His winning story, 'The Orphan and the Mob', is effectively a prologue to his forthcoming novel, Jude: Level 1, which will be released later this year. Toasted Heretic recently re-released their first two cassetteonly albums on CD. Now In New Nostalgia Flavour's artwork featured a caricature of a bag of Tayto crisps, itself a parody of one of their earlier album cover designs. Tayto didn't find this amusing and subsequently threatened to sue their ass, ordering all the offending CDs destroyed. They didn't get mine.

NOW FOR SOME NEWS JUSTIN THE JT Futuresex/Lovesounds rolled into Belfast for two dates at the humoungous Odyssey arena last week for the start of the former N'Snyc dancer's mega tour of Europe which comes to Dublin for two dates on 30 June and 1 July. Now Feedback wouldn't normally encourage this sort of thing but, after witnessing the two-hour extravaganza up close, we were genuinely shocked at how talented the boy is . . . and not just at dancing. Featuring tons of musicians who actually played their instruments, lasers and all manner of visual effects, a huge booming sound and one of the better white-boy RnB voices, JT really seems to be taking this pop lark seriosuly.

And then there was the dancing. . .

APPLE OF HIS iPOD AMID all the kerfuffle over digital rights management for music players, Apple chief Steve Jobs must be having a quiet laugh to himself. The company last week said it sold more than 10 million iPods in the first three months of this year . . . that's almost two million more than it sold in the first quarter of 2006. By the time the playing field has levelled (when you can use any MP3 player on iTunes) everyone in the whole wide world will own an iPod.

NATIONAL STUDENT MUSIC AWARDS Congratulations to Waterford fivepiece Saviours of Space who took first prize in the National Student Music Awards in Dublin's Village venue last Thursday night, easily beating off competition from the five other shortlisted bands. The band's energetic mix of bluesy indie rock features piano and trumpet flourishes with a high dancibility factor. Previous winners of the award include Delorentos. Watch this space.

www. myspace. com/savioursofspace WARMING NEWS Spinal Tap are set to reform for a one-off performance in the new Wembley stadium as part of the Live Earth series of concerts in July. Previously ignorant of global warming issues, frontman Nigel Tufnel said he had finally realised that global warming was more of an issue than simply taking off his jacket when he felt warm.