INNER MUSIC EST 2011

Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor tells fans not to buy ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ reissuse Editor Katie Watkin's 15/7/11 Trent Reznor  frontman for band NINE INCH NAILS tweeted fans not to waste their money on buying the latest reissue of their debut album  ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ . The singer took to social media to urge fans to “ignore” the new re-release, which he criticised for being a cooperate money making move by the record label. Nine Inch Nails who originally released  ‘Pretty Hate Machine’  in 1989 and  Reznor  worked with sound engineer  Tom Baker  on a remastered version of the LP which was released in November last year. That version also featured a cover of Queen’s  ‘Get Down, Make Love’ , which was on the B-side of their 1991 single  ‘Sin’ .

Prince performs first UK festival Editor Katie Watkin's 4-7-2011  The 53-year-old star came back for three encores in what was his first open air gig in England since 1993, despite years of Glastonbury rumours.     The Minneapolis musician does not have a strong association with agricultural life - unless you count the time he took a girl in a raspberry beret "down by Old Man Johnson's Farm".  But other aspects of the gig felt more like his infamous "aftershow" parties, with extended instrumental jams featuring an athletic seven-piece band.   The show  opened with a five-minute funk workout - a lightly-borne necessity, as Prince and his band endeavoured to set their sound levels after previous acts, including Tinie Tempah and Larry Graham, suffered from distorted bass and indistinct mixing.   It was a fascinating insight to how the fastidious musician organises his live band - calling on instruments to drop in and out, while issuing instructions to off-stage