WORLD

Rip It Up, Issue 192, 1 July 1993, Page 4

WORLD

Nick Cave will release a Live Seeds album and he has written a track for the new Def American Johnny Cash album . . . MCA records has purchased the rights to Jimi Hendrix's entire recorded output and image for an estimated 200 million British pounds. Hendrix sells approximately 3 million albums every yearand MCA intend to release 30 new albums live, studio out-takes and five previously unheard albums . . . former child chess champ Bono will play the Russian champ Gary Kasparov after the U2 manager bid 15,000 pounds for the match at a charity auction .. . British label Rough Trade has been relaunched with Geoff Travis as head of A&R and co-owner/financier of One Little Indian, Brian Bonnar as new owner... fiery gun-wielding soul star Wilson Pickett who usually appears in court for assault/firearms charges, this year is majoring in drink/ driving charges, one, an "assault" charge of hitting an 85 year old pedestrian and one for driving his car over his neighbours' front lawn, the Englewood Mayor... more from the "I Am Bonkers" dept: Sinead O'Connor has quit the Dublin Hamlet stage show a week before opening, due to exhaustion. The singer told an Irish radio phone-in that she wasseeking psychiatric helpandtook out an 18,000 pound advert in the Irish Times to explain her last minute withdrawl from a Dublin Peace Together concert... and for a dose of violence: Dr Dre the NWA rapper is in court for the third time in a year, this time for breaking a man's jaw. He has been sentenced to 90 days jail. Meanwhile Eazy E has allegedly offered Ice Cube $1 million not to join the other members if NWA to record as Niggaz Without Eazy. The Priority label doubt whether NWE will exist and expect Cube and Dre to record as Helter Skelter ... the Clash deny that they will reform for a SSO million offer (are these guys

bonkers too?)... Cure label Fiction has made three staff redundant and whether Eat and God Machine will stay on the label is unknown... Kim Gordon directs the new Breeders video for their Cannonball EP that includes their cover of Aerosmith's 'Lord of the Thighs' . . . next Lemonheads album, though unrecorded, has a working title Come On Feel the Lemonheads . . . R.E.M. dude Mike Mills plays piano on 'Soma' from the new Smashing Pumpkins album Siamese Dream..

. Cilla Black will duet with Cliff Richard, Dusty Springfield and Barry Manilow on her 30th Anniversary album ... the new Juliana Hatfield album Become What You Are is credited to The Juliana Hatfield Three. One song is 'A Dame with a Rod'... Blur have recorded 26 songs but are seeking to leave their label after the Ensign bosses walked out.. . All About Eve have split as

bassist Andy Cousin has joined the Mission and Marty Willson Piper is back in Australia with the Church . . . the Violent Femmes have left Slash to join Elektra. Expect a hits album from the former label and a new album from the latter...