| CMU Daily - on the inside 17 Oct 2002 |
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In today's CMU Daily:
• Musik Awards winners,
• Public Enemy cancel London date due to terrorist risks,
• Tupac Biggie movie released,
• Libertines fall out with tour team,
• Review: Hint – You Little Trooper / Explosion Museum,
• Labels hope extras will entice customers,
• Slipknot man on mask frustration,
• Pressplay sign up BMG,
• BBC3 slated,
• Drowning Pool tribute planned,
• Manson scores the movie massacre,
• VH1’s fashionable awards,
• Electric Soft Parade not impressed at being newcomers,
• Review: Various - Lost For Words - Leaf Label Sampler,
• Osbournes get terrestrial outing,
• Ryan’s adamant: I’m not Bryan!
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Which former boy band member had a number one with a song co-written by an uncredited Madonna – and what was the song called?
Answer tomorrow
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MUSIK AWARDS WINNERS
What has become the big awards event in the dance genre took place on Tuesday night – Muzik magazine’s annual awards bash. And the winners were:
Best DJ: Carl Cox
Best Club: FabricLive @ Fabric, London
Best Event: Big Beach Boutique II, Brighton
Best Single: X-Press 2 Featuring David Byrne ‘Lazy’ (Skint)
Best Album: Royksopp ‘Melody AM’ (Wall Of Sound)
Best Ibiza Tune: Tim Deluxe Featuring Sam Obernik ‘It Just Won’t Do’ (Underwater)
Best Video: Chemical Brothers ‘The Test’ (Virgin)
Best Radio 1 Essential Mix: Miami: Sasha and John Digweed at Delta Heavy
Best Group: Basement Jaxx
Best New Artist: The Streets
Best Live Act: Royksopp
Best Breakthrough DJ: Erol Alkan
Best Remix: Missy Elliott ‘For My People’ Basement Jaxx Remix (Eastwest)
Best Compilation: David Holmes ‘Ocean’s 11 OST’ (WEA)
Best Small Club: Back To Basics, Leeds
Best International Club: Subliminal Sessions/Underwater @ Pacha, Ibiza
Best Major Label: BMG for Arista/Cheeky
Best Independent Record Label: City Rockers
Best Radio Show: Gilles Peterson (Radio 1)
Best Independent Record Shop: Tune Inn, Selby
Best Bedroom Bedlam DJ: Deepgroove
Outstanding Achievement Award: Massive Attack
Caner Of The Year: Muzik Magazine’s Thomas H. Green
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PUBLIC ENEMY CANCEL LONDON DATE DUE TO TERRORIST RISKS
Public Enemy have cancelled their London Astoria date next month due to fears that a terrorist attack similar to that in Bali might hit the capital. Such are the fears of growing terrorism around the world that the band have cancelled all international touring. PE’s Professor Griff told NME: "Our main concern is the security of our fans, and with G-DUB's ever present 'war on terrorism' looming, Public Enemy might be seen as agitators in the whole scheme of things. We have decided to postpone our touring abroad for right now. Hopefully in the near future we will be able to resume our tour and continue to 'give the peeps what they need'".
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TUPAC BIGGIE MOVIE RELEASED
Film director Nick Broomfield has been talking about his movie documentary telling the story of hip hop’s darkest hour - the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious BIG. "A lot of people attached to the case have been killed. A lot of people, journalists and filmmakers, have been threatened,” Broomfield told reporters in the US. “But the scariest thing of all is that justice has not been done. In fact these murders were barely investigated. I'm hoping maybe my film will shame them into it." He continued: "Sometimes when you do an extreme subject, it reminds you of what's important to you and reminds you to value friendships and the things that make you feel good about life." The film debuted at the Doc Soup film season in the US last night (more info www.hotdocs.ca/press_35.cfm)
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LIBERTINES FALL OUT WITH TOUR TEAM
The NME has reported that the Libertines tour came to a chaotic end last week after they fired their tour manager for “being too strict”! Word is the band’s wild performances on and off stage during the band’s UK tour eventually caused the soundman to quit, and led to such strong objections from their tour manager that the band asked him to leave. Rumours the NME have heard regarding their antics include drug use, alcohol binges, groupies, fights and trouble with locals. Carl and Pete are also said to have blown £10,000 of their rumoured £400,000 publishing deal on a massive bender. An insider told NME: "The tour manager is a really nice bloke. But he runs a tight ship, which didn't go down well with Carl and Pete. He's been doing it for 22 years and he said he hadn't seen anything as bad. It was debauchery. He said that in comparison The Strokes were pussycats."
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REVIEW: Hint – You Little Trooper / Explosion Museum (Ninja Tune/Hombre)
After the storming LP from Bristol’s Aspects on Jamie Hombre’s eponymous label, this little 12” comes as a slow burner. The a-side builds gradually through layers of piano and a live sounding hiphop break. With some popping electric bass, guitar harmonics and sweeping soothing strings this makes for a very pleasing little upbeat downtempo number. The flip is slightly more uptempo but carries a carefree feel with its punchier beats, Rhodes organ and sampled double bass. JG
Release date: 18 Nov
Press contact: Zzonked [all]
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LABELS HOPE EXTRAS WILL ENTICE CUSTOMERS
US record labels are turning their back on price slashing tactics to get their artists in the charts, no longer able to subsidise loss making sales. Instead label bosses hope they can entice music buyers with a series of ‘extras’, in a similar vein to DVD movie releases.
Explaining the initiative Don Van Cleave, president of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores, told reporters: “The National Association of Recording Merchandisers met in September to discuss new sales strategies. We told labels 'Include a DVD that shows the band backstage and on the tour bus talking about nothing. Consumers love that stuff." The idea will be tested this Autumn when new albums from Shania Twain, Foo Fighters and Tori Amos are accompanied with limited edition DVDs.
Labels hope the ‘extras’ will overcome CDs doubling in price – summer price slashing saw chart albums retailing at $9, now back at full price the big releases will be retailing at over $18.
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SLIPKNOT MAN ON MASK FRUSTRATION
Slipknot frontman is spending some time with his original band Stone Sour, though he denies he has quit the Roadrunner signed band, despite some frustrations with the way things have been going. "There's a lot of negativity in the Slipknot camp right now that is hard to get past,” he told Aussey music site Undercover. "So much pressure has been put on us just from a mask stand point that it is hard to even think about the music anymore because with so many people it is just about the masks. One of the driving points for me to come back and do Stone Sour is because I just want to burn all that down. The masks were never meant to be the issue. The issue is supposed to be the music and it was. And it is to us. So many people, that's all they care about anymore. It has really become a negative thing. There's a lot of stuff on the Slipknot agenda that we have to work on before we get back together. But when we do, man, it's going to be pivotal. It's going to be huge".
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PRESSPLAY SIGN UP BMG
Legit online music website Pressplay has signed a licensing deal with BMG which will bring the likes of Elvis Presley and Whitney Houston to the download service. This means the service now has EMI, Sony, BMG and Universal on board – only Warner’s catalogues are not available to Pressplay users.
A spokesman said the latest deal with BMG would add "tens of thousands" more songs to the service, which they claim now gives fans to the chance to listen to 120,000 songs via their computers. Pressplay offers two levels of service to subscribers – for a basic fee they can stream any song from the whole catalogue (listen to them via their internet browser), for an extra fee they can download a certain number of MP3s to their computer or MP3 player. The service, founded by Sony and Universal, is fully legit, though whether it can ever truly compete with the illegal free download sites remains to be seen.
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BBC3 SLANTED
The BBC has launched the logo of its new youth station BBC3 – and the Media Guardian reckon its ironic the station will promote itself with the word ‘three’ written in slanted text – the logo was designed by branding agency Lambie-Nairn who were paid a fortune to revamp the overall BBC logo a few years back – they told the corporation to write the word BBC in straight, rather than the existing slanted, letters. No word yet on the actual programming line up of the new youth station, or how it will be promoted to its target market. The station launches in Feburary.
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DROWNING POOL TRIBUTE PLANNED
US label Wind-Up is planning a DVD chronicling the history of rock act Drowning Pool, whose singer Dave Williams died during the band's stint on the Ozzfest tour this summer. Set for a 19 Nov release the DVD will feature backstage footage, rare interviews, and personal tributes from those who knew Williams, including Pantera's Diamond Darrell, Rob Zombie, and P.O.D.'s Sonny Sandoval, alongside videos of their main tracks. Wind-Up has committed $250,000 from the sale of the DVD toward a new home for the parents of Williams.
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MANSON SCORES THE MOVIE MASSACRE
Marilyn Manson is set to compose and record background music for the remake of the 1974 movie classic ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’. Directed by Marcus Nispel, the movie went into production in July. The soundtrack duties comes after Manson's acting role in a forthcoming flick about a real-life murder in the New York club scene, where he appears alongside Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green.
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VH1’S FASHIONABLE AWARDS
Fashionable rockers amassed at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Tuesday night for the 2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards. And the winners were:
Breakthrough Style Award: Eve
Rockstyle Award: Steven Tyler
Red Carpet Award: Gwyneth Paltrow
Leading Man Award: Hugh Grant
Newcomer Award: Kieran Culkin
Model of the Year Award: Karolina Kurkova
Designer of the Year Award: Tom Ford
Revolutionary Designer Award: Alexander McQueen
Most Influential Artist: Jennifer Lopez
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ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE NOT IMPRESSED AT BEING NEWCOMERS
In an interview with BBC Radio 1 Electric Soft Parade have said their Best New Act nomination at the Q Awards has come “a little too late”! The band said: "For us it's kind of strange. It's a little late almost. We worked for nearly nine months a year or something on the first record. Some of those songs were two years old, so they're like four years old now, those songs. It's all kind of old news for us. Best New Band? We've been signed for two years. It's weird - we just don't feel like a new band." The 13th annual awards take place at London's The Old Saatchi Gallery next Monday.
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REVIEW: Various - Lost For Words - Leaf Label sampler (Leaf)
Label samplers are a great way to gauge a label’s vision, direction and success. Here we have strong evidence for all three with Leaf’s roster of ambient, experimental weirdness, presented as a 17 track album including unreleased material and already established underground classics. Opening track ‘Hana’ (Asa-Chang & Junray) is clearly the standout; a calm blend of violins and mesmeric robot vocals, underlined with manic tablas. Taking in off-kilter hip-hop and thoughtful, ponderous electronica, the sampler is ace pretty much from start to finish. It does occasionally fade to BGM without notice and it’s all very avant-garde, but don’t let that put you off. With artists including Manitoba, Murcof and Gorodisch, this is a sure buy for John Peel fans everywhere. DR
Release date: n/a
Press contact: Leaf IH
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OSBOURNES GET TERRESTRIAL OUTING
Channel 4 have confirmed the hit MTV reality show The Osbournes will get its UK terrestrial debut next month. The show will start to air on 1 Nov at 9.30pm.
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RYAN’S ADAMANT: I’M NOT BRYAN!
Ryan Adams apparently forced a member of his audience to leave a recent Nashville show after he shouted at him to play the Bryan Adams classic ‘Summer of '69’. Adams ordered the house lights be turned on so he could find the fan – he then handed him $30 (the price of a ticket) and ordered him to leave, saying he wouldn’t play another note until the offender was removed. The venue's general manager then apparently stopped the fan on his way out, apologised profusely and allowed him back into the concert – letting him keep Adam’s $30.
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Answer to Wednesday’s pop quiz:
According to legend whose idea was the band name ‘Led Zeppelin’, and what was the logic behind it?
The story goes that Led Zepplin manager Richard Cole was talking to The Who’s John Entwistle and Keith Moon about setting up a new band together. Moon suggested the name because he thought the venture would ‘go down like a lead balloon’. Cole liked the name, tweaked the spelling of ‘lead’, and the rest is history.