| CMU Daily - on the inside 13 Sep 2002 |
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With the final to the Mercury Music Prize on Tuesday – can you name five past Mercury Music Prize winning albums (and no looking at their website)?
Answer on Monday
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SHADOW AND BJORK ON SHORTLIST
The final ten has been announced for the Shortlist – the US equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize. Judges had previously published a very long list of the 75 albums they rated in the last twelve months, but now it’s down to ten:
Aphex Twin – Drukqs (Warp)
The Avalanches - Since I Left You (XL)
Bjork - Vespertine (One Little Indian)
Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections (Arista)
DJ Shadow - The Private Press (Mecury)
Doves - The Last Broadcast (EMI)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warners)
The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious (Burning Hearts)
NERD - In Search Of... (Virgin)
Zero 7 - Simple Things (Palm Pictures)
The winner will be selected at an Oct 29 awards ceremony and concert at Los Angeles' Knitting Factory. More at www.shortlistofmusic.com
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TOTP 2000
The BBC’s flagship music show reaches it 2000 episode tonight, nearly 40 years after Jimmy Saville introduced the first show in 1964. To celebrate the anniversary Status Quo, who, with 106 TOTP appearances, have been on the show more than any other band, performing a "special birthday rendition" of ‘Rocking All Over the World’. The band’s Rick Parfitt reminisced about his first time on the show in a recent interview: "You just can't imagine how I felt when we first heard that we've got Top of the Pops. I was in my car and nearly smashed it up.” Also lined up to perform is the White Stripes, Jurgen Vries, Tom Jones, who will perform a duet with Wyclef, and the acts at numbers one and two in this weeks chart – Appleton and Atomic Kitten.
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CREAM CLOSURE CONFIRMED
When Liverpool superclub announced it was closing its regular club nights for a ‘review period’ we all assumed that was the end – and we were right. The club’s owners have confirmed it will close its Liverpool home after its tenth birthday celebration on 11 Oct. The brand will continued, however, with events like its summer fest Creamfields. The clubs James Barton told Radio 1: "We had over 90,000 people going to those events, we did just under 40,000 in Liverpool so from our point of view we're seeing the sort of growth of dance music and the growth of our business in certain areas. It's just unfortunate that something that we've been involved in for the last ten years isn't performing as well."
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DION PARODY PULLED
A French-language station in Montreal has been forced to pull a parody of Celine Dion’s latest single after the pop diva’s manager husband threatened to sue. The afternoon show on CKMF recorded a French version of Dion's latest hit ‘I'm Alive’ called ‘A m'enarve’ - which translates as ‘She Drives Me Nuts’. The comedy track has been airing on Montreal station and on eight others within the same radio group for six weeks when Rene Angelil called to complain.
Station Manager Luc Tremblay told reporters: "He was not happy at the time and not relaxed. But he was very classy. He has a way of being angry that's very civilized." Following his phone call Angelil filed a formal legal notice and told a French-language television network in Canada that it's illegal to parody a song like this without the singer's permission. "I was ashamed that Celine is played on a radio station that, in my opinion, displays a vulgar and disturbing tone." Tremblay said he agreed to pull the spoof, in large part, because it had run its course anyway. But other skits would continue, he said, noting that his afternoon show reached close to one million listeners across the province and not one complaint was received about the ‘I'm Alive’ spoof.
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RADIO AUTHORITY WANT NEWS TO STAY LOCAL - KINDA
The Radio Authority have told commercial broadcasters "news operations should remain part of the 'locally produced and presented' programming requirements which currently exist and should therefore be carried out, in the main, from within a station's measured coverage area". The decision followed moves by some radio groups to centralise their news operations in much the same way they have centralised their music policies (to regional, and in some cases, national centres) in recent years. However, with the Authority soon to be merged with the new government regulator OfCom, they were pretty vague about their decision.
Chairman Richard Hooper told reporters: "There are already rules in place relating to local news and information provision.
However, the Authority was asked whether these could be eased. We consulted on this basis and found that many consultees were opposed to such a change. We know Ofcom is to be given a duty in respect of local content in the draft Communications Bill and felt it would be inappropriate to bind our successor at this time of transition. We are unwilling to allow news services outside a station's measured coverage area to take over local news roles to any greater degree than would be expected from normal news networking and sharing." Some cynics feel the phrase ’normal networking and sharing’ gives radio stations the freedom to put all but the bare minimum of their news resources into a central news room.
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MORE ROCKERS FOR PEACE
As the world marches to war, Dave Stewart has become the latest rocker to stick up for peace. He is teaming up with reggae legend Jimmy Cliff to write a song for global peace which they hope will be played on radio stations around the world on 21 Sep, a day the British film-maker Jeremy Gilley is trying to establish as a Global Day of Ceasefire. The track would be called ‘Peace For One Day’. Stewart told reporters: "The idea was to make a song that on 21 September we'll get as many stations around the world to play, and DJs to talk about what it's all about. Simultaneously in all these countries there'll be millions of people listening."
Film-maker Gilley has spent the past three years trying to motivate opinion-formers and world leaders into recognising the ceasefire day and the UN has passed a resolution acknowledging it. Events are planned in 44 countries to mark the date, including a concert at London's Brixton Academy featuring performances from Faithless, Zero 7 and Starsailor, an event which has had verbal support from, amongst others, Damon Albarn, Moby and the Sugababes.
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TABLOID BITS
Tabloid news of the day. The son of Rod Stewart has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and has been ordered to undergo drug rehabilitation after pleading no contest to attacking a man outside a Malibu restaurant last December. Sean Stewart also got five years probation and was ordered to pay nearly $5,600 to the victim. He was ordered to enter a drug rehabilitation programme in June after pleading guilty to possessing a controlled substance near the Viper Room nightclub in West Hollywood.
Meanwhile word is Liam Gallagher is to marry Nicole Appleton. According to the Sun she announced the news while filming the 2000th Top of the Pops which airs tonight. It's thought Liam proposed at the weekend.
Oh yes, and as he renegotiates his record contract, Robbie Williams is rumoured to have decided to release all forthcoming albums under the name Robert Williams in a bid to get more ‘music credibility’. Some have said there is a bidding war between labels for Robbie, though others have suggested current label EMI are the only company putting a serious offer on the table.
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KYLIE IN THE WEST END
I think it was the Buddy Holly musical that started it – then there were musicals made up of Abba and Queen songs – and now, with a move into the eighties – word is ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ the musical is likely to hit the West End. Though Klyie herself is unlikely to appear in it, her creative team including musical director Steve Anderson, creative collaborator William Baker, and choreographer William Forsythe are all said to be involved in the planned show.
Meanwhile friends of the Aussy star are denying rumours circulating yesterday that Kylie has suffered a breakdown. They say she is enjoying a well deserved break holidaying with her mother in Australia. It’s been a hectic year for Kylie after phenomenal success in the UK and US, and the high profile break up of her relationship with James Gooding.
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FILE SHARING REACHES MOBILES
Peer to peer file sharing could soon be possible via mobile phones, meaning people could send MP3s to people in much the sameway they send text messages. French company Apeera has developed technology that gives users a digital store cupboard for their own media files on their mobiles and lets them pass them on to anyone who wants to use, listen or look at them on their own handset. Creators hope the telcom companies will go for the new technology in their bid to convince people mobile phones are mini-multimedia units.
However some fear it will open up the Napster style illegal transfer of copyright music and movies to a much bigger audience than ever before.
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O’CONNELL FOR CAPITAL OR RADIO 1?
Latest from www.radiogoss.co.uk – after rumours that Xfm breakfast host Christian O’Connell is an outsider for the Capital breakfast slot after Tarrant leaves later this year, now the presenter has been seen lunching, for the second time this year, with Radio 1 boss Any Parfitt. One insider reckons the deal is virtually done with O'Connell to replace Chris Moyles in 18 months time. Apparantly O’Connell told rediogoss: "Guess I'm cheaper to take to lunch than Moyles".
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TIMBERLAKE FAN’S DEATH NOW MURDER
The man who allegedly killed Anna White, a Justin Timberlake fan, as she stood outside a radio station where the Nsync star was promoting his new solo album, has been charged with murder. As reported yesterday, Cameron Duty allegedly argued with some of the Timerblake fans, and then reversed his pickup truck into the crowd, fatally wounding White. New reports suggest he dragged the girl more than a block, before driving off. Duty's charge has now been changed from hit and run to murder. Timberlake yesterday told reporters he was “horrified to learn of the senseless death outside KIIS-FM last evening.”
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Answer to Thursday’s pop quiz:
Who described who as "the Perry Como of punk"?
Johnny Rotten describing Billy Idol