Slash on Demand

Recorded during the band’s suitably vodka-fuelled 2002 World Tour, Slashed includes a Sherlock Holmes-ian cameo from Chris Martin who’s joined on the credits by his Coldplay colleague Jonny Buckland and Foo Fighter Dave Grohl.
While unlikely to have Dario Argento, George A. Romero, Wes Craven and the rest of the gang looking to their horror directing laurels, it’s a great bit of hokum, which finds the now (dearly) departed Charlotte Hatherley bearing the brunt of the psychotic ghostly killer’s axe-wielding. Incidentally, our enjoyment of Slashed has nothing to do with Chaz appearing scantily clad in the shower.
The clip doubles up as an alternate video for the latest installment of their A To Z series of singles, ‘Binary’, and can be perused at www.ash-official.com.
Meanwhile, having smashed many a box-office with his Star Trek prequel, J.J. Abrams returns to the telly with a new spy series which debuts Stateside in the autumn.
jjabramsprojects.blogspot.com has the trailer for Undercovers plus details of a movie possibly called Super 8 that the American wunderkind may or may not be unleashing on the cinema-going public this year.
From there it’s but a mere mouse-click to vimeo.com/channels/icclshortlist2010 where you can watch If You Like It You Should Be Able To Put A Ring On It and three other shorts which are up for the 2010 ICCL Human Rights Award.
A judging panel that includes Kirsten Sheridan, Victoria Smurfit and Senator David Norris will select the winner, which will be announced later this month in Dublin’s Lighthouse Cinema.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKMTSGgJPGA (everywhere this week, but in case you’ve missed it here are loads of old 2fm heads embarrassing themselves); www.sabotagetimes.com (James Brown’s new online magazine); and www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-vodka-eyeballing,0,7984143.story (seriously kids, don’t try this at home).