Quote of the day

"Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has apparently found rare Joy Division and New Order master tapes when digging up the basement of a new restaurant in Manchester."

I could be wrong, NME, but somehow I doubt that Oliver was personally doing the digging.

The story becomes slightly less odd when you learn that the building in which the restaurant is to be situated is a former bank, and that the tapes (as well as gold, jewellry and even a gun) were in deposit boxes. All of the finds have been returned to the Treasury, apparently - with Peter Hook seemingly intent on continuing to butcher Unknown Pleasures all over the place, it's nice to know that at least one small part of Joy Division's legacy is in safer hands...

Update

Actually, thanks to Simon and according to Manchester Confidential, very little of this is true - a textbook case of churnalism of which I'm also guilty...