"Nathan Willett has a new tattoo -it's something of a record-release gift to himself. The Cold War Kids frontman even tweeted the news recently, making sure to include a picture of the fresh ink. It reads, "Sing your life," across his forearm, a reference to an old Morrissey song.

"I got it five days ago," the singer reveals over the line from California, before recalling how it happened.

"It's funny," says Willett, who used to have a friend who was a tattoo artist. "I told him I wanted that tattoo 10 years ago." The friend, however, refused to indulge him . . . because Willett wasn't a singer -yet.

Times have changed, obviously. Willett's band has a new album, Mine Is Yours, out Jan. 25, and that's him urgently belting on the Cold War Kids' two previous releases, Robbers and Cowards (2006) and Loyalty to Loyalty (2008), as well..."

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Willett+firmer+hold+ownership+songs/4382673/story.html#ixzz1FfceWZwk

We're very happy to say that Gary Day is returning to DJ at HDIF at the Phoenix in central London this Saturday. Gary was due to DJ for us in December but was snowed in, so we're pleased and relieved that the sun is shining and the weather forecast for Saturday is - hurrah! - scattered showers. Gary's a brilliant rock'n'roll DJ who had the club hopping on the two times he's DJ-ed for us before.

You can pick up an advance ticket here - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/110168

Hope to see you on Saturday night!


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How Does It Feel To Be Loved?
Saturday March 19th
The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0PP, three minutes walk from Oxford Circus tube station, 9pm-3am, £4 members, £6 non members. Membership is free from www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk
Guest DJ: Gary Day

We play:

The Smiths * The Supremes * The Go-Betweens * Dusty Springfield * Belle & Sebastian * Love * Tammi Terrell * Aztec Camera * The Ronettes * Orange Juice *...

Manics eye 'unobtainable' Morrissey meet-up - Digital Spy

Manic Street Preachers have said that they would still love to meet up with Morrissey

The band referenced the singer and his Smiths-era songwriting partner Johnny Marr in their track '1985' from the 2004 album Lifeblood.

Speaking to BBC Radio 2, bassist Nicky Wire and frontman James Dean Bradfield revealed that they recently met three of their favourite '80s artists after speaking to Mike Scott of The Waterboys, Jim Kerr of Simple Minds and Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen.

Wire said: "There's only Morrissey left, because they were the four of our great icons of the '80s, really."

Bradfield added: "The unobtainable Morrissey, probably."

Wire responded: "You never know."

Vu writes:

I just heard the song from BBC 6 Music Cerys Matthews.

The band's myspace / official site haven't provided any info yet.

The song will be released on 11th April.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ytkjk
It was played 1:35 27th Feb programme.

Kochka kindly posted mp3: http://dwars.radio6.nl/files/2011/01/stranded-horse-what-difference-does-it-make-the-smiths.mp3

Update (Mar. 14 8:05am PT): Posted in the comments - people that have called See Tickets and venues are reporting Friday Mar. 18 as the actual onsale date.

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Update (Mar. 11 4:25pm PT) on true-to-you.net, posted by Caitlin:

Plymouth date

Morrissey will play Plymouth Pavilions on Thursday 30 June in place of the previously announced concert at Cheltenham.

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Update (Mar. 10 4:05pm PT) on Cheltenham on true-to-you.net, posted by Fulham Road Lights (original post), as predicted by Brel (original post):

* Update: The Cheltenham date will now not take place, and once a substitute venue has been found then these shall constitute the only Morrissey concerts in...