Joe Kavanagh's Music News

By Joe Kavanagh

Muse frontman, Matt Bellamy has caused some controversy by sharing his conspiracy-driven opinions on 9/11 in an interview with CMU last week. The singer/guitarist is quoted as saying: 'September 11 is clearly an inside job, there's massive evidence that suggests that it was either allowed to happen or even worse, deliberately made to happen. There was a document called Project For The New American Century, which was made by neo-Con writers in the '90s who supplied most of the agenda that Bush is putting into place now, which clearly says, 'We need a Pearl Harbor-level of event so we can have an excuse to invade the Middle East'. It's times like these that you really wish that rock stars would stick to making music and keep their half-baked opinions to themselves. Either that, or he should provide the proof for his position because I don't think it is particularly helpful to anyone to just throw an opinion like that out there without any proof whatsoever. After all, acting without proof is what got us into the mess that we currently find ourselves...

If further evidence of Ireland's flourishing music scene was needed, then it came gift-wrapped from hugely influential UK music magazine, NME, when the publication opened the brand new Club NME venue in the nation's capitol last week. Highly rated Dublin act, Humanzi, kicked proceedings off in the new venue, which will undoubtedly become the focal point of the Irish original music scene. NME also announced that they will soon begin publishing a special "Irish supplement' with their magazine...

Noel Gallagher has been at it again bless him, this time managing to fall out with virtually an entire continent as a result of his cutting comments. In an interview with the Australian media, the Oasis guitarist shared his opinions on the national soccer team from Down Under. Gallagher reputedly claimed: 'Stick to the Aussie rules and the tennis and the cricket and the rugby- you are good at that. Football is the game of the intelligentsia and you are s**t at it. You will never win anything so give it up. What do they call them, the Socceroos? Do me a f**king favor, you could come up with a better nickname than that.' The main focus of Gallagher's ire was Australian national icon and Everton player, Tim Cahill, of whom Gallagher stated: 'I would love to kick him right in the b******ks. He has just got one of those faces. Don't you find his face really slappable? I can assure you, lots of people in England do.' Don't hold back Noel, tell them what you really mean...

Sting has come out strongly against modern rock music

Razorlight singer Johnny Borrell has denied that the band are splitting up after he and drummer, Andy Burrows, began brawling with one another backstage at last week's Vodafone Live Music Awards. Borrell performed the band's new single, America, as a solo-act leading to conjecture that the band were about to split. Of course, it is more likely that both Borrell's decision to go solo on the night and the subsequent fist-fight might be related to the fact that he got paid over $150,000 for the appearance. The singer insisted that everything is fine in the band's camp and even claimed that he loves a good fight. I don't seem to remember him saying that when Pete Doherty knocked him out backstage at an awards show last year.