Tony Wilson, the founder of the Factory Records label and Manchester music scene legend died earlier this month on August 10th.

Now a website has been set up to collect tributes and remembrances of the man who signed Joy Division and New Order.

On August 10th 2007 Anthony H Wilson died of a heart attack due to complications from cancer. He was only 57, and his funeral on August 20th was attended by a great many people.

Ever since then, tributes and dedications have been pouring in from fans, musicians and celebrities alike.

The new site which has been set up in his name already features contributions from the likes of New Order, Elbow’s Guy Garvey and U2 manager Paul McGuiness.

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On Monday I reported that The Enemy and Dirty Pretty Things had played a gig live in Pentonville prison to raise awareness of the high incidence of suicides amongst young men.

Here is a YouTube video of part of the acoustic set from Dirty Pretty Things. The sound quality isn’t very good but it’s in a prison so I’m sure you’ll forgive me (and the person who filmed the video!)

Actually only lead singer Carl Barat seems to be doing much, the other band members are just standing around admiring the view (looking bored).

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Babyshambles front man Pete Doherty could be about to star as a zombie in a newly commissioned Buff The Vampire Slayer spin off.

Joss Whedon, the man behind classic TV series Buffy is going to be making a spin off, to be shown on the BBC, and is reported to want Pete Doherty to play a zombie on the show.

Apparently, according to a source Pete will “play a real life approximation of himself.”

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I love hearing and seeing media of people taking British music and doing something slightly different than normal with it. As well as the mash ups I keep sharing with you, I’m always on the look out for something a bit different, and this video fits that bill exactly.

It shows an all male a capella group of singers doing their version of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

I love the way they’ve taken this classic piece of British rock music and made it their own. From the great quality of singing on display to the movements and actions they use to add a bit of style to the song, it all works really well.

I don’t think anyone will ever beat Freddie Mercury as a front man, and this song has become his and Queens trademark song, but this version certainly does it justice.

The Enemy and Dirty Pretty Things played a live gig in Pentonville prison today to highlight the amount of suicides in British prisons.

Mimicking Country music legend Johnny Cash, the two British Indie bands played a special gig to support ‘Wasted Youth’, a campaign to highlight and reduce the high incidents of suicide among young men.

Dirty Pretty Things front man Carl Barat first played a short acoustic set in the atrium of the prison, before both bands played a full set in the 180 capacity prison chapel.

Barat’s former Libertines band mate Pete Doherty was originally asked to play a part but it was thought his drugs problems might overshadow the important issues at hand.

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Kanye West proved his song title correct by staying at number 1 for the 2nd week running with ‘Stronger’. Sean Kingston has gone straight in at number 2 with the strangely catchy but otherwise utter crap ‘Beautiful Girls’. Now I know this guy is American, that much is clear from the video, but I know very little else.

I only heard this song for the first time 2 weeks ago, and my initial reaction was to laugh at it’s inanity. Since then it has a grown on me a little bit, but I still think it’s a pile of shite.

For starters it’s musical blasphemy to steal the riff from Ben E King’s ‘Stand By Me’ and use it lock stock and barrel on a crappy RnB track. Also, Sean Kingston sings more out of tune than me at a karaoke bar, which as any of my friends will attest is atrociously out of tune. Why is this guy a pop star? He’s shit.

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Last month Prince gave his brand new album ‘Planet Earth’ away with a British newspaper. To celebrate this, I held a contest where one lucky reader of Brit Music Scene could win a copy of the album.

The lucky winner was JM from that little country they call Australia, and I dispatched the album to her forthwith. She’s now had the opportunity to listen to the album and has kindly written a short review of it for us…

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The Amy Winehouse train wreck continues on, and shows no sign of stopping until she either gets help from some external source or kills herself.

The latest news in today’s Sun newspaper reveals details of a fight between Any and husband Blake Fielder-Civil. Seeing the latest pictures, he looks less civil, and more brutal to me.

Apparently Winehouse ran from the Sanderson Hotel in London at 3am yesterday morning covered in blood, plasters and smudged mascara. Blake chased her down Regent Street himself covered in scratches and bleeding from the neck.

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Bono from U2 has for years seen himself as a kind of modern day Jesus: miracle worker, saviour of the masses, hero to the poor, purveyor of loud rock music. Actually as you can see he’s bigger than Jesus, the former never was any good at singing. Anyway, it seems that an artist has picked up on this trend of the Irish rock singer’s conversion to second coming, and sculpted Bono as Jesus.

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I have two live videos of British bands for you today which I think you might enjoy. Maximo Park and The Editors are 2 of my favourite bands at the moment, and have both released amazing second albums in 2007.

While on their promotional tours over in America to support the new albums, they appeared on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ and both performed brilliantly.

First off The Editors performing ‘An End Has A Start’ and the start of ‘Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors‘. I can’t believe the programme cut off only 30 seconds in to the 2nd track but we at least get 1 full song.

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