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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Tickle Me Pink bassist found dead
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tickle Me Pink (Johnny Schou, first on left). Photo: Wind-Up Records.
It’s always sad when a young musician dies, but it has to be a horrible blow to bandmembers when one of their own dies on the day their debut album is released.
Bassist/guitarist/songwriter Johnny Schou of Colorado band Tickle Me Pink was found dead this morning, just hours before his band was set to do a Denver in-store appearance to coincide with the release of their Wind-Up Records debut “Madeline.”
The band had just played a bunch of Warped Tour dates and were set to go on the road with Scary Kids Scaring Kids and Finch, a journey that would have brought them to Atlanta’s Masquerade Music Park on Sept. 11, 2008.
A statement on the band’s official site and their MySpace page concludes with this:: “Further information regarding the band’s plans, and dates that have been previously announced, will be forthcoming in due time. Johnny Schou was 22 years-old.”
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Boy George U.S. tour officially canceled
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Boy George. Photo courtesy of Girlie Action Media & Marketing.
It’s now official. Boy George’s U.S. dates have been canceled, including an Aug. 19 date at Center Stage in Atlanta, because the singer can’t get a U.S. work visa.
After the initial denial of a visa, the singer’s reps appealed, but the State Department isn’t budging.
He was scheduled to appear on the “Today” show and perform for the New York Department of Sanitation workers and families at the organization’s Family Day in August (he did a little court-ordered community service with the department last year).
The details are confidential, but Boy George is facing some legal troubles in the U.K. following a complaint from a 28-year-old man who claims he was falsely imprisoned by the singer. A trial is set for November 2008.
The former Culture Club singer released this statement when the appeal didn’t work out: “I was really hoping that the issue would be resolved and that some kind soul at the U.S. Visa Office would realize that if the police in the U.K. placed no restrictions on my movements, that should have been good enough for them. I am very sorry that I will not see all my American fans this year, but I wish them a happy and healthy Fourth of July. I include the Visa Office in those good wishes and realize they are doing a very difficult job and I just got unlucky.”
All the details are at Boy George’s official site.
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Sing along with Alanis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Alanis Morissette. Photo: Frank Ockenfels III.
You can do your own take on “Ironic,” but it won’t get you anything. Sing along with one of four tracks from Alanis Morissette’s new album, “Flavors of Entanglement,” and you could score tickets to one of the Canadian singer-songwriter’s shows and an autographed microphone.
Just go to Morissette’s MySpace Karaoake site and do your Alanis Idol thing.
The entry period continues through July 13 and Morissette will choose the winner on July 20.
Morissette is currently touring Europe, but U.S. dates will be announced soon. According to her official site, they’ll begin in late September.
Be sure to check out the MySpace Karaoke help center before you get started, because you’ll need a few things (including a non-Mac computer and a microphone). Won’t someone think of the Mac users?
