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From The Sun East 17 split up ... again HISTORY has repeated itself — EAST 17 have split again. Yes, that’s right, the boys will not Stay Another Day despite planning a new album. TONY MORTIMER, BRIAN HARVEY, JOHN HENDY and TERRY COLDWELL reformed for a one-off gig at Shepherds Bush Empire in May. And initially things seemed to be going smoothly. They even signed up for a TAKE THAT-style documentary, ironically about reforming the band, and were back in the studio writing a new album. But friction between Tony and Brian flared up again. And after their recent fight, which I exclusively revealed, Brian refused to work with Tony for evermore. Tony was then ousted from the line up. John told me: “Brian refused to work with Tony again after their punch up. “Brian thought if Tony reacts like that every time he’s late, then what’s the point. “I don’t think Tony’s heart was in it really. There was too much of an ego clash between him and Brian. “We have carried on with just the three of us and did a gig in Russia the other week, which was mental.†They have filmed their final interviews for the documentary going out later this year. John added: “It’s pretty strong stuff. “Brian wants us to try it all again with just us and Terry. But I’ve got my roofing company to think about. “I don’t know if I want to give up the business I’ve built up to dance on stage.†Hmmm. Up a ladder all day or singing for an hour to hundreds of adoring LifeLight

this is the Guardian interview :) 'I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to' He was the golden boy of grunge, and then he threw it all away. Evan Dando tells Mat Snow why he wants to make a comeback on his own terms Wednesday August 23, 2006 The Guardian Ten years ago, Evan Dando nearly became a dead rock legend. Due on stage at Glastonbury, he was instead in bed with supermodel Rachel Williams and singer Alice Temple, along with a large bag of heroin. Had he misjudged his self-medication, no doubt an entire industry would have sprung up to make money out of the man, his music, and a final exit that would have rivalled that of his friend Kurt Cobain or hero Gram Parsons. In the end, he arrived on stage two hours late and was ignominiously booed right back off. Evan Dando has spent the past decade in the twilight zone of rock stardom, almost forgotten by the entertainment corporates who positioned him as grunge's poster boy in the early 1990s, the sunny antidote to Kurt's tortured artist. "In the old days, the Lemonheads appealed to 16-year-olds and their mothers," Dando recalls of his band's early success. "We caused a lot of rows because dads didn't like us. Paula Yates liked us, and Bob Geldof used to write 'w****r' on pictures of me on the fridge. I don't approve of him. I don't think he's doing it for the right reasons at all. I think he's a ponce and a megalomaniac. I don't like that guy. Never met him, though ... " He tails off from such uncharacteristically harsh opinions. Today, Dando's infrequent outings are acclaimed by the faithful, and pretty much ignored by everyone else. Hanging over his head is the collective judgment that he blew his big chance, and will now have to wait until the obituaries to get his full due. Of course, it's not impossible that he should stage a major comeback, but semi-obscurity seems to be how he likes it. "I've been blessed with never having had a 10m-selling record," he says. "That ruins a lot of people's lives - though U2 seem OK. The music gets invariably bad. My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content." Dando made no records for six years, between 1996 and 2003: how did he get by? "It should have killed me, right?" He laughs. "But I made quite a bit investing. I got out right before the tech stocks crashed. I have people working for me. Every three months I would give this person 100 grand I would have spent on coke, so when my music income ran out I still had $700,000. "I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work." At 39, Dando still bears the badges of slackerdom. Strumming a battered single pick-up cream Gibson SG as he talks, he wears a 1998 tour T-shirt of one of his heroes, former Dinosaur Jr leader J Mascis, in addition to jeans, baseball boots and a red wool US Marine Corps cap emblazoned with a bulldog and the marines' motto, Semper Fi ("It's great to wear if you get pulled over by the cops: you get better treatment"). Half a dozen packs of Marlboro close to hand and an incipient Ozzy Osbourne shake are this afternoon's only outward signs of a lifetime spent irresponsibly. Even if his songs are full of wistful regret, in person Dando lacks an atom of self-pity. Part of his charm lies in a palpable absence of either burning ambition, or the sense of entitlement that so often goes with a privileged upbringing. The youngest child of a wealthy property attorney and a former fashion model, Dando attended Boston's prestigious Commonwealth School and, although an indifferent student, he enjoyed the benefits of a liberal, hip 1970s childhood. Given his first electric guitar on his 10th birthday, his father made an even bigger - if unintentional - contribution to his son's career the following year. "I wanted love from the masses because I was trying to make up for my parents' messy divorce and feeling abandoned when I was 11," Dando states matter-of-factly. "I didn't see my dad for a year. That was the sand in my oyster, why I had to write songs as a catharsis to make me feel good - actually, physically - without drugs. I've got nothing against my parents; I don't know what it's like raising children and they did a damn good job, but they didn't see eye to eye." Last month, Dando performed with the latest incarnation of the Lemonheads at Somerset House in London; next month sees the release of a thrilling new album, the eponymous The Lemonheads. Boasting two cameo guitar solos by Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis, the album features contributions from other stars of the 1980s hardcore punk scene where Dando first cut his teeth (as well as, of all people, Bob Dylan's veteran Band sideman Garth Hudson). Dando now tends to take his wife, Elizabeth Moses, a Newcastle-born model, on tour with him. Insiders credit her with restoring the singer's sense of purpose. "It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun," Dando says, contradicting the rock rule that matrimony and the road don't mix. "When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence. My advice to any band is, bring a female tour manager or T-shirt seller. The all-male crazy pirate thing? You start doing things you regret. "Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle," he continues, "but I'm no angel. I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out. Every six months or so I'll take some mushrooms, because I can't let go of that completely. And I don't want to." Does he document his trips? "I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything. The best songs I write in 20 minutes. I'm very inspired by F Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-up. When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. "I want to write short stories," he warms to his theme. "For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead. Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right? Haha!" Dando's occasional co-writer, the reclusive Australian Tom Morgan, is credited with the best song on the new album, No Backbone; Morgan also co-wrote The Same Thing You Thought Hard About Is the Same Part I Can't Live Without, a highlight of Dando's 2003 solo album, Baby I'm Bored. "He continues to be a great inspiration to me," Dando says of Morgan. "I go down there [Australia] all the time. He's not the most ambitious person; he doesn't want to go on tour. He likes his time alone at home. He's not even a phone person. We joke that he's Bernie Taupin and I'm Elton John." But far from penning larger-than-life showstoppers, Morgan has pushed Dando deeper into the bluest of moods. The nuances of Dando's more reflective songs risk being lost in the rush of the new album's frazzled punk-pop treatment - which for Dando is, perhaps, something of a retreat into a nostalgic comfort zone. "I have to make rock records occasionally," he says. "This may be the last one. I'm going to be 40 soon - I had to get another one in there while I can. I like to do that kind of music, but I'm probably better at the other kind, the quiet Fred Neil-type of stuff," he says. "I want to do both. I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them". · The Lemonheads is out on Vagrant/Polydor on September 25. LifeLight

From undercover Evan Dando Talks Lemonheads Comeback by Daniel Zugna August 25 2006 Grunge golden boy Evan Dando has spoken about living in semi-obscurity, and how the forthcoming Lemonheads CD may be his last rock record. The 39-year-old, speaking to The Guardian, gave an insight to his days at the top of the rock heap. He claimed that having money made him creatively lazy, so he would spend it as quickly as possible. Whilst his days of hard-living are slowly moving further into the past, Dando still professes an appreciation for hallucinogens. "I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally," he said. "I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out. Every six months or so I'll take some mushrooms, because I can't let go of that completely. And I don't want to." A regular visitor to Australia, Dando penned a number of new tunes with Australian musician Tom Morgan. The singer said he wanted to make one more rock album before he turned 40. "I like to do that kind of music [rock music], but I'm probably better at the other kind, the quiet Fred Neil-type of stuff," he said. "I want to do both. I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them." The Lemonheads new, eponymous album is scheduled for a September release. LifeLight

From Official Site 'Forever. The Singles' released November 13th 24 08 06 ‘Forever. The Singles’, a unique album and DVD chronicling The Charlatans story from 1990 to the present day will be released by Island Records on Monday 13th November. Also released a week earlier on November 6th is a re-working of the single that never was, ‘You’re So Pretty We’re So Pretty’, this time remixed by Youth. ‘Forever. The Singles’ will be also available as a limited edition two-CD set containing a bonus CD of rarities. The DVD features all eighteen of the band’s videos together with television appearances and live footage. There will also be Digital Deluxe release online that will include everything from the limited edition set and other rarities. The CD track listing is: Indian Rope The Only One I Know Weirdo Can't Get Out Of Bed Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over One To Another North Country Boy How High Tellin' Stories Forever My Beautiful Friend Impossible Love Is The Key A Man Needs To Be Told Up At The Lake Try Again Today Blackened Blue Eyes You're So Pretty, We're So Pretty (Youth remix 2006) The tour will be calling at: NOVEMBER 23 - Halifax Victoria Hall 24 - Leicester De Montfort Hall 25 - Cardiff Uni Great Hall 26 - Reading Hexagon 28 - Lincoln Engine Shed 29 - Birmingham Academy 30 - Portsmouth Guildhall DECEMBER 02 - Middlesborough Town Hall 03 - Sheffield Octagon 04 - Glasgow Academy 05 - Newcastle Academy 07 - Hull City Hall 08 - London Brixton Academy 09 - Blackpool Empress Ballroom 10 - Llandudno Cymru Hall Tickets cost £22.50, except London £25.00, plus booking fees. LifeLight

Maybe he's too macho ! ;) LifeLight

me, too... I didn't like it when I bought the album. Now I think it's a very good single ! :o LifeLight

That wa ironi. the post was for the offline forum and site... In Buzzjack there's this bad habit of moving, merging, adding and deleting without saying a word to the ones who actually opened the topic. very bad and very unpolite. then, you're a moderator and you can do whatever you like... LifeLight

http://multimedia.repubblica.it/home/379865 this is from an Italian newspaper, La Repubblica :) LifeLight

don't know if you've noticed this, but according to Play, there will be a Limited edition with a bonus dvd !!! LifeLight

No, Euro, it must be the other way round: this must be released and be the greatest flop of 2006 ! lifeLight

From Contact Music Troubles Over 'She's Madonna' . ROD STEWART's stepson ASHLEY HAMILTON is threatening legal action against pop star ROBBIE WILLIAMS for allegedly stealing a track they collaborated on for his new album. Hamilton, the son of Stewart's first wife ALANA, is furious SHE'S MADONNA appears on RUDEBOX without any mention of his input, and has vowed to drag his claim to rights through the courts if Williams doesn't compensate him. He insists the pair came up with the idea together three years (03), before Williams re-worked it with the PET SHOP BOYS for his latest album. Hamilton fumes, "We came up with this idea over coffee one afternoon. "Robbie said he had an idea for a song about some girl he used to date, TANIA STRECKER, and how she was dumped by GUY RITCHIE for MADONNA. "That was a slimey thing to do , so I said, 'Why don't we make a joke song about it?' We worked on the lyrics together at home and at the studio. "The next thing I know, a producer's ringing me up to say congratulations for getting my song on Robbie's record. I just said: 'I don't know what you're talking about!' "I was shocked. When you start working with someone, or you start an idea with someone, you're legally entitled to a share of the publishing. "I have the demos of that tape and will see him in court if I have to." Williams was found guilty of plagiarising another song in 2002 for his track JESUS IN A CAMPER VAN. He was ordered to remove it from hit album I'VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU and pay out substantial royalties. LifeLight

From Daily Mail Madonna: My husband hates my music Last updated at 17:32pm on 23rd August 2006 Madonna has admitted that her husband Guy Ritchie is not a fan of her music. In an extraordinary interview published in France, the pop queen also said that she misses her single days when she could go out alone. Talking about her recent hits, Madonna said her children Lourdes, 9, and Rocco, 6, were the only members of the family who really appreciated them. "My children adore all that I do, they love dance music. My husband isn't a great fan," she admitted. Madonna also confessed that family life could sometimes be stifling. She said: "Of course I regret losing the freedom of being able to go out alone to a club - dancing alone on a darkened dance floor without anyone to disturb me or to draw attention to me. "I regret not being able to take advantage of such anonymity." Madonna added: "Last week I went to a club where I danced with lots of my friends. It was very enjoyable. "In turn, I go out from time to time with some of my dancers. Not every night, of course. I have a family." Asked if she would rather spend a night at home, or go out for a "mad night" in a club, Madonna replied: "The small amount of free time that I have I reserve for my children. There's the ice rink, pizza, DVD or a horse ride with my daughter. "That might seem boring to you, but that's how it is. The times have changed for me." Despite a relatively staid existence, Madonna said she retained the ability to reinvent herself. She said: "I see myself as a chameleon. I can transform myself into an English country lady and, a second later, change my look to that of Olivia Newton John or Farrah Fawcett." Madonna, 48, married film director Ritchie, 38, at Skibo Castle in Scotland in December 2000. They renewed their vows in a Kabbalah ceremony on their fourth anniversary. She made her latest comments to VSD, the Paris-based celebrity magazine. Madonna and her family frequently choose France to make controversial comments. Last year Guy Ritchie appeared live on national television and could not remember what his wife’s full name was. He made the faux pas on the Paris talk show "Everyone’s Talking about it", admitting that he could not recall that Madonna was christened Madonna Louise Ciccone. LifeLight

If moderators merges different topics 8the one about the forum, who had nothing to do with Iris...), could please send a PM and say it ? Thanx ! :o LifeLight

http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0...eraldsunrp4.jpg Her record company is working on box sets of all her singles to concide with her Australian tour... each single with original artwork, original bsides and remixes... Minogue fans are said to be involved in the project, helping unearth unreleased mixes, rare tracks and live songs... LifeLight :cheer: :cheer:

Weakness Of The Body is a proper bside ? LifeLight

Isn't she supposed to be #1 next week ? How could you not release an album named bday unless on your birthday ? How long will it take to understand how c**p and untalented this woman is ? :o LifeLight

:D :P choose the one you find more fitting ;) LifeLight

Reading this makes me feel so sad... I want a new single !!! :( :( :( LRN still selling ? it's great ! :) KO will pass 900000 soon !!! LifeLight

yes,. compilation album with 2 BS tracks.. LifeLight

First change the forum, then add a description... what else next ? :o :angry: LifeLight

1. The Creation - Making Time 2. The Clash - Jail Guitar Doors 3. Johnny Thunders - Chinese Rocks 4. Devandra Banhart - Chinese Children 5. Cazals - New Boy In Town 6. Bert Jansch - Needle Of Death 7. Love - Your Friend & Mine – Neil’s Song 8. The Littlan's - Their Way 9. The Socia - To The Bone 10. John Holt - Ali Baba 11. Esther Phillips - Just Say Goodbye 12. Graham Collier - Aberdeen Angus 13. Dennis Brown - Money In My Pocket 14. St Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart 15. Belle & Sebestian - Mornington Crescent 16. Stone Roses - Going Down 17. Babyshambles - What Katy Did - Acoustic 18. Pete and the Babyshambles - Tourbus Tales out: Sept 4 LifeLight

Could you please ask before moving ? this is very annoying ! LifeLight

If you want powerful lyrics, choose Oh Mother ! :) LifeLight

I don't like Hurt... it sounds like she's promising (a huge chorus and something) but she's not giving it :( BITD is definitely better, even if I'd pick one form disc 2 LifeLight