AC/DC riot

AC/DC fans rioted in the streets of Oslo last night after the rock legends played a show in the city.

Their gig at the Telenor Arena in the Norwegian capital had been blighted by problems beforehand, according to reports.

Traffic difficulties worsened following the show, with many people stranded due to long queues and stationary vehicles.

Alcohol-fuelled fans are then said to have gone on the rampage, throwing bottles at police cars and tearing down crowd-control fences.

No arrests were made and there has been no comment from AC/DC, who were on the latest leg of their "Black Ice" world tour.

Springsteen Hard Rock Tickets

Bruce Springsteen has been confirmed as a headliner at this year’s Hard Rock Calling which takes place in Hyde Park.

When Bruce and the E Street Band appear on stage on Sunday 28 June it will be their first ever festival appearance outside the US.

There had been strong rumours that Bruce would be appearing at Glastonbury Festival this year, but with the festival taking place at the same time as Hard Rock Calling those rumours must surely be in doubt.Springsteen’s support at Hard Rock Calling will come from the Dave Matthews Band and the Gaslight Anthem,with more to be confirmed.

The headliner for the Saturday night of Hard Rock Calling is yet to be confirmed.

Tickets for Hard Rock Calling go on sale on Friday 13 February at 9am.
But you can get tickets on the Thursday at :-

Get your tickets first with Absolute Radio

Tickets for Bruce at Hard Rock Calling will go on-sale this Thursday at 9.00am, 24 hours before the official on-sale time, through the Absolute Radio ticket store

You can get tickets at http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/

Ticketmaster Sued Over Touting Tickets

Ticketmaster have been slapped with a C$500m lawsuit after it was accused of touting tickets for a concert in Ontario.

According to Billboard.biz Henry Krajewski, a resident of Toronto, is suing the ticket giant after their official site directed him to their ticket reseller site, TicketsNow, where he purchased two tickets to a Smashing Pumpkins concert at a price well above their face value. Two tickets with a face value of C$66.50 cost him a total of C$533.65. In three provinces of Canada,

Ontario included, reselling tickets above face value is illegal and the lawsuit filed says that Krajewski is claiming damages based on Ticketmaster's expected revenue during the time it will likely take the case to makes its way through the courts.

It is the second time in a week that Ticketmaster has landed in hot-water over directing customers to their reselling agent, TicketsNow. Last week the Bruce Springsteen camp wrote an angry letter to Ticketmaster and forced them to stop the practice when dealing with his concerts.

Ticketmaster are yet to respond to the new lawsuit.

Buffalo Springfield Drummer Dies

6th February 2009

Dewey Martin, drummer with Buffalo Springfield, has passed away aged 68.

Martin was one of the founding members of the influential folk rockers, and he appeared on all three of their albums. As well as drumming on all of their songs you can hear Martin’s backing vocals on Springfield’s seminal ‘For What It’s Worth.’ He also regularly sang lead vocals on several covers during live shows and appears on lead vocals on ‘Good Time Boy’ on the band’s classic Buffalo Springfield Again album.
Canadian born Martin (born Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff) moved to the US in the early 60s where he plied a trade as a jobbing drummer in Nashville, working with many of country music’s greats including Carl Perkins, The Everly Brothers, Patsy Cline, Charlie Rich, Faron Young and Roy Orbison.

He played in numerous bands around the mid-west before relocating to LA. After leaving The Dillards in 1966 Martin was advised to contact a group of musicians who were looking for a drummer. A week later Martin joined Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Bruce Palmer to become Buffalo Springfield.

After the band disbanded in 1968 Martin immediately formed the New Buffalo Springfield, but lawsuits from Stephen Stills and Neil Young quickly put a stop to the new incarnation.

After recording two solo singles and one album with a new band Medicine Ball in 1970, Martin temporarily retired from music. He re-emerged in the 80s, though, with former Springfield bassist Bruce Palmer as Buffalo Springfield Revisited (and later Buffalo Springfield Again) and they toured with some success all the way into the 90s.

In recent years Martin was apparently developing a new type of drum head.

However, on 31 January Martin’s roommate found him dead, the LA Times reports. He was 68.

In his autobiography, Neil Young paid tribute to Martin’s natural musical sensitivity. "You get harder, he hits harder. You pull back, he hits back. He can feel the music -- you don't have to tell him."

Dewey Martin, 1940 - 2009

Van Halen To Record Again?

3rd February 2009
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Eddie Van Halen wants his band – Dave Lee Roth included - to record another album.

The iconic guitarist revealed in an interview with Spinner.com that he wants the current line-up of the band to set about recording a new album.

"Dave, Wolfie, Alex and I are a band," he tells said. "I hope that after Janie and I get married, and Wolfie graduates, that we sit down and discuss recording new music, which I have tons of. If Dave's up for singing ... then do another tour, and just see where it takes us. Actually,next week or the week after Wolfie, Alex, and I are gonna start jamming. Maybe we'll give Dave a call and see what he's up to. He's off, always doing his own thing, and he checks in every now and then to see how we're doing."

If the new album does emerge it will be the band’s first studio album since 1998’s Van Halen III, and their first with Dave Lee Roth since 1984.