Today we have news on the progress of the Manic Street Preachers and Foo Fighters’ new albums, the latest gig to be broadcast online and more wranglings over the rights to Nirvana’s back catalogue.
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has again been discussing the progress of the rock band’s new album, and has moved to cool talk of it being the ‘hardest’ album they’ve ever made. “You’ve got to be careful,you’ll eat your words,” he told XFM. “Next thing you know we’re playing with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and it’s not the hardest record we’ve ever made, it’s the most symphonic’ record. Anything can change with our band. In the past we’ve recorded albums twice, finished whole records worth hundreds of thousands worth of dollars only to re-record it in a week in Dave’s basement. You never know how it’s going to end up.”
Paul Weller is the latest in a growing list of musicians to stream one of his gigs live on the internet. Weller’s turn will come on Thursday (27/5) when his penultimate show at London’s Royal Albert Hall will be broadcast from 8.45pm (BST). Fans can reserve tickets at the Concert Channel, where the first 15 minutes will be broadcast for free.
Nicky Wire, bass player with the Manic Street Preachers, has said they are taking inspiration from an unlikely source while working on their new album. Wire has said their previous record was their version of Aerosmith’s ‘Permanent Vacation’, and their upcoming record will be their own ‘Pump‘, which confirmed an unprecedented comeback for the US band in the late Eighties. “It’s going to be an amazing album”, he told XFM. “‘Send Away The Tigers’ was ‘Permanent Vacation’, this next one is our ‘Pump’.”
The New York Daily newspaper has quoted an always reliable ‘source’, claiming Hole singer Courtney Love has been offered $162 million by Evergreen Capital for her 75 per cent stake in Nirvana’s catalogue, which she inherited when her husband Kurt Cobain tragically committed suicide in 1994. However, the paper claims Courtney, who has always resisted offers for the music, will again decline the large sum of money: “Courtney thinks the catalogue comes with too many memories. It’s haunted.”
