MONDO MOJO

…”On demand vinyl records is now a reality” (sic) says website vinylize.it, who intend to launch a service whereby you can pick your favourite tracks/playlists off SoundCloud and get them on wax… yes, ADELE (right) swore boldly through her headline set at Glastonbury, but she’d better not try it if she plays Saint Kitts, where 50 Cent was arrested and fined for cursing during a live show in June… strange news from the world of honours: Professor Georgina Born – aka GEORGIE BORN, who played with Henry Cow, Art Bears and Mike Westbrook – was awarded an OBE for her services to musicology, anthropology and higher education… a Los Angeles jury has ruled that JIMMY PAGE and ROBERT PLANT did not write Stairway To Heaven under the influence of Spirit’s Taurus, as was alleged… there’s nothing more certain to enhance an evening than people filming/taking photos at concerts. But in June APPLE were granted a patent to use infrared signals to deactivate such phones… MORRISSEY

was displeased last month when he realised that What Do I Get? by the Buzzcocks (Pete Shelley, below) was being used in a “punk” McDonald’s advert. “In the words of another Buzzcocks song,” commented Moz, “oh shit”… and, New Orleans rapper and Cash Money records co-founder BIRDMAN set the pace when he told ESPN’s Highly Questionable that he sleeps on $1million cash every night, ”on my mattress, under my sheets”…