Brit Music Scene

May 17th, 2008

Paul McCartney New Album Free With ‘The Mail On Sunday’ Tomorrow May 18th

Paul McCartney has had a mixed last few years, having been married to Heather Mills, and then going through a very messy, very public divorce.

While all of this was going on, he was still writing and recording music, and released Memory Almost Full in 2007.

The album has already sold 100,000 copies in the UK, but now everyone who wants a copy can do so for free, as it’s being given away with every copy of The Mail On Sunday tomorrow, May 18th.

The give-away was announced a couple of weeks ago, and I first read the news on fellow b5 blog The Beatles Invasion. I decided to wait until now to tell of my readers so that they wouldn’t forget about it and miss out on their copy.

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May 16th, 2008

Amy Winehouse Tells Pete Doherty All His Songs Are “Shit” - Duet May Not Happen

Pete Doherty was released early from his prison sentence involving drugs on May 6th, and immediately revealed plans to record a duet with fellow druggie and supposed new best friend Amy Winehouse.

However, the plans haven’t exactly gone to plan.

While they’re still on to duet together at Doherty’s rescheduled Royal Albert Hall gig, plans for a new song from the pair have reportedly hit a problem, namely that Winehouse isn’t happy with any of the material Doherty has come up with for the pair to sing.

The pair are said to have been inseparable since his release from prison with Winehouse taking her guitar to the Jazz After Dark venue in Soho in preparation for an impromptu jam session.

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May 16th, 2008

Victoria Beckham Quitting Music For Good | After Geri, Second Spice Girl Retires

Just a few days ago, Geri Halliwell unofficially announced that she was quitting music for good, after seeing herself as more of a performer. This came just a few months after the Spice Girls cut their world tour short, and split up for the second and last time.

In that article, I begged Victoria Beckham to follow suit, and unbelievably, just the next day, she did so, saying she too was quitting music in an interview on the British television show GMTV.

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May 15th, 2008

Winehouse Gets Away With Smoking Drugs On Video | Facing No Police Charges

Amy Winehouse was arrested last week on suspicion of drugs possession after a video was circulated in January of her allegedly smoking crack cocaine through a pipe. She was interviewed, before being released on police bail.

Now, a week later, the Crown Prosecution Service has revealed that the singer will not face any charges, and is therefore free to go.

So how did she get away with it yet again? Because the CPS was unable to establish whether the substances seen in the video were illegal drugs or not.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said:

“The Crown Prosecution Service has now reviewed the case and no further action is being taken.”

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May 13th, 2008

Geri Halliwell Quitting Music For Good?

We already knew Geri Halliwell was full of herself, thinking she’s some kind of ultimate Pop star rather than just a washed-up former member of a twice broken-up girl group. But her latest little rant on the first episode of Gordon Ramsay’s The F Word takes some beating.

She was the guest for the cooking challenge, and made her mother’s recipe for Spanish meatballs, which eventually lost to Gordon Ramsay’s creation after being judged by a panel of judges. But that was just the first course.

The main course saw Geri announce that she has given up music, and doesn’t think she’ll ever release anything again. To say the country did a dance around their living rooms would be an understatement. And hopefully, now that the news is out there, the world will do the same.

The reason she’s given up music? Could it possibly be that no record company in their right mind would give her a deal? Could it be that her solo career was one of utter disappointment? Oh no, the real reason is because she sees herself as “an entertainer” rather than a mere singer. God, give me strength.

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May 12th, 2008

Led Zeppelin World Tour Back On | Has Jimmy Page Talked Robert Plant Around?

The speculation surrounding the will they, won’t they, please, I hope they do, Led Zeppelin world tour rumour mill has taken a new twist today, with Whitesnake singer David Coverdale claiming that it IS going to happen, it’s just a case of when.

This story goes right back to when Led Zeppelin reformed for a one off concert at the London 02 Arena in support of the Ahmet Ertegun Foundation late last year. Ever since, there has been numerous stories about the possibility of a full world tour happening.

First we had Jason Bonham describe calls for a world tour as “greedy”. Then Dave Grohl expressed an interest in drumming for the band if it ever did happen. I’m not sure how the late John Bonham would feel about his son being fired for Grohl, but I for one think it would be awesome.

Then Jimmy Page went on record to say that a full world tour could well be happening, but it wouldn’t be until after September, due to Plant being busy on his current project with Alison Krauss. Unfortunately Robert Plant then apparently said no to the world tour, despite rumours they were offered £100 million each to do it.

And so here we are today, and even though it comes from a secondary source in the form of Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale, it does at least offer hope to all of us who missed out before, and want another chance to see the legendary British rockers one last time before either they, or we die.

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May 11th, 2008

Has Elton John Made His Last Album? | British Singer Too Busy With Other Projects

Elton John has been a stalwart in the British music industry for 40 years, and is now regarded as one of the greats.

He’s never stopped working either, releasing an album as recently as 2006. However, that could be his last, as he has warned he may not make another album.

The Captain & The Kid which John released just two years ago may now turn out to be his last album ever, as in an interview with BBC6 Music, he described how due to being so busy with other projects, he may never make another album again. He told the digital radio station:

“I don’t know if I’m ever going to make another record again at the moment. I have no plans to do another album as such.”

“I am so busy touring and doing shows and promoting musicals and producing films - I would like to make another record but I don’t know when or where or if I am gonna make one.”

We’ve already heard how Phil Collins has retired from music, and won’t be releasing any new material, and now we could be looking at the second hugely successful British musician to stop working in as many weeks.

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May 10th, 2008

Thom Yorke Slams EMI For Releasing ‘Radiohead: The Best Of’ Without Consent

Alternative British rockers Radiohead left their long time record label EMI last year and decided instead to put out In Rainbows over the Internet for free in an experiment which has seen many copycats.

However, EMI obviously still wants to make some money off the band, and so are preparing to release a greatest hits compilation called Radiohead: The Best Of this summer.

Outspoken frontman Thom Yorke isn’t too happy with this blatant attempt at making profits from the group even though they are no longer with the label, and has slammed EMI’s plans in an interview with music magazine The Word.

“We haven’t really had any hits so what exactly is the purpose?”

“There’s nothing we can do about it. The work is really public property now anyway, in my head at least. It’s a wasted opportunity in that if we’d been behind it, and we wanted to do it, then it might have been good.”

He also had quite a lot to say about the band’s departure from the label, which became big news due to the arguments and accusations behind the scenes which occurred.

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May 8th, 2008

Amy Winehouse Arrested For Drugs Possession - Released On Police Bail

Oh dear, this is becoming a habit. Amy Winehouse has once again been arrested, this time on suspicion of drugs possession.

This all goes back to January when The Sun Newspaper printed pictures of her allegedly taking drugs at a party, and put a video on their website of her smoking crack through a pipe.

The British singer was arrested on Wednesday after voluntarily attending an appointment to be interviewed by police at a London police station.

Late last night she was released on police bail, which basically means while not yet having been charged with anything, she could be called back for further questioning at any time, and potentially then charged.

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May 7th, 2008

The Police Split Up Again - Legendary British Band To Play Final Show Ever In New York

The Police reunited last summer after years of not playing together, or even being civil to one another. This was after they acrimoniously split in 1984 due to arguments. And now they’re doing it again - no not arguing (as far as we know) but splitting up for the second and final time.

They are currently on the last part of their huge reunion world tour, which has already seen them play in front of 2.5 million people over five continents. The majority of this final leg of the tour will take place across North America, with the occasional jaunt back across to Europe for festival appearances. And the States is where they have decided to play their final concert ever.

New York to be exact, which they have chosen as it was where they kicked off their first ever American tour in 1978, a full 30 years ago.

No date or location for the show has yet been announced, but the proceeds from the concert will be given to arts programming for the city’s public television stations.

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