Author: Crossfire

Good Shoes have come up with a way to get their fans even closer to their music – By devising a competition that allows you to appear on their artwork for the forthcoming single The Photos On My Wall, which is due for release on January 1st 2007.

The band will be touring in November at the following dates:

21st – Oxford, Zodiac
22nd – Cambridge, Soul Tree
23rd – Manchester, Night and Day
24th – Liverpool, Korova
26th – Birmingham, Bar Academy
27th – Glasgow, King Tuts
28th – Leeds, Brunel Social Club
29th – London, Kings College
30th – Bristol, Academy II

Photos for the competition should be texted to 07834 741000 along with the key word ‘Good’ or emailed to photos@thephotosonmywall.com. Closing date is November 6th.

www.thephotosonmywall.com

Kurt Cobain is officially the largest earning dead person. The former Nirvana man has come top of the Forbes.com poll of top deceased earners. Between October 2005 and October this year, he has earned $50 million, much of which came from the sale of 25% of the band’s catalogue to PrimeWave.

This has meant that Elvis, who is normally top of the poll, is 2nd, with a figure of $42 million.

www.interscope.com/nirvana

Jimmy Chamberlain, the drummer for the Smashing Pumpkins has blogged on the band’s MySpace about the new material, saying the band have been working with Terry Date and Roy Thomas Barker. He said:

“Great things are on track for the future. As some of you know we are indeed creating music again. Music that comes from a place so pure it will burn the lies off the very souls of those who try to discount it.

We have arrived at a place in our lives where truth and honesty prevail and we are creating from that place. The universe has a way of letting you know that things are right by introducing people like RTB and Terry into the fold. It’s all part of one big cosmic journey, in so that everyone reading this is hitching their silver chord to the Great Pumpkin Space Train! Hope this helps clear some things up for you.”

www.smashingpumpkins.com

The Datsuns have recorded a cover of Life’s A Gas by T Rex as the B side to their forthcoming download only single Waiting For Your Time To Come, which is to be released on November 6th. The band are over on tour soon, the dates are:

October:

25th – Manchester Academy 3
26th – Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
27th – Hull University
28th – Carlisle Brickyard
29th – Glasgow ABC2

November:

1st – Nottingham Social
2nd – Peterborough Park
3rd – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
4th – Sheffield Leadmill
5th – Norwich Waterfront
6th – Southampton University
7th – London Electric Ballroom

www.thedatsuns.com

Mobb Deep, now of G Unit fame, were involved in a scrape with death last weekend after the plane they were travelling in with Sam Scarfo and 40 Glocc, lost an engine.

They were flying to Chile on Saturday and we forced toland in Tampa after the engine was lost. Havoc, of Mobb Deep, said:

“All I can say is God was on our side. It could (have) turned out the opposite way! It makes you look at many things in perspective.”

www.mobbdeep.net

Snoop looks likely to face weapons charges after he tried to bring a police baton onto a flight from California to New York last month. He was found with a collapsible nightstick which can expand to 21 inches and is classified as a dangerous weapon.

Snoop denied he knew the weapon was illegal and said he was planning on using it in an upcoming video.

www.snoopdogg.com