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Michael Stipe was out yesterday for an event and he looked like he needed to hear his song Shiny Happy People ASAP. What’s the Frequency, Stipe? Why do you look like It’s the End of the World as We Know It? It’s OK to smile, we won’t think any of less of you.
Dear Susan Boyle, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, You have all been dethroned by PSY on YouTube. His Gangnan Style music video now holds the title of Most Watched according to NDTV. That horse riding dance has been viewed over 805,055,375 times. OK so now that almost everyone in the world has seen that dance, can we please please please move on to the next musical fad?
After 35 years of being together, the death of their voice in 1997 and a reality show to find a new singer, INXS has finally decided to call it quits. Yesterday at a concert in Perth Jon Farriss announced that that would be their last show together as a band according to Sidney Morning Herald. No reason was given for their sudden split, but if you ask me it was 15 years too late. They should’ve ended the band after Michael Hutchence died. Without him they were never ever the same, he made them. He was a presence that could never be duplicated, no matter how hard they tried. I saw them in concert with him once and he really knew how to put on a show. For the encore he called the audience, and I do mean the audience, on to the stage and it was crazy. I never saw anyone do that before and never saw anyone do it again. Sadly a short time afterwards he was no longer with us. It was such a tragic loss to the music industry and still is.
3Penny Chorus and Orchestra has done their version of Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe and I hope that is the final version of her hit because no one can top this take of it. I mean seriously how do you do better than an orchestra and chorus? You just can’t.
I thought Glee would be the final nail in that song’s coffin, but I think 3Penny has officially nailed that coffin shut.
So now that I have declared the end for Call Me Maybe, can we make it official because I am so sick of that song.
The Monkees announced today that for the first time since 1997 Michael Nesmith is joining his bandmates on the road. The three surviving band members Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork and Nesmith will play 12 dates starting in November and you get can get tickets to one of the dozen shows starting on August 18th. And you are going to want to get them because they will be playing their classic hits and some songs that they haven’t played together since the ’60s. Besides playing their groovy music, the night will also feature rare films and one-of-a-kind photographs for the fans to enjoy.
So go bananas for The Monkees all over again and get your tickets for one of the below dates! This Daydream Believer can’t wait for them to take the Last Train to Clarksville, I mean LA!
And I’m a Believer that Davy Jones will be there in spirit with them.
November
8 – California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
9 – The Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA
10 – Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
11 – Flint Center for the Performing Arts, Cupertino, CA
15 – State Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
16 – The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL
17 – Lakewood Civic Auditorium, Cleveland, OH
18 – The Center For The Arts, Buffalo, NY
29 – Keswick Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
30 – State Theatre Regional Arts Center, New Brunswick, NJ
December
1 – The Paramount, Huntington, NY
2 – The Beacon Theatre, New York, NY
