| CMU Daily - on the inside 15 Oct 2002 |
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In today's CMU Daily:
• Q Award nominations – nuff said,
• Zepplin reunion rumours untrue,
• Dance imprint gets Radio 1 show,
• Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Machine,
• Madonna movie fails to impress,
• More Guns ‘n’ Roses than in Guns ‘n’ Roses,
• Eminem puts in a surprise performance at movie preview,
• Bowie DVD planned,
• Braxton track had “zero” influence on Jay Z,
• Naked night at Ministry of Sound,
• System Of Down launch imprint,
• Review: Bobby Hughes Combination - NHU Golden Era,
• They Might Be Giants go on a book tour!,
• New Dylan footage released,
• Roberts back in pop stars running
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John Lennon can be heard singing on a David Bowie track and on an Elton John track. Which tracks?
Answer tomorrow
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THIS WEEKS STUDENT RADIO CHART
1. [2] The Coral - Dreaming Of You (Deltasonic)
2. [7] Foo Fighters - All My Life (BMG)
3. [1] The Vines – Outtathaway (EMI/Heavenly)
4. [3] The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself (679)
5. [4] Supergrass – Grace (EMI/Parlophone)
6. [5] The Strokes – Someday (Rough Trade)
7. [9] Turin Brakes - Long Distance (Source)
8. [11] Avril Lavigne – Complicated (Arista)
9. [N] Idlewild - Live In A Hiding Place (EMI/Parlophone)
10. [10] JJ72 - Formulae (Lakota)
11. [24] Oasis - Little By Little (Sony/Big Brother)
12. [22] The Manic Street Preachers - There By The Grace Of God (Sony/Epic)
13. [18] Beck - Lost Cause (Polydor/Geffen)
14. [N] DJ Shadow - Six Days (Universal/Island)
15. [12] No Doubt - Underneath It All (Polydor/Interscope)
16. [23] Pink - Just Like A Pill BMG/Arista
17. [6] Puddle Of Mudd - She Hates Me (Polydor / Geffen)
18. [20] Doves - Caught By The River (EMI/Heavenly)
19. [N] Polyphonic Spree - Hanging Around (679)
20. [N] Coldplay - The Scientist (Parlophone)
Compiled by and broadcast on the Student Broadcast Network (www.sbn.co.uk)
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Q AWARD NOMINATIONS – NUFF SAID
Best New Act: The Bees, Cooper Temple Cause, The Coral, Electric Soft Parade, The Vines
Best Single: The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So, Nickelback - How You Remind Me, Oasis - Hindu Times, Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way, Sugababes - Freak Like Me
Best Video: Eminem - Without Me, The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So, Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love, Pink - Get The Party Started
Best Producer: Rik Rubin for Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way, Tony Viscoti for David Bowie – Heathen, Ken Nelson and Mark Pythian for Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head, Moby for Moby – 18, Weezer and Tom Lord-Alge for Weezer - Maladroit
Best Live Act: The Hives, Muse, Oasis, The Strokes, White Stripes
Best album : Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head, Doves - The Last Broadcast, Beth Orton – Daybreaker, Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way, The Vines - Highly Evolved
Best act in the world today: Coldplay, Oasis, Radiohead, Stereophonics, U2
Q Unwanted: Geri Haliwell, Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman
Q re-enforces itself as primarily an indie rock magazine with the short list of its reader voted awards – Oasis and Coldplay fairing well in nominee stakes, Pop Star/Pop Idol the hate figure of the year. The awards take place 21 Oct.
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ZEPPLIN REUNION RUMOURS UNTRUE
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page’s management company have denied media reports that Led Zepplin are to reform for a US tour with Jason Bonham filling in on drums for his later father John Bonham. The Sunday Times reported that the three surviving members - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones - had patched up their differences at a meeting at management company Trinifold. But the management firm's Robert Rosenberg told the BBC the reports were "completely speculative. We don't know where these stories are coming from - certainly not from our office. At this point there is no tour, nor any plans for one, and no discussions have taken place about a tour." Guitarist Page and singer Plant have already toured together of course, but the band has not worked as an ensemble since the death of John Bonham in 1980.
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DANCE IMPRINT GETS RADIO 1 SHOW
Novamute, the leftfield dance imprint on independent (soon to be EMI) label Mute, will get a two hour special on Radio 1 on Thursday (17 Oct). Kicking off with a introduction from Mute founder Daniel Miller, there will be a mix from S.I Futures and a Debasser vs Cutless Supreme ‘soundclash’, plus lots of tracks from the Novamute back catalogue (expect to hear from Richie Hawtin, Speedy J, Soul Center and Si Begg among others).
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REVIEW: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Machine (Wichita)
There has never ever been a band more perfect than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Take their name for example: Yeah, we’ve heard it all before, pretty art students from New York who listen to the Velvet Underground and Yeah, all of Hoxton are talking about how great they are, but Yeah, no one has ever gotten it more right. Karen O begins with distorted PJ Harvey-esque mumblings: “Wasteful season take my hand/Take the place of the snakes who ran” before she spits out a rebellious “Ha!” like “Ha! I wouldn’t fuck Nick Cave if you gave me a million bucks. C’mon kids, lets blow this joint!” … and with the thunderous drums and fearsome guitars they’re gone, transcended into a heaven of speed and dirty sex. FC
Released date: 4 Nov
Press contact: Hermana [CP, RP, NP] Wichita IH [CR, RR, NR]
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MADONNA MOVIE FAILS TO IMPRESS
The latest Madonna movie vehicle has failed to deliver at the box office after bad reviews. The remake of 1974 film ‘Swept Away’ was called "Amateurish", a "debacle" and a "new career low for Madonna” by the New York Daily News, while the Washington Post said: "As awful as you've heard, and as bad as you've imagined.” Only 196 cinemas in the US decided to screen the movie on its opening weekend – the box office draw was less that $360,000 (number one film Red Dragon did $17.6 million of business). Though Madonna has been in near-flop movies before this is the first real failure for hubby Ritchie.
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MORE GUNS ‘N’ ROSE THAN IN GUNS ‘N’ ROSES
As Axl Rose continues to tour with his new-line up Guns 'n' Roses (he’s the only original member in the band) some are now calling a new band ‘the real Guns ‘n’ Roses’. G ‘n’ R founders guitarist Slash and bass player Duff McKagen, along with drummer Matt Sorum (who joined the band for Use Your Illusion) are about to take to the road with an as-yet-unnamed band. The three are currently auditioning a lead singer - Neurotica singer Kelly Shaefer is said to be a favourite after a storming performance at Ozzfest. Axl’s band were in Shanghai last week filming the video for the first single off their long awaited album 'Chinese Democracy'.
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EMINEM PUTS IN A SURPRISE PERFORMANCE AT MOVIE PREVIEW
Eminem surprised film goers by performing a surprise show after a preview of his movie ‘8 Mile’ at Michigan State University. Slim Shady performed a 45 minute set featuring other members of D12. Rumours of Eminem’s appearance packed out the screening. Teasing the crowds a Universal Films spokesperson told the audience at the start: "Rumours have a way of taking on lives of their own. Eminem isn't here. In fact, he's in the studio finishing up the soundtrack for the film right now." It was only when the man walked on stage after the movie that the rumours were confirmed.
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BOWIE DVD PLANNED
A Bowie Best Of DVD has been confirmed for a November release. The DVD, which will follow the release of a greatest hits CD next week, will feature all of Bowie's 47 music videos plus concert footage and live TV performances from shows like The Dick Cavett Show, Top of the Pops and the Old Grey Whistle Test. Bowie is currently in the middle of a series of concerts in New York – with a gig in each of the city’s boroughs it is being called the New York City Marathon tour.
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BRAXTON TRACK HAD “ZERO” INFLUENCE ON JAY Z
Jay Z has been talking about accusations that he stole Toni Braxton’s idea for his single '03 Bonnie & Clyde’. As previously reported, Braxton claims he decided to create a track based on Tupac's ‘Me and My Girlfriend' after hearing her track ‘Me and My Boyfriend’, also based on the Tupac track. But Jay Z has responded saying the Braxton track had a ‘zero’ influence on his latest record. "If I heard Toni Braxton's record, my thing is, I would want to be on it with her," he said. "I wouldn't want to take it from her. I don't even think like that. My first thought would be, 'Maybe I could call her up, maybe I could get on that record.' The most obvious explanation is it's neither one of our records. It's not like you made an original idea. She's not in hip-hop, but it happens in hip-hop often. We go to sample the same thing and my record came out first. I'm sorry. What can I do?"
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NAKED NIGHT AT MINISTRY OF SOUND
San Francisco-based dance label Naked Music is holding a London party next month at the Ministry of Sound (on 2 Nov). The eight hour event will feature The Moulton Studio trio - Jay-J, Chris Lum and Miguel Migs – playing some of the best of West Coast house. Naked Music, founded in 1999 with a remit to ‘release forward-thinking, urban soul music from a diverse roster of up-and-coming artists’ has become known in San Fran for its monthly Scuba Party events.
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SYSTEM OF DOWN LAUNCH IMPRINT
Sony label Columbia has given the frontman of System of a Down an imprint which is set to sign three new artists. Serj Tankian has been running an underground web based label (called Serjical Strike) for some time, now with the help of Sony he will get three of his artists major label releases. The bands in question are Bad Acid Trip, Kittens for Christian and Slow Motion Reign. "None of these bands sound like each other or anyone else, which is what makes them interesting to me," Tankian said on announcing the new imprint. "I like it when labels present original music that don't necessarily signify or focus on one genre." Each band will have music released via the new imprint during Spring next year.
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REVIEW: Bobby Hughes Combination – Nhu Golden Era (Stereo Deluxe)
Bobby Hughes is another individual putting Scandanavia on the burgeoning jazz renaissance map. With the likes of Koop and Xploding Plastix, Bobby Hughes has made a jazz album of spectacular beauty and invention. The hints of Latin inspiration are surrounded by funk and sequenced jazz influences, jazz singers and dance production sensibility. With a variety of tempos, some of the tracks are instrumental and the album uses a massive array of electronic and acoustic sounds to brilliant effect. This is fantasticly accessible Latin jazz funk: layers of sound, noises and instruments providing beats for every occasion – dancefloor to sofa. A really refreshingly upbeat jazz-beat album. JG
Release date: 18 Nov
Press contact: Zzonked [all]
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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS GO ON A BOOK TOUR!
They Might Be Giants are about to embark on a book tour of the US. They have teamed up with author and McSweeney's publisher Dave Eggers to stage a series of events dubbed ‘Dave Eggers Vs. They Might Be Giants’ - a combination book reading and concert. "It definitely shakes things up," the band’s John Flansburgh told Billboard. "Having been to a lot of readings, there's this notion that it's a very polite environment. It naturally shifts that to being a rowdier time. And a lot of the writers for McSweeney's have a really solid kind of comedic underpinning to what they do. They actually are real entertainers. There's definitely a relationship between their aesthetic and ours that's real. The point of view of a lot of the stories, and the point of view of our band, is in sync. It's not just a compare and contrast thing."
The tour follows TMBG’s inclusion on a CD on the cover of a recent edition of McSweeny’s literary journal. At the launch of that journal the band played tracks in between author readings, which gave them the idea for the current event. "We played in between stories and did a little set of our own,” Flansburgh continues. “It was such a great night, and such a different kind of experience. A lot of these writers are really great performers and storytellers. I think everyone in the audience and on stage walked away with the feeling that we should do more like this."
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NEW DYLAN FOOTAGE RELEASED
New footage of Dylan’s 1966 world tour is set to be released on DVD. Drummer, now actor, Mickey Jones took a video camera with him on the tour and filmed Dylan and his band performing and sightseeing. That footage will now appear on the DVD '1966 World Tour' – the original film had no soundtrack so for the DVD it will be set to Dylan songs performed by tribute band, Highway 61 Revisited. As a surprise bonus the DVD will also feature live footage of the Beatles at the Olympia Theater in Paris in early 1964; Jones met and filmed the band while touring with Lopez, who was on the bill.
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ROBERTS BACK IN POP STARS RUNNING
Dance student Nicola Roberts, one of the unsuccessful among the Top 15 girls on Popstars The Rivals, is back on the show after Nicola Ward quit the talent content claiming TV bosses wanted her to "sign her life away”. Roberts thought she was on the ITV show to talk about her experience of rejection, after making it to the final 15, but was then told she was back in.
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Answer to Monday’s pop quiz:
Children of the famous – who are the rock star fathers of the following interestingly named children?
Memphis Eve - Bono
Dandelion – Keith Richard
Django – Dave Stewart
Zowie – David Bowie