1 Liners

Rip It Up, Issue 235, 1 March 1997, Page 5

1 Liners

Russell Senior is leaving Pulp after 13 years in the band. Russell played guitar and violin ... Billy MacKenzie (39) the former singer with the Associates, was found dead at his home in Scotland. He is thought to have taken his own life with an overdose of prescription drugs. He recently had signed a recording deal with Nude Records,

whose biggest band is Suede ... on their way back from Europe Shihad will play two USA showcases — New York’s Brownie’s Bar March 18, and Johnny Depp’s Viper Room in Los Angeles on March 19 ... Smashing Pumpkins are writing the theme to the new Batman movie Batman & Robin starring George Clooney (ER) ... Black Grape rapper Kermit has a new group, Man Made, with Black Grape member Psycho ... Billy Corgan will produce tracks on the upcoming Ric Ocasek album ... Kula Shaker may release the Deep Purple song ‘Hush’ as their next

single ... Neil Young will headline the USA H.O.R.D.E. tour, starting early July ... Everclear have a new band member, guitarist Steven Birch ... Sepultura have parted company with their lead singer, Max Cavalera ... Nick Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo of Duran Duran are helping on the new Blondie album ... Kraftwerk will headline the UK

dance festival Tribal Gathering. Other acts include Orbital, Daft Punk, Moloko, Cornershop and DJs Marshall Jefferson, Deep Dish and DJ Shadow ... Peter Hook has a new band, Monaco, with engineer David Potts ... Fugees will write the soundtrack and appear in The Harder They Fall, the follow-up to the classic Jimmy Cliff reggae movie The Harder They Come ... the new Moby single is a remake of ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’, made originally by

Boston punks Mission of Burma ... the Rolling Stones may tour again in 1998 ... Liz Phair gave birth to a son, James Nicholas, on December 21 .. Dave Grohl has written the score to Touch a new movie starring Skeet Ulrich. Guests on the score include John Doe and Louise Post of Veruca Salt

... what’s Eric B up to? He’s one of the bosses at Santa Monica record label Street Life ... look out for a Jimi Hendrix, video The Making of Electric Ladyland ... John Taylor has left Duran Duran as he lives in Los Angeles while the other live in New York ... the new Mutton Birds guitarist is London based Kiwi Chris Sheehan (ex-Exponents, exStarlings) ... there’s a new ABC album, Skyscraping, on the deConstruction label soon. Band members include Martin Fry and Glen Gregory (ex-Heaven 17)... Smashing Pumpkins are suing the company that publishes their songs, Chrysalis Music for $lO million, claiming their 1992 contract is void. It appears that the band and the publisher do not agree on how many albums the publisher has the rights to ... Elvis Presley manager Colonel Tom Parker (87) died late January from a stroke ... the Hoodoo Gurus will split after a final tour of Australia later this year... UK indie label Creation Records have signed Kevin Rowland (ex-Dexys), Alan Bell (ex-Ride), Nick Heyward (ex-Haircut 100) and Toaster, while they’ve dropped Heavy Stereo ... Brian Connolly (52), the singer from 60s band the Sweet died February 10 from kidney failure ... expect new albums from the Foo Fighters, Bic Runga, World Party, Jody Watley and John Fogerty by mid-year. For more forthcoming album news see Future Recordings on page 8.