Fly-fishing was sooooo last century: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2011/feb/05/yell-ad

As with anyone else who works in the news media I've seen the embargoed-until-midnight Queen's birthday honours list.
So, music-wise, look out for two stars who started out in the sixties but had to go to the States to find critical fame, if not fortune, and someone involved with a number one of the 1990s who has since been 'discovered' by television in a totally different field.
One of these gentlemen has, I seem to recall, been featured in a Word from this year.

Long-running TV series Last Of The Summer Wine is to be axed, the BBC announced today.
The series, which first launched in 1973 and has starred actors such as Bill Owen, Peter Sallis and Frank Thornton, will run for just one more series.
The BBC said it was "very tough to have to call time" on the show.
To round off the next series, BBC1 will broadcast special editions of Countryfile and Songs Of Praise which will come from Holmfirth.

A total non-story from today courtesy of the Press Association.
Blur versus Oasis it ain't.
I'm sure it will be a major blow for either act should they be placed only second in a chart of increasing consumer insignificance.

When the honours list comes out at midnight, watch out for the two national (musical) treasures who have been recognised together, along with - for no obvious reason, maybe he's this year's John Martyn - a pioneer of a certain instrument around half a century ago.

Courtesy of the Press Association:

It is the song that made their fortunes, but chart veterans UB40 have revealed they are sick of Red, Red Wine.
The reggae act admit they are "bored to tears" of the track which became their first chart-topper in 1983, and they can't stand rehearsing it.
Guitar Robin Campbell, about to kick off a UK tour with the band next month, said they cannot bring themselves to practise the song. However, he said the band continue to play it because they know the fans still love it.
He said: "We hate rehearsing Red Red Wine, we're bored to tears of it.
"Very often in rehearsals we'll just skip it because we're so bored of it, but the second you do it to an audience, it changes."
He added: "That's one of the songs they're there to hear, and you can be as tired of it as you like, but they're not. They haven't heard you sing it for several years. It takes on a new life again."

As the supply of news and information continues to dry up, thanks to the collapse in advertising revenue - the untouchable bbc.co.uk behemoth apart - another part of the daily routine is lost as ITV's teletext service shuts up shop. The highly useful Planet Sound section will be much missed, by me at least.

Working in the meedja I have seen the pre-embargoed list, which contains a most unlikely award for a folk type plus a CBE for a cast-iron member of the rock aristocracy. All will be revealed at midnight...

People can like and blog about whatever they fancy, it doesn't bother me, but can I be the first to say that it was maybe different between 1978 and 1980 for 'the sixth former in most of us' in the far reaches of East Anglia? I seem to remember The Wall getting fairly short shrift on my sixth-form centre's record player, even allowing for the fact it was often an utter free-for-all. On the other hand, The Ruts and their ilk got far more needle time.

If I wanted to send this in to Private Eye, should I mark it for Pseuds Corner or Order of the Brown Nose?

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/u2s_bono_the_edge...