Dita Von Teese has filed for divorce from Marilyn Manson only a year after the couple married. The papers were filed at the back end of 2006 in LA and Dita, whose real name is Heather Sweet, claims “irreconcilable differences” are the reason for the split and she is not seeking spousal support from Manson.
Fatboy Slim has that after his beach party that brought in the New Year, he’s going to be spending most of this year doing nothing. However, he will be spending some time with Danny Elfman working on the music for a new animated Disney film. He said:
“It’ll be a quiet one for Fatboy this year. It feels right that, after 10 years and so many albums, we should give it a rest for a while. But I’m doing a project with Danny Elfman for a Disney film, which I can’t say too much about”.
The Kaiser Chiefs are back with a new single, Ruby, on February 19th and then a release from their as yet untitled second album. Tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow [Tuesday] and will no doubt fly out quicker than Britney’s next marriage. The dates are:
February:
21st & 22nd – Manchester Apollo
23rd & 25th – Wolverhampton Civic Hall
26th & 27th – Newcastle Academy
March:
3rd & 4th – London Shepherds Bush Empire
6th & 7th – Glasgow Academy
9th & 10th – Cardiff University Great Hall
Yet another chance to get a wicked skate in this winter when the Duffs UK team bless you with their presence at Interact Skatepark, Burnley, on the evening of Saturday 27th January.
In attendance: Ben Raemers, Rob Smith, Adam Howe, Mark Munson, Matthias Nylen (c.f. BS Smith), Carl Wilson, Ian Rees, Harry Bastard, John Cattle and Josh Parr.
The download Demi-gods that are Puzzle have dropped another free bomb for you guys to watch – Malaria, a Safari Clothing project from Switzerland, featuring Luc Kampfen, Seb Hepp, Stefan Herb, Daryl Hefti, Guy Kampfen, Stefan Bircher, Miguel Alzate, Sven Kilchenmann and Christian Zemp.
Blur bassist Alex James has hinted that Graham Coxon might be about to do a U-turn and rejoin Blur, the band he left in 2002. James said, in the Sunday Times:
“I’ve been talking to Graham and there might be some good news,” he said. “It’s by no means in the bag, but it looks quite promising. Maybe the time is right. We’ve always left the door open for him, so that’s what I’m hoping for.”
It has also been suggested that as soon as Albarn has finished live dates with his new band, The Good The Bad And The Queen, Blur would be back in the studio to work on the new album, which might well be their last [let’s hope it isn’t! – Abjekt].
Texas’ …Trail Of Dead have announced their will be playing a 12 dates tour to support their fifth album So Divided. The dates are:
February:
12th – Birmingham Academy
13th – Dublin TBMC
14th – Glasgow Oran Mor
15th – Manchester Academy
17th – Leeds Cockpit
18th – Bristol Thekla Social
19th – Oxford Zodiac
20th – London Koko
22nd – Brighton Concorde
23rd – Northampton Roadmender
24th – Liverpool Carling Academy
25th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
More news incoming on Bad Religion’s forthcoming album sessions. Jay Bentley of the band has said:
“Brooks is heading down to Australia with Tenacious D this month, and Brian, Hetson and myself are heading to Vegas for the punk rock bowling tournament. Greg and Brett are busily putting on the final touches to their songs and as soon as Brooks gets back we’re heading to Cleveland, Ohio to play with Paramore, Pennywise and the Bouncing Souls at the Warped Tours’ induction into the rock and roll hall of fame…
After that we’re going to start working on the new record in February, recording in Hollywood. Graffin will be teaching this semester at UCLA, so he’ll be bouncing back and forth between the studio and the classroom. We’ll kidnap him for the summer when we go out on the Warped Tour and yes, we are doing the entire tour”
Watch this space!
Lagwagon have announced that they will be touring Europe in April for 3 weeks to support their last album Resolve. The jaunt will see them play some UK dates, which are:
April:
10th – Birmingham Barfly
11th – Nottingham Rock City
12th – Manchester Hope n Grape
14th – London Mean Fiddler
Minnesotan band Low will be playing a date in London in February before going on tour throughout April onwards. They will also be palying 3 dates at All Tomorrow’s Parties in Somerset in April. They also plan to release their new album Drums And Guns on March 20th.
February:
15th – London The Spitz
April:
27th-29th – All Tomorrow’s Parties Somerset Butlins Holiday Resort Minehead