Odds & Ends: 3rd June 2009
It’s a bumper edition of Odds & Ends!
First up, Muse have finally released dates for the European leg of their tour for forthcoming fifth album, The Resistance. The tour will hit the UK in early November and the dates of concern for London types are the 12th and (Friday the) 13th. Tickets are expected to be £41.50 (this includes all the booking fees and whatnot) and, whilst I remain sceptical about whether that price justifies the value of the performance when compared to other bands for around the same value, I will definitely be there for at least the 13th. Tickets go onsale on Friday at 9am.
Another band returning to the fold is Editors. The band will be releasing a new album in the autumn that has now been given the title of In This Light And On This Evening. A show at a new venue called the O2 Academy Birmingham (yes I know, another bleeding O2 Academy – soon they will be in every town I bet) on the 10th September. Tickets will go onsale at 9am on Friday.
More acts have now been added to the now semi-impressive looking Hard Rock Calling festival, this year headlined by The Killers, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. The new additions include Howling Bells, the Magic Numbers, Starsailor, Mumford And Sons, Metric, Silversun Pickups, The Low Anthem, James Morrison (eew) and The Pretty Things
In more sad news, Jonny Dollar has died aged 45. The record producer, who has succumbed to cancer, was one of the men behind Massive Attack’s Blue Lines, one of the most important British albums of the 1990s. Dollar will be buried during a private ceremony in Cornwall and there will be a memorial service in London shortly after. Ferdy Unger-Hamilton, president of Polydor said to Music Week:
When I first heard ['Blue Lines' single] ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ like everybody else who heard it, I don’t think I could really believe what I was hearing. As a fan of these records it was a natural thing for me to call him up when we were looking for a producer for Gabrielle’s third album, ‘Rise’. As committed and driven a producer as I’ve ever met, I literally had to take the tracks by force back off him, he was so determined to make them perfect. The result was a Number One single and album, (both called) ‘Rise’. He was as tough artistically as he was gentle a person.
Morrissey is no longer ‘still ill’. The singer wrote an extensive post on his MySpace apologising for the cancellations of several shows on his UK tour and says that the dates have all been rescheduled and that a new B-sides record is coming – Swords will consist of b-sides from his last three albums and will be released by Polydor in the autumn. He wrote:
I am very pleased to confirm that we will resume at Luxembourg this coming Friday (5 June), absorbed and collected. I have been reconstructed by a Wiltshire hospital and I am as close to good health as I’m likely to get. I should stress that nothing has been cancelled. The four London concerts are repositioned in July, and both Birmingham and the Royal Albert Hall are October fixtures.
Will Form 696 die? No it won’t, according to the stubborn Met Police. Despite an independent review commissioned by the government that clearly stated that Form 696 should be scrapped, the Met Police are ignoring this altogether and are remaining defiant. 6music have reported that a top policeman, who has not been named, as saying that “It’s going to remain” despite the face that there is still strong opposition against it.
Wavves have cancelled the rest of their European tour after an extraordinary onstage meltdown in Spain on Thursday. The band was a shambles during a festival slot that involved tensions between band members boiling over, numerous sound problems and frontman Nathan Williams constantly dissing the audience. He wrote in a blog post, which was later mysteriously removed:
I’m sorry to everyone who has put effort into this and to everyone who supported me. Mixing ecstasy, valium and xanax before having to play in front of thousands of people was one of the more poor decisions I’ve made (duh) and I realize my drinking has been a problem now for a good period of time.
A video has surfaced and can be seen below:
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Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Max
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