The News Boy George Fabulous

ONE song leaked online looks like carelessness, but when up to 10 demos linked to Kylie Minogue's new album are circulating in cyberspace, it feels like marketing.

Minogue's post-cancer comeback project has been a leaky vessel since November 2004 when a song she wrote with New York glam pop act the Scissor Sisters appeared online.

But in the past fortnight, five new songs have been uploaded onto file sharing sites, while fan sites are claiming that a three-CD set of 49 demos exists for those canny enough to track them down.

It adds up to an audio scrapbook of works in progress, including a song written for Kylie by Boy George and a rumoured cover of Culture Club's 1980s hit Victims.

But should we think we're so lucky? More likely we're just being had, by a cunning cyber age twist on the old record company ruse of manipulating what gets played where.

Leaking online might not be as obvious as bribing disc jockeys to play songs, but it might be just as effective.

"She and her record company leaked the tracks deliberately," said music industry analyst Phil Tripp, who runs Australian music consultancy Immedia!

"It's the newest gimmick in the industry, the leaking of tracks. It's the new marketing black. It's at a time when she needs as much positive press as she can get. Not just her, but everyone in the industry. You need as much exposure as you can get, and you need as much advance publicity as possible."

The music blogs agree. "We don't really approve of leaked tracks flying around the web before an album's even been completed," said British music site Pop Justice but, in the case of Kylie Minogue, the constant, relentless barrage of leaked material seems suspiciously intentional.

Minogue's not the only leaky act. Two songs from the endlessly delayed Guns N' Roses CD Chinese Democracy have been circulating since late last year.

Nine Inch Nails also had to tell their record company to back off recently, when downloads of their CD Year Zero became available.

Minogue's latest leaked demos coincided with her 39th birthday, and the reports that she was involved with a married Mexican director Alexander Dahm, reports she denied.

Although YouTube has already pulled many of the fan-made videos for the demo songs, at the insistence of the record label, and some of the file-sharing sites have blocked the pirate downloads, the songs have already been widely distributed by Minogue's active online fan base, through forums and blogs.

Kylie impersonator Lucy Holmes, the singer in tribute band 100%Kylie, discovered new tracks Stars, Fool For You and Sensitized more than a week ago on one of the fan sites.

"It's classic Kylie pop," says Holmes. "She's staying true to her pop roots." Holmes doesn't think the leaks will hurt future sales. "Not many people get to hear them," she says. "They just get to hear about them. It's just a little entree, a little tease."

 http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/kylies-secret-sounds/2007/06/02/1180205569248.html

EVE GALLAGHER REVIENT!

Eve participe au projet de Ken Hensley  "Blood on the Highway". Elle y chante un titre appelé Think Twice.

L'album est sorti le 22 mai 2007.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000OCXMWM

http://www.myspace.com/iamevegallagher

http://www.myspace.com/kenhensleymusic

LES CONCERTS DE GEORGE ANNONCE POUR OCTOBRE SONT ANNULES.

Alors que Boy George devait assurer une tournée outre-Manche, celui-ci a été contraint de l'annuler, prétextant avoir des "obligations". La tournée aurait dû débuter le 2 octobre prochain à l'Auditorium de Clyde. La nouvelle a été annoncée sur son site officiel, avec cette explication : "Cette annulation est due a quelques obligations de dernière minute, qui, malheureusement, arrivent en même temps que les dates de la tournée au Royaume-Uni".

Un autre message est posté sur le site : "Boy George s'excuse auprès de ses fans et espère les voir de nouveau très prochainement". L'artiste sera cependant en concert le 24 août à Londres. A noter qu'il assurera une date en France, au Transbordeur de Villeurbanne, le 16 juin prochain, en compagnie des collectifs électro Natural Groove, Middlegender et d'Hervé AK.

Selon un communiqué annoncé sur le "crap-shit" site anglais boygeorge.uk (on ne comprends toujours pas ce que George va foutre dans ce site! est il aussi pourri que stuey essom?????), George annonce qu'il préfère terminer son nouvel album et de voir comment les critiques et le publics vont l'accueillir :

HI ALL OF YOU

IT IS AT TIMES LIKE THIS I REALISE THAT I MUST HAVE
REALLY FORGOTTEN HOW TO BE A 'STAR'. MAYBE I NEVER
REALLY KNEW, OR WAS IT SIMPLY THAT I HAD NO INTEREST
IN PLAYING A ROLE THAT ONLY SERVED TO COVER MY REALITY
WITH A FALSE SHIMMER!
I HEAR THAT WALT, YOU KNOW, GERMAN WALT, WHO I
SERIOUSLY BELIEVED WAS A FRIEND OF MINE HAS POSTED
SOME RUBBISH ON THE FORUM REGARDING MY RELATIONSHIP
WITH FRANK AND OTHER UNFOUNDED TRIVIA CONCERNING THE
TOUR.
I CAN BE COMPLETELY HONEST WHILST ACCEPTING I MAY BE
MISUNDERSTOOD, ACCUSED OF LYING BUT MY HONESTY HAS
ALWAYS BEEN A BIT OF A CURSE AND ANYONE WHO KNOWS ME
WILL TELL YOU THAT WHILE OFTEN IN DENIAL, I AM NOT A
LIAR.
FRANK WAS NEVER EMPLOYED AS MY MANAGER AND AT NO TIME
WAS THERE A SERIOUS CONVERSATION ABOUT MANAGEMENT
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I NEED A VERY SKILLFUL MANAGER AND
NOT SOMEONE WHO THINKS ANSWERING PHONE CALLS IS
ENOUGH.
THE TOUR WAS NOT THOUGHT OUT AND I AM NOT READY TO
TOUR UNTIL I HAVE COMPLETED A NEW RECORD AND I HAVE
SOME IDEA OF HOW IT IS RECEIVED.
ANYTHING THAT HAS FALLEN FROM THE 'GOSSIP TREE' IS
JUST GOSSIP BECAUSE I'M QUITE SURE FRANK HAS NOT
DISCUSSED HIS PERSONAL BUSINESS AFFAIRS WITH WALT!
I GAVE WALT A GIFT OF ONE OF MY ORIGINAL PICTURES ON A
HUGE CANVAS, IT WAS A GIFT WHICH HE RUDELY SOLD ON
EBAY.


I WOULD IGNORE ANY RUMOURS, I AM WRITING AND I WILL BE
RECORDING AND TOURING REAL SOON!


G XX

George est également en recherche d'un nouveau manager puisque Franck ne travaille plus pour lui.....

A suivre....

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