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APRA turns 80
APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association), the grand old dame of the Australian music industry, will celebrate its 80th birthday at its annual APRA Awards ceremony in Sydney on June 5. With the prestigious peer-voted Song of the Year award (last year won by Missy Higgins for "Scar") at the heart of the event, the awards give songwriters and publishers who have achieved outstanding success the chance to be honoured by their peers. Nominations in the following categories will be announced on May 11:
Song of the Year
Songwriter of the Year
Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music
Breakthrough Songwriter Award
Most Performed Urban Work
Most Performed Blues and Roots Work
Most Performed Dance Work
Most Performed Australian Work
Most Performed Australian Work Overseas
Most Performed Foreign Work
Most Performed Jazz Work
Most Performed Country work
Missy: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3506353
Youngest Pointer Sister dies
June Pointer, the youngest sister in the Pointer Sisters trio, has died of cancer in her Los Angeles home. Originally a quartet, The Pointer Sisters released their self-titled debut album in 1973, but found real success as a trio in the late 70s and early 80s with a succession of singles that hit the upper echelons of the charts. The band's first big hit, "Slow Hand", was sultry country-pop, but their sound was best characterised by the high-energy dance-pop that followed ("I'm So Excited", "Jump (For My Love)" and "Neutron Dance"). In a family statement, it's revealed June died "in the arms of her sisters, Ruth and Anita, and [with] her brothers, Aaron and Fritz, by her side." June Pointer was 52.
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R.E.M. honoured by their home state
[source: NME.com] R.E.M. are to be inducted into the Georgia Music Hall Of Fame later this year. The band formed in the city of Athens in the southern US state in 1980 and will receive the honour at a ceremony on September 16 in Atlanta. Other inductees will include Gregg Allman and Jermaine Dupri. R.E.M. are currently on a break after their Around The Sun world tour concluded last summer. On April 1 they briefly got back onstage with former drummer Bill Berry to perform a version of "Country Feedback" at the Georgia Theatre.
Allmann: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3516884
Kylie Minogue for Glastonbury 2007
[source: NME.com] Kylie Minogue is in line to play next year's Glastonbury Festival after she missed last year's bash through illness. The singer was due to headline on the Sunday night in 2005, but was forced to cancel all her live commitments last year after being diagnosed with breast cancer. However, according to Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis, Minogue is still keen to play the festival. "I speak to her people regularly," Eavis told Teletext's Planet Sound. "They're hopeful. I do hope she's fit enough; she really wants to do it." Meanwhile, Eavis and many of the other festival organisers were in London last night for the premiere of the film Glastonbury. Charting the festival's 35-year history, the film, which uses a mixture of official and fan footage, was watched by festival veterans Billy Bragg and Rolf Harris along with Eavis and director Julian Temple.
Kylie: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501554
Bragg: Kylie: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500233
APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association), the grand old dame of the Australian music industry, will celebrate its 80th birthday at its annual APRA Awards ceremony in Sydney on June 5. With the prestigious peer-voted Song of the Year award (last year won by Missy Higgins for "Scar") at the heart of the event, the awards give songwriters and publishers who have achieved outstanding success the chance to be honoured by their peers. Nominations in the following categories will be announced on May 11:
Song of the Year
Songwriter of the Year
Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music
Breakthrough Songwriter Award
Most Performed Urban Work
Most Performed Blues and Roots Work
Most Performed Dance Work
Most Performed Australian Work
Most Performed Australian Work Overseas
Most Performed Foreign Work
Most Performed Jazz Work
Most Performed Country work
Missy: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3506353
Youngest Pointer Sister dies
June Pointer, the youngest sister in the Pointer Sisters trio, has died of cancer in her Los Angeles home. Originally a quartet, The Pointer Sisters released their self-titled debut album in 1973, but found real success as a trio in the late 70s and early 80s with a succession of singles that hit the upper echelons of the charts. The band's first big hit, "Slow Hand", was sultry country-pop, but their sound was best characterised by the high-energy dance-pop that followed ("I'm So Excited", "Jump (For My Love)" and "Neutron Dance"). In a family statement, it's revealed June died "in the arms of her sisters, Ruth and Anita, and [with] her brothers, Aaron and Fritz, by her side." June Pointer was 52.
/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3504226
R.E.M. honoured by their home state
[source: NME.com] R.E.M. are to be inducted into the Georgia Music Hall Of Fame later this year. The band formed in the city of Athens in the southern US state in 1980 and will receive the honour at a ceremony on September 16 in Atlanta. Other inductees will include Gregg Allman and Jermaine Dupri. R.E.M. are currently on a break after their Around The Sun world tour concluded last summer. On April 1 they briefly got back onstage with former drummer Bill Berry to perform a version of "Country Feedback" at the Georgia Theatre.
Allmann: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3516884
Kylie Minogue for Glastonbury 2007
[source: NME.com] Kylie Minogue is in line to play next year's Glastonbury Festival after she missed last year's bash through illness. The singer was due to headline on the Sunday night in 2005, but was forced to cancel all her live commitments last year after being diagnosed with breast cancer. However, according to Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis, Minogue is still keen to play the festival. "I speak to her people regularly," Eavis told Teletext's Planet Sound. "They're hopeful. I do hope she's fit enough; she really wants to do it." Meanwhile, Eavis and many of the other festival organisers were in London last night for the premiere of the film Glastonbury. Charting the festival's 35-year history, the film, which uses a mixture of official and fan footage, was watched by festival veterans Billy Bragg and Rolf Harris along with Eavis and director Julian Temple.
Kylie: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501554
Bragg: Kylie: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500233
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