Morrissey, Pixies, Simon Cowell, Glastonbury tickets, Ivor Novello awards, The Libertines and Showaddywaddy...
Intro...
Welcome to today’s slice of stuff. Read on to find out what you thought was the best Pixies song ever, what sound advice Simon Cowell gave Victoria Beckham, details of some available Glastonbury tickets, who won what at the recent Ivor Novello Awards, more problems for The Libertines and another unlikely collaboration. But first up Morrissey is feeling a bit under the weather...
You are the unwell...
The Mozfather has had to pull out of a string of appearances on US television due to ill health. The 45-year-old former Smiths singer is drained after spending the last few months promoting his new album, ‘You Are The Quarry’ and more worryingly, suffering with a strain of meningitis.
Morrissey was all set for a five night residency on something called ‘Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn’ (apparently this is a prestigious show but I’ve never fucking heard of it...then again I’m not living in America right now which might go some way to explaining why) but he is too done in to appear.
A representative for his US label Sanctuary Records said: "Morrissey has regretfully had to cancel his appearance on the Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn this week.
"He has been involved in an exhaustive global promotion campaign for You Are The Quarry the past several months.
"Unfortunately the strain of his schedule and a recent bout with meningitis resulted in his doctor insisting that he cancel all current appearances. He remains very appreciative of Craig's continued support as well as the support of his fans."
Hopefully he will be feeling 100% soon. Maybe he should ask Nancy Sinatra around for tea to see if she can help cheer him up?
Top 20 Baby...
Here at Audio Truckstop we love the Pixies and we love lists so this next article almost wrote itself!
As mentioned earlier on this very blog, the NME were running a survey asking all you good, good people to contact them with your favourite Pixies song. Well the results are finally in! 60 songs were nominated in total but here is the top 20:
The Top Twenty is:
20. 'Into The White'
19. 'Levitate Me'
18. 'I've Been Tired'
17. 'U-Mass'
16. 'The Holiday Song'
15. 'Dig For Fire'
14. 'Bone Machine'
13. 'Cactus'
12. 'Velouria'
11. 'River Euphrates'
10. 'No. 13 Baby'
9. 'Alec Eiffel'
8. 'Here Comes Your Man'
7. 'Wave Of Mutilation'
6. 'Monkey Gone To Heaven'
5. 'Gouge Away'
4. 'Hey'
3. 'Gigantic'
2. 'Debaser'
1. 'Where Is My Mind?'
Sound advice...
Pop Idol blert Simon Cowell has apparently told former Spice Girls clothes horse Victoria Beckham that she should give up on her singing career (stop sniggering at the back).
The high waist keck-wearing tit apparently ‘did lunch’ with Posh (again, stop sniggering) in Los Angeles and, true to his obnoxious form, told it like it is to the least talented member of the least talented manufactured band in the history of pop music.
Cowell said: "I saw Victoria when she was out here a while ago. I told her I thought she should concentrate on what she is good at and quit the pop.
"I doubt whether her music career will ever get off the ground again, unless she finds an absolutely brilliant song.
"If you ask me, her best asset is her eye for style. Fashion is definitely what she should be concentrating her energies on. I told her my advice would be to launch her own clothing range.
"You can rest assured when I discussed it with her, one of the first things she pointed out was my own lack of fashion sense. I guess I can learn a lot from Victoria as well."
If there is a higher power working within the universe then surely there won’t be another song released from Posh EVER...unless this being has a really fucked up sense of humour I suppose!
For a good cause...
I know where you, yes you, can get your grubby little mits on three pairs of Glastonbury tickets. Not only are the tickets available RIGHT NOW but they are the much sought after hospitality tickets too. Christ on a bike I’m too good to you lot!
There is a catch though...
The tickets are available through eBay but don’t panic, you aren’t going to get bum-loved by a tout. The action is being run by international charity WaterAid who are "dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people".
This is the second time this year that WaterAid have auctioned tickets, the last time they went for £4,500! Erm, that is the catch...you are going to have to pay through the teeth for those baby’s! Still interested? Right, well the auction will start from 5th June for 10 days ending at midnight on 15th.
WaterAid Fundraising Manager Emily Boyd-Carpenter said: "We’re absolutely thrilled that we raised so much money from the first auction and really hope that people will bid as generously again.
"The demand for this year’s festival has been phenomenal with all tickets selling out in a matter of hours. With security being a major issue this year and rigorous ID checks being made at all the gates, any touted tickets will be worthless so we hope there’ll be a lot of interest in our eBay listing."
Ivor No-idea...
The Ivor Novello Awards were dished out recently. For those of you who don’t know the ‘Ivors’ are presented annually by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters and are given to musicians who are judged to have contributed to the world of music.
Past winners include John Lennon, Freddie Mercury and shockingly the Spice Girls. This year saw Will Young’s 'Leave Right Now' pick up the award for ‘Best Song Musically & Lyrically’ (don’t forget that this lot thought ‘Wannabe’ was a work of genius too – dolts).
To further discredit the ceremony Dido managed to pick up the ‘International Hit Of The Year’ gong – despite being English. And then The Darkness were named Songwriters Of The Year. Oh for fuxake.
Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins said: "This is the biggest award you can get if you write your own songs.
"We always wanted to get something like this but didn’t expect to be in this position now.
"Now we have got here we are not going to let it go. This is wonderful."
The list in full:
Best Song Musically & Lyrically
Will Young ‘Leave Right Now’
Best Contemporary Song
Amy Winehouse ‘Stronger Than Me’
The Ivors Dance Award
Goldfrapp ‘Strict Machine’
Best Original Film Score
Jonny Greenwood ‘Bodysong’
PRS Most Performed Work
Jamelia ‘Superstar’
International Hit Of The Year
Dido ‘White Flag’
Best Selling UK Single
Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules ‘Mad World’
Outstanding Song Collection
10CC - Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, Lol Creme, Graham Gouldman
International Achievement
Radiohead
Outstanding Contribution To British Music
Errol Brown
Songwriters Of The Year
The Darkness
The Special International Award
Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland (Holland Dozier Holland)
European tour for one...
Smackhead guitarist Pete Doherty has left The Libertines...again. The scruffy fucker has decided that he needs a break from the band in order to get off drugs. Doherty had recently been in The Priory trying to kick his addictions but he has so far failed miserably.
Little dirty Pete has announced that he intends to run off to France with his girlfriend to clean himself up (Pete, clean and France in the same sentence, who’d have thought it?) as traditional rehab wasn’t working.
Doherty said: "I was barely aware of what was going on in (rehab). All these visitors were coming in to see me and saying they were my family and my sisters - but really they weren’t.
I want to clean up but it’s something I have to do on my own terms."
When Doherty does get off drugs his return to the band take some time. The love/hate relationship between his song writing partner Carl Barat and himself seems to have reached an all time low.
"It’s got to the point where Carl and I don’t speak except on stage. It breaks my heart. He treats me badly and every time I come running back like a battered housewife," he continued.
"I feel like I’m seeking the ghost of a former friendship but Carl gave up on me years ago. He did come to see me in The Priory but I hardly remember his visit.
"If he comes and grabs me by the hand, maybe we can reclaim the empire together. But for now I’m out of the band. Surely no one wants to see me trapped in this cage that is only making me miserable."
Let’s go for a little walk...
Hot on the heels of David Hasselhoff doing a rap album with Ice-T comes this nugget of ludicrous news. There could be a chance that quiffed whoppers Showaddywaddy could be teaming up with Fat Boy Slim.
What the fuck is the music world coming to?
Fat Boy aka Norman Cook recently made the mistake of admitting that he was a bit of a fan of the aging crooners. This has prompted the 35 piece vocalists to let it be known that they would be interested in a collaboration.
Showaddywaddy frontman Dave Bartram said: "We've always said no to club DJs who wanted to do things like add a rap voice to 'Hey Rock And Roll'.
"But Norman knows our end of the spectrum."
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! For the love of God no!!!
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