• People will collect anything nowadays. Rather odd auction for a Timberland leather cow.
• Those of you with friends in New York should ask them to pop along to Barneys on February 11th for the Kid Robot AM1. Rumours abound of 48 pairs of the pink colourway and 250 pairs of the black colourway.
• Cardiff and Bristol heads: I hope you've kept next weekend free for these 3 gigs.
  Andy C starts a new Silent Running residency at Clwb Ifor Bach on Friday 4th February.
  The Beatnuts & Aspects are playing Fiddlers Bristol on Saturday 5th.
  Finally, The Pharcyde (minus Slimkid and the recently rejoined Fatlip, but with a setlist covering mainly Bizarre Ride and Labcab...) play Bristol Bierkeller on Monday 7th. Phew!
• The more forward-thinking of you should also take note that Mr Thing is playing Moloko Cardiff on Thursday 3rd March.
• First look photos of the highly anticipated Nike Vengeance London have appeared on BGHD. These look fantastic; full marks to their featured artist Gasius for coming through with these.