Franz Ferdinand, The Doors Of The 21st Century, Badly Drawn Boy, Minnie Driver and Britney Spears...
Intro...
Welcome to today’s slice of stuff. Read on to learn about this weeks revolution in music, Badly Drawn Boy’s uber-secret pub gigs, actress Minnie Driver’s new record contract and Britney Spears’ shirt potato enhancing surgery. But first up it is good news for Franz Ferdinand...
Landmark For Franz...
All the hard work put in by the skinny art school hard knocks from Franz Ferdinand has finally paid off as they reveal they have sold their 1 millionth album worldwide. The Glaswegians have been touring and promoting their self titled debut long player since late last year.
Their big break came when ‘Take Me Out’ stormed the singles charts at the beginning of the year bringing the ‘Scottish Interpol’ in the public consciousness. Before you could say “bandwagon jumping bastards” the album was flying off the shelves into the home of the Daily Mail reading masses.
A source close to the band said: "Reaching a million is such a milestone, it just has such a great ring to it. It's so well deserved - the band haven't stopped since the start of the year.
"There's still so much to do, the band are just about to start their second US tour of the year, only this time they'll be playing much bigger venues and they've yet to go to Japan, so who knows how many they'll have sold in six months."
The sky could be the limit for the lads this summer as they play a load of profile enhancing festivals around the country as well as the tours of America and Japan just mentioned.
If you are going over to France this summer keep your eyes out for a limited edition 12” record put out by the lads. ‘Take Me Out’ has been re-mixed by Daft Punk and is to be released in the land of garlic and frogs legs only.
The soon to be much sought after record is out on 5th July and there are no plans to release it over here although it is rumoured that it will be handed out to a number of DJs to be played in British clubs just to annoy the lives out of the true fans.
Break On Through (With New Technology)...
The recent Pixies reunion tour was done purely for the money. The band admitted it and had no problem at all sleeping at night because of it. Part of their income is coming from selling copies of each gig they play, via a company called DiscLive , to people willing to cough up the cash – there has been no shortage of takers.
The recent gigs in London all sold out in minutes, all 1,500 recordings from each night took a little longer but now they have gone too. That is 6,000 CD’s sold of gigs that fans had already attended! With each set of disc’s cost $25 (without shipping of course) you don’t have to be Carol Vorderman to work out that the band are laughing all the way to the bank.
On top of this the band are making more cash by giving the fans that missed out on the CD’s with the original artwork (including pictures taken from each separate night) a chance to get their hands on the discs. If you have a couple of blank CD’s, a CD burner and $18 to spare you can now have a cheap version of the gig.
DiscLive are giving punters the chance to make a legal copy of the gig themselves via their ‘NetBurn’ service. Pay the cash, get a link to their site, a password, hit the button and burn away 1 copy of the concert. Almost money for nothing...nicely done Pixies!
The latest band to get onto this cash making phenomenon is The Doors Of The 21st Century. Never heard of them? It is the name that Ray Manzerek and Robbie Krieger are going under these days. Not as snappy as The Doors I reckon...
Anyway, the half of The Doors lads have struck a deal with DiscLive to do a similar thing to that the Pixies have done but they have decided to dispense with the packaging altogether. Fans will be able to buy the download online for $20 as soon as they get home from the show making it the quickest ever live album launch.
Zack Bair, CEO of Immediatek (who own DiscLive) said: "Each fan will receive an access code that will enable them to download and burn that night's concert at their home computer over the Internet from anywhere in the world.
"This is a landmark event for the industry, as this is the first time a concert will be recorded and made available only through NetBurn - and so quickly after a show."
Could this be the start of yet another revolution in music?
LIVE! Somewhere...
Friend of a friend of Audio Truckstop, Badly Drawn Boy, is the latest to come up with a novel way of promoting his new single release. Hot on the heels of Razorlight who are playing a free gig on the roof of a pub in London comes BDB and his secret pub tour.
Badly Drawn Boy (real name Damon Gough) has announced he's doing a series of secret pub gigs up and down the UK starting today (Friday 18th June). The thing is, he isn’t telling anyone where the gig is until a couple of hours before they take place.
Here is the full list of dates...
Friday 18th June - Somewhere in Scotland
Saturday 19th June - Somewhere in the North West
Sunday 20th June - Somewhere in Yorkshire
Monday 21st June - Somewhere in the Midlands
Tuesday 22nd June - Somewhere in the South East
Wednesday 23rd June - Somewhere in the South Coast
Thursday 24th June - Somewhere in the South West
As you can see he is being pretty vague. Wanna know where he is? Then simply head over to his official website at 5pm on the day of the gig to find out where he’ll be strumming. All the gigs are free but as they are in a pub you have to be at least 18 years old to get in.
She Is Going To Driver Me Crazy...
If it wasn’t bad enough having to listen to pop stars murdering shit songs on our radio’s everyday we now have to put up with actresses doing it too. Minnie Driver has announced that she has signed a record contract with Rounder Records. Great, just what we need...
The 34-year-old actress has apparently been involved with music since the early 1990’s and even had a deal with Island Records it seems. She got a part in a film, made a few quid and decided to turn her back on making music until now.
Her album is finished and should be in all good record shops this September. Entitled ‘Everything I've Got In My Pocket’ the long player includes a copy of Bruce Springsteen's ‘Hungry Heart’. This is getting worse by the minute; it is like watch a car crash.
Driver wrote all the songs herself and the album has been described as "sparse, atmospheric pop" with a bit of "contemporary rock". Oh for the love of God...
Born To Make You Happy...
Expect to see Britney Spears with bigger norks in the next couple of months. The 22-year-old horn-cake has had to cancel her latest tour after doing her knee in so badly while filming the video for he latest single that she needed surgery.
Remember the last time she did her knee in and had to have surgery? She suddenly went from an ‘A’ to a ‘C’ cup...hmmm.
Ms. Spears had arthroscopic surgery to repair severe damage to her knee joint which will keep her out of action for at least four months Doctors reckon (plenty of time for the under-bap scar tissue to heal nicely).
The medical sorts have advised her to stay off her knee and keep it in a hard brace for at least six weeks, after which she'll require a minimum of eight to 12 weeks of physical therapy.
There is no mention of her refraining from doing any jiggling exercise incase her stitches burst but I assume that after last time she already knows this – such a pro is our Britney...
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