Which famous producer was part of a lotto winning syndicate?
Which two label execs were overheard having a loud argument as to who was more responsible for signing a new hit act?
So was Mark Ronson inspired to perform Queens of the Stone Age’s I Sat By the Ocean for triple j’s Like A Version with Kevin Parker and Kirin J Callinan after hanging out for an afternoon at Tweeds waterside Kettles On Café a few days before? That’s what the café reckons. Meantime, Perth’s Matisse Beach Club is working with the Major Fraud Squad in its investigation of Ronson being advertised for a festival at the venue, and then claiming Ronson pulled out. The club says it has a contract from a third party promoter.
Ryan Adams claims he is recording a full-album cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989 in the style of The Smiths. Swift squawked on twitter: “Is this true??????? I WILL PASS OUT!”
Will Australia get a 24-hour version of Apple Music’s Beats radio service? Apple is said to be tossing up between Oz and an Asian country.
Newcastle’s This is Not Art (TiNA) festival in October won’t announce its 170-event program until August 27. But expect there to be a showcase of female experimental sound artists under the name Ladyz in Noyz, an installation called Neverland seen through the bedroom of a 1990s teenager, and a chance to create a new theatrical piece in 24 hours.
AC/DC’s first singer Dave Evans is so pissed off that AC/DC books don’t seem to cover the band’s first lineup (with him, bassist Larry Van Kriedt and drummer Colin Burgess, replaced respectively by Bon Scott, Mark Evans and Phil Rudd) that he’s writing his own. He told us that “some of the biggest publishers in the world” are interested in his memoirs.
Musos touring Brisbane can get a free meal at vegetarian café LostBoys in Fortitude Valley. Owner Pixie Weyland, who has many musician friends, told the Brisbane Times she knows how much of a financial struggle it is on the road, and wants to offer them an alternative from fast food.
Oh dear, Sony Pictures called iconic jazz trumpeter Miles Davis a “singer” in a press release for his new biopic.
The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr is here in February, he confirmed.
Thieves broke into singer Dean Ray’s Melbourne home and made off with seven guitars, one which belonged to his dad and was of great sentimental value.
Rolling Stone USA writer David Wild revealed that in the 1990s he was hanging with David Bowie on assignment for a Tin Machine story, when he (Wild) got a gift of a Native American peace pipe from Tom Petty. Determined to top that, Bowie scoured around and got him a pig foetus in a glass jar, which he sent Wild from somewhere in Asia.
Days after being detained in Sweden on suspected drug charges, Snoop Dogg got nabbed for trying to leave Italy allegedly with $422,820 in US cash on him when he was only allowed to take out $11,000.
DJ Risque reports that after winning the wildcard section of the NSW Your Shot DJ comp, her Soundcloud followers reached nearly 1,000 and she got 250 extra likes on her Facebook in two days.
