Duke Erikson attended the Madison Area Music Awards (MAMA), this Saturday (March 18th), and Butch Vig made a video presentation. The third annual edition of these awards were held at the UW Memorial Union Theatre, and the show started with Gomers performing the MAMAs theme, after which John Urban of Urban Theater introduces a video […]
This weekend, you can download a very nice live video from Metal Heart, recorded on July 25th 2005, on Le Rock Dans Tout Ses Etats festival, Evreux, France. This handshot video (by Franny, thanks!!) captures perfectly the band’s live energy and strength. Link:
CNN Online have released a series of clips from the Rock and Roll hall of Fame induction and it shows the fireworks onstage during Shirley Mansons presentation! CNN report; Infante, Harrison and Gary Valentine, another former member left behind in a business dispute, were barely acknowledged by former chums Deborah Harry, Chris Stein and Clem […]
With Garbage on a hiatus of undetermined length, frontwoman Shirley Manson has begun work on her first solo album. The artist tells Billboard.com she recently completed a track with U.K. film composer David Arnold, with whom she collaborated on the theme song for the 1999 James Bond film “The World Is Not Enough.” “I just […]
Last night, for the 21st year in a row, a roomful of rock ‘n’ roll movers and shakers morphed into rock ‘n’ roll sitters and eaters. They gathered at the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria, to induct a new group of honorees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This year’s inductees are Blondie, […]
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announces the inductees for 21st Annual Induction Cerimony, to be held Monday, March 13th 2006 in New York. One of the bands to be inducted is Debbie Harry’s Blondie, which Shirley Manson of Garbage (another woman who fronts an otherwise all-male band) will pay tribute to. Highlights […]
I’ve been through my old VHS tapes, and started last month to encode material that I haven’t seen online for some time or ever. After the Expo ’98 news a couple of weeks ago, today find below the link for a debut album live performance of “Only Happy When It Rains” on the MTV Europe […]
We’ve posted the following message on David Arnold’s official forum when the news broke: Hi David, Could you let me know any more details of the work you have recently done with Shirley Manson? And we got the following reply: Hello Rob So far, its only been writing and recording a song. It was something […]