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The Gorillaz are set to make their return in 2005 – and you could be joining them.
The animated project, brainchild of Blur’s Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, is launching a worldwide talent contest to find a new member. The winner of the competition will not only be able to collaborate with Gorillaz but they will get time in Kong Studios to showcase their skills.
Band members Murdoc, 2D, Russel and Noodle will judge the competition, which kicks off on Dec. 15. Entries can be anything from “animations, musical, sickly off-cuts, brief sketches, film scenes, caught-on-cameras clips, out-takes, voice-overs, bits of unused footage, whether humorous, dark, edgy, juvenile, insightful or thought provoking.” Kong Studios at www.gorillaz.com will host the “Search for a Star” contest. Gorillaz fans will be notified by a series of e-cards sent by Noodle over the next few weeks, and a new improved Kong Studios website will go live Dec. 8.
Gorillaz will select their favorites each week as they come in. After that the top ten entries will then be available for viewing. The online audience can then vote and the winner of each weekly round will go forward into the finals. There will be 23 weeks of submissions, leading up to the finals, when the viewers will get to vote for the ultimate winners on June 22, 2005.
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Outkast has revealed details of their busy year, with a movie and, not one, but two new albums on the way.
Big Boi has been telling MTV about his reunion with estranged band mate Andre 3000. The pair have reunited to make a feature film, “My Life in Idlewild.”
Said to be set in the Prohibition-era deep south, the film co-stars Ving Rhames, Paula Jai Parker, Terrence Howard and Malinda Williams.
As well as the film soundtrack, Outkast releases their next studio album in June, rumored to be called “10 the Hard Way.” Big Boi shared that they were looking at some unusual collaborators, such as Anita Baker, Sade and possibly Kate Bush.
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The former schoolchildren who sang the famous chorus on Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In The Wall” have begun legal action for unpaid royalties.
Peter Rowan, a royalties expert, said that he is appealing on behalf of one former pupil and is working with others.
The 23 north London schoolchildren recorded their vocals in secret and have since been unable to claim royalties as a result.
The single hit the No. 1 spots in both the U.K. and the United States and was featured on the band’s album “The Wall,” which went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.
The then pupils of Islington Green School were not given permission from their headmistress when their music teacher took them to the nearby recording studio to lay down the vocals.
Upon hearing the song, the headmistress banned the pupils from appearing on TV or video, meaning that the pupils had no proof of their involvement in the song.
The pupils were paid nothing for their contributions, though the school was paid �1,000 and later given a platinum record of the song. The former headmistress has now agreed to support her former pupils’ claim.
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