Josh Homme teams with Arctic Monkeys

In a move sure to surprise as many fans as it delights, Queens Of The Stone Age mouthpiece Josh Homme has signed on to produce new songs for Arctic Monkeys. The Sheffield lads will jet across to Joshua Tree, California next month to spend some studio time with Homme. As the QOTSA man told NME, it’s all in the name of experimenting.

“I think it’s going to work out great,” he enthused to the UK mag. “They want to submerge themselves in a place that’s the opposite of where they’re from and what they’re used to. I think we’re just going to start by doing a couple of tracks. No pressure. The goal is to make something that they dig so much that everyone else can too.”

Expect some heavier sounds coming from the Monkey camp.

Josh Homme cuts sick at kid at Norwegian Wood Festival

Josh Homme, frontman of Queens Of The Stone Age, doesn’t like it when you repeatedly throw things at his head. Especially when he’s trying to put on a show at a Scandinavian festival. Well, one 17yr old kid shortly found this out at the Norwegian Wood Festival a couple of days ago.

The title does enough explaining – click play and watch Homme unravel in a righteous hail of expletives.

V Festival sideshows 2008

The upcoming V Festival has music geeks excited, and with good reason. There are some fine fine acts on the bill. Michael Coppel Promotions has just announced that most of the line up are doing sideshows too.

Im only going to name the ones worth seeing. So, Smashing Pumpkins, Air, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Queens of the Stoneage, Modest Mouse + Hot Hot Heat and CSS will all play headline shows.

Tickets to all shows go on sale Friday February 29 (unless you have signed up to enjoy the presale tix)

Sideshow dates are:

SMASHING PUMPKINS

MARCH
27 – Horden Pavillion, Sydney
31 – Convention Centre, Brisbane

APRIL
4 – Festival Hall, Melbourne

QUEENS OF THE STONEAGE

MARCH
27 – The Arena, Brisbane
28 – Big Top Luna Park, Sydney

APRIL
1 – Palace Theatre, Melbourne

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

APRIL
1 – The Arena, Brisbane
2 – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
3 – Palace Theatre, Melbourne

AIR

MARCH
27 – Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth
31 – The Tivoli, Brisbane

APRIL
2 – Palais Theatre, Melbourne
3 – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide
6 – Opera House, Sydney

MODEST MOUSE + HOT HOT HEAT

MARCH
31 – The Arena, Brisbane

APRIL
2 – The Palace Theatre, Melbourne
3 – Big Top Luna Park, Sydney

C.S.S

APRIL
4 - Prince Bandroom, Melbourne
6 - The Esplanade, Perth

www.vfestival.com.au

V Festival Adelaide?

Not quite.

While the V Festival won't be making its way to Adelaide, some of the bands will.

Smashing Pumpkins and Queens of the Stone Age will be heading to South Australia in April.

Queens of the Stone Age will also play Hobart on April 4.

Dates are:

April 2, Adelaide Entertainment Centre – Smashing Pumpkins and Queens of the Stone Age
April 4, Hobart City Hall - Queens of the Stone Age

Tickets go on sale February 11.

www.vfestival.com.au
www.qotsa.com

www.smashingpumpkins.com

V Festival 2008 announced

The 2nd annual V Festival was announced today with a myriad of rock gods filling the first announcement.

As previously reported on Music Universe, Smashing Pumpkins will be headlining, but the festival will also feature 80s pop legends Duran Duran, the iconic Jesus and Mary Chain, French insomnia curers Air, the ballsiest rock 'n' roll band in the world today Queens of the Stone Age, brazil's latest electro-rock sensation CSS, Australia's latest dance duo The Presets and more .

Most importantly, this year's festival won't feature the debarcle of last year's "Best Of the V Festival", where Melbourne and Adelaide were given a split version of the festival over two days and charged almost the same amount as other cities for each show.

This time Adelaide will miss out, but Melbourne and Perth will get the full festival treatment.

The full list of bands is: Smashing Pumpkins, Duran Duran, Jesus and Mary Chain, Air, Queens of the Stoneage, The Presets, CSS, Mika, The Tough Alliance, Plug In City.

Dates are:

MARCH
29 – Centennial Park, Sydney
30 – Avica Resort, Gold Coast

APRIL
5 – Showgrounds, Melbourne
6 – The Esplanade (City), Perth

Tickets are on sale Thursday December 6 from www.vfestival.com.au.