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Rip It Up, Issue 224, 1 April 1996, Page 7

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The Clear Music & Entertainment Awards take place at the Aotea Centre Saturday April 13. Artists performing include OMC, Dave Dobbyn, Shihad, Annie Crummer, Melissa Etheridge, the Exponents, Rikki Morris, Eddie Rayner, D-Faction, Tina Cross and Matty J. The Awards will be televised live on TV3. The public can vote for Album or Single of the Year on the toll-free Clear number 0800-333-050 until April 8. See page 8 for a list of finalists.

• The Lollapalooza line-up this year is headed up by Metallica, Soundgarden and the Ramones. The USA tour starts at the end of June. • Offspring are seeking to leave indie label Epitaph and join Sony's Columbia label. The band who have sold units of 4.7 million of Smash in the USA owe Epitaph one more album on their contract. Epitaph are seeking a third party to hold a seven figure royalty cheque until the dispute is settled. • Meanwhile across the Atlantic Kiss are expected to headline at England’s Donnington Festival while the Sex Pistols will be joined by Neil Young, David Bowie and Bjork at Phoenix Festival. Red Hot Chili Peppers may headline at Reading Festival. • Courtney Love has been cast as the wife of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in the Milos Foreman movie The People vs. Larry Flynt. • The Finn album Finn has been chosen as one of the Top 50 albums of 1995 in England’s Q magazine. • Michael Stipe, Bono and Jeff Buckley (on Egyptian sitar) guest on the upcoming Patti Smith album due in June. Smith has recently contributed tracks to the soundtrack of Dead Man Walking and a women’s compilation Aint Nothin’ But A She Thing. LA writer Kirk Gee has done an inperson interview with Smith for RipltUp. • Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, who will release another Brad album this year, guests on Thermador’s debut album along with RHCP drummer Chad Smith. Pearl Jam are currently recording a new album at Gossard’s Seattle studio.

• The Iggy Pop and the Stooges reunion will not take place until 1997.

• Former Jam members Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler have settled their legal dispute with Paul Weller. They have been bought out of their interest in the band’s unreleased material by Weller, for 70,000 pounds and will only share

merchandising rights for another five years. • Eddie Rayner’s Split Enz symphony orchestra album is on release with vocals by Neil Finn, Tim Finn, Sam Hunt (‘Under the Wheel’), Dave Dobbyn (‘Poor Boy’, ‘My Mistake’) and Annie Crummer (‘I Hope I Never’). • Rapper Guru was arrested at New York’s La Guardia airport for possession of a gun and $lO of marijuana. • Johnny Cash is recording a new album in LA with Tom Petty’s band and former Jayhawks with Rick Rubin producing. • Therapy! have a new drummer Graham Hopkins (20) replacing Fyfe Ewing. Ex Banshees cellist Martin McCarrick has joined the line-up. • Bob Mould’s new album Bob Mould is due in May with a single ‘Egoverride’ due sooner. • Stephen Davis who wrote the warts and all Led Zeppelin bio Hammer of the Gods, has written The Fall and the Rise of Aerosmith. • Working title for three former members of Talking Heads — Tina Weymouth, Chris Franz and Jerry Harrison — is “Heads”. The parade of guests on the album include Shaun Ryder, Debbie Harry, Gordon Gano and Ed Kowalcyzk. • Beverly Hills, 90210 actor Brian Austin Green will release an album this year on Yab Yum label via Sony’s 550 Music. •Jarvis Cocker of Pulp duets with Miki Berenyi on Ciao’ from the new Lush album. • Ex Auckland bassist Simon Williams is in Los Angeles band Goldfinger whose self-titled album on indie Mojo has been picked up by MCA’s Universal label for a major push. Their track ‘Here In My Bedroom’ is getting MTV play. • In the USA Jesus Lizard will release vinyl of their new album Shot, on their own label, prior to Capitol releasing the album. Song titles include ‘Skull of a German’ and ‘Thumbscrews’. • Nick Cave is working with Australians Dirty Three on a track for the forthcoming X-Files soundtrack.