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Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys

Plus your daily round up of all the best gossip from today's papers

Welcome to the Daily Ligger, your morning stop-off to find out who in the world of indie and rock has been up to what.

Today’s top gossip:

Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner is to get a set of personalised rollerskates, along with his girlfriend Alexa Chung. They'll slip into their new footwear for a rollerdisco at London’s Renaissance Rooms venue tonight.

From the papers:

Damon Albarn partied at London’s Boujis club until 4:30am (thelondonpaper).

The Kills’ Jamie Hince was out with girlfriend Kate Moss and DJ Jodie Harsh at Mayfair’s Claridges hotel (thelondonpaper).

Hince had earlier been at London's Levi’s Ones To Watch 4 event, along with Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos (Daily Star).

Former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale hung out at the Uniqlo store on Oxford Street for the shop’s launch party (Daily Star).

The Cheeky Girls were seen walking around Tottenham Court Road (Daily Star).

NME.COM reader spots:

Graham Coxon stopping at some traffic lights in London, wearing red socks and carrying an envelope (Kris, via email).

Amy Winehouse and her dad Mitch relaxing in Camden’s Hawley Arms pub, which was the official venue for !!!’s aftershow party. They’d played at the Koko venue earlier (Greg, via email).

Faris Rotter from The Horrors checking out hot new band Effi Briest at London’s 229 venue (Sam, via email).

Check back tomorrow morning for the next Daily Ligger. Email your own spots to news@nme.com.

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