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 inst...

   THE KINGS OF LIMBS Editor Katie Watkins Now that the music on In Rainbows has had four years to outshine its launch mechanism, it's easy to forget that the album originally came bundled with an onest attempt to solve a business problem.  The pay-what you-think-is-fair system wasn't just Radiohead being magnanimous, it was using their popularity and their newly won independence to ask what might have been the single most important question facing a shaken music industry: What is an album in the download era actually worth to fans?  Announced on Monday of last week and then chucked out to rabid fans like flank steak a day ahead of schedule, the band's eighth album dispenses with the honesty-box pricing model but still finds them using their influence to interrogate the terms around how we consume and relate to music.  Containing a slight eight tracks across 37 minutes, The King of Limbs is Radiohead's first album to clock in under the 40-minute mark, falling in...

Pulp reunite for 2011 concerts Music News : Katie Watkin's (Music Journalist) 7th Jan 2011 This article is more than 9 years ol Pulp  announced  they are to reunite for 2011 concerts in a short statement the band, which alongside Blur and Oasis defined the Britpop era, promised to play fan favourites as they confirmed dates at the Wireless festival in Hyde Park and at Spain's Primavera Sound festival, both next summer. A tour could follow. Pulp are  just one of the latest band to reform amid a wave of nostalgia, stretching from Led Zeppelin's comeback gig at the O2 arena in London in 2007 to Spandau Ballet's recent world tour.  But perhaps the most successful have been two other stalwarts of the 1990s; Blur, who reunited in 2009, with a headline slot at Glastonbury festival, and Take That, recently reunited with fifth member Robbie Williams.  Pulp appear to be prepared for the onslaught of questions that inevitably accompany news of a band's reunion. Pulp origin...