Hang on

In about four or five minutes, Gallows will be flicking some sort of over-elaborate switch to bring a free download of their new track on the MySpace.

Gallows told to go hang by Disneyland

For some reason - we can only imagine an amusing chain of misunderstandings behind the scenes - Gallows had been booked to play a gig at Disneyland. The actual one, with the real Mickey Mouse. Not the pretend one in France.

Luckily for everyone concerned, someone thought to check a lyrics sheet before the band turned up.

Now, Gallows aren't going to be playing Disneyland.

Gallows and a cracked head

Ow, ow, ow: Gallows' gig in Stoke last night ended in blood, mother, blood when Frank Carter cracked his head open. He'd been mucking about with a fan who'd run on stage when the sort of dire warning your Mum used to shout came true. The band limped on while Carter went to hospital, but eventually the gig was abandoned.

Carter - after a spot of vinegar and brown paper - is expected to recover for the rest of the tour.

Kerrang: Lostprophets still "best" British band

It'll come as something of a surprise to most people, but - according to the Kerrang Awards - Lostprophets are still the best band in Britain.

Say what you like about K!, but their awards are about the only rock music prize with a profile in the UK which doesn't shuffle the same winners as everyone else. Not a sniff for Amy Winehouse.

The winners in full, then:

Kerrang! Hall Of Fame: Judas Priest
Icon: Nine Inch Nails
International band: Panic At The Disco
British band: Lostprophets
Hard rock hero: Machine Head
Spirit of independence: Enter Shikari
Classic songwriter: Deftones
Best video: Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scence
Best album: Machine Head - The Blackening
Best single: 30 Seconds To Mars - The Kill
Best live band: Enter Shikari
Best international newcomer: Madina Lake
Best British newcomer: Gallows

We didn't say the winners were any better than at the NME awards, just different.

Incidentally, last year's Best British Newcomer was Bring Me The Horizon. Shortly before they disappeared over it.

[2006 Kerrang awards]

Gallows hung out to dry

Could Gallows be for the chop? Last night on stage in Sheffield, Frank Carter warned that he couldn't do this much longer:

"I'm going to level with you guys, I was out there crying before because I don't know if I can do this any more," Carter declared from the stage. "I don't know if I can play for you cunts any more."

But he cheered up later, after calling his Mum:

"I was on the phone to my mum and I said, 'I've had enough of this shit'. My mum said to me, 'You're just like me, you care too much'," explained Carter, adding that Gallows would continue. "It's too important for us to quit."

It's thought his Mum was keen for him to continue on the UK tour because she's let his room out while he's away.

Gallows gallops around the land

Touring about the country next month, Gallows (as the headline sort-of-implied):

Sheffield, Leadmill – June 11
Leeds, Cockpit – 12
Belfast, Auntie Annies – 13
Dublin, Voodoo Lounge – 14
Aberdeen, Tunnels – 16
Newcastle, Academy – 17
Bristol Bar, Academy – 18
Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms – 19
London, King’s College – 21

The album's getting a re-release to tie-in.

Touts exhibit Gallows humour

Here's a tricky question for the MPs keen to throw ticket touts into jail: what if the people buying from the touts are the band?

That happened last night when Gallows found their guest list at the 100 Club had been "accidentally sold"; with record labels and mothers on the way to see the band, they nipped out onto Oxford Street and snapped up tix from touts at forty quid a throw.