The Daily Ligger: Arctic Monkeys do Shakespeare

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 and girlfriend Alexa Chung got Bard yesterday (November 8) - sorry, terrible pun... According to the Daily Star newspaper, the couple were spotted in London bookshop Foyles staging their own mini-Shakespeare production. The pair were quoting lines from ’Romeo And Juliet’ to each other in the shop and were "lying on the floor having such a laugh, acting out scenes, passing the book back and forth". All together: Ahh!

From the papers:

Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos was spotted watching Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong at The Borderline (The Mirror).

Madonna at a Mayfair restaurant with Stella McCartney, Alasdair Willis, Guy Ritchie and Tom Ford (thelondonpaper).

The Kills' Jamie Hince with Kate Moss watching the Michael Clark Company’s ’Stravinsky Project’ at London’s Barbican Theatre. Afterwards, the couple went to The Two Brewers pub (thelondonpaper).

James Blunt at Tramp in Mayfair at Tatler’s Little Black Book Party (thelondonpaper).

Today’s gossip:

Chris Moyles watching The Verve at Camden’s Roundhouse.

The Magic Numbers' Romeo Stodart watching The Shins at The Forum.

Good Shoes' Rhys and Tony Blackburn at The Social in London.

Stuart Pearce at the Sex Pistols' return at London's Brixton Academy.

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