Oct 23
New twist in Madonna adoption saga
[source: NME.com] The father of the Malawian boy adopted by Madonna has claimed he didn't know the adoption meant giving up his son for good.
Yohane Banda said he would never have given up 13-month David had he known it was for life. He claimed Malawian adoption services failed to tell him the procedure meant David would no longer be his son.
Banda, who is illiterate, said he had no idea what the High Court adoption papers he signed had meant and he was "just realising" what the procedure entailed.
"I want more clarification on the adoption," he said. "I would prefer that David goes back to the orphanage where I can see him any time I want, rather than send him away for good."
According to the Associated Press news agency, Banda said he thought Madonna would just "educate and take care of our son". But he still thanked the star for rescuing David "from poverty and disease".
The child is now in London with Madonna and her family. He will be monitored for 18 months before the adoption is fully approved.
Meanwhile, a human rights group are launching an appeal over the adoption in Malawi High Court on Friday October 27. They argue foreign adoptive parents must live in the country for 18 months before adoption can be approved.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3534378
Damon Albarn launches new band with tiny pub gig
[source: NME.com] Damon Albarn launched his new project with a gig in a tiny village pub last night.
The group, which also features Clash bassist Paul Simonon, former Verve guitarist Simon Tong and influential Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, played to just 150 people at the Pig's Nose in East Prawle, Devon.
While they're yet to settle on a name – "We're nameless," Albarn claimed – the band's forthcoming album is called The Good The Bad And The Queen.
The group ran through the album, in order, in what was their first live performance. The night acted as a warm-up for an appearance at the London Roundhouse on Thursday October 26 as part of the BBC's Electric Proms season.
"I enjoyed tonight's gig," Simonon told NME.com. "It's good. It's the birth, and the egg has broken."
Albarn was pleased his new group did not rest on their reputations.
"It was great," he explained. "We've done a lot of rehearsal and none of us have taken it for granted, even though we've done a lot before. You know that everyone has performed in front of 100,000 people, so they're not there to prove anything. They're there to really make sure the music is as good as they can get it."
Set list:
"History Song"
"80s Life"
"Northern Whale"
"Kingdom Of Doom"
"Herculean"
"Behind The Sun"
"The Bunting Song"
"Nature Springs"
"Soldier's Tale"
"Three Changes"
"Green Fields"
"The Good, The Bad & The Queen"
The Kaiser Chiefs discuss new album
[source: NME.com] The Kaiser Chiefs have spent the last six weeks recording the follow-up to 2005's Employment.
They've put down 22 tracks in Oxfordshire's Hook End Studio and hope to settle on 13 or 14 for the as-yet-untitled album.
"We are full of inspiration," drummer Nick Hodgson told Billboard. "It's a big world out there and there are a lot of things to draw upon. Just like [2005's Employment] was written about what was happening then, this one's written about what's happening now."
Hodgson said new song "Heat Dies Down" chronicles the band's escalating popularity.
"Last Christmas we went to this big party and it was weird because it was the first time we'd been back in Leeds. Loads of attention was being thrown upon us, especially Ricky [Wilson, frontman]. [He] couldn't really operate in a normal way.
"There were loads of girls and boys going up to him, saying, 'Oh! I saw you here/there and I think you're really good.' So, when the heat dies down, we'll be back in town."
The band have also recorded "Highroyds", "Angry Mob", "Try Your Best", "Everything Is Average Nowadays" and "Love's Not A Competition (But I'm Winning)".
Hodgson also said the band were looking to rock legends Led Zeppelin for inspiration when it comes to breaking America.
"We were looking at some sales figures of Led Zeppelin. The first album did eight million in the US alone. The fourth: 23 million! So we're like 'Yeah, it'd be great to do that, wouldn't it? It'd be great to play massive gigs in America'.
"We've got to sell 100 million records. If we keep making 'em and you keep buying 'em, we'll get there."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3524131
Girls Aloud lash out at Pete Doherty
[source: NME.com] Girls Aloud have attacked Pete Doherty and his musical ability, suggesting he is overrated.
"He's supposed to be this musical genius, but has anyone heard his singing?" Nadie Coyle said in an interview with The Times.
"I've heard a Babyshambles album and it was like, 'What am I listening to?'. We could make a record that sounded like that, but could he make one that sounded like us?"
Meanwhile, bandmate Kimberly Walsh questioned Doherty's desirability.
"I guess if you like brown teeth and mouldy fingers, he's your guy," she sneered.
Girls Aloud release their best-of album, The Sound Of Girls Aloud, on Monday October 30.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502748
Keith Urban cancels tour, enters rehab
Keith Urban has checked himself into a rehabilitation facility.
The Aussie country crooner and husband of actress Nicole Kidman said he "deeply regrets" the hurt he has caused loved ones.
"One can never let one's guard down on recovery and I'm afraid that I have," Urban said in a statement issued by his record company. "With the strength and unwavering support I am blessed to have from my wife, family and friends, I am determined and resolved to a positive outcome."
The singer's planned promotional visit to Australia – where he was to appear at the 2006 ARIA Awards – has been postponed.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?albumid=2504742
Anthony Callea prepares new LP
He released the biggest Australian single of all time ("The Prayer", from his self-titled debut LP) and now Anthony Callea has a new ballad up his sleeve.
"Live For Love", which hits radio today, is the first single to be lifted from his second album, due for release on Saturday November 25.
Callea said the song represents a new musical chapter.
"It's about hope, and the words describe that: 'We see the world falling down around us'," the 24-year-old explained. "It shows how humanity has forgotten to live for love, but this should be our main focus in life. I wanted to go with this song first because, especially with Christmas coming up, it's about family and friends. I wanted to have something that reflects what this time of the year should be about."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3515061
St Jerome's Laneway Festival
Live music fans better start saving because the St. Jerome's Laneway Festival is coming.
The event, which debuted in Melbourne last year, will also take in Sydney and Brisbane in 2007.
Heading to our shores are New Jersey indie rock darlings Yo La Tengo, Swedish pop trio Peter Bjorn & John, Glaswegian pop outfit Camera Obscura, Swedish pop-punk five-piece Love Is All, Irish singer/songwriter Fionn Regan, London rockers Archie Bronson Outfit and New Yorkers The Walkmen. They join local artists like Youth Group, Macromantics, Midnight Juggernauts, Ground Components and The Temper Trap.
Peter, Bjorn and John: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3550868
Love Is All: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3549734
Ground Components: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3551093
Nick Cave says no to commercials
Former Birthday Party frontman and respected solo artist Nick Cave is adamant he'll never allow his music to be used in commercials.
The Aussie musician, who's nominated for a 2006 APRA Screen Music award for his soundtrack to The Proposition, says he finds it "offensive" when musicians sell their songs.
"Iggy Pop's 'Lust For Life' was used for a car ad," he argued. "I used to drive around in my car when I was 19, screaming that song – it had an anti-establishment purpose. For it now to be appropriated by the advertising industry… I think that's f***ed. I'm not trying to take the moral high ground, but I wouldn't allow my music to be used in that way.
"A sanitary napkin company back in New Zealand wanted to use 'Red Right Hand', which was tempting, but that's the closest I've come."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3536295
[source: NME.com] The father of the Malawian boy adopted by Madonna has claimed he didn't know the adoption meant giving up his son for good.
Yohane Banda said he would never have given up 13-month David had he known it was for life. He claimed Malawian adoption services failed to tell him the procedure meant David would no longer be his son.
Banda, who is illiterate, said he had no idea what the High Court adoption papers he signed had meant and he was "just realising" what the procedure entailed.
"I want more clarification on the adoption," he said. "I would prefer that David goes back to the orphanage where I can see him any time I want, rather than send him away for good."
According to the Associated Press news agency, Banda said he thought Madonna would just "educate and take care of our son". But he still thanked the star for rescuing David "from poverty and disease".
The child is now in London with Madonna and her family. He will be monitored for 18 months before the adoption is fully approved.
Meanwhile, a human rights group are launching an appeal over the adoption in Malawi High Court on Friday October 27. They argue foreign adoptive parents must live in the country for 18 months before adoption can be approved.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3534378
Damon Albarn launches new band with tiny pub gig
[source: NME.com] Damon Albarn launched his new project with a gig in a tiny village pub last night.
The group, which also features Clash bassist Paul Simonon, former Verve guitarist Simon Tong and influential Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, played to just 150 people at the Pig's Nose in East Prawle, Devon.
While they're yet to settle on a name – "We're nameless," Albarn claimed – the band's forthcoming album is called The Good The Bad And The Queen.
The group ran through the album, in order, in what was their first live performance. The night acted as a warm-up for an appearance at the London Roundhouse on Thursday October 26 as part of the BBC's Electric Proms season.
"I enjoyed tonight's gig," Simonon told NME.com. "It's good. It's the birth, and the egg has broken."
Albarn was pleased his new group did not rest on their reputations.
"It was great," he explained. "We've done a lot of rehearsal and none of us have taken it for granted, even though we've done a lot before. You know that everyone has performed in front of 100,000 people, so they're not there to prove anything. They're there to really make sure the music is as good as they can get it."
Set list:
"History Song"
"80s Life"
"Northern Whale"
"Kingdom Of Doom"
"Herculean"
"Behind The Sun"
"The Bunting Song"
"Nature Springs"
"Soldier's Tale"
"Three Changes"
"Green Fields"
"The Good, The Bad & The Queen"
The Kaiser Chiefs discuss new album
[source: NME.com] The Kaiser Chiefs have spent the last six weeks recording the follow-up to 2005's Employment.
They've put down 22 tracks in Oxfordshire's Hook End Studio and hope to settle on 13 or 14 for the as-yet-untitled album.
"We are full of inspiration," drummer Nick Hodgson told Billboard. "It's a big world out there and there are a lot of things to draw upon. Just like [2005's Employment] was written about what was happening then, this one's written about what's happening now."
Hodgson said new song "Heat Dies Down" chronicles the band's escalating popularity.
"Last Christmas we went to this big party and it was weird because it was the first time we'd been back in Leeds. Loads of attention was being thrown upon us, especially Ricky [Wilson, frontman]. [He] couldn't really operate in a normal way.
"There were loads of girls and boys going up to him, saying, 'Oh! I saw you here/there and I think you're really good.' So, when the heat dies down, we'll be back in town."
The band have also recorded "Highroyds", "Angry Mob", "Try Your Best", "Everything Is Average Nowadays" and "Love's Not A Competition (But I'm Winning)".
Hodgson also said the band were looking to rock legends Led Zeppelin for inspiration when it comes to breaking America.
"We were looking at some sales figures of Led Zeppelin. The first album did eight million in the US alone. The fourth: 23 million! So we're like 'Yeah, it'd be great to do that, wouldn't it? It'd be great to play massive gigs in America'.
"We've got to sell 100 million records. If we keep making 'em and you keep buying 'em, we'll get there."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3524131
Girls Aloud lash out at Pete Doherty
[source: NME.com] Girls Aloud have attacked Pete Doherty and his musical ability, suggesting he is overrated.
"He's supposed to be this musical genius, but has anyone heard his singing?" Nadie Coyle said in an interview with The Times.
"I've heard a Babyshambles album and it was like, 'What am I listening to?'. We could make a record that sounded like that, but could he make one that sounded like us?"
Meanwhile, bandmate Kimberly Walsh questioned Doherty's desirability.
"I guess if you like brown teeth and mouldy fingers, he's your guy," she sneered.
Girls Aloud release their best-of album, The Sound Of Girls Aloud, on Monday October 30.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502748
Keith Urban cancels tour, enters rehab
Keith Urban has checked himself into a rehabilitation facility.
The Aussie country crooner and husband of actress Nicole Kidman said he "deeply regrets" the hurt he has caused loved ones.
"One can never let one's guard down on recovery and I'm afraid that I have," Urban said in a statement issued by his record company. "With the strength and unwavering support I am blessed to have from my wife, family and friends, I am determined and resolved to a positive outcome."
The singer's planned promotional visit to Australia – where he was to appear at the 2006 ARIA Awards – has been postponed.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?albumid=2504742
Anthony Callea prepares new LP
He released the biggest Australian single of all time ("The Prayer", from his self-titled debut LP) and now Anthony Callea has a new ballad up his sleeve.
"Live For Love", which hits radio today, is the first single to be lifted from his second album, due for release on Saturday November 25.
Callea said the song represents a new musical chapter.
"It's about hope, and the words describe that: 'We see the world falling down around us'," the 24-year-old explained. "It shows how humanity has forgotten to live for love, but this should be our main focus in life. I wanted to go with this song first because, especially with Christmas coming up, it's about family and friends. I wanted to have something that reflects what this time of the year should be about."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3515061
St Jerome's Laneway Festival
Live music fans better start saving because the St. Jerome's Laneway Festival is coming.
The event, which debuted in Melbourne last year, will also take in Sydney and Brisbane in 2007.
Heading to our shores are New Jersey indie rock darlings Yo La Tengo, Swedish pop trio Peter Bjorn & John, Glaswegian pop outfit Camera Obscura, Swedish pop-punk five-piece Love Is All, Irish singer/songwriter Fionn Regan, London rockers Archie Bronson Outfit and New Yorkers The Walkmen. They join local artists like Youth Group, Macromantics, Midnight Juggernauts, Ground Components and The Temper Trap.
Peter, Bjorn and John: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3550868
Love Is All: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3549734
Ground Components: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3551093
Nick Cave says no to commercials
Former Birthday Party frontman and respected solo artist Nick Cave is adamant he'll never allow his music to be used in commercials.
The Aussie musician, who's nominated for a 2006 APRA Screen Music award for his soundtrack to The Proposition, says he finds it "offensive" when musicians sell their songs.
"Iggy Pop's 'Lust For Life' was used for a car ad," he argued. "I used to drive around in my car when I was 19, screaming that song – it had an anti-establishment purpose. For it now to be appropriated by the advertising industry… I think that's f***ed. I'm not trying to take the moral high ground, but I wouldn't allow my music to be used in that way.
"A sanitary napkin company back in New Zealand wanted to use 'Red Right Hand', which was tempting, but that's the closest I've come."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3536295
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