Found this while reading a fansite from a Canadian band (Montreal, Quebec) called The Arcade Fire:

The Arcade Fire have been announced to take part in 2 more festivals later this October. The first being the first ever U.S. edition of the UK’s Download Festival at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA ...

The second, is the Tim Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the Museum of Modern Art. The festival will take place October 21st through the 23rd. The Arcade Fire are tentatively scheduled to play on October 22nd. More info to come as it’s announced.

Other bands confirmed so far for the festival:

The Strokes, Kings of Leon, M.I.A., Diplo, Wilco, Kings of Convenience, Morrissey, Nancy Sinatra, & Outkast.

But once again, nothing should be taken as confirmed until someone from the Moz camp officially agrees to it....

There's a new update on www.bozboorer.com dated 27th July covering Boz's upcoming activities through to the end of 2005. Four different bands that Boz will be playing with are mentioned in this update. For what it's worth, he seems to have left very little if any time in his schedule for Moz, and in fact makes no mention of him at all. Hmmmmmm...the plot thickens.

Not sure if this was posted before...

There is a flash animation movie out there set to a cover of We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful.

It can be found, I am sure, many places on the web, but I found it here:

We Hate It When... - funnypart.com

Not sure of the cover artist.

This will either raise your opinion somewhat of David Gray or prove slightly embarassing. For NOW Magazine's "celebrityspins" column, David Gray has offered up The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?" as one of his current favourites:

"I was a massive Smiths fan growing up and had the double comb-back haircut to prove it. They were the first band I saw live, and I loved them. Someone even chucked a pound of sausages at Morrissey. I've picked this as a memory of my childhood and the sausages."

David's full selection, including The Specials and New Order in addition to The Smiths, can be viewed here.

Next Saturday......

The Smyths play live at
THE HORN
VICTORIA STREET
ST ALBANS

Saturday 30th July 2005

Tickets available here.

OTHER GIGS FOR 2005 (more to come)

Sat 30th Jul - ST ALBANS, The Horn
Sun 21st Aug - PUTNEY, Half Moon
Fri 26th Aug - GILLINGHAM, Beacon Court Tavern
Fri 2nd Sep - GLASGOW, Woodside Social Club
Sat 3rd Sep - HARTLEPOOL, The Spot
Sun 4th Sep - LEEDS, The New Roscoe
Fri 7th Oct - CAMDEN, Dublin Castle
Sat 15th Oct - LONDON, Quarry
Fri 11th Nov - CIRENCESTER, Corn Hall

See the web site for full details.