Good morning! Did you know that GUM's daily round-up of music-related links has been clinically proven to be more effective than coffee in waking people up? Clinically. So, get cracking:
· Patrick Wolf and Charlotte Church - together at, er, well. Watch their cover of Prince's When Doves Cry and make your own mind up, but it doesn't appear that the denizens of YouTube are too pleased.
· Does Jamelia have what it takes to be a Bond girl?
· The Happy Mondays are coming back - with a slew of festival dates, a new album and some new teeth. Shaun Ryder showed his new nashers (though he didn't use them to talk much) on last Friday's Transmission on Channel 4, but you can read more about his £10k gob here.
· "It's not a band: it's a free-flowing collectivist dance generator - a futurist sound system." It's also Von Sudenfed the latest project from Mark E Smith, in conjunction with German technoheads Mouse on Mars.
· Just in time for his 60th birthday, Diamond Geezer visits Elton John's childhood home in northwest London: "The local council, in their infinite wisdom, appear to have marked this most auspicious musical heritage site not with a blue plaque but with a bright green litter bin."
· This US mag-blog has decided that sometime UK indie hopefuls the Electric Soft Parade are the hottest band in the world. And it's not entirely without reasoning either.
