Bill Wyman has said he will "never" play live with the Rolling Stones again.
Wyman, who played with the The Rolling Stones between 1962 until 1993, joined the band onstage for their 50th anniversary gigs at London's O2 Arena last November (2012), but in April he said that he would not be interested in rejoining the group on a permanent basis because he has "better things to do".
“I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. I wasn’t particularly influenced by my contemporaries. They weren’t very good.”
CSNY have delayed their upcoming live 1974 album until next year, according to Graham Nash.
As previously reported in Uncut, Nash had announced that the album would be released on August 27.
Playing the Daft Punk album this morning (it’s streaming on iTunes if you haven’t found it yet), which is quite interesting. Bits of it are astonishing, I’d say (“Get Lucky” of course, “Contact”, “Giorgio By Moroder” especially). I am finding it hard, though, to completely sign up to a record that intermittently reminds me of Christopher Cross record. Evidently, I still carry traces of ‘80s indie militancy.
Kiss plan to open over 100 restaurants in North America.
The band have just opened the third branch of Rock & Brews in the greater Los Angeles area and have said that they wish to open 100 more in the next five years.
The National are streaming their forthcoming new album Trouble Will Find Me online.
The Brooklyn band don't release their sixth studio LP until May 20, but have now made the record available for stream via iTunes.
Trouble Will Find Me is the follow-up to the band's 2010 album, High Violet, and features contributions from St Vincent, Sharon Van Etten and Sufjan Stevens. It was produced by Craig Silvey.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield has become the first person ever to record a music video in space, filming his version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" from the International Space Station.
Camden Council have given the go-ahead to the plans to install a statue of late singer Amy Winehouse in the borough.
Artist Scott Easton's sculpture of the singer has been in the works for some time but, according to the Camden New Journal, Camden Town Conservation Authority had stated its opposition to the proposal. However, after a meeting earlier this week, local councillors approved the project and the statue will now be installed at a balcony in at Camden's Roundhouse venue this September.
