New Evan Dando album

Sounds very good BBC album of the week

So the marines have raised the stars and stripes on Qasr a few days after Bush said that no UK or US flags would be raised - only Iraqi flags.

Not much else music or film wise - I can tell you all about afforestation, 1000 plants per acre for Lodgepole Pine and so on!

Oh hang on - No Disco is going to be axed. Online petition here. Confused about this, I really loved the program when it started, it was a big thing for me living in 2 channal land, the excitement of the first Palace Bros video, or Halycon or even David Gray (who I still like). Maybe music videos don't do it for me anymore but I have watched less and less of ND over the years. Still it is one of the only Irish tv shows to air Irish music and the recent Planxty special was great. Maybe they should try for a short season (10?) of specials like that about music from the last 30 years or so. For example we don't need another U2 special but what about the Horslips? Or Stars of Heaven who supposedly everyone from REM to.....REM like? Ok the budget and time for such a special is a lot higher but I still want to see and learn about music from tv programs.