It's no secret that I'm a fan of a hilariously hyperbolic headline, particularly from the British tabloid rag subgenre (see: Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster). So, it's nice to see that the news.com.au crew have been inspired - clearly - by their friends across the pond with this Monday morning corker:

Nazi fears stopped me snorting cocaine: Helen Mirren

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Remember when we all thought The Vines were the saviours of rock'n'roll, and that Craig Nicholls was the crazy genius reincarnation of, like, Kurt Cobain and John Lennon?

Yeah, we got over that fairly quickly, but as you will have noticed (possibly), they are back from wherever it was they got to, and it's good to see that Nicholls hasn't dropped his "I'm crazy, me!" routine (and before the forum trolls open a can of binary whup ass on me, I know he has Aspergers, but its symptoms don't include "acting like a complete twonk in interviews", last time I checked).

From Andrew Murfett's interview with the band, in today's Age EG:

Nicholls' demeanour is colourful to say the least. He doesn't hide his distrust of journalists and is reluctant to engage in interviews; if uncomfortable with a question, he puts on a flamboyant pair of sunglasses and spews a rambling answer. Nor is he averse to playing the clown - at one point during our interview he flings himself out of in his chair and begins writhing on the ground. His bandmates cringe and laugh uproariously.

At the shoot, he takes direction without complaint, but when a break is called, he stands defiantly in the middle of the hall and lights a cigarette. "Hey, please write in your story that I'm tough and a rebel," he says, as he proudly flouts the room's non-smoking rules.

And as the crew packs up at Parramatta, Craig Nicholls has one more thing to add.

"I'm sorry that I swore, and for everything else," he says. "But I thought it would make me sound tough."

But the best part of the whole interview is actually the photo, and specifically, the look on "new" bassist Brad Heald's face:

It says, "Jeez, what did your last bassist quit for? Oh, right. Gotcha."

ARGH!

Technical difficulties have prevented me from popping this promised audio up in a sweet mini-player sort of way - along with large dollops of conversation which we will hold onto for when Angie Hart misbehaves in a ridiculously public way and we feel that random chit chat about vegetables and drunkenness will deliver us the all important "hits" - but bugger it, let's allow you to download in a terribly primitive manner an mp3 of Angie Hart instructing you PERSONALLY how to win tickets to her East Coast shows with Dave McCormack.

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Marvel as Angie pretends to love the YouTube Clip Of The Day feature, and practice your fingering skills (so to speak) when she is railroaded into agreeing to let eager punters holding a recorder join her onstage at shows to play along to Labour Of Love!

After some highly impressive clip submitting, Marcus has won two tickets to tonight's Melbourne show, while Marnie is the lucky winner of tickets to the Sydney gig on Thursday night at The Vanguard, but the rest of the shows are still up for grabs. Do what you must.

Bloody hell. Yesterday I promised you exclusive audio goodness, but I can't get the stupid audio clip thingos to work, and my head hurts, so there's gonna be a slight delay, I'm afraid. However, because I wanted to give you something to read, I have lovingly transcribed the conversation I had with Angie Hart yesterday on the cutting edge topic "Neighbours versus Home & Away". It is daft, and you can read it all after the jump.

And if you'd like to win tickets to any of the East Coast Dave McCormack (ex Custard)/ Angie Hart (ex Frente) shows, just send a funny video link - anything you like - to tips at defamer.com.au, and mention which show you'd like to win a double pass for. That's it!

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Whoa, dudes. Yesterday I interviewed former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, and he was awesome. Really fun and happy to have a laugh, and he talked about Gilmore Girls, Axl Rose, the reality shows he's been on, Jermaine Jackson, his new record, and - perhaps most excitingly of all - we're starting a band called Fists Of Love.

The whole interview will be played tonight on RRR's I'd Rather Jack (ie: the cult - if by cult, you mean 'not all that many listeners but those who do tune in are usually slightly unbalanced, like the guy who rang in to say he'd fed his cat some meds and they were both enjoying the program...' - radio show I present) from midnight. You can listen, if you're in Melbourne, on 102.7FM, or you can stream it from rrr.org.au.

ANYWAYS.

The whole interview was magic as Sebastian and yours truly are both professionals (cough) but I can't be bothered transcribing it all, so after the jump you can have a little taste of it and then you'll have to tune in for the rest.

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We have a tonne of things to talk about, you and me (Big Brother, Wayne Carey's new alleged missus, Glenn Wheatley leaving the clink, etc), but that'll happen later.

Why? Because I am now too distracted to even think about the goings on at Dreamworld and the rest, because... tomorrow I am interviewing Sebastian Bach!

Why? I don't know. Seriously. I got an email today saying "Do you want to interview Sebastian Bach?" and I figured, hey, why not? And now we are locked in for a chat. Which should be slightly weird.

But why should I have all the fun? If you have a question for Sebastian, anything at all, comment below and let me know, and if it's good or funny or interesting, I'll raise it with the former Skid Row frontman tomorrow.

It was a rough spring at the movies for compulsive watch-checkers like us, but we took consolation in knowing that a honest-to-God hero would be arriving come early May. What? No, not that wuss Iron Man, but rather Harmony Korine, whose new Mister Lonely marks the filmmaker's first writing-directing effort in nearly 10 years. And what a decade: Adrift in Paris, anchored in Nashville, survivor of two house fires, briefly reteaming with his Kids director Larry Clark on the teenagers-fucking milestone Ken Park, and ultimately conjuring Mister Lonely from a vision of nuns plunging from airplanes and the garish subculture of celebrity impersonators.

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Nicholas Stoller is having a very good year. After being taken under the mighty wing of Judd Apatow, his hilarious-yet-touching directorial debut, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, opens today. Not only that, he and star Jason Segel are currently making the new Muppet movie. Clearly, it's time to learn a little more about this guy before he becomes too much of a big shot. Since they're old friends, we asked our frequent guest-blogger Nick Malis (who contractually required us to plug Malis in Wonderland and Cute Things Falling Asleep) to interview Stoller. What follows is a fascinating portrait of a young artist at the dawn of his career. Also, he talks about penises a lot. Stick around after the jump to hear Stoller opine on the homoerotic world of Judd Apatow's office, seeing Kristen Bell naked, and what Richard Roeper is like in bed.

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