It’s all about Scissor Sisters right now, right?  I mean EVERYONE I know is losing it over the brand new album Night Work, which was produced in collaboration with none other than Kylie and Madonna’s producer Stuart Price.  Disco city!  And their recent Aussie tour was a resounding success with all parties blown away by an extraordinary energy the band creates onstage.  It’s such a shame they didn’t make it to Canberra, but reports from the Sydney gigs would have you believe it was tantamount to a religious experience.

In what has to be one of the cleverest and most outrageous promotional tie-ins, Jake Shears, the band’s homo-licious lead singer, put up a personal profile on the website rentboy.com, advertising the album and subsequently himself.  Any of you not familiar with the webpage (or just pretending you don’t know about it!) rentboy.com is for anyone interested in locating members of the oldest profession, and according to it’s homepage it lays claim to being ‘the world’s largest gay escort and massage site’.  Jake’s ‘stats’ cleverly relate to the album’s release and the band’s tour dates (‘currently serving Berlin’, at time of writing) and the photos are of him semi-naked, with just a towel to cover his modesty, and it should be said are really very hot.  Hot enough to get your average punter to go to iTunes and download the Night Work album — $11.95 according to the rentboy profile.

If you’re keen to see the ad go to: www.rentboy.com/listing.aspx?lu=nightwork.