Lilith Fair has finally decided to come back. The ultimate festival of girl power was announced to start up again almost six months ago. Now, locations of the much anticipated all-female music festival can now be revealed. There’s still no word as to when and who will be performing but the tour’s new website is offering a free mp3 download of Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Angel’, live from the 1998 Lilith Fair. The tour will have stops all over the major cities of the US, some stops in Canada as well as a show in London. I’m excited for this. I wonder if this is where Sarah will debut some of the new music that the singer is reportedly working on.
The recently reunited jam band Phish have quite the Halloween weekend planned for their fans. The band will be taking over the Empire Polo Grounds, the home of the Coachella music festival in Indio, California, on October 30th through November 1st for a massive 3-day music fest called Festival 8. After a five-year break from touring, the band will perform eight times over the course of the festival. Tickets for Festival 8 are already available for $199 a pop through MusicToday. Maybe Coachella can take a cue from Phish and lower their ticket prices for next year’s festival. I wonder who else is performing.
The singer and son of Beatles legend John Lennon recently stated that he considers Bruce Springsteen to be an absurd choice for opening the famous Glastonbury Festival. Sean Lennon said: “It’s shocking. I have been to Glastonbury a few times, I’ve even played a few, and it just didn’t seem like that was the kind of artist they had headlining. I heard they called him and he didn’t even know what it was.” Well, then it’s a good way for him to find out, isn’t it? Maybe there’s a little personal implication in Sean Lennon’s indignation with regards to the fact that Bruce Springsteen is playing the opening? Who else did Sean Lennon have in mind anyway?
The famous band were set to play at the renowned British festival, but canceled their show due to the line-up which apparently doesn’t quite agree with them. Andy Fletcher, Depeche Mode’s keyboardist said the following about the band not participating at Glastonbury: “We do a lot of festivals in Europe but not so many in the UK. Glastonbury would be fun but the line-up didn’t quite work for us. Getting the right bill is important.” Maybe a band consisting of contorting cyborgs would’ve been more suited to Depeche Mode’s expectations? Or perhaps a group of electro-dancing leprechauns with digital flutes? Would’ve that been enough to make Depeche Mode go to the trouble of honoring Glastonbury with their presence?
Dame Shirley Bassey has had emergency surgery. The ‘Big Spender’ singer was rushed to hospital from her home in Monaco, France, last week, after suffering crippling stomach pains.
She had emergency surgery on her stomach, and is now recovering in hospital. Her spokesman Paul Carey confirmed: “Dame Shirley Bassey is recovering well after an emergency operation to relieve stomach complications, after complaining of abdominal pain last week. Doctors performed an emergency procedure and the Dame is making a good recovery and doctors are happy with her progress.”
Bassey is expected to recover in time to perform at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert in London’s Hyde Park next month.
She has been a regular in the music charts since the late 1950s, and has recorded the theme tunes to three James Bond films – ‘Goldfinger’, ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ and ‘Moonraker’.
Bassey performed at the Glastonbury Festival last year, where she wowed fans by arriving in a helicopter and wearing diamond-encrusted wellington boots.
Forget Ozzfest as you know it because the annual summer heavy-metal rock concert is changing things up this year by no longer touring the country and performing nonstop. Instead, they will be making Ozzfest a one-day mega event. It will take place in Dallas at the Pizza Hut Park on Saturday, August 9th with headliners Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne. Manager Sharon Osbourne commented on the change saying “Ozzy just finished an 11-month world tour, so I think he deserves a summer off. We’re going to be a stadium destination festival for now — we have gone past doing the sheds every summer. We’ve given everyone else the blueprint and we have to keep evolving Ozzfest.”
People may be saying that Whitney Houston is more than ready for a comeback but maybe that’s strictly for the recording studio. The recovering crack-head performed for 30 minutes for a reported $3 million to a sold out crowd at the Plymouth Jazz Festival on Sunday. According to BV Buzz, her voice was anything but ok and that it became raspy by the third song. She was also unable to hit the big finish for ‘I Will Always Love You’. To add to that, she has no sense of geography as she kept shouting to the crowd “I love you Trinidad!” The thing is, she was in Tobago.
Cedella Booker, the mother of reggae legend Bob Marley, has passed away in Miami at the age of 81.
Cedella had been a resident of Miami for the past 30 years.She was an active figure in the promotion of her son and in 1993 started the Bob Marley Movement Festival that featured Santana and Wyclef Jean.
Mrs Booker gave birth to her son Robert when she was 18 years old. Bob died in May, 1981.
Cedella Booker also had her own music career. She released two albums, ‘Awake Zion’ and ‘Smilin’ Island of Song’.
It has been announced by organizers on Monday that the surprise performer at the legendary Glastonbury music festival in the UK this summer will be none other than Neil Diamond. The 67-year old ‘Sweet Caroline’ singer will perform on the main stage on the final day of the three-day event which will start on June 27. Does it even count as a surprise when it gets announced?
Jay-Z has also been confirmed as a headliner for one of the other nights. Well, that’s an interesting mix. At least, they weren’t slated to perform on the same day. That would surely put together a weird crowd.
The diva has really done it this time! Diana Ross actually pissed off a crowd of 40,000 at the 2008 Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday where the 63-year old was booed and heckled by Jamaicans in attendance at Montego Bay after organizers told them that “to honor Miss Ross’ wishes, she will not be shown on the monitors”. That piece of news was met with a whole lot of hissing. The audience in the stadium-sized arena was unable to see the diva onstage but she wouldn’t allow to put her performance on the big screen but she would not go on stage if any cameras were present. The booing continued for her whole hour-long set when the crowd beyond the first section couldn’t even see her.
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