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![]() OASIS COULD CONTINUE (BUT DON'T MENTION NOEL) Speaking to The Evening Standard, Gallagher said: "We're halfway there, man. We've got all the songs done. Without Noel at all. Me, Andy and Gem are doing it. That was the way it was going anyway, even on the last record.We were, like, doing most of it and Noel was off doing his own thing. So we've got a bit of studio time booked after Christmas and we're going to get in there, do it quick, with no stewing on it, and I'm feeling really confident about it". Of the sound of the new material, he added: "It's a little bit different, but not too much. It's the kind of music our fans have always liked, you know? But we'll see. I'm not forcing this down anyone's throats. That's not good for the soul". As for the new band's name, he revealed that while they're currently going without one, that doesn't mean the old one has been retired. He explained: "We're not using it at the moment, but if we don't come up with something else by the time we're ready to release the album it'll be Oasis. I'm not going to call myself something ridiculous just for the sake of it". However, he insisted that the new version of the band - even if still called Oasis - would not play any songs written by his brother, which doesn't really give them a great deal to choose from when it comes to back catalogue. "Obviously it's going to be different without Noel", he said. "And Noel's fans will sneer at it, but then, you know, if they don't like the music, don't fucking buy it. Don't come to the gig, cos you're not going to be hearing 'Don't Look Back In Anger'. But I do like to think that the 250,000 people who came to see us at Knebworth didn't come just for Noel". Perhaps not, but everyone knows Noel is generally thought of as the creative force behind the band. Surely the door would be open if he ever wanted to come back to the band (if only so they can play their hits)? Apparently not, according to Liam: "I'm sure [Noel] thinks: 'I'll do my solo career and if it doesn't fucking pan out the way it's expected to pan out, then I'll give our kid a ring cos he'll be desperate, and he'll do anything for Oasis'.Well, I'll say this right now: he's got another fucking think coming. If he thinks he can ring me up at any given stage in his fucking lifetime, I'll be busy. I'll always be busy when he rings me up". The brothers will presumably have to have a professional relationship of some sort, though. It's still not clear if either of the Gallagher's new separate projects will be released via their Big Brother Recordings label, but either way pre-split Oasis music will still be earning the brothers' own company money. Not that I think Liam and Noel have desks set up in the Big Brother offices, or are even especially involved in the day-to-day running of it, but the corporate entity retains the link over and above family affiliations, unless either brother disaffiliates from it. Still, assuming Liam stands by his policy of no contact, if Noel ever does feel the urge to play with Oasis again, maybe he could join a tribute band and refuse to play songs written by his brother. POLICE APOLOGISE FOR THIRST ARREST back to top LITTLE RICHARD RECOVERING FROM HIP SURGERY EUROPEAN FESTIVAL AWARDS VOTING OPENS ALICIA KEYS ALBUM DETAILS Tracklist: Element Of Freedom (Intro) -------------------------------------------------- ERRORS ANNOUNCE ALBUM AND TOUR 'Come Down With Me' will be preceded by a single, 'A Rumour In Africa', on 25 Jan, and the band will head out on tour exactly a month from that date. back to top EARACHE RELEASE CLASSIC LIVE DEATH METAL DVD BOXSET The DVDs included in the box are these: Deicide - When London Burns -------------------------------------------------- NEW LIMP BIZKIT ALBUM NAMED PAVEMENT ADD MORE UK AND IRELAND DATES Tour dates (newly added shows marked with an *): -------------------------------------------------- PENDULUM ANNOUNCE MAY TOUR DATES Mainman Rob Swire says of the album: "It's been two years in the making and I'm more excited about this record than anything we've ever done. We've been lucky enough to collaborate with some of our idols, played live alongside some of the biggest names in rock and electronic music, and finally set up a permanent studio in London. We've learnt so much during the process and this next record really does feel like a culmination of all those experiences. I'd say it's almost 'The Perfect Storm' but that shitty film with George Clooney ruined the phrase". Tour dates: 17 May: Belfast, Ulster Hall ------------------------------------------------- JLS ANNOUNCE ARENA TOUR Anyway, here are the dates: 3 Dec 2010: Liverpool Echo Arena Tickets go on sale on Saturday at 9.30am. ADDITIONS TO GROENING ATP ALBUM REVIEW: Sparrow And The Workshop - Into The Wild (Distiller Records) Despite all this talk of America, and O'Sullivan's Chicago roots, the band are actually based in Glasgow. And so, as is often the case with bands hailing from that particular Scottish city, O'Sullivan gets some male vocal accompaniment on tracks like 'Blame It On Me' and 'Jealous Of Your Heart', in this case from bandmate Gregor Donaldson. Though the result is less twee than you might expect; there's too much of the banshee in O'Sullivan and too much of the sinner in Gregor Donaldson for Sparrow And The Workshop to make the sort of delicate ditties you'd expect from, say, Belle And Sebastian. As with former Belle And Sebastian type Isobel Campbell, in her subsequent musical partnership with Mark Lanegan, it's the transatlantic mix that brings the greatest appeal. From Illinois to Caledonia, this is blues roots with the cynicism brought on by too many Glasgow summers. TM Physical release: 23 Nov Buy from iTunes FORMER EMI SVP JOINS ATLANTIC In his new role he will oversee marketing, digital, press and creative activities at Atlantic UK, reporting to the Warner division's chairman Max Lousada, who told CMU: "Mark is a seasoned executive who brings an incredible breadth of creativity and strategic thinking to Atlantic Records UK, and whose considerable experience will be extremely valuable in helping to devise high-impact campaigns for the world-class UK and US acts on our roster". Terry himself added: "I'm very excited to be joining Atlantic Records UK at this particular time and look forward to working alongside Max and the Atlantic team as we take the label to even greater heights". -------------------------------------------------- SPANISH INDUSTRY RALLY OVER PIRACY As previously reported, Spain's courts have not proved very helpful in attempts by the music industry there to stop file-sharing, leading to widespread calls for a reformation of the country's copyright laws. The country's government began a review of intellectual property rules in October, which is why hundreds of musicians and music industry people protested out side the offices of Spain's Industry Minister in Madrid yesterday under the banner 'Music Is Culture. Music Is Employment', which is possibly catchier in Spanish. I hope so. According to Billboard, the boss of Spanish record labels association Promusicae, Antonio Guisasola, said, after a meeting with said Industry Minister, Miguel Sebastian: "This is a historic day for music in Spain. This sector includes many thousands of workers and professionals. Until now we have clenched our fists in the face of increasing amounts of unpunished piracy. From this moment, a peaceful revolution begins in defence of music and its craftsmen and women, one of the great assets of this country which until now has been ignored". Guisasola also presented Sebastian with a petition signed by 2500 music people. Sebastian's office is expected to report back on its investigations into copyright and piracy in the New Year. -------------------------------------------------- LIVE NATION EXPAND FRENCH OPERATION Confirming the new French team, Live Nation's CEO of International Music, Alan Ridgeway, told CMU: "It is a pleasure to welcome this exciting young team of promoters to Live Nation. Since we entered France in 2007 ... we have seen a huge opportunity to bring more international and local concerts to music fans in Paris and the rest of France. The new team will enable us to take full advantage of these opportunities". SPOTIFY PASSES SIX MILLION USERS Speaking at the NOAH Conference in London this week, the firm's Shakil Khan also confirmed that the streaming music service has launches in the US, China and Germany pencilled in for 2010, and that they are in talks with TV and gaming companies about incorporating the service into web-enabled TV units and games consoles. -------------------------------------------------- 7DIGITAL EXPAND INTO NORWAY AND FINLAND Commenting, 7Digital top man Ben Drury told CMU: "This gives us the largest international reach of any MP3 retailer. Our partners and potential clients now have the option to operate digital music promotions across the a vast number of markets, through a single partnership with us". -------------------------------------------------- APPLE ITUNES PASS GOES ALL CLASSICAL As previously reported, iTunes Pass sort of sees the Apple download store move into the subscription space, in that users pay a lump sum then receive a series of content relating to one artist over a period of time, normally including tracks, pop-promos and backstage and behind the scenes footage. New content is automatically downloaded to a Pass holder's iTunes player. The New York Philharmonic Pass, the first on a classical theme, is much bigger and therefore quite a bit more expensive than past Pass promotions. For $150 holders will be sent 50 concert recordings, many brand new recordings still to happen. Other goodies will be thrown in along the way also. The promotion, which has been created by independent digital distributor IODA with Apple and the orchestra, was launched at the Upper West Side branch of the Apple Store in NYC on Monday night. -------------------------------------------------- MUZU TO POWER VIDEO CHANNEL FOR THE O2 Confirming the new deal, MUZU CEO Ciaran Bollard told CMU: "We're very excited about working with The O2 and look forward to a very successful relationship. We believe MUZU.TV's syndication model is the perfect music video solution for publishers, festivals and venues. Not only can they enhance their online strategy and engage festival and concert goers all round with high-quality, fully license-cleared music videos, but they can also potentially generate new revenue streams by allowing us to monetise their own video content, as well as leveraging the proposition with their current brand relationships". The O2 Head Of Marketing Becky Grote added: "MUZU are unique in this market having built relationships with the major music labels. This is an ultimate value add for us as we have access to approved content for artists who have been, or will appear, at The O2. We are thrilled to be entering into this relationship". ABC TO TIGHTEN LIVE SHOW RULES AFTER LAMBERT The President of Disney-ABC Television Group, Anne Sweeny, has said that in the future the firm will look for contractual obligations from artists performing on live shows that their routines match those delivered in rehearsal, giving producers the chance to veto any content likely to offend Middle America (which could leave live shows very sparse for content, but there you go). ABC bosses say they were unaware of the more controversial parts of Lambert's AMA routine, and he himself admitted the kiss was a spur of the moment addition to his set. Trying to sound serious and responsible, but at the same time alleviate any fears that draconian new rules will ban artistic expression, Sweeney told reporters this week: "We certainly don't want to suppress artistry at any level, but we also have to be very cognizant of who our audience is". Sweeny also defended ABC's decision to cancel Lambert's scheduled appearance on their live 'Good Morning America' show shortly after the AMA performance, noting that many children watch the morning news programme. That presumably means ABC bosses lacked confidence in the nearly-Idol's ability to reign in his performance for daytime TV. 'Good Morning America' producers have been criticised by some in the US gay press after it was revealed that the show would host an interview and performance from Chris Brown next week, with said media concluding ABC has less of a problem with domestic violence than two men kissing, which isn't a totally logical conclusion, though you can see their point I suppose. Of course those journalists need to remember Chris Brown had the decency to beat up Rihanna on his own time, rather than on a prime time TV show - 'don't ask, don't tell' has always been very popular in the States, remember. When it was announced 'Good Morning America' had cancelled its Lambert booking, rival network CBS quickly got him in to perform on their 'Early Show'. And low and behold, when booked to do daytime telly it turned out the nearly-Idol could deliver a kid-friendly turn. Not that CBS's clever booking won them fans in the US gay community. While discussing Lambert's AMA routine they showed two clips, one of Lambert kissing his male dancer last month, the other of Madonna kissing Britney at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2003. But, due to the network's censorship rules, they pixelated the kiss in the former, but not the latter. This led to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to accuse CBS of double standards, not, as you might expect, having different rules for lesbian kissing versus gay men kissing, but having different rules between straight people kissing members of the same sex and openly gay people doing the same thing. CBS have responded, saying that the Madonna/Britney clip is less controversial because it is more familiar to viewers. Which is a pretty rubbish excuse, but there you have it. So, still much debate around Mr Lambert, and yet still no one in authority has responded to my complaints about that horrible screeching he does when trying to hit the high notes. -------------------------------------------------- RECORD COMPLAINTS FOR OFCOM Speaking to Parliament's Media Select Committee, OfCom boss Ed Richards said that even when you strip out complaints relating to the big telly scandals, like the Shilpa Shetty/Big Brother incident and complaints relating to all those dodgy phone-ins, the regulator was still fielding twice as many complaints as four years ago - 13,521 in 2008 compared to 6375 in 2005. He seemed surprised by the increase and said he thought the plethora of new cable and satellite TV channels, some of which have "more edgy" programming, was the blame. Which seems to completely miss the point that we live in the age of the complainer, now that making a formal complaint is as easy as copying some text off a Facebook group and plonking it into an email. You'd think the boss of one of the UK's main complaint shops would have noticed that. I might have to complain about his ignorance. -------------------------------------------------- MURDOCH TALKS UP SUBSCRIPTION WEBSITES SOME MORE As much previously reported, various divisions of the Murdoch newspaper empire are currently developing plans to make their online editions subscription-based, as they and the wider newspaper industry come to terms with the decline in print sales and the fact that record online readership figures are not translating into record ad revenues. As you may have seen, the media mogul has also been complaining of late about news aggregator services like Google News, which he reckons are generating traffic and ad revenue by nicking his newspaper's content. Google argue that their news aggregator service is a small part of their overall operation, carries very little advertising, and in fact generates extra traffic for the Murdochs of this world, because they only publish a headline and opening line before linking people to the original story. But that's not stopped Murdoch from plotting to block his papers from appearing on Google news searches, perhaps while signing some sort of partnership deal with the uber-search engine's Microsoft-owned rival Bing. Speaking at a Federal Trade Commission event in the US, Murdoch said newspapers would succeed in the online domain, and that that success could be achieved through subscription-based services, providing his publications give the people what they want. According to the Guardian, the Murdoch-meister said: "From the beginning, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want. If we fail, we fail like a restaurant that makes meals that no one wants to eat". Murdoch is convinced people do want the kind of reporting his papers offer. Noting that the subscription model is working at one of his more recent acquisitions, The Wall Street Journal, Rupie continued: "We will extend this model to all our news organisations, such as The Times in London. At The Times there are journalists who invest days and weeks into their stories, and our customers are smart enough to know that they can't get something for nothing. Producing journalism is expensive. We invest tremendous resources in our project from technology to our salaries". Returning to the theme of Google-style aggregators, Murdoch continued: "Without us, the aggregators would have blank slides. Right now content producers have all the costs, and the aggregators enjoy [the benefits]. But the principle is clear. To paraphrase a great economist, [there is] no such thing as a free news story". Of course some in the newspaper business are still unsure that the Wall Street Journal subscription model will work with more mainstream titles, WSJ subscribers needing the paper's content for their work, and many probably charging their subs to their employers. That said, now that the big newspapers actually have decent and popular websites I suspect there increasingly is an opportunity to get a subscription model off the ground where quality analysis and good writing is on offer, providing the right pricing models and payment systems can be honed. -------------------------------------------------- DAB RADIO SALES PASS 10 MILLION - GOOD NEWS OR BAD? As previously reported, some in the radio industry have all but given up on DAB, arguing the conventional AM and FM networks will be around much longer than originally assumed, and that in the meantime internet and satellite radio is likely to overtake DAB as the medium of choice for radio fans. Leading the criticism of digital audio broadcasting has been UTV Radio, who recently quit commercial radio trade body RadioCentre partly in a dispute over the speed with which some of their rivals - mainly Global Radio - are pushing for the conventional radio networks to be switched off. Responding to the news that ten million DAB sets have been sold, UTV Radio MD Scott Taunton told Radio Today: "If there are still 120 million analogue radios in circulation, which industry RAJAR figures show, it means that after ten years of DAB less than ten per cent of UK radios have been converted to digital". And that's assuming all ten million DAB radio sets are still in use. Some early-adopting gadget junkies have no doubt bought multiple units, and I know for a fact there's an unused DAB radio gathering dust here at CMU HQ. Taunton continued: "Radio listeners have spoken. Today's disappointing DAB sales announcement is a resounding 'no' vote for the government's proposal to switch off analogue signals in 2015. Whilst cumulative sales of ten million digital sets prove that DAB is here to stay, there are 120 million analogue radios currently in circulation in the UK. At this rate of sales, it would take up to 60 years to convert them all to digital. DAB is an important platform for radio, but I hope these figures will act as an wake up call for policy makers and parliamentarians who have yet to realise that its best role is as a complementary platform for FM and AM, not a replacement". But the Digital Radio Development Bureau have hit back at those claims. Asked to comment on Taunton's remarks by Radio Today, a spokesman said: "Scott quotes figures of 120 million analogue radios in circulation. Ofcom figures put in-home analogue radios at 46 million and in-car at 22 million used at least once a week, which makes a total of 68 million analogue radios in use. The fact remains that analogue sales have been in decline for the past year. Sales to September 2009 are nearly two million down for the same period in 2008. DAB digital radio sales, meanwhile, continue to hold steady as noted above". -------------------------------------------------- AMAZING RADIO TO STAY ON DIGITAL ONE The station's founder, Paul Campbell, announced that not only would Amazing stay on DAB, but that the station would expand, with more presenters, and more genre-themed streams online. As previously reported, with the Amazing model unsigned bands upload their music to a special website, and a selection of uploaded content is aired on the station. There has been much cynicism in some parts of the radio industry as to the viability of the station - any service offering 100% unsigned music is presumably of niche interest, and therefore less attractive to advertisers. That said, I think I'm right in saying those who upload content to the Amazing Radio website forego royalties if their music is played on the station, so that removes some of the biggest costs for most radio stations - PRS and PPL licences. Responding to criticism of his service, Campbell said this week: "The reaction has been astounding. It's obvious the public really 'get' what we're doing and want it to succeed. But we never underestimated the difficulties of launching an innovative national radio station in the teeth of a recession - and there is unfortunately deep cynicism among some people that our ethical and innovative approach can be made to work". Amazing Radio staying on air isn't the only bit of news to come from the Digital One network this week. With the big radio players having closed down so many of their digital-only services there's quite a lot of room on that network for independent players. With that in mind both Panjab Radio and United Christian Broadcasters UK both went on air on Digital One this week. THIS WEEK'S SUB.TV PLAYLIST A List LIL WAYNE HAS ANOTHER SON Wayne's label mate Mack Maine announced the latest birth via Twitter, it's a third son for the hip hopper, this time with singer Nivea. Actress Lauren London gave birth to another Wayne offspring back in September. A third son was born to an unknown woman last year. Before all this son fathering, Wayne had a daughter some twelve years ago with his then teenage girlfriend, subsequent short-lived wife and recent US reality TV star Antonia 'Toya' Carter. With all those screaming babies on the block, Wayne, real name Dwayne Carter Jr, might be pleased he's likely to get jail time when he's sentenced for those previously reported gun charges in the New Year. -------------------------------------------------- WATERMAN DISSES X-FACTOR |
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