FOREIGN NEWS

Rip It Up, Issue 191, 1 June 1993, Page 2

FOREIGN NEWS

Red Hot Chili Peppers have cancelled their UK summer shows due to Flea suffering from "chronic fatigue syndrome". The disease causes extreme tiredness and recovery time can be up to 12 months. The band

have fired guitarist Arik Marshall . .. Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder guests on the new Bad Religion album ... Guns N Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke has signed a solo deal with Virgin Records... avante garde jazz player Sun Ra (1914-1993) died of a stroke May 30... the reformed / touring Velvet Underground recorded a live album in Paris... on the new U2 album Zooropa, guitarist Edge is billed as coproduceralongside Flood and Eno

and Edge sings lead on 'Numb' while 'The Wanderer' features a lead vocal by Johnny Cash... the Judgement Night movie soundtrack features several unlikely musical collaborations De La Soul with Teenage Fanclub, Ice-T and Slayer (doing Exploited medley), 800-Yaa Tribe and Faith No More, Tool with Rage Against the Machine, Lemonheads with Pharcyde and Helmet with House

... first UK act on Madonna's Maverick label is Dream Frequency... House of Love are trying to get former guitarist Terry Bickers to rejoin the group ... the Jim Jarmusch-directed 12-minute movie Coffee & Cigarettes starring Tom Waits and Iggy Pop won the Cannes Festival Best Short Film Palme D'Or.

. . the Motorhead tour manager Fred Saunders broke nearly every bone in his body in a motorbike accident. Afundraising gig by "The Drunk Fucks" (included Slash and Duff McKagan) raised $40,000... the new Nirvana album produced by Steve Albini, is being remixed by Andy Wallace (who also worked on Nevermind). Albini has attacked the band's label Geffen for bringing in Wallace to add "a more commercial sheen". Kurt Cobain has defended Geffen and the band, saying, "There has been no pressure from our record label to change the tracks we did with Steve Albini. We have 100% control of our music."... after being dumped by Island Records, Julian Cope has been signed to Rick Rubin's Def American label . . .

Lulu joined Soul Asylum on their MTV Unplugged taping of her 60s hit 'To Sir With Love' . . . meanwhile Deborah Harry and REM are collaborating on the Floyd Cramer

oldie 'Last Date... Joni Mitchell will record a n entire a I bum of Bob Dylan compositions. . . Cure will play a London Radio XFM benefit as a 4piece after the departure of guitarist Pori Thompson... Faith No More keyboards player Roddy Bottum discusses his homosexuality in USA gay mag Advocate describing Boy George as a "gay rock role model". .. Curve havejoined up with lan Dury to record a new version of Dury's 'What A Waste'...