGER ATTEND REGULARLY ATTEND CHURCH.

NINE. YEARS. OLD.

They'll probably canonize that freaking bishop.

A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church's Congregation for Bishops, told the daily La Stampa on Saturday that the twins the girl had been carrying had a right to live.

"It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated," he said.

Re, who also heads the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, added: "Life must always be protected, the attack on the Brazilian church is unjustified."

The row was triggered by the termination on Wednesday of twin foetuses carried by a nine-year-old allegedly raped by her stepfather in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.

The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorising the operation and doctors who carried it out for fear that the slim girl would not survive carrying the foetuses to term.

"God's law is above any human law. So when a human law ... is contrary to God's law, this human law has no value," Cardoso had said.

He also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed "a heinous crime ... the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious".

Battista Re agreed, saying: "Excommunication for those who carried out the abortion is just" as a pregnancy termination always meant ending an innocent life.

The case has sparked fierce debate in Brazil, where abortion is illegal except in cases of rape or if the woman's health is in danger.

On Friday, President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva hit out at Sobrinho's decision, saying: "As a Christian and a Catholic, I deeply regret that a bishop of the Catholic church has such a conservative attitude."

"The doctors did what had to be done: save the life of a girl of nine years old," he said, adding that "in this case, the medical profession was more right than the church."

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Oh, BOYS

Let's stick to oneword album titles next time, please.

*shakes head*

Kasabian's new album is called 'West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum'.The follow up to 'Empire' (2007) was recorded in San Francisco last year.Although no tracklisting for the album has been released yet, HMV.co.uk is listing 'West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum' as being released on June 8.

Random ten

1. Be My Baby- The Ronettes
2. La Tristessa Durera (Scream To a Sigh)- Manic Street Preachers
3. Everything's Coming Up Roses- Ethel Merman
4. I Wish- BabyShambles
5. Tell Me A Lie- The Fratellis
6. Cool For Cats- Squeeze
7. First Love- Adele
8. Love Machine- Girls Aloud
9. Made Of Stone- The Stone Roses
10. Motorcycle Emptiness- Manic Street Preachers

Bonus-
11. I Just Called To Say I Love You- Stevie Wonder (Oh, GOD)
12. What Katy Did Next- BabyShambles

Fierce Bitches

Sarah, Florence Welch, Little Boots and Nicola at the NME's.

Holy moly, Flo is an Amazon and how tiny is Little Boots? Because the GA contingent has on their big girl heels....

Awwww

Petey and Carlito at the NME awards.

Hmmmm

Veddddddy interesting....

Rapper Snoop Dogg surprised fans and reporters alike this weekend by revealing he has joined the Nation of Islam. Speaking at the religious group's Saviours' Day convention in Chicago, the 37-year-old praised the group's supreme minister and national representative Louis Farrakhan. It is reported by the Associated Press that he also made a donation to the group of $1,000.

OhPleaseOhPleaseOhPlease

As Girls Aloud get their breaths back after scooping a much-deserved Brit Award, a mole in the girls’ camp tells me that American domination is next on their “to do” list.

After signing a three-album deal with record label Fascination - which will land the girls a pay rise - record company bosses are priming Cheryl Cole, 25, Nadine Coyle, 23, and co for a stateside assault.

“Cheryl is opening lots of doors for us and The Promise is doing really well in US nightclubs,” my source told me, adding that it’s now down to Cheryl to persuade the rest of the girls that 2010 is the year for the band’s global domination.

Randoms

from the NME awards...

Nic and Sar look Darlin'

And sadly, though Petey (without his usual Catholic bling) won Best Solo Artist, he

didn't bring any of his kitties along. Sad. that.

This made me giggle-

...Oasis, who won best British band. The group's Noel Gallagher triumphed in the best blog category, but was pipped in the hero of the year section by US President Barack Obama.

Random ten

1. Alfie- Lily Allen
2. You Know My Name- Chris Cornell
3. Sufragette City- David Bowie
4. Hometown Glory- Adele
5. Time For Heroes- The Libertines
6. F*ck You- Lily Allen
7. Lost Art Of Murder- BabyShambles
8. All You Need Is Love- The Beatles
9. Hot Fun In the Summertime- Sly & the Family Stone
10. Jack Killed Mom- Jenny Lewis

Bonus-
11. Should I Stay Or Should I Go?- The Clash
12. Strict Machine- Goldfrapp

Cue the sound

of a million fangirls squeeing in 3...2...1....

If you want the really random gossip though, just ask The Mighty Boosh comedian Noel Fielding.

After beating the likes of Gavin and Stacey to Best TV, he explained his experiences over dinner.

"I'm sitting next to Brandon from The Killers so that's quite fun," he said.

"We keep making silly remarks like schoolboys, like we're 13 and laughing. And Pete Doherty just bit my ear really hard for a photo.

We don't know each other that well and we had to be intertwined, and it all got a bit steamy and he bit my ear - Mike Tyson style! Insane."