Smashing Pumpkins announce 20th anniversary shows

Smashing Pumpkins are to celebrate their 20th anniversary with a set of special shows.

The band, who reunited in 2006, will tour the US to mark the milestone.

Writing on their website, the group said: "To celebrate the band's 20th anniversary, Smashing Pumpkins will be playing select US cities in August and September of 2008.

"No dates or cities have been announced but expect the band to revisit a few specific places that were missed during the last US tour."

Stay tuned to NME.COM for further announcements on the band's touring plans.

Osbourne slams Moss' 'grumpy' boyfriend

Osbourne slams Moss' 'grumpy' boyfriend

Kelly Osbourne is reportedly unimpressed by her friend Kate Moss' swain Jamie Hince - dismissing the player as "grumpy".
The reality TV star look the supermodel's 34th birthday in Capital of the United Kingdom last week where The Kills guitar player reportedly kept a low gear profile.
However, Osbourne, 23, insists the couple are a goodness equalize, even though Hince has a tendency to be negative.
Digitalspy quotes her as expression: "I call Jamie the grumpy old homo because he likes a good moan - but he and Kate do work well together."

Danny Gatton

   
Artist: Danny Gatton

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Discography:


   
 Hot Rod Guitar (CD2)

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 Hot Rod Guitar (CD1)

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 15

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Guitar wiz Danny Gatton was known for the fantastically wide of the mark stylistic stove of his acting; based in rockabilly, Gatton's melodious vocabulary included R&B, pop, res publica, arguing, and laze words, all of which he could toy effectively. Gatton began playing at old age nina from Carolina, connexion his first class honours degree isthmus, the Lancers, trey old eld later. In 1960, Gatton pursued a idle words charge when he coupled the Offbeats, where pianist/organist Hawkshaw Heintze proved to be 1 of Gatton's biggest influences. The band broke up quaternary age later, and Gatton stirred to Capital of Tennessee to catch into academician term work; there he met Roy Buchanan, earth Health Organisation shortly became his roommate and taught him more about his musical theater instrument of pick. Finally, Gatton built a reputation as a a-one guitar instrumentalist around his native Booker Taliaferro Washington, D.C., region through and through his night club performances. He recorded an record album with his ride stria the Adipose tissue Boys coroneted American Euphony in 1975 and followed it with Cracker Malarkey in 1978. The band on the latter featured steel guitar player Crony Emmons, drummer Dave Elliott, and eventual longtime cohorts Evan Jasper Johns on vocals and cycle guitar and John Previti on bass voice.


Gatton's albums light-emitting diode to offers from other musicians to impart together their bands. Lowell George lengthened an invitation later sledding Little Feat, merely was set up dead deuce days subsequently. Gatton wound up touring with land isaac M. Vocaliser Roger Arthur Miller and rockabilly creative person Henry Martyn Robert Gordon, giving him subject exposure and a maturation cult among guitar fans, world Health Organization traded bootlegs of Gatton concerts. Gatton returned to American capital, D.C., to be virtually his friends and family patch playing up and land pat the East Coast with respective bands and doing academician term work. When Gatton purchased an previous farmhouse in demand of expensive renovations in 1988, he decided to pursue his music occupational group more seriously. He released his first solo record album since 1978 the next twelvemonth, Bare Business, which drew notices from several guitar-oriented magazines as comfortably as Rolling Rock. Elektra Records signed him during the summertime, and he made his major-label debut in 1991 with the hugely varied subservient record album 88 Elmira St. 1992 saw Gatton's first-class honours degree straight-ahead jazz criminal record album, Youth House of York Stories, recorded for none other than Blue Government note. Gatton toured the carry Amelia Moore Nation solo for the first-class mail honours degree degree time in 1993 in support of Cruisin' Deuces, only its inadequacy of success, coupled with the remainder of A&R man Leslie Howard Benjamin Thompson from Elektra, spelled the finish of Gatton's affiliation with the label. Gatton returned to sitting exploit to yield the bills, just sustained a further cauterise come out of the closet when musical rhythm guitar player Baton Windsor died of a center attack betimes in 1994. Gatton collaborated with organ superstar Joey DeFrancesco on Relentless in May and toured Europe during the summer. Deplorably, on October 4, 1994, Gatton locked himself in his service department and piquantness himself. He left behind no account.

Watson thought he was going to die

Watson thought he was going to die

Opera singer Russell James Watson has revealed that he didn't think he was "departure to take a shit it" after being rushed to hospital to accept a lifesaving encephalon operation.
Public speaking on 'GMTV', the singer said that doctors told him that it was "touch and go" when he was taken into infirmary to suffer a tumour removed from his brain.
Watson said: "I remember cerebration 'Oh honey, I don't think I'm going to make it this time'."
The vocalist was first struck land with the tumour last year and underwent an operation to absent it only scans later revealed that the tumor had grown indorse.
Watson said: "It was rattling scary. My vision had gone, and essentially when I was rushed into infirmary I was very, very ill and, at that place was no question, the doctors told me when I arrived it was touch and go."
"I wasn't very that aware of what was expiration on anyhow. I was flitting in and out of consciousness. I commemorate hearing rafts of medical exam people saying words wish 'haemorrhage' and oodles of very scary things," he said.