NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, May 12

2:40 PM GMT 12/05/2009

Jack White's new side project, The Dead Weather, have announced their first UK tour date.

Featuring White, The Kills' Alison Mosshart, fellow Raconteur Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence, the band will play the London Forum on June 24.

The Dead Weather have also announced new shows in Louisville, Kentucky (June 24) and La Cigale, Paris (June 29). Their debut album, Horehound, is set for release on July 13.

As previously reported, White has also hinted that a new White Stripes record may appear in 2010.

Tickets for the Forum show go on sale Friday, May 15 at 9am.

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Boy George has been released from prison after serving four months of a 15-month sentence for falsely imprisoning a male escort.

The former Culture Club singer was jailed in January after admitting to handcuffing Norwegian Audun Carlsen to a wall in 2007.

It's expected that George - real name George O'Dowd - will be electronically tagged for the remainder of his sentencing period.

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Is this the end for Queen + Paul Rodgers?

Speaking to VH1, the ex-Free frontman hinted that their five year collaboration may have come to an amicable end: "Well, you know, we did a world tour, we did a second tour of Europe and the Far East and Eastern Europe and we did a studio album and I think we're kind of leaving it there gently," he revealed. "It's out there for us to do things in the future if there's something, a huge charity say like Nelson Mandela, I'm always open to that, but I think we are pretty much done."

Rodgers is now set to embark on a 10-date US tour with his old cohorts in Bad Company. For more, head over to www.badcompany.com.

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And finally...David Byrne is to turn Camden's Roundhouse into an interactive sound installation.

The former Talking Heads frontman will transform the north London venue - water pipes, floor boards et al - into one giant, resonating instrument.

"The Roundhouse is just perfect," he told BBC 6 Music. "We will strip everything out and open the windows along the top, which are never opened because they interfere with performances".

The singer, who created a similar project at New York's Battery Maritime Building last year, praised the 160-year-old building's "Victorian steam-punk technology". The event is due to take place between August 8 and 31.

Watch Byrne explaining his New York project in the clip below:

Chris Catchpole

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 2:40 PM GMT 12/05/2009

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