thursday apr 6
Clare Bowditch to support James Blunt
Melbourne singer/songwriter Clare Bowditch has been handpicked to support James Blunt on the Australian leg of his Back To Bedlam world tour in April. In a recent Rolling Stone magazine poll, Bowditch was voted the third most popular Australian female performer of 2005, while her album, What Was Left, came in at number six in the Album of the Year category. Bowditch’s new single, "Little Self Centered Queen", is released this month. Tour dates (with James Blunt):
Thursday April 13 — Hordern Pavilion, Sydney;
Friday April 14 – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney;
Saturday April 15 – Festival Hall, Melbourne;
Tuesday April 18 – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide;
Thursday April 20 – Convention Centre, Brisbane
Clare: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3536445
Blunt: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3520190
The Sleepy Jackson return with Personality
Perth’s The Sleepy Jackson, led by brilliant singer/songwriter Luke
Steele, have announced details of their new single, video, album and special launch dates. The album is called Personality (One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird) and is set for release locally in July. It will be preceded by uplifting first single "God Lead Your Soul", which goes to radio the week. Personality was recorded over a 12-month period at Big Jesus Burger Studios in Sydney and produced by Scott Horscroft and Luke Steele. A press release from the band’s record company, EMI, describes Personality as "possibly one of the most ambitious Australian albums ever recorded". It went on to say it "channels all the treasured moments of Brian Wilson and Beck whilst seamlessly stitching it with the drama and theatrics of Gilbert & Sullivan". We can’t wait. To mark the release, the band will perform the following special launch shows:
Friday June 16 – Fremantle Town Hall, Perth;
Friday June 23 – Paddington Town Hall, Sydney;
Saturday June 24 – Ormond Hall, Melbourne
/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501602
India.Arie to offer Testimony in July
Inspirational singer/songwriter India.Arie - who begins her Australian tour next week - will release new album Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship in July. The album is her third studio album and her first since 2002’s acclaimed Voyage To India, which reached number six on the Billboard Top Albums chart. Testimony was produced by long-time collaborators Shannon Sanders and Mark Batson (Seal, Beyonce). Since emerging in 2001 with platinum-plus debut Acoustic Soul, the singer has been nominated for an impressive 12 Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for her work with Stevie Wonder on the title track of his most recent album, A Time To Love.
India: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502467
stevie: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503140
Logies tickled P!nk
US pop singer P!nk will jet into Melbourne to perform at this year's star-studded 2006 TV Week Logie Awards at the Crown Entertainment Complex on Sunday May 7. The singer’s new album, I’m Not Dead, is released this month and features a duet with folk-rockers the Indigo Girls on inflammatory anti-Bush track "Dear Mr President".
P!nk: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3504108
indigos: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500141
Gene Pitney Dies
Rock and roll legend Gene Pitney has died aged 65. The singer’s manager, James Kelly, told Associated Press he was found dead in his hotel room in Cardiff, Wales, at 10am yesterday. Pitney had performed a show in the city the previous night. "We don't have a cause of death at the moment," manager Kelly said, "but it looks like it was a very peaceful passing. He was found fully clothed, on his back, as if he had gone for a lie down. It looks as if there was no pain whatsoever." A writer and a performer, Pitney enjoyed vicarious success when Bobby Vee ("Rubber Ball"), Ricky Nelson ("Hello Mary Lou") and The Crystals ("He’s A Rebel") all took his songs to the top of the US charts. But Pitney’s perhaps best remembered for his versions of the Bacharach-and-David-penned "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance".
Vee: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3517781
Bacharach: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503226
The Clash spark terror alert
[source: NME.com] The Clash and Led Zeppelin's music sparked a recent terror alert on an aeroplane in the UK. Harraj Mann from Hartlepool was pulled off a London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley Airport on Thursday March 30. He was questioned under the Terrorism Act after his choice of music made a taxi driver suspicious. Mann was able to play his own music through the cab's stereo on the way to his flight, but it seems the driver did not approve. "I played Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" first, which the taxi man liked," Mann explained. "I figured he liked the classics, so I put on Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song". Then, since I was going to London, I played The Clash ("London Calling") and finished up with "Nowhere Man" by The Beatles. He didn't like Led Zeppelin or The Clash, but I don't think there was any need to tell the police." It seems The Clash's lyrics, which include "War is declared and battle come down", alarmed the cabbie, who alerted police. Of course, Led Zeppelin's line about "The hammer of the gods will rive our ship to new lands, to fight the horde", probably didn't help. Durham Police then acted on "information received" but admitted to The Mirror that "by the time it was established the man did not pose a security risk, the plane had taken off". Mann, however, saw the funny side of the incident. "I was laughing about it, but all my mates are absolutely furious," he told local newspaper the Hartlepool Mail. "It's just left me bemused. I can agree there's a culture of fear. They acted on the information they had. I'm just frustrated that it happened to me. It's a mystery."
Clash: artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500109
Melbourne singer/songwriter Clare Bowditch has been handpicked to support James Blunt on the Australian leg of his Back To Bedlam world tour in April. In a recent Rolling Stone magazine poll, Bowditch was voted the third most popular Australian female performer of 2005, while her album, What Was Left, came in at number six in the Album of the Year category. Bowditch’s new single, "Little Self Centered Queen", is released this month. Tour dates (with James Blunt):
Thursday April 13 — Hordern Pavilion, Sydney;
Friday April 14 – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney;
Saturday April 15 – Festival Hall, Melbourne;
Tuesday April 18 – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide;
Thursday April 20 – Convention Centre, Brisbane
Clare: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3536445
Blunt: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3520190
The Sleepy Jackson return with Personality
Perth’s The Sleepy Jackson, led by brilliant singer/songwriter Luke
Steele, have announced details of their new single, video, album and special launch dates. The album is called Personality (One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird) and is set for release locally in July. It will be preceded by uplifting first single "God Lead Your Soul", which goes to radio the week. Personality was recorded over a 12-month period at Big Jesus Burger Studios in Sydney and produced by Scott Horscroft and Luke Steele. A press release from the band’s record company, EMI, describes Personality as "possibly one of the most ambitious Australian albums ever recorded". It went on to say it "channels all the treasured moments of Brian Wilson and Beck whilst seamlessly stitching it with the drama and theatrics of Gilbert & Sullivan". We can’t wait. To mark the release, the band will perform the following special launch shows:
Friday June 16 – Fremantle Town Hall, Perth;
Friday June 23 – Paddington Town Hall, Sydney;
Saturday June 24 – Ormond Hall, Melbourne
/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501602
India.Arie to offer Testimony in July
Inspirational singer/songwriter India.Arie - who begins her Australian tour next week - will release new album Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship in July. The album is her third studio album and her first since 2002’s acclaimed Voyage To India, which reached number six on the Billboard Top Albums chart. Testimony was produced by long-time collaborators Shannon Sanders and Mark Batson (Seal, Beyonce). Since emerging in 2001 with platinum-plus debut Acoustic Soul, the singer has been nominated for an impressive 12 Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for her work with Stevie Wonder on the title track of his most recent album, A Time To Love.
India: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502467
stevie: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503140
Logies tickled P!nk
US pop singer P!nk will jet into Melbourne to perform at this year's star-studded 2006 TV Week Logie Awards at the Crown Entertainment Complex on Sunday May 7. The singer’s new album, I’m Not Dead, is released this month and features a duet with folk-rockers the Indigo Girls on inflammatory anti-Bush track "Dear Mr President".
P!nk: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3504108
indigos: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500141
Gene Pitney Dies
Rock and roll legend Gene Pitney has died aged 65. The singer’s manager, James Kelly, told Associated Press he was found dead in his hotel room in Cardiff, Wales, at 10am yesterday. Pitney had performed a show in the city the previous night. "We don't have a cause of death at the moment," manager Kelly said, "but it looks like it was a very peaceful passing. He was found fully clothed, on his back, as if he had gone for a lie down. It looks as if there was no pain whatsoever." A writer and a performer, Pitney enjoyed vicarious success when Bobby Vee ("Rubber Ball"), Ricky Nelson ("Hello Mary Lou") and The Crystals ("He’s A Rebel") all took his songs to the top of the US charts. But Pitney’s perhaps best remembered for his versions of the Bacharach-and-David-penned "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance".
Vee: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3517781
Bacharach: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503226
The Clash spark terror alert
[source: NME.com] The Clash and Led Zeppelin's music sparked a recent terror alert on an aeroplane in the UK. Harraj Mann from Hartlepool was pulled off a London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley Airport on Thursday March 30. He was questioned under the Terrorism Act after his choice of music made a taxi driver suspicious. Mann was able to play his own music through the cab's stereo on the way to his flight, but it seems the driver did not approve. "I played Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" first, which the taxi man liked," Mann explained. "I figured he liked the classics, so I put on Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song". Then, since I was going to London, I played The Clash ("London Calling") and finished up with "Nowhere Man" by The Beatles. He didn't like Led Zeppelin or The Clash, but I don't think there was any need to tell the police." It seems The Clash's lyrics, which include "War is declared and battle come down", alarmed the cabbie, who alerted police. Of course, Led Zeppelin's line about "The hammer of the gods will rive our ship to new lands, to fight the horde", probably didn't help. Durham Police then acted on "information received" but admitted to The Mirror that "by the time it was established the man did not pose a security risk, the plane had taken off". Mann, however, saw the funny side of the incident. "I was laughing about it, but all my mates are absolutely furious," he told local newspaper the Hartlepool Mail. "It's just left me bemused. I can agree there's a culture of fear. They acted on the information they had. I'm just frustrated that it happened to me. It's a mystery."
Clash: artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500109
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