Is Noel Edmonds set for SXSW?(Dooley's Diary)

Remember where you heard it: So, Radio Two is going to have an official presence at next year's South By South West. After a false start last year, Lewis Carnie and the powers-that-be have agreed to mosey on down to Austin with the rest of the music industry great and good. But there are no clues who will be broadcasting from the Texas A&R scrum--suggestions that Noel Edmonds and his cuddly jumpers will be joining the fray were unconfirmed as Dooley went to press ... While Metallica drew the summer festival proceedings to a close at Carling Weekend's Reading main stage on Sunday night, it was central London's turn to be gripped by live fever last Wednesday. With the fuzz keeping a close eye on the limos rolling up outside the Astoria, and the touts, no doubt, bemused but icy cool Danes The Raveonettes wondered why some of the crowds were disappearing up Charing Cross Road but played on nonetheless to a packed crowd of their own, with a half-hour set at Virgin Megastore Oxford Street, while up the road at HMV Paul Weller played a storming crowd-pleasing set including Jam numbers Town Called Malice and That's Entertainment. It was certainly a night for West End pus, with The Rapture appearing at Fopp ... Meanwhile, one enterprising soul as packing out a venue around the corner with the "unofficial Rolling Stones after-show party" ... The next night, while most of London was demonstrating just what a bunch of southern softies they are--a bit of rain and a power cut causing blitz-like scenes across the southern ...