Wee are the world. Wee are the people.

Last month, at a Metallica concert in Boston, off-duty police officer Joseph Houston allegedly urinated into a nearby seat and on to a fan. Houston was ejected from the concert and now faces a disciplinary hearing.

Steven Wells asks When did rock music become so prissy that taking a leak in your concert seat – a seat that you've paid for – is such a terrible no-no?

Let's declare March 2009 Rock Urine Freedom Month

From Jetstream to Airstream

Last Friday we bought you news of the new Doves download, Jetstream. If, for this Friday, you were, for some reason, looking for another free MP3 download with the word ‘stream’ in its title from a Northern English indie band, well, you’re in luck.

Go carefully to www.gomeztheband.com to download ‘Airstream Driver’, the first taste of the band's 6th album, ‘A New Tide’. I really like it. Lots of bass. And cowbell.

The album’s out March 28 in Australia, two days later in the UK, and the day after that in the US.

Bawley 100 - 2008 Mega Mix

In 2008 mash up master Girl Talk fed the animals with his album Feed The Animals. Now it is our turn...

The Bawley 100 - 2008 Mega Mix is a (very) amateur effort containing a number of highlights draw from the 2008 Bawley 100. The Megamix can be downloaded from here.

The first downloader to correctly post the Artist and Track name of each song used in the Mega mix will win a special prize.

Here is a Tip: There are clues in the cover art. (Included with the mp3 in the zip file - get it here)

Here come the Doves

It’s always good news when Doves come back. The band has just announced their fourth album, ‘Kingdom Of Rust’, which is due out 6^th April.

New track ‘Jetstream’ – available for free download from doves.net – sees Doves ‘going electronic’, as bands very often do when they hit their ‘mid-career crisis’. As comeback singles go, it’s no ‘There Goes The Fear’ or ‘Black and White Town’ but represents an interesting New Order-esque new direction.

Let’s see if they can do what fellow Mancuians Elbow did last last year and break through to a wider audience with their fourth record.

Coming soon: A reason to buy the NME

Not many details yet, but it seems the NME are putting together (another) Cure tribute CD, which will be mounted on the cover of the magazine, presumably around the time that the band collect their Godlike Genius award and play their Big Gig in The O2.

So far, British Sea Power have announced (via their mailing list) that they have recorded a version of 'A Forest' and Eddie Argos has revealed on his blog that Art Brut have recorded 'Catch'.

More news as and when we have it.

(Doing the Sums 2008) Are You Joe Average?

Following on from yesterdays post Triple J Hottest 100: The Results are In.

Here is a test to see just how average you are:

1. Write out a list of the songs you voted for in the triplej Hottest 100.
2. Write down the position each of these came in the triplej Hottest 100
3. If a song did not make the list put down 101.
4. Add up the scores, and divide by the number of songs you voted for.
5. Post your results as a comment to this blog entry.

Here is how to interpret your score (thanks fandango)

1-13: Either you are the lovechild of Bernard Fanning and Rikki Lee Coulter or you are actually in The Kings of Leon.

14-27: Betcha listen to 104.7 when no-one's around.

28-40: Very vanilla

41-52: "Middle of the Hill" is your signature song in more ways than one.

53-65: Pretty pedestrian, but you probably have one weirdo friend who is rubbing off on you more than you realise.

66-77: Kinda quirky in a cute way.

78-89: Kinda quirky in a "slowly back away..." way.

90-100: You're a f***ing freak, man

101: Did you vote for songs, or flavours of ice cream????

Bawley scored:

Bloc Party - One Month Off - 101
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought – 101
British Sea Power - Waving Flags - 101
Sparkadia – Jealousy - 79
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning - 26
Band Of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You - 72
TV On The Radio - Golden Age - 101
Elbow - One Day Like This - 101
The Presets - This Boy's In Love - 8
MGMT - Time To Pretend - 18

70.8 - Kinda quirky in a cute way.

How about you?

Triple J Hottest 100: The Results Are In

2008 saw the highest ever number of votes in the world's largest music poll. But has democracy been saved?

Here are the results (Bawley 100 2008 rankings in brackets):

#100 - Dukes of Windsor - It's a War (99)
#99 - Muph & Plutonic - Don't Worry About Nothin' (--)
#98 - Lyrics Born - I like It, I love It (72)
#97 - Cog - Are You Interested (--)
#96 - Dizzee Rascal - Flex (Dave Spoon Reflex) (--)
#95 - Wiley - Wearing My Rolex (--)
#94 - Bliss n Eso - Woodstock 2008 (--)
#93 - Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook (86)
#92 - Pendulum - Propane Nightmares (--)
#91 - Lisa Mitchell - Nepolitan Dreams (--)
#90 - Lily Allen - Guess Who Batman? (Aka F**ck You) (--)
#89 - Kanye West - Love Lockdown (80)
#88 - Metallica - The Day That Never Comes (--)
#87 - Jack White & Alicia Keys - Another Way To Die (--)
#86 - Muph & Plutonic - Beautiful Ugly (--)
#85 - Gyroscope - 1981 (--)
#84 - Rise Against - Re-education (Through Labor) (--)
#83 - The Grates - Carve Your Name (--)
#82 - Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (--)
#81 - Weezer - Pork and Beans (--)
#80 - The Grates - Aw Yeah (--)
#79 - Sparkadia - Jealousy (7)
#78 - The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go (--)
#77 - Drapht - Falling (--)
#76 - Yves Klein Blue - Polka (--)
#75 - Tame Impala - Half Full Glass Of Wine (--)
#74 - Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (94 - in 2007)
#73 - The Killers - Spaceman (--)
#72 - Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You (5)
#71 - Vampire Weekend - One(Blake's got a New Face) (--)
#70 - Kings of Leon - Crawl (--)
#69 - Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (63 - in 2007)
#68 - Empire of the Sun - We are the People (43)
#67 - Flight of the Conchords - Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros (--)
#66 - Children Collide - Farewell Rocketship (--)
#65 - Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (15)
#64 - Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Dawn of the Dead (93)
#63 - The Herd - 2020 (--)
#62 - Faker - Sleepwalking (--)
#61 - Bliss N Eso - The Sea is Rising (--)
#60 - Flight of the Conchords - The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room (--)
#59 - The Getaway Plan - Where the City Meets The Sea (--)
#58 - Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (51)
#57 - Santogold - L.E.S Artistes (71)
#56 - The Presets - Yippiyo- Ay (--)
#55 - Ween - Your Party (--)
#54 - Pnau - Baby (--)
#53 - The Butterfly Effect - Window and the Watcher (--)
#52 - The Killers - Human (77)
#51 - Birds of Tokyo - Wild Eyed Boy (--)
#50 - Ash Grunwald - Breakout (--)
#49 - Mystery Jets - Young Love (feat. Laura Marling) (--)
#48 - Something With Numbers - Stay With Me Bright Eyes (--)
#47 - Little Red - Coca Cola (--)
#46 - Lily Allen - The Fear (92)
#45 - Muscles - Ice Cream {triple j live acoustic version} (--)
#44 - Art vs Science - Flippers (--)
#43 - Laura Marling - Ghosts (--)
#42 - Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum (--)
#41 - Soko - I Will Never Love You More (--)
#40 - Bliss N Eso - Eye Of The Storm (--)
#39 - Ida Maria -I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked (-)
#38 - Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me (--)
#37 - British India - I Said I'm Sorry (--)
#36 - Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart (24)
#35 - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (--)
#34 - The Grates - Burn Bridges (--)
#33 - The Kooks - Always Where I Need To Be (--)
#32 - Vampire Weekend - A-Punk (51)
#31 - Cog - Bird Of Feather (--)
#30 - Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma (--)
#29 - Josh Pyke - Make You Happy (--)
#28 - Architecture In Helsinki - That Beep (29)
#27 - Josh Pyke - The Lighthouse Song (--)
#26 - Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning (6)
#25 - Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat (--)
#24 - Kings of Leon - Closer (--)
#23 - The Living End - White Noise (--)
#22 - Birds Of Tokyo - Silhouettic (78)
#21 - Bon Iver - Skinny Love (18)
#20 - Birds Of Tokyo - Broken Bones (--)
#19 - Flight Of The Conchords - Business Time (--)
#18 - MGMT - Time To Pretend (1)
#17 - Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me (feat Calvin Harris and Chrome) (-)
#16 - Ben Folds - You Don't Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor) (--)
#15 - Cut Copy - Lights and Music (36)
#14 - The Rapture - No Sex For Ben (13)
#13 - The Herd - The King Is Dead (--)
#12 - Pnau - Embrace (14)
#11 - Ladyhawke - My Delirium (25)
#10 - Drapht - Jimmy Recard (--)
#9 - The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name (89)
#8 - The Presets - This Boy's In Love (2)
#7 - Pez - The Festival Song(feat. 360 and Hailey Cramer) (--)
#6 - The Presets - Talk Like That (21)
#5 - MGMT - Kids (40)
#4 - Empire of the Sun - Walking On A Dream (16)
#3 - Kings of Leon - Use Somebody (--)
#2 - MGMT - Electric Feel (65)
#1 - Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire (98)

So just 30 of Bawley's 100 made the list (plus 2 from 2007), and only one of Bawley's 10 made the Hottest 100 top 10. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 3 acts - Kings Of Leon, MGMT and The Presets - dominated the higher reaches of the charts, each occupying two spots in the top 10.

But no Lambchop? No British Sea Power? No Elbow? No The Cure? No Nine Inch Nails? No Crystal Castles? No Deerhunter? No Bloc Party? Not even any TV On The Radio????? What's wrong with these people????

Ah well. Join us soon for a game of 'how mainstream are you?'