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GUT RECORDS NO MORE The liquidation involves all of Gut's assets except its compilations company GTV. So that's Gut Records, Institute Recordings, Gut Recordings, GI Recordings, Gusto and even the firm's regional promotions outfit Intermedia. The PR business' General Manager, Stacy Scurfield, has set up her own promotions company and is expected to take on some of Intermedia's plugging contracts. Gut was launched in 1998 by Guy Holmes and released music from the likes of Space, Tom Jones and Tears For Fears over the years, and was also the label behind the Crazy Frog's short pop career. -------------------------------------------------- DOORS LEGAL DISPUTE END IN SIGHT As previously reported, the dispute stems from a tour in 2003, when keyboardist Ray Manzerek and guitarist Robby Krieger went on tour together, playing songs by their former band, with The Cult's Ian Astbury on vocals. Drummer John Densmore declined to take part but agreed to let the duo play the songs, provided they didn't call themselves The Doors. So far, so reasonable. However, Manzerek and Densmore called themselves The Doors Of The 21st Century and then made the words "Of The 21st Century" very small in many of their press adverts, which made Densmore, the Morrisons and the Coursons a little annoyed. It didn't help when the $3.2 million net profit from the tour went to a new company called Doors Touring, either. Under a 1970 agreement, signed by all four members, all business deals relating to the band require a unanimous vote from all band members, after Morrison was angered after the others agreed to allow 'Light My Fire' to be used in a Buick TV advert. After 1971, when Morrison died, Manzerek, Krieger, Densmore, Morrison's parents and his widow Pamela Courson split the sales of Doors music and memorabilia. Courson's parents received an stake after her death. In 2005, a US court ruled that Manzerek and Krieger had improperly used The Doors' name and ordered them to stop immediately, and to pay $3.2 million to their accusers, as well as $2 million dollars in costs. However, the pair appealed, as the judge had actually overruled the jury's decision. In May, an appeals court upheld the ruling for damages, but is still considering an appeal that the charge of $2 million in costs is excessive. Now that the California Supreme Court has refused to consider a further appeal, it looks like the whole case may soon come to a close, with Manzerek and Krieger left footing a rather large bill. -------------------------------------------------- BARENAKED LADIES MAN SURVIVES PLANE CRASH In a message on the band's official website, Robertson said: "I want to thank fans and friends for all your support and good wishes throughout this crazy experience. As has been reported, my plane crashed shortly after take off. There's a lot to figure out, but there's a team of experts currently figuring it out! The important thing is that none of us were harmed and we all walked away unscathed". -------------------------------------------------- DR DRE'S SON DIES In a statement, Dre's spokesperson said: "Dr Dre is mourning the loss of his son Andre Young Jr. Please respect his family's grief and privacy at this time". -------------------------------------------------- LED ZEP WORKING ON NEW MATERIAL He told Detroit radio station WCSX: "I've been over [to England] a couple of times. I've been working with Jimmy [Page] and John Paul [Jones] and trying to do some new material and some writing. I don't know what it will be, but it will be something. At the moment, all I know is I have the great pleasure to go and jam with the two guys and start work on some material. When I get there, I never ask any questions. If I get a phone call to go and play, I enjoy every moment of it. Whatever it ends up as, to get a chance to jam with two people like that, it is a phenomenal thing for me. Lots of politics [would need to] get ironed out [if an album was to be recorded, but] the possibility of doing something is in the cards. I really felt it was on the cards from the moment we walked offstage at the O2". -------------------------------------------------- MADONNA TO EXHIBIT PERSONAL EFFECTS Curator, Ted Owen, said: "These are museum-quality pieces - but they will be presented in-keeping with the glamour and sense of theatre that the queen of pop has made her trademark - and Madonna fans should be very excited indeed". The exhibition opens on 21 Feb and will run for a month. -------------------------------------------------- JACK OSBOURNE TO SHOW OZZY'S TRUE NATURE Jack Osbourne told Rolling Stone: "I'm trying to paint a realistic picture of who my father is. I think The Osbournes, to a degree, tarnished the public's perception of my dad as a bit of a senile, funny, bumbling guy. Yeah, my dad can be that guy, but it's not him. I think that almost discredited who he is as an artist. My dad's not an idiot - he's nothing short of a genius, in my opinion. He does have huge flaws, and we're trying to really paint an honest picture of that. Next year at Ozzfest we're talking about doing a traveling museum. It's something we were talking about after the show, having a museum at the gig where fans can go in and look at old photos and old memorabilia, and at the end of it, it would have a five-minute clip of the doc just to start to get it out there". -------------------------------------------------- BJORK CORRECTS AND EDUCATES JOURNALISTS She said: "I saw in the last issue of Iceland's newspaper in English, Grapevine, that Valgeir Sigurdsson was credited for having written all the instrumentals for my album 'Vespertine'. Could I please offer a correction. I have noticed [over the] last seven years that Mr Sigurdsson has often been credited for either writing or producing that album. I'd like to say that he didn´t write it or produce. He was a computer programmer for a third of it and a recording engineer for a third. The [rest was] done by other engineers and programmers". She goes on to debate how this confusion may have arisen, deciding that it's either laziness on the part of music journalists, sexism on the part of music journalist, the fact that she doesn't play any instruments when she performs live or that she just hasn't bothered to correct it before. -------------------------------------------------- ARCTIC MONKEYS WORK WITH JOSH HOMME Homme told The NME: "I think it's going to work out great. They want to submerge themselves in a place that's the opposite of where they're from and what they're used to. I think we're just going to start by doing a couple of tracks. No pressure. The goal is to make something that they dig so much that everyone else can too". -------------------------------------------------- GIRLS ALOUD DENY HUNT FOR NEW MEMBER
SINGLE REVIEW: Saint Saviour - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Bang The Box) -------------------------------------------------- METALLICA STREAM NEW SONGS -------------------------------------------------- JACK DANIELS BIRTHDAY GIG It will all culminate in a very special gig at the Jack Daniels brewery in Lynchburg, Tennessee on 18 Oct. The gig will feature collaborations between Roisin Murphy, Tim Wheeler of Ash, The House Of Lords of The Young Knives and Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers, with The New Silver Coronet Band, a group formed in honour of the original Jack Daniels Silver Coronet Band set up by the man himself in 1892 and featuring six of Tennessee's finest session musicians. The performance will be watched live by just 200 people. The House Of Lords said: "I am really looking forward to coming to Tennessee and playing with the Silver Cornet Band. It is a real honour to be asked and I am looking forward to standing on stage with some actual real musicians for the first time ever, I just hope I don't expose myself for the great pretender that I am. As the bassist and second most important vocalist in The Young Knives it is also a really flattering to be asked to take the front seat for a whole gig rather than just a few of the songs. I have only played a few times in the US before and have never visited Tennessee so I am really excited about travelling to such a musically vibrant city and maybe soaking up some of that musical history. Maybe something will rub off on me. Who knows". -------------------------------------------------- ICELAND AIRWAVES COMES TO LONDON -------------------------------------------------- FRIGHTENED RABBIT TOUR Tour dates: 4 Sep: Leeds, Brudenell Social -------------------------------------------------- ALBUM REVIEW: Heartbreak - Lies (Lex Records) Buy from iTunes -------------------------------------------------- PRS WINS LEGAL DISPUTE WITH BUMA Buma provided Beatport with a licence back in July which gave it rights to distribute globally an extensive catalogue of songs, including those represented by PRS. However, PRS argued that Buma only had the right to offer the rights to its catalogue within the Netherlands. With that in mind PRS went to the Dutch courts to have the licence revoked, and the judge hearing the case ruled that Buma offered "no convincing arguments" to prove they did have the right to grant the Beatport multi-territory licence. Commenting on the ruling, PRS MD International Karen Buse told reporters: "We are disappointed that Buma decided to act in the way it did but pleased that the judge has upheld the contract terms between PRS and Buma, confirming that no society can issue licences without the express agreement of the other. PRS welcomes fair and healthy competition for members across Europe and we look forward to working with all collection societies in the future to provide the best possible service to songwriters and music publishers. We shall also continue to operate our own successful and legal pan-European licensing scheme; making it easy and efficient for online music services across Europe to access the music they need to support and grow their businesses". -------------------------------------------------- JAPANESE RECORD COMPANIES DENY RINGTONE FIXING Ahead of its legal appeal to the FTC ruling, Sony Japan told reporters: "We have not been in conspiracy with the three other labels to block chaku-uta [master ringtone] service firms' [market] entry but have made our own decisions to reject the chaku-uta service firms' requests. We hope that our assertion that there was no such conspiracy will be proved through the court procedures". -------------------------------------------------- ITUNES RETURNS TO CHINA -------------------------------------------------- GLOBAL PLAN TO INTEGRATE SALES DIVISIONS BY NOVEMBER -------------------------------------------------- ZANE SUSPENDED BY XFM In a statement, the station said: "On Wednesday morning, the breakfast show broadcast an item that, in the view of station management, was distasteful and likely to cause offence. As a result, the breakfast team has been suspended, pending a formal disciplinary process. A full apology was broadcast on air at 7.20am on Thursday. We are sorry for any offence caused". Dave Berry will stand in for Zane until 1 Sep. -------------------------------------------------- KASABIAN MAN AVOIDS EXPLOSION Pizzorno, a little melodramatically, told The Sun: "All it could have taken was the vibrations from a kickabout in the garden or some loud music and we would have been blown to pieces in a pile of rubble and smoke. I'm 27 as well and there's a tradition of musicians meeting their end at my age. It's all sorted now and we should be moving in there in a few weeks". |
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