No, I was not there (I was checking out No Standing in Crawdaddy), but Mark over at Ludaa has got quite an insightful view of the whole NME shebang.

I agree completely with his opinions (except that I reckon The Gossip are pretty good). I particularly must direct attention to the complete shitocity of some of the band's names, especially 'Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong' & 'Does It Offend You, Yeah?'. These bands may by amazing for all I know, but to be honest their names more than put me off ever giving them the three and a half minutes it may take for them to win me over.

Lesson leaned for them, methinks.

Click to check out Mark's review

Congrats to Mark, by the by, on making the longlist for best personal blog in the Irish Blog Awards- lets hope we all make the shortlist, then many the Jagerbomb will be consumed on March the first...

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Courtesy of Mark over at Ludaa (thanks!), here's the kind of clip that is pure internet gold.

This 16 year old Aussie kid threw a party when his parents were away a couple of days ago, ending up with hundreds of gatecrashers, $20,000 worth of damage and some serious Police action.

Here's him being interviewed on Aussie TV, cementing his place in internet history:



Click for the opportunistic dude's brand new website

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My brother Mark (that's him there on the right) has started blogging, as one does these days.

Amongst his first few posts is a pretty cool taster of a Ghostbusters game for the Xbox 360, and a more-favourable-than-mine look at Interpol.


Check it out here.

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