Music News
5 September 2008
U2 Not Yet Ready
U2's next album will be pushed back until next year Bono reckons.
"I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now, but why come up above ground now if there's more priceless stuff to be found?" reasons Bono from the group's site while beavering away in the South of France.
"We know we have to emerge soon but we also know that people don't want another U2 album unless it is our best ever album," Bono writes. "It has to be our most innovative, our most challenging ... or what's the point?"
They now have "50 or 60" songs to choose from for the follow up to 2004's Grammy winning HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB.
"But what we're about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from THE JOSHUA TREE to ACHTUNG BABY" Bono reveals.
BREATH, NO LINE ON THE HORIZON and MOMENT OF SURRENDER (clocking in at eight minutes) are new ones confirmed to feature.
5 September 2008
Big Day For Neil
Organisers of the famous Big Day Out music festival have confirmed next year's headline act. Neil Young will top the bill for 2009.
The annual event will host the Canadian born folk hero, now 62, at dates in the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland throughout January and February.
A purveyor of protest songs, the songwriter will return down under for the first time in five years. Since then he has survived a brain aneurism and has been busy working on various projects, including a battery powered car.
"You can't change the world by writing songs. But we could change it with this car," he recently said at the Berlin Film Festival.
The first official BDO line-up announcement is expected this month.
4 September 2008
Rihanna & Chris To Tour
The hottest pair in music, Rihanna and Chris Brown, have announced they are to tour throughout Australasia from next month, as a double-bill for the first time.
"I love it out there," Chris Brown told TimeOut. "I can't wait to see the fans out there because I've been away for a little while."
OCTOBER
21 Brisbane, Entertainment Centre
27 Auckland, Vector Arena
29 Wellington, TSB Arena
NOVEMBER
03 Adelaide, Entertainment Centre
04 Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena
04 Sydney, Acer Arena
11 Perth, Burswood Dome
4 September 2008
Slipknot Surpass The Game
For a few brief moments yesterday The Game's LAX album was America's number one. Just behind him - with a difference of just 13 units - was Slipknot.
With such a close call a recount was carried out, and it showed the Iowa metallers had actually shifted an extra 1100 copies over the Compton spitter.
The new figures were published and the chart position has been swapped; Slipknot is number one, The Game a close second.
The Game, real name Jayceon Taylor, is no doubt spitting feathers.
ALL HOPE IS GONE, Slipknot's fourth album, is now topping the charts in NZ and Australia also. The news comes as the masked men prepare an Australasian tour which kicks off next month.
