| CMU Daily - on the inside Monday 26th November |
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In today's CMU Daily:
- Industry welcomes new French P2P body
- Sony ordered to pay indie $5 million over missing logo
- More Manson gruesome purchase claims
- Winehouse's husband remanded in custody
- Austria withdraw from Eurovision
- Red Hot Chili Pepper loses house in LA fires
- Spice Girls not cancelling Buenos Aires gig, OK?
- MBV planning online release
- Tensions may cause Bonde Do Role to split
- U2 make surprise appearance at charity gig
- No Led Zepp tour planned
- Walden pulls out of Babyshambles reunion
- The Police to headline IOW
- Televised Shakira gig angers Afghan politicians
- Gcap chief steps down
- Student Media Award winners
- Chart update
- Sub.tv playlist
- Total Rock World album chart
- West admits Fiddy rivalry was made up
- Take That-er calls for cannabis to be legalised
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TOP BIT - VOTE FOR YOUR TRACK OF THE YEAR!
OK, folks, a quick update. Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Battles, Beirut, Biffy Clyro, CSS, Dan Le Sac, Feist, Justice, Klaxons, LCD Soundsystem, The Nextmen, Patrick Wolf, Radiohead, Reverend And The Makers and Shy Child are all piling up votes in the CMU Track Of The Year poll. I won't tell you whose got the most votes so far, because then I'd have to kill you, but there is still time to vote for any of these, or anyone else. Providing they released a track this year.
Because don't forget, you can vote for any track that first surfaced this year in the CMU poll - a single, album track, remix, mash up, b-side, demo, TV theme tune - whatever. Email the name of your favourite track, with your name, company and job title, and a sentence on why you're voting for it, to 2007@cmumusicnetwork.co.uk. We will feature some of your votes and reasons here in the Daily during December, and will then release an overall top ten, on which you can then vote a second time so that we can select an overall track of the year. It's all very exciting.
So, to summarise, email us the name of your favourite track of 2007 to 2007@cmumusicnetwork.co.uk now.
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CMU PRESS ROOM
CARLING SUPPORTS LONDON - New Band Showcase
It's been a great year for Carling in music and to help celebrate, five of the UK's best local bands have been invited to play a special one off gig as Carling Supports comes to London on Monday 3rd December.
At the start of the summer Carling asked up and coming bands in Bristol, Birmingham, Newcastle, Liverpool and Glasgow to perform at Carling Supports - a showcase for local talent.
The best band in each region, as chosen by an independent panel of judges, secured a support slot at a future Carling Academy show. Now, for one night only, Bar Academy, N1 will play host to the best five bands with a night of live music:
Pinstripe (Carling Supports Bristol)
Page 44 (Carling Supports Birmingham)
Stoneleaf (Carling Supports Newcastle)
The Inventors (Carling Supports Liverpool)
Yoshi (Carling Supports Glasgow)
For more information on Carling Supports check:
http://www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk/carlingsupports
or contact Julia Barratt or Mark Hindle at the Carling Press Office at Cake on 020 7307 3105.
Carling Supports will return in 2008, for more information visit http://www.carling.com
Ice cold Carling and the best local music. The complete live experience.
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SNAP OF THE DAY: SAM ISAAC
To say the buzz is building on this talented singer songwriter would be something of an understatement, so I thought I'd better tip him here in the Snap slot now before doing so could be seen as jumping on a bandwagon that has long since left the new music depot. Perhaps on the back of all that buz, Isaac's got a very busy month ahead of him, kicking off with a gig at the Enterprise on Haverstock Hill in Chalk Farm, London tonight, and then taking in various venues around the UK before a single launch party at Water Rats in London on 13 Dec. All the listings are on this page, as are a number of tracks to preview. Isaac pens and performs what I like to call 'user-friendly songs', though user-friendly in the iPod sense, not the pile-them-high-sell-them-cheap sense. What I mean is, these are damn good songs, but that should be playlisted by the likes of Radio 2 and Heart FM sometime in the New Year. Get on over to this MySpace now, and get in before that all happens.
http://www.myspace.com/samisaac
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INDUSTRY WELCOMES NEW FRENCH P2P BODY
This time last year the French parliament came close to legalising P2P file sharing of copyright material. Now the country will go to the other extreme, by introducing measures to stop those who illegally share content online from having internet access. Though it's not that big a u-turn - the French government never supported the legalised P2P proposals, even with some kind of ISP levy, and the whole idea of legitimising P2P came up when the government first attempted to introduce rules to actually stop file sharing.
Last week the French government announced the launch of a new body which will monitor the illegal distribution of content online. The internet service providers have said they will cooperate with the new body, helping them identify individuals who they suspect of illegal file sharing. Those individuals will receive a number of warnings from the new government body and if they continue to illegally share content will ultimately have their internet subscriptions suspended or terminated.
The body was proposed by Denis Olivennes, CEO of French retailler Fnac, who was asked to investigate the whole issue of illegal file sharing by the French government. The body came into being after numerous music, film, video and TV companies, plus ISPs and public authorities, last week signed a Memorandum Of Understanding pledging their support for the new initiative.
The new body has been welcomed by the music business, who have been trying to get the ISPs to play a more proactive role in monitoring illegal file sharing for some time. Under the Memo Of Understanding the ISPs will not only work with the new independent body in identifying file sharers, but will also commit to experimenting with new technologies which filter out the illegal distribution of content.
John Kennedy, boss of the International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry, told Billboard: "I've been working on this for three years, trying to get ISPs voluntarily to play a role. Kids and consumer groups tell us: you can't blame us for doing this if there are no consequences. When we've talked to them in focus groups about disconnection, they realise that is a huge consequence and that would be a real deterrent. I've always thought that the introduction of a measured disconnection campaign would have dramatic, positive results".
Meanwhile Geoff Taylor, boss of the BPI, also voiced his support for the French initiative, telling CMU: "The French Government has recognised that the talent and investment of artists and innovators must be properly valued on the internet if the digital economy is to achieve its potential. The UK Government has said that if an industry-wide agreement cannot be reached, it will take statutory action to require ISPs to recognise their responsibility to warn customers about IP theft and, if necessary, suspend or terminate their accounts. The BPI has been seeking to persuade ISPs for more than a year that they should implement such procedures but progress has been limited. We will continue to pursue voluntary arrangements, but unless these are achieved very soon we believe that the UK Government must act, as the French government has, to ensure that the urgent problem of internet piracy is tackled effectively".
Not wishing to be seen to be totally one sided, we should note not everyone has welcomed the move - the P2P community isn't too impressed, obviously, and some consumer rights bodies have expressed concerns too. Reuters report consumer group UFC Que Choisir as describing the new body as being "very tough, potentially destructive of freedom, anti-economic and against digital history", while IT website Ars Technica notes: "French internet users will have all of their traffic subject to monitoring by ISPs to ensure that content is not being pirated; that's not good for privacy. And as is always the case with such technological measures, there's always the potential for legitimate content, including the increasing amount of legitimate P2P traffic, to be caught up in a copyright enforcement driftnet".
The French government will publish monthly reports on the activities of the new anti-P2P bureau. It remains to be seen how active it is - some legal types have said the body will have to take action against a large number of file sharers early on for the wider file sharing community to take note.
As an interesting aside, one of the conditions put upon the music firms in return for the assistance they are getting in fighting online piracy is to agree to make their whole French-language catalogues available for legit download without digital rights management technology. It is unclear if that move is backed by Warner Music and SonyBMG who have, as yet, not made any music available without DRM.
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SONY ORDERED TO PAY INDIE $5 MILLION OVER MISSING LOGO
Sony Music has been told it must pay the owner of a small US indie label $5 million after it failed to include the label's logo on reissues of Meatloaf's 'Bat Out Of Hell'.
Steve Popovich's Cleveland International Records originally signed Meat Loaf in the mid-seventies and negotiated the deal which saw his legendary album 'Bat Out Of Hell' released by Epic Records, then owned by CBS. The relationship between the major and the indie later soured, however, and a dispute over royalties went to court in the late nineties - by that time Sony had bought CBS's music interests. Cleveland was paid $6.7 million as a result of the dispute, and a condition of that settlement was the inclusion of the Cleveland logo on any future reissues of the 'Bat Out Of Hell' album.
However reissues continued to be released for another year without the Cleveland logo, leading to new litigation which Popovich won in 2005. Sony appealed that ruling, claiming the logo was missed off because of human error rather than any deliberate attempts to ignore the earlier court decision. But the appeal courts last week backed the 2005 judgement, meaning the major must now pay Cleveland another $5 million.
Welcoming the new ruling, Popovich told reporters: "I worked too hard for them and made them too much money to get robbed now".
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MORE MANSON GRUESOME PURCHASE CLAIMS
So, more on that previously reported legal spat between Marilyn Manson and his former keyboardist Stephen Gregory Bier Jr - with new allegations having been made against Manson in new legal papers submitted by Bier.
Bier claims that Manson, his business manager, band manager and lawyer all "filched millions of dollars" from the band's accounts, despite promising the keyboardist "partnership proceeds". The original lawsuit, submitted to the courts in August, got most attention because of the allegations it made regarding how Manson wasted his band's money - on "sick and disturbing" Nazi memorabilia and a skeleton of a young Chinese girl, among other things.
According to the New York Post, Bier's latest legal submission makes even more claims regarding Manson's spending, claiming the shock rocker bought another skeleton, of a man in a wheelchair, plus African masks made of human skin, both of which are, according to the Post, illegal purchases under US law. Bier also claims that Manson arranged for his girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, to receive what he describes as the "highest salary ever paid to any actress in any music video in history" for her appearance in the pop promo for 'Heart Shaped Glasses'.
Manson is yet to respond. He's possibly too busy bidding for Doherty's blood art on eBay.
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WINEHOUSE'S HUSBAND REMANDED IN CUSTODY
Amy Winehouse's other half, that Blake Fielder Civil, has been remanded in custody over the whole GBH and perverting the course of justice thing. As previously reported, Fielder Civil was in court on Friday where he and co-defendant Michael Brown pleaded not guilty to all charges guvnor. The judge ruled that both defendants should stay in jail until at least the next court hearing on the case - which isn't until 18 Jan - meaning Winehouse will have to spend Christmas without her husband. And given that the actual trial isn't likely to happen until next June, he could be locked up quite a bit longer than that too. Amy was at Friday's hearing, and reportedly blew kisses and mouthed "I love you" to Blake from the public gallery.
That decision will presumably please Winehouse's mother who, as previously reported, blames her son in law for her daughter's druggy existence, and who hopes Amy will kick the drugs while away from her husband. Fielder Civil's mother, who possibly won't be so happy with the judge's decision to keep her son incarcerated, has in turn blamed the music business for her son and daughter in law's drug addictions. Asked about the couple's seeming obsession with drugs, Georgette Civil told reporters last week: "It's not how we were brought up or how we've brought our three boys up. But in London and in the music industry drugs are glamorized and it sickens me. Why is it deemed clever that artists like Amy or Pete Doherty or Kate Moss take Class A drugs? Why do their careers seem only to thrive after scandalous tales of their drug taking? The music industry and the whole cult of celebrity have a hell of a lot to answer for when it comes to drugs and I cannot understand how they get away with it".
Back to Winehouse, and the tabloids are reporting that her family, friends and management are now piling on extra pressure to persuade the singer to go into rehab - with some gossiping that Amy has agreed to go into The Priory in the New Year. Winehouse's management and label will be especially keen to see the singer get treatment for her drug addiction after another reportedly shambolic gig on Saturday night at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. While Winehouse is yet to reach Pete Doherty levels of delivering predominantly shambolic live performances, she is likely to suffer a bigger backlash from fans as she has a more mainstream fanbase and is playing bigger venues than Babyshambles were when Doherty was at his most erratic.
What effect these other new claims will have on Winehouse's fanbase is another matter entirely, though we should add that this story is based on the most circumstantial of evidence. The tabs are reporting that Winehouse was responsible for the death of a hamster belonging to Peter Pepper of up and coming band Palladium. Pepper recalls a house party at which his friend Winehouse was present, telling the tabs: "I'd been to bed, but Amy had stayed up and was still going strong and had drunk the drinks cabinet dry. The next thing I know, [the hamster] bites me, runs off and Amy says she'll catch it... But I went to put a plaster on my finger and by the time I came back, Amy said she's put it to bed and it was sleeping. But just hours later the hamster was stone cold and hard. I don't know what she did to it..." Asked if he had even taken Amy to task over the incident, he continued: "I've never directly accused her of killing my hamster as I'm too scared. She can be quite fierce".
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AUSTRIA WITHDRAW FROM EUROVISION
Austria has withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest, claiming that the whole thing has become too dominated by Eastern European countries voting for their neighbours rather than the songs they liked best.
Wolfgang Lorenz of Austrian TV station ORF told reporters this weekend: "The song contest reflects negative signs of a complicated European unification. As long as the contest is not an international entertainment programme, but a political drill-camp, the ORF intends not to send talents from Austria in such a changeless race".
Seemingly 'political voting' has become the norm in Eurovision since the admission of Eastern European countries and the introduction of public phone voting, rather than the old system of each country putting forward a panel of music experts.
The development has seen the UK, who traditionally came quite high up in the final points list even though they didn't often win, normally relegated to the bottom of the heap - a trend which led to Liberal Democrat MP Richard Younger-Ross call on the BBC to also withdraw from the competition earlier this year.
The involvement of the UK, Spain, France and Germany is important, however, because they provide the bulk of the funding that enables the event - which is why those four countries are now guaranteed a place in the Eurovision final.
Talking of Eurovision, we'd like to encourage all CMU Daily readers to join the campaign to pressure UK Eurovision execs to forego the charade of letting the deluded British public choose who we send to the Song Contest, and instead send the mighty Kid Carpet. I'm not sure he'd win, but he'd certainly confuse our European friends, which would be fun. To sign up to the campaign join this here Facebook group...
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4723364404
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RED HOT CHILI PEPPER LOSES HOUSE IN LA FIRES
Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea has seen his LA mansion burned to the ground, though he was planning on selling it anyway so, assuming he's insured, I don't suppose the news will be too traumatic for him. The rock star's home was one of dozens of houses destroyed in the latest wildfire to hit California - it's believed this one was started by people "partying" in woods nearby. The latest fires have led to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reactivating the state of emergency he declared last month.
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SPICE GIRLS NOT CANCELLING BUENOS AIRES GIG, OK?
The Spice Girls have denied reports they have scrapped plans to play a reunion concert in Argentina. The recently reformed band had announced their intent to play a concert in Buenos Aires, but there were reports last week that they were scrapping those plans because of demands on their time elsewhere. But a spokesman for the group told the BBC this weekend that those reports just weren't true.
The spokesman said: "The Spice Girls would like to make it clear that they have not cancelled their Buenos Aires show. A story has appeared on several websites that includes a fake e-mail and competition from the girls. The fake e-mail claims that due to the demand so far in the UK and the US this show is going to be cancelled. The e-mail goes onto say that they will be running some competitions for their South American fans to travel to the UK to watch a show. This is not the case and this email is 100% unofficial and has nothing to do with the Spice Girls".
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MBV PLANNING ONLINE RELEASE
There have been rumours that My Bloody Valentine will release their previously reported comeback album in a similar way to Radiohead, though before you get too excited, that seems to mean 'self-release' and 'online' rather than offering the new long player on a 'pay what you want' basis.
MBV manager Vinita Joshi told Billboard: "At the moment, all I can say is that Kevin [Shields] is getting the band back together and they will go into the studio next month to work on the new record. The plan is that they will release the album themselves via the internet, but there will also probably be a vinyl release". But she added that there were currently no plans to let fans decide what to pay.
As previously reported, despite many people initially praising Radiohead's pay what you want promotion, a number of artists have subsequently said they'd never make their music available that way. But hip hop mogul Jay-Z recently told the Guardian: "What Radiohead did with their album was a genius idea. I'm gonna pay $50 for it"; though I don't see 'American Gangster' available for 9p on the internet. Well, not legally, anyway.
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TENSIONS MAY CAUSE BONDE DO ROLE TO SPLIT
Rumour has it Bonde Do Role may be splitting, which is a shame, cos we like Bonde Do Role. The rumours follow an interview between Radio 1's Annie Mac and the Brazlian band's Rodrigo Gorky who said: "We're having internal problems, we are trying to sort things out but meanwhile we are just going to have to cancel some of the shows... We are sorting things out right now". Asked for more details, she continued: "We played at our normal sold out crowd yesterday at La Scala, everyone loved it! We had a stage invasion and all that, it was super fun, but all the stress hit us after that... it became a really nasty thing, let's see if time heals things".
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U2 MAKE SURPRISE APPEARANCE AT CHARITY GIG
Bono and The Edge were special guests at a charity gig in aid of Mencap at Islington's Union Chapel on Friday night. Gig goers at the charity show, headlined by Biffy Clyro, heard rumours that the U2ers would play on arriving at the North London gig, but it was only when host Jo Whiley brought them out on stage that they knew for certain the rumours were true. Whiley joked that the crowd had to be gentle with the mystery guests because frontman Paul (Bono's real name, of course) was "a bit shy". The duo played four songs and joked "don't tell [bandmates] Larry [Mullen] and Adam [Clayton] we've done this". Mencap's Little Noise Sessions continue tonight with Kate Nash headlining.
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NO LED ZEPP TOUR PLANNED
Ah, so what if The Cult frontman Ian Astbury told his fans he'd be touring next year with a band whose initials are 'LB' and not 'LZ'. That would make more sense really. If only those Americans would learn that you pronounce the letter 'Z' like this -'zed' - and not like this - 'zee' - these misunderstandings wouldn't arise.
Anyway, as previously reported, Astbury last week started rumours that plans were already in place for the soon-to-reunite Led Zeppelin to continue their reunion beyond next month's much hyped Ahmet Ertegün tribute concert after he told an audience at a gig in the US that his band would be back soon supporting a band whose initials were 'LZ'. An audience member reportedly shouted out "Led Zeppelin?" to which Astbury reportedly nodded and raised his arm.
But a spokesman for Led Zepp has denied rumours any tour has been planned, or that The Cult have been approached about supporting on any such tour. It's that spokesman who suggested, jokingly though possibly accurately, that perhaps Astbury really said 'LB' - presumably referring to Limp Bizkit - and that the Led Zepp conclusions were all a misunderstanding. Or possibly wishful thinking on the part of The Cult fans.
Anyway, the Led Zepp spokesman told reporters: "No decision has been made beyond the band's performance at the O2 arena. Maybe Ian got mixed up and they're supporting Limp Bizkit!"
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WALDEN PULLS OUT OF BABYSHAMBLES REUNION
Former Babyshambler Patrick Walden pulled out of a planned reunion with his former band at the very last minute last week. It turns out he had been due to play at the band's gig in Manchester on Thursday night but, despite travelling to Manchester, he pulled out of the reunion at the last minute.
Current Babyshambler Mick Whitnall told NME: "He came up to Manchester on the tour bus with us, he was going to come out and play on a couple of songs, but there were complications and he had to go home. Personally, I just found it all a bit strange".
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THE POLICE TO HEADLINE IOW
The Police will headline next year's Isle Of Wight festival, which will take place from 13-15 Jun. We know this because the festival's promoter John Giddings has just said this: "It's a coup to get The Police for the festival, we're very happy to have the biggest tour of the last two years stopping by the Isle of Wight". The headline set will be Sting et al's only 2008 UK date.
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TELEVISED SHAKIRA GIG ANGERS AFGHAN POLITICIANS
Shakira has sparked controversy in Afghanistan after a TV network there screened one of her performances. The TV network hoped that the airing of the Colombian star's slightly raunchy show would not annoy religious types because they pixelated her scantily dressed chest, but senior politicians and clerics in the Muslim country have expressed their anger over the broadcast, with Afghani President Hamid Karzi announcing he will introduce stricter censorship rules to stop similar broadcasts in the future. But the owner of Tolo TV, Saad Mohseni, is unrepentant, telling reporters: "The government is looking for an excuse to have a go at us. When we give air time to the Taliban we are 'talking to terrorists'; when we air people criticising the government, we are told we are 'opposing peace and reconciliation'".
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GCAP CHIEF STEPS DOWN
GCap boss Ralph Bernard has announced he will step down from the top job at the radio firm. Bernard has worked in commercial radio for a quarter of a century, and was a key player in the merger between his company GWR and Capital Radio, a merger that quickly saw former GWR execs like Bernard quickly dominate over former Capital directors. GCap has had mixed fortunes since its creation - on the negative side attempts to regain leader status in London with Capital Radio have not been overly successful - but Bernard is upbeat about the GCap he leaves behind, despite a financial report last week admitting profits for the first half of the year were slightly down on the same period last year.
Bernard said: "Twenty-five years is a long time to head up a company and having been at the heart of commercial radio's growth over the years, the time is right to step down as chief executive. This a pivotal time for the industry, further consolidation is likely, new entrants are coming to the market and a host of opportunities are opening up on other platforms. In addition, both Ofcom and the Department for Cultural, Media and Sport are looking closely at the future of radio and both have made encouraging statements about future regulation and development. Having taken the group and the industry to this point, I feel that now is the time for a new chief executive to face the new challenges and opportunities ahead".
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STUDENT MEDIA AWARD WINNERS
As I believe we reported last week, it was the Guardian's Student Media Awards last week, celebrating the great and good of UK college press. And well done to all these jolly fine winners...
Journalist Of The Year: Heidi Blake, University Of York
Newspaper Of The Year: York Vision, University Of York
Runner-Up: Oxford Student, University Of Oxford
Magazine Of The Year: Nang, Tower Hamlets Summer University
Runner-Up: Impact, University Of Nottingham
Website Of The Year: Imperial College London, live.cgcu.net
Runner-Up: University Of York, www.nouse.co.uk
Reporter Of The Year: Lucy Taylor, University Of York
Runner-Up: Andy Heath, University Of Oxford
Broadcaster Of The Year: Natalie Whelan, University Of Leeds
Runner-Up: Sam Read, University Of Reading
Sports Writer Of The Year: Matthew Nixon, University Of Manchester
Runner-Up: Ky Capel, University Of Leeds
Travel Writer Of The Year: Peter Dominiczak, Imperial College London
Runner-Up: Michael Kielty, University Of Cambridge
Feature Writer Of The Year: Heidi Blake, University Of York
Runner-Up: Ruth Lewy, University Of Oxford
Diversity Writer Of The Year: Heidi Blake, University Of York
Runner-Up: Helen Thompson, University Of Cardiff
Critic Of The Year: Richard Webb, University Of York
Runner-Up Ben Lafferty, University Of Oxford
Photographer Of The Year: Ahmet Unver, University Of Brighton
Runner-Up: Annemieke Goldswain-Hein, University Of Brighton
Columnist Of The Year: Jonathan Liew, University Of Edinburgh
Runner-Up: Stephen Daisley, University Of Glasgow
Publication Design Of The Year: Varsity, University Of Cambridge
Runner-Up: Smiths, Goldsmiths
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CHART UPDATE
So Leona Lewis is still number one in the singles chart, though T2 has moved up fourteen places to number two, so at least there's something interesting to report this week. New entries on the singles chart go like this: Shayne Ward with 'Breathless' at 6, Girls Aloud with 'Call The Shots' at 9, Elvis Presley with 'Always On My Mind' at 17, Dizzee Rascal with 'Flex' at 23, Soulja Boy with 'Crank That' at 24, Gallows with 'Staring At The Rude Bois' at 31 and Kanye West with 'Stronger' at 38.
Albums wise, Leona is still number one there too. New entries come from Katherine Jenkins with 'Rejoice' at 3, Girls Aloud with 'Tangled Up' at 4, the Fron Male Voice Choir with 'Voices Of The Valley' at 11, Alicia Keys with 'As I Am' at 14 and Lee Mead with 'Lee Mead' at 16.
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SUB.TV PLAYLIST
Here they are again, the videos being played on the Sub.tv video screen network in students' unions all over the UK. New entries marked with a *.
A-List
Arctic Monkeys - Teddy Picker (Domino)
Bloc Party - Flux (Wichita)
Dizzee Rascal - Flex (Beggars/XL)
Editors - The Racing Rats (SonyBMG/Columbia)
Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin (SonyBMG/Columbia)
Gallows - Staring At The Rude Bois (Warner)
KT Tunstall - Saving My Face (EMI/Relentless)
Madina Lake - One Last Kiss (Warner/Roadrunner)
Maximo Park - Karaoke Plays (Warp)
Operator Please - Leave It Alone (Brille)
Plain White T's - Hate (I Really Don't Like You) (EMI/ Hollywood)
Reverend and The Makers - Open Your Window (Wall Of Sound)
Rihanna feat Ne-Yo - Hate That I Love You (Universal/Def Jam)
SE:SA feat. Sharon Phillips - Like This, Like That (EMI/Positiva)
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Wichita)
Stereophonics - My Friends (Universal/V2)*
B-List
The Dirty - Why, I Think It's Love (Brownpunk)
Estelle - Wait A Minute (Just A Touch) (Warner/Homeschool)
Fionn Regan - Put A Penny In The Slot (Bella Union)*
The Go! Team - Wrath Of Marcie (Memphis Industries)
Good Shoes - Small Town Girl (Brille)
Interpol - No I In Threesome (EMI/Parlophone)
J Holiday - Bed (EMI/Angel)*
Nickelback - Rockstar (Warner/Roadrunner)
Orphan Boy - Alderley Edge (Concrete)
Pendulum - Granite (Warner)*
Peter Gelderblom - Waiting 4 (Data)
The Rumble Strips - Time (Fallout)
Scouting For Girls - Elvis Ain't Dead (SonyBMG/Epic)
The Sugars - Way To My Heart (Bad Sneakers)*
Uniting Nations - Do It Yourself (Gusto)
The Wombats - Moving To New York (14th Floor)*
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TOTAL ROCK WORLD ALBUM CHART
It's the Total Rock World Album Chart, as counted down on Total Rock over the weekend - http://www.totalrock.com. New entries and re-entries marked with a *
1. Bruce Springsteen - Magic (SonyBMG/Columbia)
2. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (SonyBMG)
3. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold (Warner Bros)
4. Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead (Serjical Strike)
5. Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight (Warner Bros)
6. Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden (Universal)
7. Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire (Universal/Geffen)
8. Kid Rock - Rock - N Roll Jesus (Warner/Atlantic)
9. Nickelback - All The Right Reasons (Warner/Roadrunner)
10. Daughtry - Daughtry (SonyBMG)
11. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play (Nuclear Blast)
12. Bon Jovi - Lost Highway (Universal/Mercury)
13. Coheed And Cambria - No World For Tomorrow (SonyBMG/Columbia)
14. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On high (Universal/Mercury)
15. Paramore - Riot! (Warner/Atlantic)
16. Queen - Greatest Hits Vols. 1, 2, 3 (EMI)
17. 30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie (EMI/Virgin)
18. Guns - n Roses - Greatest Hits (Universal/Geffen)*
19. Good Charlotte - Good Morning, Revival (SonyBMG/Epic)*
20. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light (Universal/Geffen)
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WEST ADMITS FIDDY RIVALRY WAS MADE UP
Kanye West has admitted that the previously reported rivalry between him and 50 Cent, which came about when the two released their new albums on the same day, was all made up. In an interview with GQ, West reportedly said: "It was a complete publicity stunt. It was my idea. I knew it was going to take off as soon as we were going to come out on the same date. Think about it - you got the two biggest shit-talkers in rap history. There's no-one in rap history known for talking more shit than me and 50. That's something I will stand on". Asked about 50 Cent's claims he'd quit music if he lost the chart battle (which he did - lose, not quit), West continues: "Oh man, he sold so many more records by saying that. Man, 50 is really one of my favourite rappers, too. I almost feel bad [about beating him]".
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TAKE THAT-ER CALLS FOR CANNABIS TO BE LEGALISED
Take That-er Howard Donald has caused a little bit of controversy by saying marijuana should be made legal. He is of the opinion that a load of spaced out dope heads would be better than a load of rowdy drunk piss heads, and told reporters: "Cannabis should be legalised. I know it's a touchy subject. But if more people went out stoned than drunk - which a lot of people are on the weekend - I think there would be less fighting, less trouble and less violence". He's probably right, of course, but the comments have angered activists at Mothers Against Drugs. A spokeswoman for that body told reporters: "Anyone who tells you cannabis is perfectly safe is talking rubbish. It can cause psychosis and paranoia. I'd like Take That to see the work we do and ask if they'd like to donate some of the millions they earn to drug treatment".
