Link from Mark:

Miss Truth - June 5, 2000

Moody music icon Morrissey paid a visit to check out the band which his years as lead singer of the Smiths influenced, Gene, at the band's sold-out gig at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, Calif. on Friday (June 2). The Moz's presence set off a bit of a frenzy, as many fans of Gene were once (and still are) crazed followers of Morrissey and the Smiths. In the V.I.P section of the club, Gene's Martin Rossiter, Morrissey, and Morrissey's guitarist Alain Whyte shot the shit about life in general before the Moz sped off in his car trailed by a group of screaming fans. Rossiter later said, "We're both fruits, we just taste different."

Gene will play another one-off show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on July 10.

Link from Maribel:

Spin.com news - June 1, 2000

Today is the birthday for two members of essential rhythm sections of two very essential mope groups from the '80s, the Cure and the Smiths. Simon Gallup, bass player for the Cure, is 40 today, and Mike Joyce, drummer for the Smiths is 37. I'm sure that both Robert Smith and Morrissey are wishing the boys of the rhythm section a happy birthday.

Some photos of Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke recording the new Aziz album are on the Forestudio site, link from vu.

The front page technical redesign which I've briefly mentioned a few times before is very near completion. The code is in place and I just have a few things to clean up, I imagine the switchover will be sometime this weekend, probably on Sunday.

This is probably the biggest change I've ever made to the site -- something that I've been preparing for in the last year and something I've been working nonstop on in the last couple months. In order for the system to work well you'll need a login name, so think of what you want to use (this is separate from the discussion board / chat logins). The new login system will be very easy to work with.

Unless something urgent comes up this will be the last update until the switchover.