Here's the most interesting bit about 'young pop star might use recreational drugs' story : Police spokesman Lars Bystrom said a small amount of drugs and a stun gun had been found when officers raided the empty bus parked under the Globen concert venue in Stockholm, where the singer was performing on Wednesday. He declined to identify the drug, saying it had been "sent to a laboratory for an analysis". Police acted after smelling marijuana coming from inside the bus when it was parked outside the hotel where the singer was staying. "We [...]
This summer, the Gibson (né Universal) Ampitheatre in LA ends its lease, and closes. NPR reports : The mid-sized space with was loved by everyone from head bangers to heads of state for its intimate setting with superior sound. Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Madonna, Kanye West, the Grateful Dead and many other major artists performed there. Other headliners included Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. "Head bangers to heads of state". Nice work. So, when the doors shut this summer, and after the bulldozers have moved in, what shall we [...]
Liam Gallagher has opened negotiations for an Oasis comeback : he said: “Listen, it’ll happen when it happens, but it ain’t a f***ing game — it’s the real deal. “I read a lot of people going, ‘Oh, it’s just a blag, innit? So they can get some more noughts on their big f***ing comeback.’ “But I’m still me and he’s gonna be him. “I ain’t changing for a million f***ing pounds... I might do it for £30million.” So, an opening of thirty million. I'm suggesting a kickstarter to raise forty million, [...]
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For some happy to offer his opinion, tutored or not, Liam Gallagher's a bit thin-skinned when on the other side . Apparently he finds it tiresome to be criticised: He said: "I'm sick of fucking idiots saying I can't sing, you know what I mean? So I thought fuck this, no effects, none of that double tracking as much. Let’s get in there bare, this is how I sound, man. This is how my voice sounds so hopefully people will like it and get off my fucking back...It’s how I sound round the fucking house or on [...]
It's nice - or perhaps "nice" - to have a lunkheaded flag controversy without it being either a Nazi German or Confederate American flag. Muse managed to lob the flag of Imperial Japan into the video for Panic Station . It's probably the worst possible time to accidentally be promoting Japan's expansionist past . Muse yanked the video, re-edited it, and apologised: Muse wrote an apology on Twitter which read: “Sorry for the mistake re the intro graphics for the Panic Station video. We are fixing it now.” This [...]
I don't know why I'm so insanely excited about a compilation album that consists mostly of tracks I already own. Perhaps it's because Cherry Red have effectively curated a collection which spans, for me, roughly what got me through puberty-to-University . They've not called it that, of course. They've called it Scared To Get Happy. And that's special too. Jesus, they've made an album which, if you play it through in order, one moment you're listening to Bradford's Skin Storm; the next, you've got The Charlottes. Here's that tracklist in full: [...]
JLS have announced their intention to star in the 2016 season of ITV2's The Big Reunion, and are taking the first step by splitting at the end of their current tour . There's an official statement on their website: Database Error: Unable to connect to your database. Your database appears to be turned off or the database connection settings in your config file are not correct. Please contact your hosting provider if the problem persists. Which is a fitting way to say goodbye. Or possibly just a sign that a thousand distraught youngsters are hitting [...]
As shared with Elle : "We never got to the point where we could just get rid of her so I could decide what I wanted to do," Gordon says. "Thurston was carrying on this whole double life with her. He was really like a lost soul." Moore moved out. Gordon stayed home and listened to a lot of hip-hop. "Rap music is really good when you’re traumatized," she says. -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch
Her name might not be instantly recognisable, but you'll know her voice, and you'll know her voice from this song: Christina formed The Divinyls with Mark McEntee after being introduced in a Sydney car park. A period of gigging on the pub circuit followed, before Amphlett landed a role in the film Monkey Grip, bringing with her a collection of her band's songs for the soundtrack. The international breakthrough came with I Touch Myself - a hit in Australia, America and Britain. It could have been a solid base for a glittering career, but the record [...]
There's a story from Jack Royston on Bizarre today that has lead the MSPaint whizzes at The Sun to come up with this, erm, image: Apparently, then Liam got so drunk he tried to ride a dog. Although for some reason the newspaper has photoshopped him trying to shag the back of a dog's head. He also tried to do a runner from the pub, Ye Olde White Bear in Hampstead And Highgate's trendy Hampstead, before settling the bill: The manager, who asked not to be [...]
It's been a tough week in Boston . Things are starting to get back to normal, with baseball resuming yesterday evening. There's a tradition at the Red Sox of singing Sweet Caroline, and as a gesture of solidarity their rival teams had been singing the song as well this week. Last night, Neil Diamond turned up in Boston to join in : Diamond’s rep tells The Hollywood Reporter as soon as the singer heard the Red Sox game was going to happen, he felt a need to be there. He took a red-eye flight [...]
Whenever anything attached to the internet announces with a flourish that it's adding socially-powered music discovery to the mix, it makes sense to mark the date in your diary. It'll help you be accurate when you say "this is where the rot set in". Remember when MySpace suddenly decided that it was about music? Remember Ping? No, no, the Apple one. I shan't even ask if you remember ComesWithMusic, as unless you were responsible for putting the write-off onto the balance sheet, you won't. So it's with a look [...]
The most-read April stories so far: 1. Thatcher Ding Dong ding dong 2. Cowell snubbed as played-out, formulaic TV shows overlooked by awards 3. Government finds money to piss away on DRM and an IP warning system 4. Video: Snapdragons - Dole Boys On Futons 5. RIP: Gary Biddles 6. Bobby Gillespie uses TopShop marketing job to complain about youth culture 7. Express gets angry about Ding Dong before anything happens 8. Listen: Vini Reilly talks [...]
Gordon Smart wants us to believe that Lady GaGa has been working through a Top gear box set while she's been unwell. Alright, then. If you say so. -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch
Apparently Kasabian are under the impression they should appear at Glastonbury every year , like mud, Billy Bragg, and those people who steal stuff from tents: [Tom] said: “I’m not playing second fiddle to those bands. We’re just as good, if not better. “We’re the ultimate, we’re the headline band. But he didn’t call us, the b******. “Glastonbury’s on our ‘to-do’ list. All he’s got to do is pick up the phone. “We’ve got every f***ing right to headline Glastonbury ’cos we’re good enough. It will happen.” Oh, yes, not just [...]
Gary Biddles, Cure roadie turned collaborator, has died . Biddles made deep connections with The Cure - as Slicing Up Eyeballs remembers, he was briefly lead singer during a last-night jam session on the Pornography tour - and was the first call for former Cure members putting together bands. He was co-founder of Fools Dance when Simon Gallup had his time out from the band; after Gallup returned to Robert Smith's side, Biddles joined Lol Tolhurst in exile in the band Presence. Presence recorded two albums, but the second had never been heard in public [...]
Scott Miller, leader of Game Theory and Loud Family, has died . Miller's Game Theory were a plausible-sounding college rock band from the Davis area of San Francisco who found themselves brutally undone by the weight of "the next REM" expectations they were loaded down with. They nearly broke through to a wider audience with 1987's Lolita Nation, but just as they were poised for success their label went bust and then the band imploded. Miller moved on to Loud Family, named after the original reality TV family. The [...]
Well, this piece from Stephen Moyes in today's Sun is pretty clear : MICHAEL Jackson’s daughter has vowed to “karate chop” convicted doctor Conrad Murray to make him appear at the family’s trial. Nothing like making a daughter's distress at a doctor refusing to help her understand her father's very public death into a cartoon. But still, if you're going to do this, you'd have a good reason for doing it, right? So, where does the 'karate chop' quote come from? A source said: “Paris wants to kick Murray’s butt. She wants him [...]
Wayne Bridge, out of Brighton And Hove Albion, has become engaged to Frankie Out the Saturdays. Tell us, Frankie, how did he ask for your hand ? Wayne took me to a hotel and he got my dogs involved Hang on a moment, what? I didn't know my dogs were there and they came in in little bride and groom outfits. I'm not entirely sure that walking in your boyfriend in a hotel room with dogs dressed up necessarily means he was planning to ask you to marry him. It could just mean [...]
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