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- BUSH will be on MTV's 120 Minutes show on August 1, 1999 at 12 AM, with footage and interviews from the Roseland show.
- What does Woodstock mean to Gavin? "It means the '60s, baby. It's massive, that. You get that sense of history when you get there and get excited." --From All-Star daily news
- BUSH is mentioned in VH1's Pop-Up Video for 3EB's "Semi-Charmed Life."
- New photos of Bush: Woodstock1, Woodstock2, KROCK.
- On July 20, 1999, MTV's TRL broadcasted news and an interview with Gavin and Nigel. During the interview, Gavin expressed his feelings on JFK JR's tragic death and both guys discussed the new album and single. According to them, "The Science Of Things" is due out in stores on November 1st and "Chemicals Between Us" will be the first single, hopefully out by August!
- Bush was mentioned on MuchMusic (in London) on July 20. The station said that they will have "new Bush" within a matter of weeks. They went on to play the "Machinehead" video.
- A clip of the remixed version of "Bonedriven" was played on MTV's Biorthym for Faith Evans.
- On July 21st, there was a clip of Gavin on Howard Stern talking about how if he could have jumped into the water to save JFK Jr. he would have.
-News on the new album procedure from Sonicnet.
- Bush at Woodstock: Reviewed by SonicNet!
- From AllStar (July 19):
Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale got a bit of a scare on his flight from Los Angeles to New York late Sunday (July 18) night. His flight had to abort its takeoff at the last minute due to a blown engine. While the tires cooled down and maintenance attended to the plane, all the passengers on the flight were herded onto a bus on the runway. "We were just about to take off and the second engine blew," Rossdale tells allstar. "What freaked me out -- I guess it's the sign of the times -- everyone gets on the bus and everyone gets on their mobile phones. There were a couple of women who were inconsolably panicked as well." Austin Powers himself, Mike Myers, was aboard the flight also, according to Rossdale. Oh baby, that was a close one.
- From Woodstock.com:
Bush Comes to Woodstock, "Quite A Monumental Thing"
Guitarist Nigel Halford kicks back with Woodstock.com. by Jennifer Vineyard
Though Bush is mostly keeping mum on the hows and whys of its just-completed third album, The Science of Things, due out this fall, guitarist Nigel Pulsford recently let a few details slip. Like how the London grunge band tried out a few new sounds to "shake it up a bit." Like how they swapped producers, trading in Steve Albini for Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley. And how computers and synth programming played a large role, though not as radically as the technology involved on its in-between albums Deconstructed remix work. Could they be leaning towards electronica?
"We're still Bush, that's the thing," Pulsford says. "We could have done these sounds with guitar, but it's nice to drop in strange sounds and fiddle around. It's not just another straight rock album, which would be a bit easier, a bit boring, a bit lazy, not as forward thinking. Gavin's dog Winston is always on the records, shoved in there somewhere. So we stick in a sample, manipulate it, make it sound like anything than what it is. So Winston's buried in there somewhere. There's no escaping the damn mutt."
The follow-up to Razorblade Suitcase (besides featuring Winston on "Altered States") includes songs like the mid-tempo "Warm Machine," the mellow "40 Miles From the Sun," "The Chemicals Between Us," "Prize Fighter," "Space Travel," "Ban the Bomb," "Dead Meat," and the haunting love song "Jesus Online," the band's nod towards technology. Online culture, Pulsford says, "is what everything seems to be about now, or is getting about."
"Things are changing pretty rapidly," he says. "I think it's almost like a natural progression, isn't it, for the music industry to go that way, where you can download the artwork or the whole package of an album. I can't see that it'd quite be as satisfying as actually having a record in your hands, though, if you have to sort of cut the package up yourself and put it together like a breakfast cereal packet."
Speaking of the Internet, Pulsford's solo album, due out in August, will be available only online. Called Heavenly Toast on Paradise Road, Pulsford recorded the record while Bush sorted out its legal troubles with its record label Trauma, settling a $40 million lawsuit this past May. Partly because of the lawsuit fallout, the record label had withheld permission for Pulsford to release the record until this summer, though it was largely finished last year. Pulsford jokes at the irony of now being able to release it on his sister Jan's label, Collecting Dust, because that's "what it's been doing for the past year."
"She's my slightly older sister," he says diplomatically of the relationship. "Never reveal a lady's age. But she's been living in the states for the past ten years. She's worked with the Thompson Twins, she's spent the last few years working with Cyndi Lauper, she's written her last two albums with her." Though she's primarily a musician, she started the independent label because she "hates the business side of things, which is pretty scummy at the best of times, and a lot worse usually," he says knowingly.
Woodstock attendees shouldn't expect to hear too much of the either of Pulsford's solo or Bush's new material, even though Bush started previewing potential singles on its recent club dates used to warm up for the festival. Since the band hadn't played a proper tour since November of 1997, it decided to swing by three Southern California clubs in mid June to get its chops back. "We just stuck our head out of the water to say 'hi' again," Pulsford says. "And then we felt like we hadn't been away at all."
Like the band's album, Bush was trying to keep its Woodstock appearance hush-hush so that they could make a big announcement. "It's the '60s paranoia creeping in, really," Pulsford jokes. After the "sweaty club dates," which will include a few Irving Plaza performances in New York City just prior to Woodstock itself, Pulsford says, the next step was envisioning what would work in more open spaces. European festivals like Glastonbury beckoned, and after a few of those, Bush found all the dust brushed off. "It's all been leading up to Woodstock, really," he says. "It's the big one in the end. I would think Woodstock was the inspiration for Glastonbury, because even that started as hippies in a field. Everyone's heard of Woodstock from my mother on down, but in England, it's mainly the bands who talk about it, how it was horrible and how they hated it, because every time, if you tripped in the mud, you were tripping, because there was acid in the mud. There was acid everywhere."
"But it's going to be a good festival," he continues. "I've been reading stories about the original, and it sounds a bit more organized this time. I was reading how drunk people were when they went on stage, that they had to redo the material in the studio for the live album. And Jimi Hendrix, it was sad watching him in the film, because everyone's going, though what he was playing was amazing. They were too burnt out. It was the end of the '60s, wasn't it? Quite a monumental thing, Woodstock."
- From Launch.com (July 20):
Bush's Rossdale And The Artist Get Funky?
Earlier this month, Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale went to the Artist formerly known as Prince's Paisley Park studios in Minneapolis with girlfriend Gwen Stefani, and were treated to an exclusive performance (LAUNCH, 7/14).
Now Rossdale tells us that he and Stefani hung around the Purple One for three days and cemented a friendship. During that time, Stefani sang a song for the Artist and he, in turn, rewrote one of her songs.
Rossdale adds that the public will be soon aware of a special collaboration between him and the Artist. "Yeah baby," he said. "He's very cool. I don't know how it will pan out, but I think there will be further developments of our friendship on a public way--professional way I should say."
The Bush man, however, wouldn't comment further. When asked if the Artist would surface during one of Bush's Irving Plaza shows, Rossdale says, "You never know. You live and hope."
Meanwhile, Bush is working on the final mixes of The Science Of Things. The album is tentatively due in fall. The track listing is as follows: "Warm Machine," "Jesus Online," "The Chemicals Between Us," "English Fire," "Space Travel," "40 Miles From The Sun," "Disease Of The Dancing Cats," "Mindchaser," "Altered States," "Dead Meat," "Letting The Cables Sleep," and "Prizefighter."
- From AllStar (July 20):
Bush's Gavin Rossdale Describes Challenge Of New Album --Kevin Raub
The Science of Things, Bush's long-delayed third album and follow-up to 1996's Razorblade Suitcase, is finally scheduled for mastering next week. Frontman Gavin Rossdale is apologetic, yet adamant about the reasons for its delay.
"We had to sort out our business life with our record label -- the record has been ready for two years," says Rossdale, referring to the recent lawsuit the band brought against their label, Trauma Records (allstar, March 8).
"We sometimes forget, being musicians, that this is the music business and sometimes you have to watch what's going on on the business side," he continues. "It's as simple as that. It took way longer than it should have to resolve, and it's not remotely our fault."
Now that Bush has settled with Trauma, and snagged a lucrative new deal in the process (allstar, [June 14]), the band is ready to focus on more important matters: the music. The Science of Things, now scheduled for a Nov. 1 release, may surprise some fans due to the band's newfound embrace of electronic bleeps and computer-generated textures. At its heart is vintage Bush -- with somewhat of a Twilight Zone feel to it.
"We made our first record instinctively as a representation of the band," says Rossdale. "The second record was a further reflection of how we had played live so much. [For the third record] we wanted to reflect on the fact that we had some time off and knew, as with any record you bring out, we wanted to come at it from a different angle."
That different angle deals mostly with themes of dimension and space on such tunes as "Spacetravel," and "40 Miles from the Sun," as well as alternate realities and mood-enhanced euphoria on tunes like "The Chemicals Between Us" and "Altered States." The former is the band's biggest departure from the stadium-rock sounds of past hits like "Machinehead" and "Everything Zen," and likely a future single.
The song, one of the album's few ballads, is a loop-heavy, mind-bending love song for the future. "We wanted to incorporate a few different things in there and more textures," explains Rossdale. "We always liked textures -- this is just further textualization."
Together, Science, like so many other records released in 1999, is Bush's therapeutic answer to the end of the 20th Century. "Gavin was thinking a lot about the millennium," says guitarist Nigel Pulsford. "[It's about] forward thinking and future thoughts."
"I wore a space suit -- a romper suit -- the whole time," adds Rossdale jokingly.
Additional tracks scheduled for likely inclusion on the album are "Warm Machine," "Jesus Online," "English Fire," "Disease of the Dancing Cats," "Mindchanger," "Dead Meat," "Letting the Cables Sleep," and "Prizefighter."
- From MTV:
7.21.99 14:00 EST Drummer's Illness Prompts Bush To Reschedule Club Show; Woodstock Still A Go
It looks like Bush won't get as much practice as it had hoped to before this weekend's Woodstock festival.
The band has postponed what was to the be the first of two small club shows in New York on Wednesday night, citing drummer Robin Goodridge's ear infection. The band was slated to play two shows at New York's Irving Plaza on Wednesday and Thursday night (as part of the Digital Club Festival) before heading to Woodstock this weekend.
Thursday night's show has now been moved to the larger Roseland Ballroom in order to accommodate fans who held tickets for both Irving Plaza shows. Organizers will also make additional tickets for Thursday night's show available the day of the show as well.
Of course, Goodridge is expected to be well enough to perform on Thursday, and the ailment should not jeopardize the band's slot on Woodstock '99.
The band is expected to join a roster of more than 40 artists in Rome, New York this weekend for the three-day event, which will feature Limp Bizkit, Korn, DMX, Metallica, Jewel, Sugar Ray, Korn, Dave Matthews Band, and a host of others.
Speaking with MTV News recently, guitarist Nigel Pulsford said the band had hoped to use the two club shows as a warm-up for Woodstock, and that the band hoped to road-test new material from its upcoming album (check out more from Pulsford in our MTV News Online feature "Digital Club Festival:It's the Music, Stupid."). However, the band has already logged a number of club dates in California, and should be prepared for the festival, which kicks off on Friday at noon.
- From Allstar (July 21):
July 21, 1999Although Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale denies any friendly musical rivalries between his band and girlfriend Gwen Stefani's No Doubt, Rossdale did admit to making a little wager with an unknown member of 311 recently. While attending a recent Joe Strummer concert in Los Angeles, a hammered member of 311 (it was either frontman Nick Hexum or guitarist Tim Mahoney) challenged Rossdale and his band to a bit of chart watching. "Some guy from 311 bet me $5000 [on who's record would do better]," recalls Rossdale. "I was like, ' I don't really bet on music but alright, I'll bet you a drink.' I think he was just a bit drunk." Bush's The Science of Things will surface on Nov. 1 on Trauma Records (allstar, July 20) while 311's Soundsystem hits stores on Oct. 12 on Capricorn. We'll keep you posted on the tally.
- From Collecting Dust:
"'Heavenly Toast on the Paradise Road'"artwork arrived today...done by David Yow of Jesus Lizard...it looks great. Nigel will do a final approval in NY this weekend (prior to Woodstock) and it will be at the manufactures next week..." -Madame
- From Kerrang! magazine (759):
"Bush Guitarist Nigel Pulsford will make his debut solo album avalible exclusively through the internet. The only way to buy a copy of 'Heavenly toast on the paradise road' - Currently scheduled for release at the end of July - will be to visit the following website : www.collectingdust.com.
"It is a nice independent way of doing it" says Pulsford. "The album is a real mish mash of different styles , topped off with my lovely voice. It's not a heavy rock album, but there are some heavy tracks. Ther's a bit of fake jazz, too I just emptied by bowels of everything that was inside - and they were quite full!!"
Pulsford has enlisted the Jesus Lizards erstwhile singer David Yow to provide the artwork. "He's only a mentalist onstage" says Pulsford. "Otherwise he's a pussycat , as they say, Really nice and talented." Yow currently has plently of time on his hands, as his unpopular 'beat combo' have split."
- There is a new book from MTV out in all major book stores, titled Bush: MTV Access All Areas by Lauren Spencer. Buy the book from amazon.com, on sale now!!
- At the Palace in L.A. on Wednesday, July 7, Gavin and his girlfriend Gwen, along with 311, were spotted at Joe Strummer's, former Clash singer, first solo concert in nearly 10 years!
- Both Irving Plaza shows (July 21 & 22) are officially SOLD OUT! If you are attending one of these shows, click here! If you live in the NY area, Gavin (and possibly Gwen Stefani) are expected to drop by the K-Rock studio for an interview or a quick hello.
- In the August issue of YM, there is a pic of Gavin and Winston with the caption:
"Poundproof Pup
Bush's lead singer Gavin Rossdale, rescued his 10-year-old puli (a hungarian breed with a coat that looks alot like it's been styled into dreadlocks) from a friend (make that an ex-friend) who mistreated thad dog. Gavin then opened his heart and his home to the downtrodden dog."
- There is a small picture of Gavin in an issue of Teen Magazine (with Britney Spears on the cover). Bush is also in Twist and All-Star magazine this month.
- Bush's "Machinehead" is on a new CD called Jock Rock 2000.
- There is an article about Bush and Trauma Records at pollstar.com.
- From Select:
The Select Signing Tent attracted record crowds yesterday as festival-goers queued to meet an array of acts including Pavement, Gay Dad and Bush.
The latter pulled a crowd so big that they debated postponing their appearance on the Main Stage. Over 400 people waited patiently for a chance to have anything from a humble scrap of paper to a well-toned thigh signed by the multi-million album sellers.
The queues, which extended for at least 200 yards, were over four times the size of previous lines for One Lady Owner, Bjorn Again and deus. "We’re the underground massive!" exclaimed singer Gavin Rossdale, clearly impressed by the show of support.
Faced with questions ranging from when the new album is out to which salon does Gavin’s hair, one enquiry especially delighted the well-groomed foursome. "This girl asked us, ‘How come when we love you so much does everyone make out that we don’t love you so much?’" laughed Gavin. "So I answered her by kissing her real hard."
- Soccer Six Photos, including BUSH, can be found here.
- ATTN: amBUSH MEMBERS-> The next amBUSH trip is scheduled for New York City!! More info here.
- According to Ash, who attended the San Diego and Ponoma BUSH concerts, BUSH played new songs from the new album and they sounded great, she said! More will be in issue 73 of the BUBBLES 'zine.
- Gavin will be on several radio shows in California this week.
- Bush will be on Saturday Night Live on Comedy Central at 4PM EST on Saturday, June 12 (yes, this is a re-run).
- New: CLUB DATES- click here!
- Nigel Pulsford's solo CD "Heavenly Toast on the Paradise Road" will be available exclusively online form Collecting Dust around July 20th. Meanwhile Nigel produced the Mingus track "Self Portrait in threecolors" on David Schnaufer's Delcimore CD available on Monday from Collecting Dust. (David is also a guest on Nigel's CD)
- Bush is to play at the Digital Club Festival on July 21 to the 23 before Woodstock. For more information on this year's Digital Club Festival, visit www.digitalclubfest.com.
- From Launch:
Bush On Tap For Live Dates In June And July
(6/2/99, 4 p.m. PDT) - Bush is set to make its first live appearances in the U.S. in more than two years with a series of intimate showcase gigs prior to its appearance at Woodstock '99 (LAUNCH, 4/9).
First, the band is scheduled to play the Glass House in Pomona, Calif. on June 10. That gig, which is open to the public, will be followed by a private showcase at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, Calif. on June 11, which is part of the annual convention held by trade publication Radio & Records.
In addition, Bush is among the acts scheduled to play the Digital Club Festival, which will be held from July 20-23 in New York City. As part of the festival, the multiplatinum-selling British rockers will play three shows at Irving Plaza on July 21, 22, and 23.
The shows will mark the band's first public appearance since it was hit with a breach-of-contract lawsuit by label Trauma Records (LAUNCH, 3/9).
The status of Bush's next album, The Science Of Things, remains unclear. The album, produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who manned the board on the band's breakthrough album Sixteen Stone, was recorded primarily in London between September and April. A spokesperson for the band says that the album is finished and that the band is hoping it will be released in fall, as Bush and Trauma are close to resolving their legal battle.
Trauma had planned to release the album, but claimed in its $40 million lawsuit against the band that Bush was looking for a new label home. As per a 1997 out-of-court settlement, Interscope was to distribute the new album through November 1999. After that date, the album and the band's entire catalog will move over to Trauma and its new distribution partner, BMG
*Similar information can be found at Sonic Net and All Star.
- EXCLUSIVE (found only from BUBBLES): Quynh Bao Nguyen, a BUBBLES subscriber, tells us that at the Soccer Six Tournament, BUSH beat Blur and other bands in the soccer game, yet was beaten a couple times themselves; Dave has a buzz-cut hair 'do, BUSH is to be in the U.S. in early June; touring begins in November, plus much more in Issue 73!
- From MTV::
Bush Confirms Club Gig; Settlement Looming In Label Dispute
After spending a long time out of the spotlight, Bush will resurface with a small club show in California on June 10.
A spokesperson for the band's official fan club, Ambush, first told MTV News that the group was set to play a gig for its fans at the Glass House in Pomona next Thursday. The band's publicist confirmed to MTV News that the Glass House show is a warm-up for an appearance the following day at a large Radio & Records music industry convention in Los Angeles. Bush is scheduled to play a number of festivals in Europe in June as well.
Also in the works is a pair of dates at Irving Plaza in New York City just prior to Bush's appearance at Woodstock '99 in July, though at press time, the publicist could not confirm the shows had been scheduled.
Although the group's publicist cautions that nothing is written in stone, a spokesperson for the band's management company confirms that Bush's long-awaited new album, "The Science of Things," is likely to be out in September on the Trauma label and that the first single is tentatively slated to be "Jesus Online." A treatment for a video is said to be making the rounds of the appropriate executive offices.
Bush has been in litigation with Trauma, which has caused the now-completed record to collect cobwebs. The group, unhappy with its contract, reportedly failed to deliver the album as scheduled and was sued by Trauma in March of this year. Both the management spokesperson and the band's publicist confirmed that the dispute is now close to resolved.
- According to Lesley.Ring@britcoun.org, Gavin was on a music chat show in London on May 26. It wason Channel 4 and hosted by Jo Whiley. He has a bad ankle. It is bandaged but he did not say how he injured it.
- Brad Shaffer (formulaic_ways@hotmail.com) has stated that "Bush will be on the radio broadcast HIGH VOLTAGE: LIVE IN CONCERT! This will be on Saturday May 29 @ 10:00pm CST! I heard this on a radio station out of Joplin, MO! Live 105.3fm!"
- On May 17, Gavin was on ABC's Politically Incorrect. He was spotted as having "really short orange/blond hair...it's very different but really cool." Besides that (insignificant) information, it was an excellent debate. Read the transcript at www.abc.com.
- According to All-Star Daily News, there will be a Kosovo benefit cd titled: "No Boundaries," which is to be released on June 15. Bush's acoustic "Comedown" performance will be one of the many tracks on the album. Proceeds go to help provide food, shelter, medical care, and other basic needs to the Kosovo refugees.
- Kerrang! Magazine (May 15 1999): BUSH: "We're back on course!" Rossdale and co return for glasto
BUSH will return to action this summer with an appearance at the Glastonburry festival on Friday June 25- and a warm up at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms on June 24.The band, who have maintained a low profile so far this year, will make the first public appearance at a charity football event on May 29, at the annual Soccer Six event at London's Stamford Bridge ground. (tickets are priced £12, visit www.ticketweb.co.uk or www.cup.uk.com for more info).
Bush's third album "The Science Of Things" is now due for release in September, with the track "Jesus Online" as the likely first single. Rossdale admits that TSOT has been delayed by the band's legal tussle with their US label Trauma, who earlier this year threatened to sue Bush for $40 million.
"We finished the record a couple of months ago", says the singer/guitarist, "and as it usually goes you have a little fight with your label. That's being resolved as we speak, so it's all fine - it didn't go to court, although we did get close to checking out the routes to the courthouse!"
"We are all back in course. We're talking to directors about making a video for "Jesus Online". Thank God it's looking good now, because there were times when it wasn't. Up the workers!..."
- Rolling Stone's Top 10 videos of the 90's...BUSH comes in at number 8 with "Swallowed."
- In Rolling Stone magazine:
"If you're waiting for the new Bush album, don't hold your breath. Relations between the band and their label, Trauma Records, have been sour since Trauma split with its former parent Interscope (leaving Bush with Trauma and former labelmates No Doubt with Interscope). Insiders are saying Bush are refusing to deliver the already-recorded album in an attempt to provoke a release from their contract (at press time, Trauma had just filed suit). Of course, both sides are keeping in mind that Interscope retains an almost 25 percent stake in Bush in the form of distribution rights it retains to the album under the terms of the settlement with Trauma. But don't bet on Bush pulling a George Michael: Sources close to the band say Bush are wary of staying out of the public eye for too long, and are also rumored Lollapalooza headliners. In fact, some are wondering if what Bush really want is to return to the industry powerhouse responsible for their success -- Interscope and its chairman, Jimmy Iovine. Any other interested label would get stuck with both the cost of buying out the band's contract and the 25 percent due Interscope, so smart money says the band will be at Interscope by the time you read this..."
- From Hit Parader magazine: BUSH, THE SCIENCE OF ALL THINGS
It's now been three years since the release of Bush's last disc, and the music world has changed radically since the time Gavin Rossdale and his boys last graced us with their presence. But as shown on their latest effort, 'The Science of All Things', Bush isn't about to change to fit into any preordinary vision of what the late-'90s music scene should be. All the ingredients that first shot this London-based unit to fame are still present - the rumbling guitars, the angst-filled filled vocals and the tear-at-your-heart lyrics. But as shown on such tunes as 'Ban the Bomb' and 'Altered States', Bush hasn't been standing still. They've been evolving - but in their own always - unique fashion.
RATING - B+
- Reported, music from BUSH was played in the background of a Dateline special report recently.
- There is a picture of Gavin in the Twist magazine with Usher on the cover.
- Bush to play at Woodstock? You bet! Click here.
- From the CollectingDust mailing list:
"Ah the music business . . don't you love it! Bush being sued for $40,000,000 and consequently little to no chance that Collecting Dust is going to be able to release Nigel's solo CD.
Likewise with the Mingus project . . . too many disputes to make it feasible. However we do hope to release "Portrait in Three Colours", produced by Nigel Pulsford on David Schnaufer's upcoming album "Delcimore" . . . unless more legalities get in the way!
Hey ho
CD Crewella"
- From Evrthgbush@aol.com:
"Bush has signed up to appear at the Soccer Six in Germany... The show is at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, 29th May 1999. Other acts are designated to appear as well."
- Radio stations have stated that May 18th is a confirmed date for the release of "The Science of Things." No serious confirmation from BUSH themselves.
- In Kerrang! magazine, there is some talk about the lawsuit with Trauma Records. BUSH has said that they wish to begin touring after the album release (which is delayed), but may have to go to court instead.
- BUSH's performance of "Glycerine" at Mtv's Spring Break 1996 was placed at number three of the all-time Spring Break performances. However, last year it was number one.
- From the Hurricane Festival mailing list (revised):
On June 26 and 27 of 1999, the German Hurricane Festival will be taking place. Schedule to perform is: BUSH, Blumfeld, Blur , Built to Spill , Calexico, Chemical Brothers, dEUS, Eat No Fish, Everlast, Die Fantastischen Vier, Guano Apes , HIM, Hole, Kashmir, Liquido, Live, Marilyn Manson, Massive Attack, Miles, Molotov, Motorpsycho, Muse, Our Lady Peace, Pavement, Placebo, Skunk Anansie, Stereolab, Tin Star, Queens of the Stone Age, Wunder, and more!
-Info from Nigel's sister, Jan Pulsford, c/o the CollectingDust mailing list:
"Dear Nigel fans
It was brought to our attention recently that there is some incorrect information being posted on various Bush fan pages concerning Nigel's solo album. Here's the real deal . . .
1. The name of the album is NOT "Guitars from Mars".
2. "Guitars from Mars". was a compilation of instrumental music that Nigel recorded long before Bush was a successful band and it is not available to the general public. It was done for use by producers needing good quality "library music" ( i.e. background music for film, radio, TV, audio visual presentations, etc. etc. The only way to get a copy is if you work in the Multi Media field and you would have to contact http://www.firstcom.com
3. Details about "Guitars from Mars". are posted at http://www.mlapulse.com/mlpmedia/guitars.html It was released as part of the MLP Media Music Collection by First Com Music.
4. There is some real audio available on that page but please if you use it there must be a link back to the "Guitars from Mars" page . The audio is copyrighted to First Com and is only used on the mlpmedia music site for promotional purposes.
Hope this clears up a few misunderstandings.
As far as the REAL solo album goes . . . still no news.
Regards
Jan Pulsford"
- During a Hole concert in Anaheim, California, Courtney Love was reported saying a few 'relationship' things about Gavin Rossdale, indirectly referred to in the song "Awful" on Hole's new disc. Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani were spotted at a show on Sunday, March 14, at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles.
- From amBUSH:
On Sunday 23rd May, the day after the FA Cup final, the pop world puts on its football boots for an unrivalled music/sports tournament all in aid of Help a London Child. Previous years have seen the likes of Liam Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Jarvis Cocker, The Prodigy, Jamiroquai, and Blur. Footage of the events has been broadcast on terrestrial and satellite television all over the world. Date: Sunday 23rd May, 1999 (11.00am til 5.00pm) Venue: Chelsea Football Club, Stamford Bridge, London SW6 Charity: Help a London Child So far, our very own Bush, and Simply Red have signed up to play for this worthy cause!
- BUSH is being sued by Trauma records for various professional reasons having to do with their contract. For the whole story from Sonicnet, click here.
- In Liquid magazine, page 56, there is a cover story on BUSH titled: "No Beating Around The Bush: Gavin Rossdale, Bush's leading man, let's us in on what it's like to be a body double for Hercules."
- From CollectingDust's mailing list:
"Dear all
A letter to tell you that even my delays have delays on them at present- the Bush album is going really well - all top secret of course but it won't be long now. My album about which nothing is top secret is delayed due to 'technical troubles' - all the real reasons are of course secret and about as annoying as it gets. I just keep trying to sort things out so that you can all find out just how bad my voice is. Fingers crossed
On a brighter note I might be doing the benefit for Tibet gig at Carnegie Hall again this month with John Cale. I did it last year and it was one of the most amazing things I've ever been involved with.
Take care Nigel xx"
Note from BUBBLES: Nigel wasn't spotted at the Tibet gig.
- The "Star Profile"Interview CD about BUSH is now onsale at CDnow! Click here!
- BUBBLES sources say that a clip of a new BUSH song titled "Ban the Bomb" was braodcasted on Canada's 102.1 The Edge.
- On an episode of Daria (Daria reads to senior citizens), Daria reads the poem "Howl," by Allen Ginsburg; the part included in BUSH's "Machinehead": "I've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..."
- Want wicked cool BUSH desktop themes? Check out www.themeworld.com , and search under BUSH.
- BUSH is once again in Kerrang! magazine, featuring some stuff about Gavin and Gwen and an interview with Nigel. Click here to read the interview.
- BUSH is also in this month's Q magazine. There is a picture of BUSH in the studio and info about the new lyrics- they are "happier lyrics."
- Gavin is in a book titled "Hunks and Kisses."
- Gavin is in March's Cosmopolitan magazine, page 102. By the small pictures, it states: "Rocker Boy: Bohos are crazy for creative, Rosedaleesque Casonovas."
- From the Best Minds mailing list: "Q101 (WKQX) in Chicago is releasing a live disc called "Live 101: Volume 1," which will include an acoustic performance of Machinehead by Nigel and Gavin from the Q101 Jamboree '97. The CD goes on sale February 27th and can be purchased at Tower Records, Blockbuster Music, Virgin Megastore, Rock Records, Rolling Stone Records, Record City, Crow's Nest, Coconuts and Record Town."
- FYI: BUSH was on E!'s The Gossip Show for Lollapalooza.
- Get back issues of English magazines with BUSH at http://www.mjbs.demon.co.uk/backnumbers.htm.
- BUSH at Lollapalooza?? UPDATE: Bush will NOT be at Lollapalooza.
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