for small fee :)

I assume "frantic resuscitation attempts" involve ripping out the battery and leaving the laptop to dry naturally and not plugging it in and hitting the power button.

Nerd icon for the chap in the data recovery centre that they'll be making a deal with shortly.

I guess she didn't like the new Kills songs then...

... Any chance we can get Ms. Moss access to Robbie Williams' lappy? :)

Pretty sure the data could be recovered from this without too much trouble, that is if it isn't an elaborate excuse to explain the non-delivery of the new album...

"No word yet on the make of the laptop - but hey, you've got an IT angle, what more do you want?"

Boobies!

Mines the one with the copy of 'Razzle' in the pocket.

In a Kate Moss story, no chance.

Paris, well, no need to explain

For The Kills to die.

So, this dude's studio recorded directly onto his laptop? Or maybe the engineer wiped the recordings from the studio's disks as soon as they'd finished the session? Uh, no. This is a stupid story about stupid people doing stupid things, and an interesting cross reference may be found here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17366-how-celebrities-stay-famous-regardless-of-talent.html

The irony is of course, that by commenting on this I am perpetuating some vainglorious loser's stint in the public glare. Bye, now.

FAIL.

(yay for excuse to use the new icons)

Surely a data recovery lab could get most/all data off the drive, although they probably shouldn't.

This couldn't have happened in the 60s because:

a) The recording equipment would have been far too heavy to throw into the swimming pool.

b) There would be no room in the pool because of the Rolls Royce that was in there already.

c) Everyone would be dead from drug overdoses anyway.

I need more beer.

"This couldn't have happened in the 60s because ...

...Everyone would be dead from drug overdoses anyway."

Like Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Keith Richard, Grace Slick, Frank Zappa, Roy Harper, Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, etc.?

So, yeah, like THAT all happened.

> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17366-how-celebrities-stay-famous-regardless-of-talent.html

Quote: "Take Paris Hilton, somehow or another she became well known and now people are more likely to talk about her," Fast says.

H'yeah. He knows, but he's not saying!

I'm surprised you didn't provide a detailed statistical analysis of recording equipment mass, to prove that some recorders could actually have been hurled by an unassisted supermodel.

Also, an extensive survey of Rolls Royce / swimming pool accident statistics would probably have shown me that it was quite unlikely that the pool was already occupied by a prestige motor car at the time of the alleged tantrum.

I feel such a fool now. Lucky we've got people like you policing the internet eh?

I was just going to say that, its as clear a case of sense of humour bypass as I have ever seen

A swimming laptop gathers no moss.....

...about that girl's choice in fellas. They're typically way below her weight (metaphorically, obviously!) and musos. She's so just doing them until she gets a solo track on one of their albums. I couldn't have given a flying toss if pete asbo doherty had let her, but it will be over my dead body that she sings on a kills track.

I really cannot see another reason for having slept with the skankbag that is pete doherty! It's like trying to find amy winehouse attractive!

Bittorrent doesn't kill Music. Kate Moss kills Music!

Kills' Music even.

Maybe Hince is concerned that a data recovery company might recover and leak whatever else was on the laptop? Look at what happened to Edison Chen!

I for one welcome our new gadget drowning clothes horse overlords.

I doubt very much these were studio recordings, more like Hince working on songs at home on the lappy to then take in to be recorded. Rough and ready ideas, not completed ready to release songs. He should have backed up but we creative types have better things to worry about, you know? This article actually reminded me to turn my Carbonite backup back on- it hadn't updated in about a month. Oops.

He perhaps should have stuck to the old 4 track cassette recorder he first started working on Kills material with- unless Kate Moss carries a bulk eraser around with her he'd have been fine.