After spending a couple of days in the Kent head office, I am currently regretting the wisdom of partaking in Double Vision cider from last night - if only double vision was all I had..

• 12 different Danbury Porcelain limited edition plates celebrating Freddie Mercury  
• Several framed and autographed photographs from Keane 
• Superb Queen 1986 German promotional tour poster from the Mannheim 'Open Air Festival'
• Autographed Ship Of Fools Purple Vinyl 12" from popsters Erasure

Our busy despatch team requires a highly organised full time person with a mature attitude and sunny disposition.

This is a physically demanding job because you will be packaging hundreds of rare records, CDs and items of memorabilia every day; anything from £4.99 to £4999!

Fresh from my medicinal malaise enforced holiday, I return to say diddly squat about anything.

The list, which was topped (if not unsurprisingly) by Led Zeppelin was voted for by a mixture of 128 journalists, rock stars and other music luminaries.

The current issue is out now and is well worth a read - plus you can find out how Fugazi made number 30 on the list. See the full list here but in the meantime what do you think?

It was revealed earlier in the year that the band would be starting work on their new album later in 2008, with Pete Townsend mysteriously adding the proviso that he wouldn’t be writing all the songs.

Well, now that mystery is solved after Burnett told Rolling Stone magazine that the duo will be recording an album of material based upon songs that they performed early on in their career.

Burnett said “We’re digging through lots of material and seeing what will work. There’s an incredible treasury of songs in the mode of what they used to play. Not ‘Heat Wave’ [an early favourite of the band], but ones that people probably haven’t heard of.” Townsend, Daltrey and Burnett are due to convene in London in the winter to start recording the record.

First Young Support Act Confirmed: Neil Young has confirmed the first support act for his Hop Farm gig in July. Primal Scream will take to the stage on 6 July, prior to the man himself playing his only scheduled festival appearance of the year.

More support acts are due to appear at the unbranded event and we’ll confirm these when they’re announced. The Hop Farm Country Park is a popular tourist attraction in Kent, but for one day in July will attempt in some way to reclaim the hippy ethos with an unbranded & unsponsored day of music.

According to the press for the event, there’s no registration or VIP area so everyone has the same experience and no one is treated any better than anyone else. You can get tickets by heading to the link here. This one

Zep O2 DVD Remote Possibility: If the will-they-won’t-they-tour saga isn’t enough for you, then how’s a will-they-won’t-they-release O2-DVD saga as well?

It was widely expected that following the triumphant show at the London venue last December, the band would release the DVD and donate money from sales to the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund – the charity for which they reformed.

However, it seems that there is some doubt as to whether the will actually see the light of day.

Jimmy Page told Uncut Magazine “It was recorded, but we didn’t go in with the express purpose of making a DVD. We haven’t seen the images or investigated the multi-tracks. It’s feasible that it might come out at some distant point, but it’ll be a massive job to embark on.”

Our money says that the “massive job” will be completed just before Christmas…

Radio Station Foos Prank Backfires: A New Zealand radio station’s April Fools Day prank backfired badly yesterday, costing several employees their jobs.

Kiwi station, The Rock announced a free “secret gig” by the Foo Fighters at a power station in Auckland. Only there was no gig. The intention was that people would turn up and the station would then play a Foos album on a portable hi-fi. Apparently hilarity was going to ensue at this point.

They had expected around 50 people to turn up to see the multi-platinum band perform, but instead the station was inundated with interest. And when thousands of people started to book flights and take time off work they had no choice but to admit the joke.

The Rock’s Programme Director issued the following statement: “I arrived back in the country after a week long holiday and heard of the announcement on The Rock that the Foo Fighters are playing in Auckland. This is an April Fools gag, dreamed up by our over enthusiastic promotions department and completely untrue… Contracts have been terminated, and heads have rolled. This is what happens when fools plan April Fools jokes.”