ONE INERS

Rip It Up, Issue 241, 1 September 1997, Page 5

ONE INERS

Ash have added a new guitarist Charlotte Hatherly from London band Nightnurse. She played with the band at the large UK Festival V 97 ... Sen Dog is returning to Cypress Hill and they start recording a new album in September... guitarist Marc Ford has left Black Crowes due to musical differences ... Korn pulled out of the Lollapalooza tour after guitarist James Schaffer was hospitalised from viral meningitis... Echobelly guitarist Debbie Smith left the band immediately prior to their V 97 Festival appearance. Debbie is now working with exCurve mem- p bers Alex Mitchell and Monti, *■ and Sarah Corina (Mekons)... U2 won in the Irish Supreme Court, overturning the local residents’ ban on their concerts at Dublin’s rugby stadium. U2 also played Belfast on their Irish tour... Verve will get nil writing royalties for ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ after copyright owner (and former Rolling Stones manager) Allen Klein has claimed 100% of the Verve song due to their use of a sample from Andrew Loog Oldham’s orchestral version of ‘Last Time’ ... Prince will do a charity show in Los Angeles (Shrine Auditorium) on October 9 to honour Muhammed Ali and his World Healing Project... while Damon Albarn has done the Joe Orton radio play Up Against It (originally written for the Beatles), other Blur members have also done some work on the side. Graham Coxon has produced Chicago band Assembly Line People, and Alex James has co-written a single for Marianne Faithfull... the first of the Bob Marley remix albums Dreams of Freedom features 11 dub reconstructions by Bill Laswell in electronic dance and ambient dub styles ... Aretha Franklin is currently a student in classical piano at the

J u lliard School of Music ... Dr Dre is producing hip hop supergroup the Firm featuring Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ and Nature ... the new Sly & Robbie album Friends features guest vocalists Mick Hucknall (two tracks), Ali Campbell, Maxi Priest, Danny Madden and One Plus One. Guest guitarist on ‘Satisfaction’ is Keith Richards... the James Bond theme songs have been revisited on the album Shaken & Stirred with artists including Iggy Pop, Leftfield, Chrissie

Hynde, David McAlmont, Pulp, Candy Staton, ABC, Aimee Mann and Shara Nelson ... the full length 23 minute version of the New Order song ‘Video 586’ will be released as a single. The song was written for the opening of the Hacienda night club in 1982 ... Annie Crummer is finalist in two categories of the Australian Recording Industry Association Awards (ARIAS), Best Female Talent and Best Adult

Contemporary Release for her album Seventh Wave ... Kylie Minogue has worked with James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers on the track, ‘I Don’t Need Anyone’, he wrote and produced for her new album Impossible Princess (October)... Sony have rejected Frank Black’s new album Frank Black & the Catholics. The album was recorded on a two track in three days and Black says Sony consider it too raw and too difficult to 5e11... Raygun magazine will publish a book of Michael Stipe photographs largely shot on the 1995 Patti Smith USA tour. Artists such as Smith, Thurston Moore, Bob Dylan and Tom Verlaine feature ... Quentin Tarantino has his own record label A Band Apart Records via Madonna’s Maverick label. The first release is the soundtrack to his movie Jackie Brown ... Tricky has signed his Durban Poison label to the Geffen / Spielberg label Dreamworks... Travis will open for Oasis on their UK tour... for the first

time in the UK ‘Whole Lotta Love’ by Led Zeppelin is being released as a single. A double live album sourced from BBC recordings will also be

released ... Goldie and KRS-i collaborate on new Goldie single ‘Digital’ ... Courtney Love has overseen the artwork for the Hole compilation My Body the Hand Grenade, 14 early indie recordings compiled by guitarist Eric Erlandson... Jane’s

Addiction are doing acoustic shows

in the UK in September... look out for a Doors Anthology 4 CD box set with 60 page book, rarities, demos, live at Isle of Wight (1970) and a newly completed song ‘Orange County Suite’, using an unreleased Jim Morrison vocal take ... David Bowie is currently on tour in North America until October... following the death of Smashing Pumpkins keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin a police investigation has lead to the arrest of 37 members of New York’s Dead Man Walking Gang, charged with selling the lethal strain of heroin, Redrum... Cherrydisc / Roadrunner will release a Van Halen tribute album ... blues guitarist Luther Alison (57) died August 12 from lung cancer... author William Burroughs (83) died August 2 from a heart attack... legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti (58) died August 2 after refusing medical for typhus treatment on religious grounds ... Jerry Harrison is producing the new album by young blues rock player Kenny Wayne Shepherd.