The Daily Tonic: The Rusty Ray Ban Incident

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* Kurt’s glittering skiwear!

* Dave Berry’s song and dance!

* PLUS: Your 80th audio round…

>> Snail mail <<

On this day in PB history

While combing through a few old disk drives, we wondered what sort of stories were coming in to our email inbox on this day in years gone by.
The answer for June 9th 2002?
tnt writes:

“News reaches me that So Solid Crew are currently recording their new album in Sussex somewhere and apparently have a fondness not for Cristal, Hennessy or bitches, but for Sara Lee lemon meringue pies.”

What else was in our inbox 18 years ago? Someone telling us about how Ronan Keating had kicked off at their colleague in the Our Price at Meadowhall, Sheffield, demanding to be sold a copy of Elvis v JXL’s A Little Less Conversation two days ahead of its release date.

>> Tenants extra <<

Question of the day

A surprising number of you have stomped on celebrity toes in your time. We don’t have the space to issue all the apologies necessary, but we’ve included a few tales of your star-studded accidents below.
Today’s Question: Have you ever lived with a celebrity housemate? When? Why? And what was it like?
Send your stories of famous flatmates and their more memorable domestic habits to hello@popbitch.com. We’ll send some digital treats to our favourites.

The woman pictured on cans of Tennent’s Sweetheart Stout is Venetia Stevenson. Her daughter, Erin Everly, is who Axl Rose is singing about in Sweet Child O’ Mine.

>> Foot soldier <<

Protecting the Young

SW writes:

“While working at the Arena X Awards, Will Young saw me helping Rachel Stevens to her car by allowing her to cling behind me while I barged hordes of paps away (in 4” heels I’m nearly 6ft, so good for tiny celebs to hide behind). When I got back, Will Young asked if I could do the same for him, which I agreed to.
“Once he was in the car I tried to close the door but something was in the way. I presumed it was a pap’s foot so kept trying to slam it. It was Will’s foot. I’m not sure how badly I hurt it but I gave it a few good whacks. Sorry, Will!”

SW continues: “Related: at the same party Dave Berry made a big song and dance of leaving, drawing the paps down the road, so that his then-girlfriend Heidi Sugababe could get into her car with less harassment.”

>> Crowe fall <<

The Rusty Ray-Ban incident

SB writes:

“I’ve not injured a celebrity but, back in 1993, years before his Hollywood debut and he got really famous, I was at an after-party after a show at the Sydney Metro Theatre, where Russell Crowe played Jake Blues in a stage production of The Blues Brothers.
“Rusty rocked up with his Ray-Bans still on and walked straight into a coffee table, going arse over heel. Everyone started laughing and he skulked off.”

CP writes: “Many moons ago I was an au pair in America. They took me on a skiing trip to Aspen and I was allowed to have a ski. I was a bit wobbly to start and accidentally knocked over a guy in a gold all-in-one suit. He was really sweet about it and helped me up. It was Kurt Russell.”

>> Cock-up <<

Cider with Jarvis

SJ writes:

“I studied music at college and one of my tutors was Larry, the guitarist from 90s Britpoppers, James. One day we’re in the pub and we see him, so we go over to say hello but just as we got to the table my mate tripped and spilled his full pint of cider all over Larry’s drinking companion: a clearly quite annoyed, but very nice about it Jarvis Cocker.”

miss_kitten writes: “My sister accidentally kicked Terry Callier once. He died soon afterwards. I hope the two were not connected.”

>> Quarantunes <<

Audio Round No.80

Today’s round is just an inexplicable grab-bag of snippets. No rhyme, no reason – just hooks here and there that it’s your job to identify.
There’s ten songs, which means ten artists and ten titles to get, giving you twenty points in total.
[Play it here]

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>> Hmmms <<

A couple of quick things

Bad Romance: Medieval Cover

[Listen on YouTube]
Play jazz with your computer keyboard

[Type and noodle]
The Science of Seinfeld – can you actually die from licking envelopes?

[A professor of toxicology weighs in]

THANKS TO: tnt, RM, SW, RX, SW, SB, CP, SJ, miss_kitten

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A burglar broke into my house through the bathroom window.

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