CMU Daily - on the inside 13 May 2003
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In today's CMU Daily:
• Hendrix bassist dies
• Missy plans new single and remix album
• Who man's belongings on sale
• Limp Bizkit cancel download set
• Durst plans solo project
• Mariah Carey fansite closes down in protest
• Review: Audio Bullys - Ego War
• Jackson sues Motown
• Website launches to support Asians in the media
• Radiohead announce series of arena gigs
• Digital radio enjoying an up
• Live Review Common At Shepherd's Bush Empire
• Libertines announce live shows
• Vandross recovering slowly
• Squarepusher plays rare set
• Rosa parks lawsuit against Outkast rekindled
• Review: 50 Cent - 21 Questions
• Stipe's REM update
• Tricky added to T in the Park

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CMU POP QUIZ
Another, yes another, MadPlayer (http://www.madplayer.com) up for grabs this week - once again collect the answers to each day's question (all on million selling singles) and find out how to win on Friday.

Q2: Which one hit wonder had a million selling hit with a 'speeded up jeans song' in 1996?

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HENDRIX BASSIST DIES
The manager of Noel Redding, bass player for Jimi Hendrix, last night announced the guitarist had died - he was 57. In a statement manager Ian Grant told reporters: "Noel re-unites with Jimi and his mother Margaret who died only a few weeks ago."

The untimely death will probably bring to an end the legal action Redding recently started to pursue against the Experience Hendrix, the company which looks after the Hendrix back catalogue. Redding claimed the company owed him $5 million in unpaid royalty earnings for his creative input on Hendrix's work.

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MISSY PLANS NEW SINGLE AND REMIX ALBUM
Rather than releasing a third single off 'Under Construction', the next release from Missy Elliott will be a new single called 'Hurt Something' which also appears on a new remix album. The new single features Lloyd Banks, a member of 50 Cent's Posse. The new album will feature a 50 Cent remix of 'Work It', a Basement Jaxx mix of '4 My People', Fatboy Slim's remix of 'Gossip Folks' and a version of 'Get Ur Freak On' featuring Nelly Furtado. The album will be released in the US on 24 Jun.

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WHO MAN'S BELONGINGS ON SALE
More than 350 items belonging to the late Who star John Entwistle are being auctioned off by Sothebys. The collection, valued collectively at about half of million, includes 150 guitars and bass guitars. Two Gibson guitars are expected to fetch between £30,000 and £50,000 - though Entwistle's favourite guitar, a pink Fender Precision, may go for as little as £7,000 - bargain. Other items up for sale include brass instruments, photographs, paintings, posters and jewellery.

Talking about the collection sales specialist Stephen Maycock told reporters: "We are incredibly lucky to be offering so many pieces from Entwistle's personal collection ranging from music awards through to a ring decorated with a spider. The collection of guitars, by a wide variety of makers such as Warwick, Alembic, Gibson, Gretsch and Fender, are all extremely fascinating. To have access to his private notes - which he intended to publish - on his thoughts and reasons for buying the items further helps to provide a great insight to a rock legend."

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LIMP BIZKIT CANCEL DOWNLOAD SET
With their next album pushed back to the Autumn so tracks can be rerecorded with new guitarist Mike Smith, Limp Bizkit have pulled out as headliners of the Download festival in June. Promoters Clear Channel told reporters yesterday: "While we are disappointed to lose Limp Bizkit on Sunday at Download we still know that fans are up for the first ever full blown multi-day, multi-stage rock festival at Donington."

As previously reported Fred Durst confirmed last week his next album was being pushed back and renamed, again. But he promised his album really would come out in September: "Now there will be no more fuckin' around!! We are in the vocal stage on the new shit!! We will have a single out before the Summer Sanitarium tour and our new album 'Panty Sniffer' will drop, FOR SURE, the first week in September!!!!!! Sometimes you just have to go with the flow of creativity and we're doing just fucking that!! I love you and kiss my ass!!"

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DURST PLANS SOLO PROJECT
Despite being busy rerecording that Limp Bizkit album, Fred Durst has told the Rolling Stone he is working on a new solo project called Pacifica.

Talking about the project Durst said: "It's very '80s. I don't want to say it sounds like Howard Jones or A Flock of Seagulls. Maybe it sounds more like Duran Duran or Soft Cell - this will be a more polished, modern takeoff of those things."

The album is unlikely to interfere with the rerecording and promotion of the new Limp Bizkit album - in fact Interscope haven't put it on their release schedules yet.

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MARIAH CAREY FANSITE CLOSES DOWN IN PROTEST
The founders of an Australian based fansite for Mariah Carey have closed their website down in protest at the way the singer is being promoted down under. The last straw seems to have been the decision to miss Australia off Carey's forthcoming world tour.

Fansite founder Neil Kenna told Aussie music website Undercover: "With the announcement of the world tour, and the revelation that Australia will yet again miss out, a clear message has been sent to every Australian Mariah fan. It is a blatant slap in the face to each and every fan who works so hard in promoting everything Mariah releases. With requesting campaigns and more, Australian fans are some of the most dedicated in the world. And while we all know that Mariah cannot possibly go to every country, and that a lot of other fans are also missing out, Australia is the only country that has shown so much support, and got so little in return".

No response from Mariah's people on the news, though apparently the rest of the world breathed a sigh of relief that there's one less Mariah site on the internet.

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REVIEW: Audio Bullys - Ego War (Virgin/Source)
I don't want to get too carried away, but the Audio Bullys are becoming the new Chemical Brothers (or at least the new Basement Jaxx)- saving UK dance music in the process. Their uncompromising beats that range from a punchy hiphop tempo, to classic house and electronic breaks, and gritty Suggs-sounding street poetry have captured the hearts, minds and feet of the nations street urchins, high street shoppers and disc jockeys alike. The Bullys are riding high on the fact that honesty is the new blagging not to mention that the death of dance culture has led to a hearty mash of styles ever since - the boundaries that tied rules to the beats are redundant; and with dub, ska, electronic, house, and hiphop all in the melting pot the Bullys are setting the standards. A highly accessible, catchy and danceable album. Annals of dance: here it comes. JG
Release date: 2 Jun
Press contact: Virgin IH [CP, CR, RR, NR] APB [RP, NP]

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JACKSON SUES MOTOWN
Presumably concerned he hasn't been in a court room for at least a month, Michael Jackson is suing Motown Records over unpaid royalties from the re-release of songs he made in the 1970s. The lawsuit targets Motown parent company Universal claiming they violated a 1980 agreement on recordings he made with the Jackson 5 and as a solo artist. Said agreement saw Jackson waver royalties on his songs that been released before 1980, but in return Motown promised to pay Jackson royalties for any previously unreleased material that was subsequently released on best-of compilations. He claims they haven't done that and therefore they owe him the cash. No response from Universal as yet.

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WEBSITE LAUNCHES TO SUPPORT ASIANS IN THE MEDIA
A new website has been launched aiming to address the problem that Britain's Asian community is under-represented in the media. The site - at http://www.asiansinmedia.org - will provide a forum where Asian media professionals can meet and where media owners can recruit Asian talent.

Culture minister, Kim Howells, has welcomed the launch of the site: "It will make our industry stronger and our output more attractive to a wider world audience. Because television and film play such an important role in the cultural and economic life of Britain, it is crucial that these industries are representative of the nation's rich cultural and ethnic mix, both on and off-screen."

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RADIOHEAD ANNOUNCE SERIES OF ARENA GIGS
Radiohead have announced a series of arena gigs for the Autumn to follow up those intimate gigs this month and their Glastonbury set next month. The dates are:

22 Nov: Manchester Evening News Arena - November
23 Nov: Newcastle Telewest Arena
24 Nov: Cardiff International Arena
26 Nov: London's Earl's Court
29 Nov: Nottingham Arena
30 Nov: Glasgow SECC
1 Dec: Aberdeen AECC

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DIGITAL RADIO ENJOYING AN UP
The people behind digital radio are feeling very smug after last week's RAJARS because the new listening figures, which added a number of digital stations to their survey for the first time, showed that many of the digital music stations are now picking up between 500,000 and 1 million listeners - a significant milestone. The survey also showed the digital listening figures are rising not just via the new more affordable digital radio sets, but also through the Freeview boxes which pick up a number of digital radio stations. That said digital radio still has a long way to go - proved by the amount of competition for that terrestrial licence being offered in the Birmingham area.

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LIVE REVIEW Common at Shepherd's Bush Empire on 11 May
It seems that it is increasingly becoming a hip hop faux pas to perform without a live band... what self respecting MC would arrive to perform in front 1500 odd people with just a DJ? It seems that is what separates the 'jiggy' from the 'conscious', DMX and Jay Z from Slum Village and the Roots. In keeping with the sentiments of his rhymes, Chicago's premier MC celebrates the release of his latest album 'Electric Circus' with five-piece accompaniment: electric bass, guitar, decks, drums, and keys. And as he worked his energetic self through live versions of new tracks like 'Aquarius' and classics like 'The Sun God', 'Ghetto Heaven', and - in true rock band style - covers of tracks like Wu Tang's 'Cream'. Common here proved that he is not only the righteous man and conscious wordsmith so many hold him to be, but is the consummate performer - as well as having a massive and loyal UK fan base. PS. Thank you for the blinding jazz band introduction style encore with solos from the band. Utterly sublime, totally uplifting. JG

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LIBERTINES ANNOUNCE LIVE SHOWS
The Libertines have announced four dates next month in the lead up to their Glastonbury date:

20 Jun - Manchester Academy
22 Jun - Glasgow Barrowlands
24 Jun - Leeds Cockpit
25 Jun - London Forum

The band are also supporting The Coral at their Midsummer Nights Scream! summer show on 21 June.

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VANDROSS RECOVERING SLOWLY
Luther Vandross' mother yesterday said the singer was still "touch and go" following his stroke three weeks ago, but that his condition was steadily improving. In a statement to the press Mary Vandross said: "Right after the stroke, he was in grave danger; it was very touch and go. But I feel that it is just a matter of time before he improves and to me, his appearance gets better daily. It's a very slow process."

Aretha Franklin is hosting a candlelight vigil and prayer service for Vandross on 19 May at the Little Rock Baptist Church in Detroit.

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SQUAREPUSHER PLAYS RARE SET
Warp artist Squarepusher will make a rare live appearance at the official UK launch party of Barcelona-based music and multimedia art festival Sonar, which takes place at Ocean on 30 May. He will appear alongside Ladytron and colder with DJ sets from MJ Cole, James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) and Plaid.

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ROSA PARKS LAWSUIT AGAINST OUTKAST REKINDLED
A lawsuit by civil rights icon Rosa Parks against Outkast over a song that uses her name has been resurrected by the appeal court in Detroit. Parks lost the original lawsuit in 1999 when a federal judge said Outkast's use of her name was protected by free speech and the duo did not need to compensate her. But an appeal court yesterday said that while the free speech defence was valid, so was Parks' claim that by using her name the duo suggested the song was about her and that she was connected to the group. The court now wants Outkast to provide an artistic reason for calling the song 'Rosa Parks'.

Parks, now 90, helped spark the civil rights movement of course when she refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man in 1955. She was arrested for not obeying local race laws, but the legal challenges to her arrest led to a US Supreme Court decision that forced her home town to desegregate its bus system and put an end to 'Jim Crow' laws separating blacks and whites at public facilities throughout the South.

Outkast will release a double-disc studio album 'Speakerboxx -- The Love Below' this summer via Arista.

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REVIEW: 50 Cent - 21 Questions (Universal/Interscope)
It'll be hard to follow 'In Da Club'. But then all explosive debuts are. It seems wise that for the follow up is stylistically different, favouring a more smooth soul vibe and featuring the vocal talents of Nate Dogg. It's not as catchy as 'Da Pub' but it's a grower, and will no doubt sell millions if MTV play the video lots. JG
Release date: 30 Jun
Press contact: Polydor IH [CP, CR, RR. NR] APB [RP, NP]

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STIPE'S REM UPDATE
REM's Michael Stipe has told fans via the band's website that they are currently in rehearsal with new drummer Bill Rieflin for their new world tour, which kicks off with their Glastonbury set on 27 Jun. Confirming they'd already rehearsed 70 songs Stipe also reports they are currently at the mixing stage on a new studio album while working on the packaging for a greatest hits album due out in September.

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TRICKY ADDED TO T IN THE PARK
Tricky is among the latest additions to the T in the Park line up. He will play the King Tut's Tent on Saturday, alongside the likes of Keith Flint's new band, Mint Royale, Death in Vegas and Lemon Jelly. More at http://www.tinthepark.com

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Thanks to all the entries on last week's pop quiz, the answers:
Q1: The song - Patti LaBelle's 'Lady Marmalade' - whose ad? Diet Coke
Q2: The song - Stylophonic's Way Of Life - whose ad? Fanta
Q3: The song - Cornelius' 'Count Five Or Six' - whose ad? Lucozade
Q4: The song - The Style Council's 'You're The Best Thing' - whose ad? Ribena
The winner of a handy MadPlayer device is Marsha in Preston - well done -
another MadPlayer to win this week, so keep on eye on those questions.

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