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Musweek: Issue 10

Huw L. Hopkins rounds up this week's most important music news stories

by Huw Hopkins, April 16th, 2012 and has been Read 1129 times.
Last Edited by: Ffion Davies April 16th, 2012.

On a daily basis, we're constantly inundated with news. News about political affairs, news about what's happening in the sporting world, entertainment news that's now more like gossip as opposed to actual news, and news about family, friends, and the cat down the road. Basically, information has never been easily attainable than it is today. In some way, this is fantastic, enabling us to constantly develop our brains, and in another way, we're bombarded with so much crap we have to wade through it to get to the good bits.

Lack of Direction

For the second week straight, reluctantly, it is the manufactured pop crap, One Direction, that has made arguably the biggest news story of the music world this week. Simon Cowell’s wonderboys have got stateside and found that another band with the same name are not very happy. The rumours are that on the U.S. Today Show, the ‘other’ Direction’s music was played by accident and the confusion is causing a headache for their group’s manager Peter Ross.

One Heart, One Soul, Let’s get together at the cinema

Bob Marley once got shot. The shooter was a racist who wanted the singer dead for how he was inspiring change. Two days later Marley went back out on-stage and said: "The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?" His life has been documented in to a full-length feature film and it is coming out this week on April 20^th.

It must be love, love ... Love

The former wife of Kurt Cobain has made the headlines several times this week. First up; Hole are reuniting, much to the pleasure of nobody, but the most intriguing story was Courtney Love accusing her daughter Frances Bean of being hit on by Dave Grohl. Appalled at the suggestion, the only physical remainder of the Nirvana frontman, released a statement wholeheartedly denying this totally made up rumour.



Stayin’ Alive

Robin Gibb has fallen in to a coma after contracting pneumonia. His twin-brother Marice Gibb died in 2003 after suffering from the same bowel cancer that would haunt Robin several years later. He was still working and had plans to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic this year with ‘The Titanic Requiem’. The family and friends are hoping and praying that he’ll pull through.



Every Rose has a thorn

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has inducted Guns N’Roses much to the dismay of Axl Rose. He apparently didn’t want to be part of something that nobody wanted him to be a part of, but when the audience began chanting “Fuck Axl!”, Billie Joe Armstrong defended the legendary but controversial singer, “Most singers are crazy, I can vouch for that but he is one of the best frontmen to ever touch a microphone." Also inducted in to the HOF were the Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Donovan.