Villagers frontman Conor J O’Brien’s previous band The Immediate should have been massive in 2009. His new band Villagers who are set to play both the Nottingham Bristol legs of Dot To Dot have just signed to Domino Records home to a certain Sheffield beat combo plying their trade under the crazy name Arctic Monkeys – that’ll never catch on and played last week’s Later With Jools. We absolutely promise you that Villagers will be massive in 2010. Wait and see,Various online posts and blogs from the band stress the importance that they place in local record shops, and this was something we chatted about for a while. Rod simply felt that the concept of the album’ is dying out fast, and that the internet holds a great responsibility for this. A way that both the band with Post Electric Blues and Rod on his solo album A Sentimental Education have tried to address this issue, is by offering fans the opportunity to have their name in the album sleeve once they preorder the record. In theory, Rod thought this would bring music fans back to the days when they would anticipate’ the release of an album, because they had a level of commitment towards it. Rod also commented that the impact of the internet these days meant that looking for good music is like looking for a needle in a hayfield, rather than a haystack that it used to be like’.Although she is a notorious party animal, Amy reportedly even spent her 27th birthday on Tuesday 140910 alone at home, with friends saying she is still getting over her split with Psychosis director Reg.