| CMU Daily - on the inside 22 Oct 2002 |
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In today's CMU Daily:
• Oasis left at the back of the Q,
• Cream put out picture plea,
• Review: Various - The New Season,
• Oasis rearrange tour to avoid Philippines,
• Cobain is news weekly coverstar,
• Harris dissects the murky world of artist management,
• Thais offended at Aguilera video,
• Massive Attack are back,
• Review: Various - 28 Days Later OST,
• Hed Kandi have a blast in Scotland,
• George Harrison’s tribute ballet,
• Rotten on Alice Cooper influence,
• Ant and Dec re-sign to ITV,
• Minogue’s online battle
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Andre Young, O’Shea Jackson and Tracy Marrow – what stage names do we know these three by?
Answer tomorrow
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THIS WEEKS STUDENT RADIO CHART
1 [2] Foo Fighters - All My Life (BMG/RCA)
2 [1] The Coral - Dreaming Of You (Deltasonic)
3 [9] Idlewild - Live In A Hiding Place (EMI/Parlophone)
4 [N] Nirvana - You Know You're Right (Universal/Geffen)
5 [4] The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself (679)
6 [8] Avril Lavigne – Complicated (BMG/Arista)
7 [7] Turin Brakes - Long Distance (Source)
8 [20] Coldplay - The Scientist (EMI/Parlophone)
9 [3] The Vines – Outtathaway (EMI/Heavenly)
10 [27] Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows (Interscope)
11 [6] The Strokes – Someday (Rough Trade)
12 [5] Supergrass – Grace (EMI/Parlophone)
13 [14] DJ Shadow - Six Days (Universal/Island)
14 [19] The Polyphonic Spree - Hanging Around (679)
15 [18] Doves - Caught By The River (EMI/Heavenly)
16 [11] Oasis - Little By Little (Sony/Big Brother)
17 [RE] Big Brovaz - Nu Flow (Sony/Epic)
18 [N] U2 - Electrical Storm (Universal/Island)
19 [17] Puddle Of Mudd - She Hates Me (Universal/Geffen)
20 [15] No Doubt - Underneath It All (Universal/Interscope)
Compiled by and broadcast on the Student Broadcast Network (www.sbn.co.uk)
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OASIS LEFT AT THE BACK OF THE Q
Oasis left yesterday’s Q Awards empty handed despite three nominations. Radiohead stole the show being named best band in the world despite having only released a live album in the last year. Credible girl band Sugababes took best single for ‘Freak Like Me’ while Coldplay took best album with ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’ – a second Q award for their second album ('Parachutes' won the same prize two years ago). Elsewhere Tom Jones won an innovation award, Echo and the Bunnymen an inspiration award and easy target Simon Cowell the unwanted award. Those winners in full:
Best new act: Electric Soft Parade
Q merit award: Tom Jones
Best single: Sugababes, Freak Like Me
Best video: Pink, Get The Party Started
Best producer: Moby (for his own album, 18)
Q innovation award: Depeche Mode
Best live act: The Hives
Best album: Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head
Q inspiration award: Echo And The Bunnymen
Q classic songwriter award: Jimmy Cliff
Best act in the world today: Radiohead
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CREAM PUT OUT PICTURE PLEA
Superclub Cream have put out a plea for twenty rolls of film including pictures from their tenth birthday party earlier this month. The photos were taken at the birthday event, which also marked the end of Cream’s regular Liverpool night, but were stolen along with the camera at Birmingham train station the next day. A spokesperson for the club told reporters: "These pictures are invaluable to us here at Cream as the happenings at the event can't be repeated. The equipment we're not bothered about, as this can be replaced, the pictures cannot." A reward is on offer – anyone able to help should contact Gill at Cream on 020 7299 0978.
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REVIEW: Various - The New Season (Archive)
Enrico Crivellaro, aka Volcov, takes us deep into the realm of new jazz and broken beat with an all-star line up on his Milan-based imprint. We go straight in with Dego, under his P. Kostiuk guise, with the aptly named 'Techno Boogie', then on to the other half of 4hero – Mark Mac as Nu Era – offering his 'Marz 2010', a piece of sublime future jungle techno. Further on: vocalism with Alma Horton and 'Give it All’; the hugely underrated Colin Lindo, aka Nubian Mindz, adds breathtakingly hard and funky breaks of 'Forgotten Parts'; 'Black Science', with Phil Asher on the remix, has buckets of his jazz groove; Paul 'Seiji' Dolby supplies the house tinged 'Sonic'; Volcov and Paradox's 'No Europe' is reinforced by Domu; and there’s a smart jazz key workout in 'Shapeshifter' by DHJ. The only down side: Alex Attias as Mustang offers a rather bland cut. But otherwise an excellent package and a superb round up of the harder side of the genre. PV
Release date: 18 Nov
Press contact: Goya Distribution [all]
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OASIS REARRANGE TOUR TO AVOID PHILIPPINES
Oasis have cancelled a show in Manilla in the Philippines tomorrow after the British Government advised citizens not to visit the area after the terrorist attacks in Bali. The latest government warnings say the threat of terrorist attacks and civil disorder in that part of the world is particularly high. The band were due to play Araneta Coliseum in Manilla, but will now play an extra date in Australia at the intimate 1,400 capacity Forum Theatre in Melbourne. They will then resume their tour as planned, playing Singapore this weekend before heading home for their European dates, which begin at Glasgow’s Braehead Arena on 13 Nov.
Meanwhile reports on Aussey music website Undercover suggest Oasis' headline performance at the Livid Festival, part of the Australian tour, was met with apathy by all but the hardline Oasis fans. Apparently Morrissey, still a cult musical legend in Aus, and the fantastic Mercury Rev, stole the festival in terms of audience reaction.
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COBAIN IS NEWS WEEKLY COVERSTAR
Kurt Cobain makes the cover of Newsweek this week – like The Observer over here the news magazine is serialising the Cobain diaries prior to their publication next month.
In their article about Cobain and his private writings they quote Hole member Eric Erlandson who found, and initially hid, the diaries. He writes in an introduction to the new book: "From day one I treated the whole situation the way I would have for any friend-keeping their stuff safe. But from a historical perspective, I treated it like I would have treated John Lennon's legacy. I guess I knew even then it was important."
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HARRIS DISECTS THE MURKY WORLD OF ARTIST MANAGEMENT
A leading artist manager will be talking about his profession as part of DeMontford University’s Cultural eXchanges next month. Keith Harris, who managed Stevie Wonder among others, and the current chairman of the Music Manager's Forum, will be talking about the myths that surround artist management about what it takes to be a manager, the challenges that the job produces and how managers interface with the rest of the music industry.
Cultural eXchanges is a week-long programme of 35 lectures, exhibitions, performances, concerts, workshops and debates on cultural life. All events are open to the public – more info at www.dmu.ac.uk or from the university’s press office on 0116 257 7021.
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THAIS OFFENDED AT AGUILERA VIDEO
The Thai division of BMG has decided not to air the latest video by Christina Aguilera because of a Thai-language billboard in the backdrop that alludes to the country's sex industry. Saharat Wannachomphu, marketing director for BMG Thailand Co, told the Nation newspaper after Thai officials expressed their dismay at the posters that blatantly allude to the country’s sex tourism and the ‘availability’ of young underage girls. Although prostitution is widespread and generally ignored by police in Thailand it is illegal and is not a reputation the Thai government appreciate. Ironically the video has subsequently been aired repeatedly on news programmes reporting the story.
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MASSIVE ATTACK ARE BACK
Massive Attack are planning a prolific comeback next year – they have just completed a new album, the first since the 1998 release ‘Mezzanine’, and are now back in the studio working on another. They plan to release both within a twelve month period.
The first of the two is scheduled for release on 27 Jan. It’s title apparently "can't be said out loud" – what ever that means. The group will follow up the first release with an extensive tour.
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REVIEW: VARIOUS - 28 Days Later OST (Beggars/XL)
Directed by Danny Boyle, ‘28 Days Later’ is a zombie film with a difference. For starters, and this is completely unfair, the zombies can now run and not just aimlessly shuffle about like your grandad searching for a Werther’s Original. Not only that, they’re also damn scary and don’t resemble unwanted extras from Thriller. Boyle has an ear for which songs sound great on film, as Trainspotting and The Beach amply demonstrated, but what suitably accompanies images of a virus decimating the country and zombies slurping human brains? How about eerie instrumentals and unsettling vocal solos? Yep, that’ll do the trick. Electro genius Brian Eno even pops up with the expected slice of ethereal tranquillity, while Grandaddy appear with the raucously discordant “AM 180”. Thoroughly unnerved we’re now sleeping with all the lights on. TO
Release date: 28 Oct
Press contact: Beggars IH [all]
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HED KANDI HAVE A BLAST IN SCOTLAND
Hed Kandi, whose club nights have gone down a storm in London and Ibiza, will stage there first night in Scotland last month in association with Scottish club promoter Huggy of Edinburgh club Blast. Huggy is turning his hands to special events in different locations after his regular night at the city's Club Mercado came to an end this summer. The Hed Kandi event will be the fist such event, taking over Berlin on Queensferry St Lane on 2 Nov. The night will feature DJ's Stonebridge, Sweden (Hed Kandi's first ever Artist project) and Paul Dickson, with Blast residents Huggy Burger Queen & Markell and some new faces from the Edinburgh club scene.
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GEORGE HARRISON’S TRIBUTE BALLET
According to the New York Times the American Ballet Theatre will pay tribute to George Harrison with a new ballet called ‘Within You And Without You’ featuring some of Harrison’s music including solo tracks ‘My Sweet Lord’, ‘I Dig Love’ and ‘Isn't It A Pity’ and Harrison penned Beatles songs ‘Within And Without You’, ‘Something’ and ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. The ballet has been choreographed by Americans David Parsons and Ann Reinking and Australians Stanton Welch and Natalie Weir.
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ROTTEN ON ALICE COOPER INFLUENCE
John ‘Johnny Rotten’ Lydon will present a Radio 2 documentary on the career of Alice Cooper. "I know the words to every Alice Cooper song,” Lydon has told reporters, calling Cooper one of his ‘formative musical influences’.
“The fact is, if you can call what I have a musical career, it all started with me miming to ‘I'm Eighteen’ on a jukebox. I was in this pub and Malcolm McLaren asked me if I wanted to be in a band. I thought he must be joking. When the pub closed he asked me if I could mime or sing to a few songs. I could mime fine, but of course I couldn't sing a note. The only song on the jukebox I could cope with was ‘I'm Eighteen’. So I just gyrated like a belly dancer, and Malcolm thought, 'Yes, he's the one'. I got the job, and I've not looked back.”
Talking about Cooper’s musical influence he said: "I didn't want to imitate a genre that I thought was so excellent. You can be influenced by people that excel, but you should never copy. And that's why I made sure that the Pistols had a different approach."
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ANT AND DEC RE-SIGN TO ITV
After winning three awards at the viewer voted TV awards last week Ant and Dec have signed an exclusive deal with ITV which will see the duo stay with the network for two years front, among other things, another series of Saturday Night Takeaway and a second outing of Pop Idol. There may be a second series of ‘ I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!’ too. The deal, rumoured to be worth £2 million, will also see the former SMTV presenters try out new formats – word is they’re currently working on a Morecombe and Wise-style Christmas entertainment special for next year.
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MINOGUE’S ONLINE BATTLE
Kylie may have moved the release date of her next single so as not to go head to head with sister Dannii – but music fans can stage a Minogue war of there own with a new website where Kylie and Dannii Minogue face each other in the boxing ring. Fans can be Kylie or Dannii and hit, kick and pull the hair of the other in a battle against the computer. The site - www.princessofpop.co.uk – has had 450,000 hits to date.
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Answer to Monday's pop quiz:
Aled Jones is back in the album charts today. What did his classic track 'Walking In the Air' provide the soundtrack for?
Aled Jones’ rendition of ‘Walking In The Air’ provided the soundtrack for a British Gas commercial. Oh yes - Peter Auty, a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral, sang the song on the soundtrack to the Snowman.