And you have the audacity to call us "Whinging Poms?" ‘Ballgate’ controversy dominates Australian media’s reaction to Test defeat (msn.com)

A good read. However, what isn't mentioned at all is the Iceland footage of the same year 1970. If you put together RAH, Bath and Iceland in the same year, then you could easily assume that a documentary was on the cards? Who filmed the Iceland stuff anyway? That little snippet of Dazed on the DVD is wonderful and it makes you wonder what happened to the rest of it? The band surely recorded the Audio to accompany the Visuals as the film clearly shows. Ross Halfin - Little Side Gnome

There's that "Whingeing Pom" insult again. Piers Morgan is an wanker anyway. Don't put him in the same bracket as the rest of us. Don't get me started on sand paper...........

News must be in short supply? Crop circle appears near grave of Led Zeppelin drummer after inspiring album cover (msn.com)

eemmmm Sounds I think. The issue also reviewed Bootlegs by Geoff Barton who definitely wrote for Sounds. However I may be wrong and you maybe correct. I'll have to dig it out

Taken from either Sounds or NME both UK music papers from the 70's. I still have that cutting somewhere

The Knebworth shows will be impossible to factor in. Grant reckoned there was 200,000 plus at the first show but ticket sales showed otherwise. The Australian/New Zealand outdoor shows likewise.

No thanks man. It would be nice to open the blinds to see a blue sky though once in a while. It's like living in the Bladerunner movie

Congratulations Australia on retaining The Urn. The great Manchester weather has saved your asses.

Absolutely dire. Heavy rain and wind and not warm either. I've seen some shit summers but this takes the piss. No sign of a dry day until mid August at the very best. In fact I read an article that said forget the summer until next year, as it ain't happening this year.

Was in Vienna ?

The sun has made a guest appearance today. Not seen it since we came back from Spain. It will soon be gone though as the forecast until Mid August is shit. Rain and cool. I bet the Southern Europeans would love a bit if that. Swapsies?

Nerja, Andalusia. It was absolutely gorgeous. Mainly Spanish tourists and hardly any Irritating British. It was also very hot but we did have a Villa with a pool.

After 2 gloriously sunny weeks in Southern Spain, it's back home to shite. Rain, rain and more rain and according to the tea leaf readers, no change until August

Is that the "has been" who has fucked off to get Saudi money?

Pat Cummings.

Hi man. Thought it wouldn't be long. Glorious really.

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Beautiful. Warm and sunny. It has been a month since it rained. Golf is getting very tricky. I can't believe I'm saying this, but we do need some rain

RIP Tony Mcphee of The Groundhogs, a band I saw a few times in the 70's and 80's. They were always great. A true guitarists guitarist

Sunny and warm. Has been like this for 3 weeks. No rain at all. Golf is becoming a lottery

The first all Manchester FA Cup Final. C'mon the Reds

Kudos to you man. I haven't dropped a tab since a very strange experience at Glastonbury in 1982.

Which no fucker has seen

This Country really is a joke. A Politician ( who I can't be arsed to remember) said, a person said to them: "It's terrible, I can't open the windows in my children's bedroom for them to be poisoned by (ahem) the smell of Weed" Well it's OK then for them to be poisoned by the smell of car fumes, which contain Carbon Monoxide?