Seems that David Byrne is suing Charlie Crist. As in Republican Governor of Florida, now running for Senate as an independent. Apparently the Crist campaign has been using "Road to Nowhere" without permission. Or, y'know, payment. What is it with Republicans stealing songs from artists all the time? I thought they were supposed to be all in favor of property rights. I guess they're more in favor of just stealing shit if they feel like it.
That wasn't really surprising news. This following definitely is. Altho it's from so far out in left field that the idea that anyone might even have been considering it never occured to me. But anyway, Mark Stewart has decided to get the band back together. Zigga what now?!? Hey, I wonder if I've still got that "we are all prostitutes" button? Actually, I have no idea if it's the original band back together or some part of it or just Mark Stewart and some new crowd that he's calling the Pop Group. Not that I wouldn't show up if they played a club around here, regardless. Not (of course) that there's much chance of them actually playing a club around here. Whoever they turn out to be. Hey, if it's good enough for Mark E. Smith and John Lydon... Speaking of which, I read a review of the current PiL tour and was surprised that they didn't mention either Wobble or Keith Levene. A refreshing change of pace from much of the pre-tour stuff I'd read which was somewhat obsessive about the Wobble/Levene iteration of PiL as definitive. I mean, yeah, Metal Box and Flowers of Romance were more ground-breaking/whatever than the later stuff. But to say (as many did) that you can't have a "real" PiL reunion w/o Wobble is kinda like saying you can't have a Fall reunion w/o Marc Riley or a Siouxsie and the Banshees reunion w/o Kenny Morris. I'm always a bit disappointed when the late, great John McGeoch doesn't get a mention in these articles, since he was one of the longest serving members of PiL after Lydon.