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Rip It Up, Issue 241, 1 September 1997, Page 8

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LIVE CYBERCASTS Keep an eye out for upcoming netcasts and scheduled chats with some big names at a couple of good sites, where recent guests Prodigy, Tool, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tricky and Failure all had their Lollapalooza sets broadcast on the net; and chats have included Primus, Live and (wow) Duran Duran’s John Taylor. www.LlveConcerts.com and www.sonlcnet.com THE GAME OF THE NAME To see if anybody (in Nth America only, but it’s a start) is currently using that cool name you’ve just called your band, a new database has opened, that also includes publishing info, contact details and more. Avoid those awkward mid-career name changes by first checking wwwJbandnames.com HOMER’S HOMEPAGE Visit Springfield, drink in Moe’s Tavern, preview upcoming episodes, and check the database of guest celebrities - Sonic Youth, Cypress Hill, Ramones etc. There’s even a competition to win a lifesize replica of the Simpsons’ house. Great . ' graphics and layout, and this site does justice for one of television’s most reliably irreverent of shows. Doh! n’t believe the hype. www.foxwofld.com/slmpsons LIVID Information on Australia’s October 4 Livid Festival, will full lineup and info. ; www.darkshadow.com.au/llvld’97 PRINCESS DI-AZ Fan generated sites can be damn scary and • obsessive, but this one out of Norway is a (reasonably) sane tribute to actor Cameron Diaz from her number one fan. There’s loads than this weirder out there that you can search out if this one’s palatable. .. .. www.cs.ult.no/haakonb/dlaz.htTnl EYE TV A new and good looking site about NZ power trio k Eye TV - hear sounds from the latest single, check, tour dates and news. Also, there’s a complete collection of lyrics so you don’t have to spend hours deciphering singer Sean Sturm’s mumbling. Link up to the land of the TV through ■: http://homepages.lhug.co.nz/marltal CURT IS MAYFIELD Curt Smith, co-founder of 80’s Tears For Fears, has a new project called Mayfield, and a self-titled 10” is to be released on his own imprint, Zerodisc.

One song from this debut, "What Are We Waiting For” can be downloaded from www.muslcblvd.com CYBER JUKEBOX Both the On-line Entertainment Network (OEN) and Sony Music have announced their impending 'pay-per-play’ netcast services, which will charge users a fee for playback of requested songs. The songs will not be able to be stored on user’s hard drives, though royalties are to be paid from the fee. In the near future, OEN will also be offering buyers movies over their network,.that can be viewed via special hardware. EVERYBODY IS A STAR These days, you can put down that tennis racquet. If you want to play along to songs, there’s a interactive music website where you can remix, re-record and generally mess about with a whole host of songs - far more interesting and less embarrassing than that bedroom mirror, air guitar nonsense. www.rWTf.msn.com PREPS AND PORNOS US snack food giant Nabisco recently ran a promotion in which the name of a forthcoming. video game - which resembles a net domain name - was printed on many of their products. To their horror, if the name was typed as a www. address, a hardcore pornographic site was accessed - a consideration not taken into account before the specially marked packs went on sale to kids nationwide.. EFFECTUAL INTELLECTUALS The Spleen originates from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and is a type of art installation that explores (and exploits) the nature of political propaganda. Recommended by David Byrne, it’s at: www.mcad.edu/home/faculty/szyhalskl/plotr FORMERLY UNITONE For news on the folks formerly known as Unitone HiFi, check out the HiFi website, which contains past and present information on the dub perpetrators and their different projects. www.geocltles.com/SoHo/gallery/1705 SCRIPTS Lots of unabridged movie and TV scripts can be found at by looking up . http://hulzen.dds.nl/ztpped/