NEWS DIGEST - Wednesday, January 30 - News

NEWS DIGEST - Wednesday, January 30

9:00 AM GMT 30/01/2008

MOJO attended an early screening of the splendid new Joy Division documentary a few nights ago, and you can now read Andrew Male's first thoughts on the film by clicking HERE. And here's the link to the TRAILER.

One of MOJO's picks for 2008, Lightspeed Champion , has announced a new London date. The ex-Testicicles man will play Koko on May 6. Tickets are on sale now.

The Daily Star is reporting that ex-bassist and actual dairy lover Alex James is to join forces with old rivals Noel and Liam Gallagher to create a special cheese for this year's Brit Awards. Words fail.

Rockworld.tv (Sky Channel 368 / www.rockworld.tv) has announced a new content agreement with Infernal Machine LLC which will give the channel access to an extensive archive of rare music footage, currently residing on Betamax and Super-8 format. Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead and The Beatles are just some of the artists who are thought to have unseen footage hidden in the catalogue. For more, click HERE.

Queen and Ben Elton are planning a sequel to their smash-hit musical We Will Rock You. Posting on his online soapbox, Brian May said: "In fact, as we speak, we are planning the sequel to We Will Rock You. We have been talking about it for a long time, but now Ben has supplied us with a fabulous script. The Train is a-rollin'! Watch out!!"

The Coal Porters, the self-styled alt-bluegrass outfit featuring ex-Byrds/Burrito Brothers' legend Chris Hillman, have released their first new material in three years. Turn The Water On, Boy! is available now. You can hear tracks HERE

It’s been five years since The Tindersticks released their last album Waiting For The Moon. Now they're finally set to return with their new LP, The Hungry Saw (released on Monday, April 28). The album is preceded by the release of title track single on April 14.
You can hear a new track from The Hungry Saw by logging on to the band's MySpace page today! Flicker Of A Little Girl will be available for a limited time as a FREE download.

Lenny Kravitz will perform a one-off show at London’s Koko on February 19, as part of a series of exclusive European dates to celebrate the launch of his new album, It Is Time For A Love Revolution (released February 4). If you agree with Lenny and think 'yes, it is time for a love revolution', then you might be interested to know that tickets cost £35 and are available from www.ticketweb.co.uk / 0870 145 1115.

And finally...look! It's the real MC5!

Oh, and it's 39 years today since THIS happened...

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 9:00 AM GMT 30/01/2008