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Win tickets to the Isle of Wight festival with BT

We mentioned the groundbreaking news that BT had been announced as the sponsors of the Isle Of Wight festival a little while back, and now I'm pleased to be able to point you in the direction of a competition to win tickets.

If you head to our friends at Shiny Shiny, you'll find, like, the easiest question ever. All you do, right, is answer it. And then, right, email it to them. And then, yeah, wait. And then, maybe, you'll be lucky and be on your way to see Iggy the Pop. And if you don't win, what have you lost? Nothing but time.

Enter the Isle of Wight competition at Shiny Shiny

Can You Gig It?: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds @ Hammersmith Apollo, London, 7.5.08

Susi Weaser, editor of Shiny Shiny, went to check out cheery old moustached lizard Nick Cave the other night. I wonder, was he as good as the number of times his album's been played in our office would suggest? Let's find out.

How did you rate the venue?

Um, can I just copy and paste what I wrote when I saw Gogol Bordello? OK, so this is what I think/thought: I quite like the Hammersmith Apollo. I've never had a bad night there. It's sloped towards the stage so it's easy to get a good view, and it's not so big you lose any atmosphere.

What were the crowd like?

Less gothic-looking than I expected. I suppose everyone has grown up. It was mostly an older crowd, a side effect of which is that they were also a very tall crowd.

myhab: For a festival experience free of camping disasters

You don't need to have been paying too much attention to the festival scene over the last few years to have noticed that, as idyllic as the picture in your head may have been when you booked your tickets, things can sometimes go a little bit wrong. If it's not tents being submerged in mud and water, it's the apparently insurmountable variety of problems associated with outdoor lavatoriums.

Well, consider such problems behind you, as long as you don't mind shelling out. Basically, myhab is a shelter made of recycled plastic and waterproof cardboard. Fear not, the cardboard is all inside the myhab, and having checked it out myself at the product launch the other night, I can confirm that this habitat is extremely durable.

Sad Kermit covers Elliott Smith's "Needle In The Hay"

I'll tell ya, that bloody Sad Kermit will get you every time. He's done Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt", among others, and now he's covering Elliott Smith, who passed away a few years back.

This is "Needle In The Hay", which you might recognise from The Royal Tenenbaums. Truly, a meditation on heroin addiction only comes into its own when tackled by a green felt frog. A lot of YouTube commenters have got predictably hot under the collar over this cover, but I'm a huge Elliott Smith fan and found it funny. I mean come on, it's a muppet playing a sad song on the guitar.

This is the last of today's Muppet-related posts, honest...

Peaches and The Muppets' "F*ck The Pain Away" video mash-up

In case you're not familiar with Peaches' track "Fuck The Pain Away", and are unable to glean from the title that it may be of a slightly adult nature, this is Not Safe For Work. Or Children. Or Your Mum.

This video mash-up, which comes via our friends at Dollymix, was created by a student at the University of San Francisco. The kicker? It was made for a class assignment and the student got an A++. Well deserved, say I... see what you reckon over the page.

Interpol's "Rest My Chemistry" video: perfect for stoners

Does MTV still have that rule - and it may just have been in the States - where they'll only play music videos that contain like 60% performance-based imagery? I was just pondering that because, in these YouTube-mungous days, surely MTV's influence has declined a hell of a lot; and therefore artists can go and release innovative videos without worrying about lack of exposure.

Take the lastest Interpol vid. It's basically just a load of swirling shapes and stuff, rather like South Park's Planetarium, only a bit prettier and less likely to brainwash you. Ten years ago it would have gone more or less unseen. Today you can watch it over and over and over and over and over and over, and for free. Right here.

I wouldn't watch it that many times though, or that brainwashing thing might actually *CLICK*ON*THE*GAYMERS*ADS* come true.

See if you can withstand any subliminal messages after the click.

Win tickets to Glastonbury with our delicious and refreshing friends at Gaymers

Festival season is officially upon us, folks. If you're any kind of music fan you'll probably be getting yourself along to some kind of outdoor music experience at some point during the next few months.

The daddy of them all, of course, remains Glastonbury. And despite all the debate about this year's line-up and clientèle, it's still sure to be the definitive British festival experience.

Our new friends at GaymersMusic.com have three pairs of tickets for Glastonbury up for grabs, so if you want to save yourself a packet of dosh - all the more to spend on crisp, delicious cider, see? - head to GaymersMusic.com to enter the easy-peasy competition. You have until the end of 26th May.

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