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My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has professed his delight at being married.

My Chemical Romance man in marital bliss...

The singer got married to his partner Lyn Z in a low-key private ceremony backstage during the Projekt Revolution Tour.

So far, for Gerard, the experience has been absolute bliss. He told Rolling Stone: . “Married life is fuckin’ amazing. Especially being in a relationship that I only thought could be a fictional thing.

“It’s like knowing that there’s always somebody out there, and that’s something I’ve never known.”

In the same interview, Way revealed that the band have committed their landmark show at the Palacio de Los Deportes, Mexico City, to film.

He commented: “To finally see it executed on film is going to be really amazing.”

To see the band through the years, CLICK HERE

Rocker DAVE GROHL regularly dreams about his late NIRVANA bandmate KURT COBAIN. Grohl, who drummed in Nirvana but now fronts Foo Fighters, has regular nighttime visions of Cobain hiding from him. He says, "I still dream about Kurt. Every time I see him in a dream, I'll be amazed and I get this feeling that everyone else thinks he's dead. "It always feels totally real, probably because I'm a very vivid dreamer. But, in my dreams, Kurt's usually been hiding - we'll get together and I'll end up asking him, 'God, where have you been?'" Cobain killed himself in 1994.

Well it is not quite a huge trick, but there are a few new goodies this Halloween found on our favorite author's website. In addition to the new Wizard of the Month and Door Opening archive we first told you about this morning, there is an update in the news section now on JKRowling.com.Jo writes that she is still intending on writing the "definitive Harry Potter encyclopedia, which will include all the material that never made it into the novels, and that I will give the royalties from this book to charity. I cannot, therefore, approve of "companion books" or "encyclopedias" that seek to pre-empt my definitive Potter reference book for their authors’ own personal gain. The losers in such a situation would be the charities, that I hope, eventually, to benefit." Jo also has given us two new secrets hidden on the site. If you wish to find them on your ownSTOP NOW, otherwise scroll down for more.

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First Clue: In the Rubbish Bin, hold your curser on the Sneakascope until it moves. A ? will be revealed. Then go to the "Extras" section and draw the mark. A handwritten paper from Jo regarding the third year is revealed, and note the very curious names of professors at the top of the page.

Second Clue: Take the portkey to Jo's office. On the lightswitch, click the upper right corner, then move your cursor to peel back the wallpaper Door for a new Potion recipe (egg and Lacewing Fly leg). Portkey back to the main desk and wait for ole Peeves to come by and knock over the pens. Poof! an egg appears. Click on it. Portkey over to the "Fansites" area and wait in the Fansites trophy case for a new Lacewing Fly to flit in and land on the FSA cup. Click on it.

By Kenneth Smith

The Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie certainly delivered an early Halloween treat on Tuesday night by hosting the current Evanescence tour with Sick Puppies and Julian K. This was truly an amazing evening. After phenomenal sets by both opening bands, Evanescence performed a stellar eighteen song one and a half hour set that included songs spanning almost ten years from four different albums.

At 8:50 p.m., the venue went black and a single yellow light illuminated Vocalist Amy Lee standing behind a keyboard that was positioned in front of the curtain hiding the stage. She eerily began singing "You don't remember my name. I don't really care. Can we play the game your way? Can I really lose control?" while playing the keys. It was from the song "Lose Control" off of the bands most recent album The Open Door. The lyrics were perfectly fitting for beginning a show. As the heavier part of the song started, the curtain dropped to reveal the entire band.

The setup was similar to when they were in Dallas recently on the Family Values tour (Plus some added Lighting effects). The drums were centered on a riser with banners on both sides. Behind the drummer, spanning the length of the stage and rising to the ceiling were the series of square concave and convex mirrors with LED Light strips in between. These light sticks were also on the stage floor in front of the drums and banners. In conjunction with awesome house lighting, this all made for a very stimulating visual experience that worked perfectly with the music.

After multiple songs from The Open Door and Fallen albums that all saw Lee twirling around and pumping her fist in the air while flawlessly belting out her vocals in her White/Pearl colored dress that was complete with a leg slit and attached pearls, a piano was wheeled out onto the stage. Amy announced that the next song would be for the "Hardcore Evanescence fans" and began playing and singing "Missing" from the 2004 "Anywhere But Home" CD/DVD. The slower, more relaxed theme continued for the next few songs as Lee stayed at the piano to perform "Lithium" and "Good Enough", both from "The Open Door" album.

The crowd could be heard cheering and screaming along, and were clearly very excited as 2 of the next 3 songs were some of the bands biggest hits and everyone there definitely knew every lyric. Starting with "Call Me When You're Sober" and quickly afterward playing "Bring Me to Life" minus the male vocals, it was definitely the most energetic part of the evening for both the band, and the fans. This was followed-up by Lee announcing that the next song was "Very appropriate for this crowd" and "For the fans" and performing "All That I'm Living For".

Before playing "My Immortal", the piano was brought back out onstage and Lee told the crowd that they "were playing this song because we love you guys, and no matter what we do we cant seem to get away from it". Apparently (by the sound of what she had to say) the band doesn't like playing this one. Either way, it was a very beautifully performed song that was made even better by the fact that Amy allowed the crowd to sing parts of it. Afterward, they performed "Lacrymosa", then thanked the crowd and left the stage.

Piercing screams and cheers could be heard echoing through the venue for what seemed like the next five minutes before the band took the stage again for the encore. Sitting behind her piano, Lee gave everyone a nice surprise by playing "Understanding" which is a song from the bands 1998 "Evanescence EP". She then announced that the next song would really be the last one, and then the band performed "Your Star". The lyrics were perfect for the ending of such an amazing show: "Now, I have nothing worth fighting for. We're wandering now. All in parts and pieces, swim lonely, find your own way out."

Reuters is reporting that author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros., makers of the Harry Potter films, filed suit today against a forthcoming unofficial encyclopedia book based on the Harry Potter series. Reuters reports the book, "The Harry Potter Lexicon," due to be released by RDR Books on Nov. 28 in the United States, had "inappropriately referenced Rowling's fictional characters and universe."

The suit names the site owner, Steve Vander Ark, and several defendants, and is seeking "damages for copyright federal trademark infringement and any profits to be gained from the book."

The suit, according to the article, states:

"The infringing book is particularly troubling as it is in direct contravention to Ms. Rowling's repeatedly stated intention to publish her own companion books to the series and donate proceeds of such books to charity."

The suit was filed today in federal court in Manhattan, NY.

USA Today contains further information including a comment from RDR books publisher Roger Rappaport, who said the book was a "critical reference work" and "dismissed any notion that it could compete with any official encyclopedia written by Rowling." He also said that Vander Ark "cannot understand why she wouldn't be supportive now.'

The article also says the suit "doesn't seek action against the Web version of the Lexicon, but criticizes it for numerous sections that it said 'regurgitate Ms. Rowling's original creative expression with minimal additional commentary.'"

CNN Money says that the suit claims, "Warner Bros. and Rowling's representatives have been " rebuffed and treated rudely" in their attempts to engage in a dialogue with RDR Books...For example, while claiming not to have the ability or time to respond to plaintiffs' multiple 'cease and desist' letters because of a family tragedy, defendant instead was hawking foreign publishing rights to the infringing book in Germany,' the lawsuit said."

The Harry Potter Lexicon is a partner site to The Leaky Cauldron.

Undated picture of US rock star Elvis Presley

He may have left the building 30 years ago, but Elvis continues to be a good earner, ousting grunge rocker Kurt Cobain at the top of this year's list of the highest-paid dead celebrities.

"The King" earned 49 million dollars in the last year, toppling the late Nirvana frontman and regaining his top spot on the Forbes.com list.

The website ranks 13 celebrities now pushing up daisies on their income and proves that death is no obstacle to making money, with the group collectively earning a combined 232 million dollars in the last year.

Cashing in on lawsuits and disputes that open the way for Beatles hits to be sold online, John Lennon came second with 44 million dollars in the last year, while fellow late Beatle George Harrison came fourth with some 22 million.

"Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz, whose cartoons are still syndicated in thousands of newspapers worldwide seven years after his death, came third with 35 million dollars, ahead of Albert Einstein with 18 million.

Another cartoonist, Theodor Geisel, creator of the Dr Seuss series, ranked seventh, one place behind Andy Warhol but ahead of Marilyn Monroe, whose image continues to pay rich dividends more than 40 years after her death.

Late rapper Tupac Shakur, gunned down in 1996, returned to the list after a four-year absence with a paycheck of nine million dollars, while Hollywood star Steve McQueen entered the listing for the first time with six million.

James Brown, who died last December, made his debut at 11th place with five million dollars, ahead of reggae legend Bob Marley with four million dollars and 1950s Hollywood heartthrob James Dean with 3.5 million.

The nominations are out and MTV News can also reveal who’ll be playing live at this year’s Europe Music Awards.

SEE THE NOMINATIONS HERE

Rockers My Chemical Romance- who are up for the Rock Out Award, Band of 2007 and Inter Act Award- will perform in Munich on November 1.

Joining the Black Parade band will be solo star Avril Lavigne- also nominated for three gongs on the night.

Lavigne has impressed this year with hits including Girlfriend and will perform live for the huge audience in Germany and across the continent on TV screens.

Already announced to perform are Dave Grohl’s group Foo Fighters and camp pop king Mika.

Written by and photos by ALANA GRELYAK

Once again, the Congress Theater welcomed HIM to Chicago for an excellent rock concert. The Finnish Goth metal band is once again on tour, this time promoting their new album, Venus Doom.

The suspense was tangible while fans waited for HIM to take the stage. Nine o’clock came, then nine fifteen, and finally, somewhere just after nine-thirty, a low rumble floated from the speakers while white clouds of mist were expelled from tiny lamps with women’s legs on them. The band walked out on stage, sans singer, and began to play. Shortly after their intro, the dreamy Ville Valo took his place behind the microphone and filled the hall with his gorgeously smooth voice.

HIM played through several songs from their new album, such as “Bleed Well” and “The Kiss of Dawn,” but also included plenty of tracks from their old ones, like “Funeral of Hearts,” and “Soul on Fire.”

For those familiar with the band’s goings on, you might have heard about Ville’s recent visit to rehab to discontinue his drinking issues. Up until now, he’d been known for singing with a cigarette in one hand and a bottle in the other. This evening, Ville sported only the cigarette (which he chain smoked one after the other all night) and seemed a bit more reserved than usual. He stood fairly still the entire concert, barely leaving his microphone, and talked slightly less than normal.

During“Dead Lover’s Lane,” Ville at one point in his unbelievably deep range, started singing Amy Winehouse’s lyrics “I’m not going to rehab, I said no no,” thought it seemed barely anyone noticed.

HIM held the audience’s attention quite well throughout the show, even inspiring some girls to throw their clothing up onto the stage. A bra was in attendance before photographers even left the pit after the third song and when someone threw yet another article of clothing onto the stage half-way through their set, Ville said that he wouldn’t be picking it up because now a days, one never could be too careful.

Overall, HIM did an amazing balancing act of mixing songs from several of their albums, while still deftly promoting their latest offering. Fans seemed overall pleased with the strong performance (sans encore), and HIM is more than welcome to come through Chicago at any time.

Bleeding Through opened the night starting right on time at 8 p.m. although that’s probably the only thing that went smoothly for them. Playing song after song that sounded pretty much the same as the one before it, the band encouraged the audience to start a pit and body surf, despite the fact that the audience was filled with children under twelve years old. One guy took their advice and ended up falling on his ass not once but at least four times. Brilliant.

HIM

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THE bold creative vision of Daniel Johns was finally recognised with Silverchair's astonishing comeback album Young Modern sweeping the ARIA awards last night.

Propelled by Straight Lines - the Single Of The Year - Silverchair's fifth record Young Modern also claimed the band's first Album Of The Year gong and three other awards including Best Group and Best Rock Album.

Their five trophies takes their ARIA haul to a total of 19 since they burst onto the scene as 14-year-olds, making them the most successful act in the 21-year history of the awards.

While Johns' wife Natalie Imbruglia wasn't on hand to cheer her husband on as she is on a feature film shoot in South Australia, Nicole Kidman beamed when husband Keith Urban again won Best Country Album.

His album Love Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing was mostly inspired by falling in love with the Hollywood leading lady.

"She is very prevalent in most of the songs," he said, before adding fans shouldn't expect a duet from the pair any time soon.

"I promise not to act as well, so it's a fair deal."

The vanguard of Australian music's new pop scene were also big winners at the Acer Arena ceremony, led by the multi-nominated Sneaky Sound System who won awards for Best Breakthrough and Best Dance album.

Colourful teen act Operator Please, who have already achieved Next Big Thing status in the UK, exploded with youthful excitement when their poptastic hit Just

A Song About Ping Pong was named 2007's Breakthrough single.

Bedroom sonic architect Gotye who has struggled to gain support from mainstream radio was a shock winner of Best Male Artist, claiming the award from short-odds favourite John Butler.

His win will no doubt capture more fans for his soaring atmospheric blend of soul, pop, rock and electronica. Butler and his bandmates didn't go home empty-handed, picking up two awards with their much-acclaimed album Grand National, including Best Independent Release.

They also delivered one of the night's performance highlights, teaming with Urban on the John Butler Trio hit Funky Tonight to close the show.

Missy Higgins was again crowned our Best Female Artist for her second album On A Clear Night.

Damien Leith exemplified the Idol factor on the awards, following in the footsteps of previous winners who have taken out the Highest Selling Album title which is measured by sales rather than votes.

By Rod Yates

HARD to think of it now, but there was a time not long ago when Daniel Johns thought everyone hated him.

 In the beginning ... Daniel Johns, right, taught himself guitar while growing up in Newcastle and formed the Innocent Criminals with schoolmates Ben Gillies, middle, Chris Joannu, left, and Tobin Finnane, back. Johns, Gillies and Joannu formed Silverchair in 2004. Picture: Andrew Derby

Silverchair’s first two albums, 1995’s Frogstomp and 1997’s Freak Show, may have been worldwide multi-platinum hits, but the constant pot shots from sniggering music critics had made an indelible mark on the young singer-songwriter. Turns out it could have been the best thing that ever happened to Silverchair.

Frogstomp ... one of Silverchair's first professional photos, with Johns, Joannu and Gillies aged between 14 and 15 / Supplied

Early success ... performing at the 1995 ARIAs, where they won the Best New Talent award. Picture: Nicole Emanuel

“It instantly made reality kick in from a really young age,” says Johns with a wry smile. “At 15 years old I realised, oh, you can’t just get away with stealing Black Sabbath riffs and singing like someone from Seattle! I don’t know if I would have written something like (1999’s) Neon Ballroom or Diorama (its 2002 follow-up) if I hadn’t had that criticism early. Definitely not Young Modern. I needed to have that insecurity from the criticism and then to get over it and say f**k you to everyone in order to write this record.”

Reality check ... Johns riding home from his school in Newcastle / File

Quiet moment ... Johns and Gillies returning home from Silverchair's US-Europe tour in 1997. Picture: Brad Newman

 

“This record” is Young Modern, the trio’s fifth since emerging from Newcastle as 15-year-olds with their debut album, Frogstomp. It’s also the fastest selling of their career, going double platinum in Australia in less than a month, and their fifth consecutive number one album, a record that not even Midnight Oil or INXS can lay claim to. Straight Lines, the album’s initial single, became their first number one hit since their breakthrough 1995 smash, Tomorrow.

 

Back to normal ... walking home from school with Joannu. Picture: Andrew Darby

 

Mates ... celebrating in Newcastle with Andrew Johns after his team's win in the 1997 ARL Grand Final. Picture: Andrew Darby

 

 

Not bad for a band who, when they walked offstage on the final date of their Across The Night tour in 2003, looked like they’d played their last note together. Indeed it would be almost three years before drummer Ben Gillies, bassist Chris Joannou and Johns performed as Silverchair again, returning to the live scene on 29 January, 2005, at the Wave Aid benefit in Sydney for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

 

On stage ... at the 1999 ARIA Awards. Johns has spoken of his battle with anorexia during his late teens, saying he was close to suicide a number of times. Picture: Jim Trifyllis

 

Couple ... taking home some Chinese takeaway with girlfriend Natalie Imbruglia in 2000. Picture: Glenn Dickinson

 

Different beat ... during his first collaboration with Paul Mac in 2000. Picture: Supplied

 

Open wide ... performing at the Big Day Out in Sydney, 2002. Picture: Kristi Miller

 

 

 

“Prior to the Wave Aid show we were pretty much divorced,” laughs Johns, now 27. He has a habit of punctuating dramatic statements with a laugh. “We weren’t fighting, it wasn’t a divorce, it was more of a separation. And we never actually had a conversation, I never said ‘I’m quitting’ and Ben and Chris never said ‘I don’t want to do it’, but when I got sick (Johns contracted a crippling bout of reactive arthritis following the release of Diorama, preventing the band from touring upon its release) I think that was just a real wake-up call for all of us.

 

Respect ...accepting Oz Artist of the Year at the 2002 ARIA awards. Picture: Stephen Cooper

 

Different take ... going for an image change in 2003. Johns was battling arthritis at the time, saying it was so bad he couldn't have a shower because he feared his spine was going to crack. He made a full recovery after 12 months of rehabilitation treatment. Picture: Supplied

 

It was obviously not a fun thing anymore. I was really stressed and Ben and Chris were really stressed that I was sick. So we just pulled the plug. We didn’t really want to do it again unless we felt healthy and strong and confident, unless we felt we could have fun with it again.”

 

Luxury ... renovations on his Newcastle waterfront mansion. Picture: Supplied

 

In addition to raising $2,500,000 for the victims of the tsunami, Wave Aid also convinced the band that they could indeed have fun with Silverchair again. In the months that followed they decamped to a secluded property and set about rediscovering what it was that made them great friends and an even better band. Rehearsals were scheduled, songs were demoed and, finally, recording time was booked in an LA studio with producer Nick Launay – to be paid for entirely by the band to ensure they retained complete creative control of the album’s content and its sound.

 

Newlyweds ... catching a plane in Brisbane after his marriage to Natalie Imbruglia in 2004. Picture: Nathan Richter

It’s a far cry from early on in their career when, as Johns says with a smile, he “didn’t really care how (an album) sounded as long as it sounded expensive”. But as the vocalist’s songwriting skills developed and he began to incorporate more daring instrumentation and orchestration – first with Neon Ballroom and then with the towering Diorama, an album still regarded as one of the most daring and accomplished in Australian music history – so too did his vision for the band firm. By the time it came to record Young Modern Johns felt confident enough to co-produce the album with Launay.

Collaboration ... on the eve of his Australian tour with Paul Mac in 2004. Picture: Bob Finlayson

“I didn’t really want it to be Diorama Phase Two, I didn’t want to set the precedent that every time Silverchair does a record it has to be bigger and bigger and more expensive, cos at some point you’re going to run out of money and the inevitable decline would start,” comments Johns. “So I just thought this record should be our most ambitious, it should also sound as good as Diorama but be a lot more encompassing. I think it’s a lot more accepting of everything we enjoy as opposed to trying to run away from the perception of Silverchair and become something else.”

 

Blue ... outside the Sheraton Hotel in 2004. Picture: Ross Hodgson

Despite the fact that it was their money on the line, Johns wasn’t about to skimp on his art, at one point relocating to Prague to record with an 80-piece orchestra in David Lynch’s studio with former Beach Boys composer Van Dyke Parks, who also worked on Diorama.

“I had so many arguments with everyone who has any kind of financial investment in the band,” he sighs. “The whole time I was being so stubborn about it. We ended up going over double the allocated time and more than double the allocated budget. We were bankrupt as a band for nearly the majority of the album. But that was the excitement, I loved it. I don’t know if it was delusion or what, but I was like, ‘Nuh, it’s going to be fine, we’re going to release this record and it’s going to be amazing and it’s all going to be fine.’”

 

Healthier look ... performing at the Wave Aid concert at the SCG in 2006. Picture: Michael Perini

Johns’ self-belief has been vindicated not only by the album’s enormous success in Australia – where Silverchair have just completed a joint headlining tour of the country with Powderfinger, selling out some of its biggest venues – but in other parts of the world as well. Since being released independently in America in July, Young Modern has attracted the best reviews of the band’s career, debuting at number 70 in the US charts and number 25 in Canada. Straight Lines, meanwhile, has repeated its homeland success to become a Top 10 video and Top 20 airplay hit in America.

 

Relaxed ... with Natalie in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra in 2007. Picture: Rohan Kelly

 

Double act ... announcing the Across the Great Divide tour with Powderfinger in 2007 / Reuters

Australia-wide ... performing at Across the Great Divide tour. Picture: Simon Cross

 

To this list of accomplishments the band can add six more ARIA awards – bringing their career tally to a record-breaking 20 – having won Best Single, Best Album, Best Group, Highest Selling Single (Straight Lines), Best Rock Album and Best Video at this year’s ceremony. Though Johns is naturally delighted with the album’s success you sense that, in his mind, he’d already won the day it was completed.

 

On top ... on stage at the 2007 ARIAs. Silverchair, who collected five awards, are the most successful act in the 21-year history of the awards. Picture: James Elsby

“It’s probably the first record where I’ve believed that we were really good,” he says. “I’m actually really legitimately enjoying it. Even with Diorama and Neon Ballroom I was still way too insecure to enjoy promoting my band. But with this record it feels kind of like a fresh beginning, but we’ve got a really huge head start.

“I just feel so happy that I’m actually allowed to write music as a career,” he smiles. “After being so sick (with arthritis) – I was literally in hospital for two years and in a wheelchair and on crutches and on a cane, I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t have a shower – once you’ve been through that, nothing is really that significant, it’s all pretty minor as far as I’m concerned. If you can walk and breathe and you’re half healthy, it’s fine. Music is supposed to be a blessing, not a curse.”

‘Pirates of The Caribbean’ heartthrob, Johnny Depp was reportedly refused entry into a village pub - as he hadn’t reserved a table.

The 43-year-old actor, known for his role as ‘Jack Sparrow’ in the films wanted a meal at the trendy Fox and Goose Inn at Fressingfield, Suffolk, UK, as he is reportedly looking for a home in the area.

But he missed out because all the tables in the 18th century pub were already taken.

Meanwhile, Depp who’s married to Vanessa Paradis has revealed that he never wants to raise his 2 children, 8-year-old Lily-Rose and 5-year-old Jack, in America - because he’s not particularly optimistic about society. Depp told The New York Post newspaper “I’m not particularly optimistic about society.

“We’re in an age where everything has gone too far. It’s an ugly world.”

“I’m truly frightened of America in terms of raising my daughter here. I don’t believe that is an option at all.”

It's true. Voting for the Europe Music Awards suddenly ended last night.. We all thought it was going to end November 1st... Well. It looks like they caught us off guard.

But hopefully all of you have been voting every day... I've said it before and i'll say it again.. You have the power in your fingertips to set up concerts, win awards, and change the world.


Take advantage of your right to vote for things that you want.


The award show begins November 1st, live from MUNICH. It should be on MTV for you. IF NOT. There may be a webcast (online showing) of the awards show @ www.ema.mtv.tv

-The Mars Army

IT WAS a damn fine weekend for Newcastle's Johns boys. The footballer Andrew married on Saturday, ending a tumultuous year of controversy and career retirement, while the musician Daniel cleaned up last night at the ARIA awards, capping a stunning year of career resurrection.

Daniel Johns's band Silverchair, which he formed with Chris Joannou and Ben Gillies in 1992 when they were 13-year-olds at Newcastle High, took five ARIA trophies, including almost all the major categories of the music industry's prime awards night.

In a long ceremony at the Acer Arena in Homebush Bay, the band's single Straight Lines was named single of the year as well as the highest-selling single of the year; the band was crowned best group; and their fifth album, Young Modern, was named both best rock album and, for the first time in their 12-year recording career, overall album of the year.

Nicole Kidman stole the spotlight on the red carpet, signing autographs and greeting fans alongside her country musician husband, Keith Urban, who won the best country album award. She was an unwilling paparazzi subject, throwing a navy jacket over her lace mini, to the dismay of photographers.

Apart from beating off the challenge from their close friends and recent touring buddies, Powderfinger (who had four

nominations, all against Silverchair, and went home empty-handed) and repeating the five-trophy haul from their first ARIA awards in 1995, last night's triumph was a vindication for Silverchair and for those who had kept the faith.

Four years ago, after a bout of arthritis threatened to end his career, Johns took a break from Silverchair, enjoyed a successful project with the producer and occasional Silverchair collaborator Paul Mac, and wed the singer-actress Natalie Imbruglia.

In the years between the band's fourth album, Diorama, and this year's Young Modern, with their US record deal finished and both Joannou and Gillies involved in their own side projects and a host of new bands vying to take their place, many speculated that Silverchair would break up or at best lose relevance.

Instead they returned with an album that married Johns's arty and pop tendencies and became their fifth consecutive album to debut at No. 1.

Sell-out tours around Australia followed almost naturally. As did the ARIA recognition.

The man of the night Daniel Johns was dolled up like a shiny ARIA statuette in a silver suit and red winklepickers.

He told assembled media: "This is out of control. Can we get a hallelujah?" On the next move for the band Johns replied, "To the after party".

It was tagged the night of the comeback for Silverchair and Powderfinger. Phil Jamison, the singer of Grinspoon, begged to differ. "We came back," he said. "Silverchair kind of came back; Powderfinger never went away."

Urban dedicated his award to Kidman. "She was a large inspiration for this album because most of it was written in our home in Nashville," he said.

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Silverchair swept the 2007 ARIA Awards in Sydney last night. They won five ARIA's - more than any other artist this year.

Silverchair — Ben Gillies, (left) Daniel Johns and Chris Joannou — whoop it up as they arrive at the ARIA awards.
Photo: Andrew Meares

Most significantly the band took out the prestigious Album Of The Year award for their acclaimed "Young Modern". While they've had five chart topping albums over their career this was actually the first time that any Silverchair release has received that honour.

They also received the following awards:
Best Group
Single Of The Year
Best Rock Album
Highest Selling Single

This extraordinary achievement makes Silverchair the most successful artist in the entire history of the ARIA Awards. Last night's haul took the band's carreer tally to 19 eclipsing John Farnham's previous record of 18 career gongs.

Silverchair opened the Awards telecast with a memorable performance of "Straight Lines" and set the tone for a very special night that cemented Silverchair in their rightful place as one of the most acclaimed and successful bands in Australian music history

The band was obviously moved by the accolades, thanking "all the people who have stuck with them over the years".

The ARIA's capped the busiest few months of the band's entire career. They have toured non-stop over the last 16 weeks racking up nearly 60 shows around the world including international festival appearances and their hugely successful "Across The Great Divide" tour with co-headliners, Powderfinger. Those shows came to an end on Friday night in Silverchair's home town of Newcastle.

The group will now take 2 weeks off before returning to the U.S. for 5 weeks of shows. "Straight Lines" is currently a top 10 video and top 20 airplay hit in North America and has received the strongest reviews of Silverchair's career.

THE acclaimed star of The Last King Of Scotland is being hotly tipped to play grunge icon Kurt Cobain in a movie about the Nirvana singer's life and death.

A number of Hollywood-based internet sites have claimed that 28-year-old Glaswegian James McAvoy will be offered the lead role in the rock 'n' roll biopic.

A vast array of websites insist the Scottish actor - already a big star in the US after appearing in hit blockbusters such as Atonement and The Chronicles Of Narnia - will take on the role of the revered Nirvana frontman, who shot himself in 1994.

One website claimed that McAvoy's growing reputation in Tinsel Town as a heavyweight character actor meant he was the clear favourite for the role.

One blogger said: "James is hot property in Hollywood right now, and it's felt he would be perfect for the role of Kurt, who was a complex and unpredictable character."

Cobain's widow Courtney Love is overseeing the as yet un-named movie as executive producer. Unpublished diary entries written by the late star will be used to detail his life and descent into drug addiction and depression.

The screenplay for the film, due to hit cinema screens in 2009, is being penned by Troy writer David Benioff.

Love has yet to confirm any of the cast members, but promised the film would be "A-list and high-end".

Cobain, who was born in the US city of Aberdeen, Washington state, enjoyed massive success fronting Nirvana with bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl in the early 1990s, with hits such as 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' and 'Come As You Are'.

Cobain struggled to cope with his heroin addiction and intense media interest in the tempestuous relationship between him and his equally volatile spouse, Love, herself the frontwoman of rock band Hole.

Cobain was just 27 when he shot himself, leaving behind Love and their daughter Frances Bean Cobain, now 16.

In 2005 Michael Pitt played Cobain in the unofficial big-screen biopic Last Days, which was directed by Gus Van Sant.

McAvoy was born in 1979 in the Castlemilk district of Glasgow and trained at the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

by Christine Sams

SILVERCHAIR'S Chris Joannou, Daniel Johns and Ben Gillies have spent the past two months touring with their mates from Powderfinger.

Tonight, Australia's two biggest rock bands will face off at the ARIA Awards. Silverchair's top-selling album, Young Modern, is favoured to win album of the year and best rock album.

It is also among the nominees for the highest-selling album of the year. Other artists to dominate music sales in the past 12 months are Missy Higgins (On A Clear Night), Damien Leith (The Winner's Journey), and comedian Billy Birmingham (The 12th Man — Boned!).

Johns is expected to attend the awards at Acer Arena in Sydney with his wife, Natalie Imbruglia, alongside Nicole Kidman, who will accompany husband Keith Urban. Urban will perform with John Butler.

New talents will include Sneaky Sound System and Operator Please, bands who have been embraced by the generation of music fans which download music via the internet.

From next Monday, the Australian charts will allow digital sales to be counted towards a No. 1. This means artists will no longer have to release a CD single for their sales to be counted.

Best male artist: Dan Kelly; Gotye; John Butler; Josh Pyke; Paul Kelly

Best female artist: Kasey Chambers; Kate Miller-Heidke; Missy Higgins; Katie Noonan; Sarah Blasko

Best pop release: Evermore; Kate Miller-Heidke; Missy Higgins; Operator Please; Sarah Blasko

Album of the year: Gotye's Mixed Blood ; John Butler Trio's Grand National; Powderfinger's Dream Days at the Hotel Existence; Silverchair's Young Modern; Sneaky Sound System's Sneaky Sound System

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Gerard Way is to host a book signing in London for his debut graphic novel, "The Umbrella Academy", it has been confirmed. The My Chemical Romance star will appear at a store in London next month, to mark the release of the six-part fantasy tale. "The Umbrella Academy" was written by Way and illustrated by artists Gabriel Ba and James Jean and concerns the antics of a character called Sir Reginald Hargreaves. According to a statement, he is a "world-renowned scientist and inventor, intrepid adventurer, successful entrepreneur, champion cricketer, and closet space-alien." Way will meets fans and sign copies of the book at the Forbidden Planet megastore in Shaftsbury Avenue on November 14, from 12-2pm. My Chemical Romance also play a series of live shows next month, calling at: November 2007 11 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena 12 Aberdeen AECC 13 Sheffield Hallam FM Arena 15 London O2 Arena Watch My Chemical Romance's music videos here...

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The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD has been released in some countries in Latin America and video of menu and screen captures are now online. Enjoy.

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By GINIA BELLAFANTE

TO a certain sort of woman who is somewhere between late youth and an unacknowledged middle age, the name Jordan Catalano isn’t a television reference, it is a sense memory. You don’t recall Jordan Catalano, you feel him, as you do the erotic miscalculations of your own adolescence.

Claire Danes and Jared Leto in “My So-Called Life.”

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During a nine-month period between 1994 and 1995 when “My So-Called Life,” broadcast at 8 p.m. on ABC (alas for its ratings, opposite “Mad About You”), Jordan existed as the obsession of Angela Chase, the high-school sophomore played by Claire Danes, whose defining state of melancholy he interrupted and enforced.

Those who followed Angela’s tenuous encroachments on womanhood followed passionately, continuing to immerse themselves long past the show’s cancellation after 19 episodes. Fan sites for “My So-Called Life” endure online, one of them in Swedish. They will tell you that Jared Leto (Jordan) is the lead vocalist of a group called 30 Seconds to Mars and that A. J. Langer, who portrayed the hardscrabble Rayanne, married the son of the 18th Earl of Devon. Ms. Danes, of course, has gone on to movie roles and now Broadway, where she is currently starring in “Pygmalion.” Pauline Kael once said of the young Molly Ringwald that she possessed a “charismatic normality.” Ms. Danes infused Angela with something else, a slouchy, endearing neurasthenia that seemed to befit the indolent mood of the mid-’90s.

It is largely due to online fan activism that a definitive DVD boxed set of the complete series, including interviews with Ms. Danes, other cast members and writers, will be released on Tuesday. A prior compilation, issued five years ago, went out of production not long after it arrived but caused great consternation before it vanished. The devoted criticized its shoddy quality and negligence on the matter of bonus features, and yet used copies of the set still command up to $300 on eBay.

To claim that “My So-Called Life” is great, watershed television is to say something so firmly ingrained in the conventional wisdom that it hardly bears repeating. The series brought us the experience of adolescence outside the bounds of artifice, peril and pathology that had provided the context for nearly every other depiction of teenagers on television. Here what it meant to be 15 was not to discover that you suddenly had to raise your 6-year-old sister or that you might be pregnant with twins but merely that you suffered everyday indignities: overhearing people talk behind your back, the plop of a grim-looking lump of mashed potatoes on a pallid cafeteria tray.

“My So-Called Life” took us deeply inside the head of a decidedly middle-class girl whose grievances with the world were confined to an aching crush, the wish that her mother wouldn’t insist on well-balanced meals and her belief that social studies ought to be less boring. While the agonies of adolescence were felt catastrophically, they weren’t weighted with enormous consequence. At no point were we instructed to think that the lapses of youth would define the people we might become.

Angela goes to public high school in suburban Pittsburgh, where she thinks of almost nothing but a great-looking boy who is more than that only in her estimation. “I’m in love,” she recounts to the audience in one of the show’s diaristic voice-overs. “His name is Jordan Catalano. He was left back. Twice. Once I almost touched his shoulder in the middle of a pop quiz.”

There is never any question that Angela and Jordan are doomed as a couple. The show gently mocks her infatuation, cutting to Jordan applying eyedrops whenever she begins to read in his intense blinking the signs of poetic torture. Where she sees soulfulness we know there is merely corneal irritation and presumably a bad habit.

Television gives us teenage lust exercised or teenage lust repressed but rarely does it evoke the way young people translate their carnal urges into something they understand as a deeper abiding affection. “My So-Called Life” is essentially a study of a young mind processing desire into something less terrifying and more easily justified — substantiating it with false hopes — and in that regard it is more than a good TV show, it is a good TV show that attains the dimension and complexity of literature. The great postwar novels of adolescence deal with innocence lost; “My So-Called Life” deals with innocence sustained, but it offers a no-less-illuminating view of what it is to be young because of it.

The series, created by Winnie Holzman for the producers Ed Zwick and Marshall Hershkovitz, all of whom had worked on “Thirtysomething,” arrived before television began catering so aggressively to teenage tastes. Perhaps its morose and ragged appeal is best appreciated against the backdrop of what followed, an endless stream of teenage dramas — some good, some awful — that both recall and point it up as an essay embalmed in time about a way of being 15 that no one will ever experience again.

“Beverly Hills 90210” arrived four years earlier, in 1990, but plowed right on through to the millennium. Another product in Aaron Spelling’s Reagan-era fantasy factory, it depicted high school life not as it was experienced but rather how teenagers dreamed it ought to be.

On that series and later on shows like “The OC” and “Gossip Girl,” wealth provides an aesthetic function — all those lush spaces and nice things — but more significantly it supplies the dramatic excuse for young people to be put in Gucci trousers and expensive cars and to better masquerade as grown-ups. The money soaps, for lack of a better phrase, blur distinctions between adolescence and adulthood, immersing children in the same problem pool where their parents — when they aren’t absent or forgettable or headed for incarceration — can always be found to wade.

Angela’s parents live in a small Arts and Crafts house and run a printing press. They worry that they are spending too much time together or too much time apart. Her father wants a career change; her mother seeks connection. Angela peers into their world of uneasy domesticity but has no interest in occupying it; she is too busy trying to discover why her nerdy friend Brian told everyone that she slept with Jordan Catalano when she was so nowhere near ready to do that.

It seems worth noting that the very first words in the debut episode of “My So-Called Life” are: “Excuse me? Can you spare some change for a phone call?” A teenager before the era of cellphones and e-mailing, Angela got to move freely, beyond the parental surveillance systems so methodically deployed today. Angela’s father, Graham (Tom Irwin), and her mother, Patty (Bess Armstrong), did not know where she was every minute or what her friends were all about or to whom they genetically belonged; they were products of the post-therapeutic age, but they disciplined and worried and set rules, and sometimes Angela lied and broke them.

The same dynamic characterizes the relationship between the Taylors and their 16-year-old daughter on “Friday Night Lights,” currently it its second season, but it is unusual enough now to feel oddly old fashioned. Are children really ever grounded anymore? Eight years ago the sweet and funny series “Freaks and Geeks,” created by Judd Apatow and Paul Feig, satirized as anachronistic the whole idea of the assertion of strict parental authority. Set in 1980, the show envisioned the standard conflicts between parents and teenagers, the battles between self-expression and control, as the realm of period comedy.

Not long after “Freaks and Geeks,” which went off the air in 2000, “Gilmore Girls” came along to embolden an emerging sensibility that parents and their 15-year-olds ought to be best friends, sharing their music and coming to the same conclusions on the movies of Will Ferrell or the books of Frank McCourt. Trend stories at the time suggested that mothers and their teenager daughters liked to shop together and dress alike. In the world of “My So-Called Life” Angela occasionally wanted to stab her mother and surely would have stabbed herself before borrowing her high-waisted pleated wool trousers, apparently straight off the racks of Talbot’s.

“Gilmore Girls” chronicled the relationship between a single mother in rural Connecticut and the brilliant daughter with whom she stayed up all night trading journalistic references. Where Angela had dreamed about Jordan, Rory, the daughter, fantasized about Yale.

“My So-Called Life” appeared only 13 years ago but leaves one feeling nostalgic for a time when teenagers still communicated with pauses and half-thoughts, and were not perceived solely as an amalgam of their accomplishments. Angela was a bright girl who performed unspectacularly at school (she got a 59 on a geometry test, quit yearbook and didn’t play lacrosse or join the debate team). Even so, there was never a sense that her options for a prosperous and fulfilling adulthood would be foreclosed because of her reluctance to apply herself.

By the time “The OC” arrived in 2003, it had become clear that not even delinquents could escape from academic rigor anymore. The series begins with a public defender rescuing a teenage car thief from detention, but not before it is revealed that the thief had scored in the 98th percentile on his SATs.

As the touchstone examination of adolescence in the ’90s, “My So-Called Life” rejected the Clintonian ethos of ambition: striving, perhaps, wasn’t better. And at the same time it linked itself closely to the feminism of the period, one that prized interiority, self-help and revolutions from within. It was a diluted notion of female advancement, but at least it was a modestly dressed one. Angela wore late-grunge-era flannels and baggy shapes. So there is another way, finally, that “My So-Called Life” looks like no other teenage series that succeeded it: We never saw our heroine’s bellybutton.

by Jay Lustig

Saed Hindash/The Star-LedgerMy Chemical Romance guitarist Ray Toro along with the band performs as the opening act for Bon Jovi.

"This is the biggest honor we've ever had," said Gerard Way, frontman of My Chemical Romance, while opening for Bon Jovi tonight at Newark's Prudential Center.

Though the band's music is as dark and twisted as Bon Jovi's is upbeat and hopeful, the black-clad Belleville native said he is a longtime Bon Jovi fan, and that he sings an "amazing" karaoke version of Bon Jovi's signature song, "Livin' On a Prayer."

The Prudential Center is "beautiful and amazing," he said.

My Chemical Romance took the stage a few minutes after the scheduled starting time of 7:30 p.m., and presented a tight, energetic, glitch-free set, rocking hard on songs like "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" and "Welcome To the Black Parade," and delivering "Teenagers" and "Mama" with a theatrical, almost vaudevillian sense of fun.

Many seats were still empty as the band started, since countless people were still eating and drinking at the arena's many food stands and restaurants. But by the end of the set virtually every seat was taken.

The singer and artist will be meeting fans and signing copies of his first graphic novel 'The Umbrella Academy' at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in Shaftsbury Avenue.

The two hour signing is due to take place on November 14 between 12 and 2pm, a day ahead of My Chemical Romance's live show at London's O2 Arena on November 15.

'The Umbrella Academy' - which Way wrote and designed with artist Garbriel Ba and cover artist James Jean -focusses on a central character Sir Reginald Hargreeves; a "World-renowned scientist and inventor, intrepid adventurer, successful entrepreneur, champion cricketer, and closet space-alien." Obviously.

An official statement also reveals that the six edition long series tells the story of six other central characters who along with Hargreeves were trained from birth to protect the world.

"When the series starts", it reads, "The superheroes have disbanded and gone their separate ways but, after the death of the man who bought them all together, The Monocle, they have to put the past behind them and join forces again to save the world."

Entrance to the signing is free but tickets to the London show as well as My Chemical Romance's other UK dates can be purchased from the Xfm Xchange on 0871 222 1049 or from the Xfm Online Ticket Shop by clicking here.

Gerard Way to sign copies of graphic novel in UK

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way is set to make a special appearance in London.

The singer is to sign copies of his graphic novel 'The Umbrella Academy' on November 14 between 12 and 2pm.

The signing takes place at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in Shaftesbury Avenue, London.

'The Umbrella Academy' was written by Way in collaboration with artist Garbriel Ba and cover artist James Jean.

According to a statement, "'The Umbrella Academy' tells the story of seven individuals who were trained at birth to protect the world.

"When the series starts the superheroes have disbanded and gone their separate ways but, after the death of the man who bought them all together, The Monocle, they have to put the past behind them and join forces again to save the world."

The creator of the Buffyverse revisits Angel and a million other things…

One year after its international debut, the Angel Collector’s Set is finally scheduled for an American release on October 30th. The set collects all 110 Angel episodes (with all the corresponding bonus features) into a single handsome box, topped with a signed letter from creator and executive producer (and occasional writer and director) Joss Whedon. To celebrate, we caught up with Mr. Whedon to ask about his memories of the series, the status of his many films, and his eventual return to TV.

So has the impending release of the Collector’s Set lead you to any new and profound insights about the Angel box set?

Oh yes. But unfortunately, they’re really dirty.

My editor will be thrilled!

[Laughs] My perspective on the series is changeable. I mean, I always love it, but I can never figure out which is the part that I love. That changes.

It’s certainly a show that has had a lot of distinctly different eras. Do you have a favorite, and least favorite?

You know, I love them all in a way, but I did enjoy the insanity and the darkness of Season 4 quite a bit. Season 4 was good times all around. And by then we had everyone in place, although by Season 5 we got James Marsters (Spike) and that was pretty amazing. Season 5 was fun in a challenging and limited way. We said “we’re going to completely shift the paradigm and throw the entire show on its ear.” And the network said “That’s great! You have less money.” Hiding that was the work of better men than I.

They certainly did a good job of it!

The producers and the production design people were extraordinary. I think the show never looked better, and we were actually doing it on a dime. It was like the first year of Buffy all over again—what can we make with this papier mâché? How much papier mâché can we have?

Were there any storylines in the series that didn’t turn out the way you had hoped?

We had to make some adjustments when Charisma was with child. That caused us to have her sleep with Connor rather earlier that one might believe. But since we were doing something evil with her anyway, we managed to get around it…But I’m always a big fan of adjustments. Throw us a curveball. Someone’s always going to leave, or someone’s going to show up who you have to have back, or they’re gonna bounce you around, or they’re gonna tell you to “make it more standalone,” which they did in Season 5. Season 4 was one giant episode, and Season 5 was little bits. There’s always going to be something that you don’t see coming, and usually your best work is going to come out of that.

Speaking of curveballs, I understand the original second episode of the show was killed because the network thought it took the show in too dark of a direction. What direction was that?

That’s true. Kate the cop, in the original script was a drug-addicted whore. She was in deep cover and her cover had gotten so deep that she was completely losing it. It was very dark, very grown up, very not-what-they-wanted [Laughs]. That was another curveball, but not a terrible one. It was just “guys, lighten up.” You know, it was me and David Greenwalt and you add some Tim Minear, and you’re going to get some darkness in there. They were like “Ok guys, that’s cute, but we are still the WB…Can you just ease up a little bit?” And that’s fair.

Did that really change the direction of the series? It ultimately had plenty of dark moments!

True, and we did take Kate to a somewhat dark place, we just took our time doing it. It was sort of like pitching Buffy with “The Body.” [Laughs] Once you have your sea legs, it’s different. It’s not like we were deliberately trying to be controversial. If the stakes aren’t high, then neither is the audience. So we push. Also, with Angel, you have a show about redemption that is coming from a very dark place…But you also have a very stalwart hero. You have a man who looks like he should be a hero, being the hero. Which means we’re going to flip that over and undercut it every chance we get. That brings out a lot of the comedy, and also brings out Angelus. We want to redefine that genre. We thought the show was going to be, as we liked to call it, “Touched by an Equalizer,” [If you don’t get the reference, ask your parents. Or Wikipedia.-ed] but we realized we can’t write that show. We can only write shows where terrible things happen to the people we love, and we come back every week to find out how they deal with it. joss-02.jpg

Did you have any plans for future Buffy/Angel crossovers that had to be

scrapped when Angel changed networks?

Well, we were going to ease out of it anyway. It was interesting when they were airing one after another and we could do tricks like the aborted phone call crossing over in the pilot, and of course the Spike & Darla “Fool for Love” episodes with the same flashback from two different perspectives. Stuff like that was a joy, and obviously those crossover episodes were among the best we did. But there was also a certain amount of relief when they were separated, and we could let the two of them go their own way. For example, we didn’t have to keep the same timeline on Angel necessarily, while Buffy always had to come back exactly three months later for the beginning of a new school year. We lost some opportunities, but it was also freeing. Of course, we still did have a couple of crossovers; David [Boreanaz] got to come back for the last Buffy, and no one ever made a fuss over that.

What can you tell us about the Angel: After the Fall comic series?

It came about because of Brian Lynch, the writer of the Spike mini-series, which I loved… I sat him down and gave him an overview of what we were planning to do with Angel’s sixth season, the sort of milieu. The story is different because we can go a lot further in comics, but we took the actual basic concept we were going to work with for the next season as our starting off point for the comic book. It’s not called Season 6 the way the Buffy comics were called Season 8, because I’m actually overseeing every single aspect of [the Buffy comic], while this is actually in Brian’s hands. But it came from a bunch of stuff that we went through together, which is really fun, because we had a fine bunch of stuff planned.

Do you have any reservations about stepping on the final statement of the series?

You know, I do and I don’t. The final statement of the series means a great deal to me…I had written the final statement in my head knowing that it would work just as well as a season ender as it would a series ender. I always did every season of every series that way. The only time I ever did a cliffhanger was when [Buffy] first moved to UPN and we had a two-year pick-up, so we knew we were coming back. But generally speaking, every season I expected to be cancelled, so every season finale was more or less the final statement I had to make on everything ever. And then it turned out to be that it really was the final statement. I had planned a Season 6, but obviously I knew [Angel was cancelled by the time we filmed it] or I would never have offed the characters that I did. But I had planned it, so I don’t mind something coming after it. The people who don’t want to accept the comic book don’t have to, and the people who want more, they shall have it.

So that would have been the ending to the season either way?

Yes, exactly. It takes on a resonance that it absolutely wouldn’t have had, had there been another season. It makes a lot of people angry because some people saw it as a cliffhanger, but I never did. I felt that really was the last thing that I needed to say. It doesn’t mean that it’s the last thing I necessarily will say.

As someone who has had to write two heavily scrutinized series finales, what did you think of the Sopranos finale?

Never saw it! I fell behind on my Sopranos, so I’ve been staying spoiler-free. I’ve missed most American television—I’ve missed most of everything. I have no idea what music or TV is going on, with very few exceptions. It’s embarrassing in front of other writers, because I sort of have to look at my feet and go “I’m sure it’s pretty good.” I don’t get out much. Actually, I don’t stay in much either. Where the TV is.

Is that purely a function of how busy you are?

It’s the work, plus kids. I always said “you either make TV or you watch it.” The thing is, I get addicted to things. So I don’t have video games. If I had a video game console in my house, I would never work again. So I have to dose myself. I mean, obviously I watch Battlestar, but that’s like air.

HOST Rove McManus and Silverchair's Daniel Johns talk to Jonathon Moran.

 Worried about over-exposure, Rove McManus bowed out of hosting duties for Australian music's biggest night a few years back.

But after taking a back seat for two years, he’s ready to give the ARIA Awards another shot.

“It wasn't until this year that I was ready to get back out there,'' McManus says.

“I felt like I didn't want it to just be me every year and you worry about being overexposed sometimes.''

McManus’s production company, Roving Enterprises, produces the awards and has done so for the past six years so he's always been heavily involved behind the scenes.

“The last couple of years we've been having rotating or multiple hosts,'' he says.

“But for a while there the idea of having one host through the whole event has been something that the ARIA board has wanted.

“So it will be good just to get it back to what we feel has made the ARIAs so successful over the last few years, just making it a real celebration of Australian music and, more importantly, the coolest gig in town to get tickets too.''

It's going to be a big night with many of Australia's top musicians up for awards.
Sneaky Sound System has the most to gain with six nominations, followed by John Butler Trio, who have five nominations.

Trailing not far behind are Powderfinger, Gotye and Silverchair, all up for four awards.

“Nominees-wise we have got some of the heavyweights in the industry at the moment up there so it is going to be really cool,'' McManus says.

And some well-known faces will join him as guest presenters, including James Mathison, Delta Goodrem, Darren Hayes, The Veronicas, Ben Lee and Dave Hughes.

Many of the nominees will perform tonight, including Powderfinger, Silverchair, Missy Higgins, Sneaky Sound System, Kate Miller-Heidke and Operator Please.

Silverchair's Daniel Johns said his band opted to perform earlier on in the night so they can enjoy the party.

“You have got to pace yourself,'' he says.

“It is a night to celebrate your rock n' rollism so I guess it is kind of ruleless, as long as you don't get up and make a total moron out of yourself.

“You should be able to have fun because it doesn't happen very often.''

It's been described as a comeback year for the Silverchair boys, with the release of their first album in five years, Young Modern.

Johns can't remember how many of the Aussie music awards he's attended in the past, although the band has secured a whopping 14 ARIA trophies.

“The night of the ARIA’s is always a concoction of emotions,'' he says.

“You feel really nervous and you feel really excited and then you feel really happy and then you feel really disappointed. As long as you experience one of each it is all right.''

Johns has never been one to parade along red carpets and admits he wants to get that part of the night over and done with as quickly as possible.

“I always just feel really sick with nerves every time,'' he says.

“It is very unnatural to be walking down a red carpet with millions of people screaming at you and taking your photo. It just feels really awkward.''

And then there is the dilemma of what to wear - a problem both sexes often struggle with.

Johns joked that he may walk the red carpet at Sydney's Acer Arena in a wedding gown, while McManus said he'd picked out something special.

“I don't want to give too much away but I've gone for something different,'' McManus hints.

“It is hard to explain because if I explain it will come off sounding completely shit or you will be left wondering how that will work.

“Without wanting to build it up too much, it will be at least a different look. It won't be a simple cut suit like I would normally have in the past.''
 
ARIA AWARDS RED CARPET, AWARD SHOW AND AFTER PARTY COVERAGE, SUN, FROM 2.30PM ON CHANNEL V.

ARIA AWARDS RED CARPET, 7PM, TEN; ARIA AWARDS, 8.30PM, TEN.

30 Seconds to Mars stopped by Argentina Rock and Pop radio to chat for a bit.. You can hear the show by downloading from the links below:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OEOX3GIG

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(both downloads are the same, there are two in case one decides NOT to work)

The Europe Music Awards are just 10 DAYS away, which means 240 HOURS of voting time until the awards are given out for the Rock Out and Inter Act categories on Novemver 1st.

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Let's kick it into overdrive.....we're facing stiff competition and this will be a true test of the power of the Echelon.

Vote until your fingers bleeeeeeeeed!!!!!

The Finnish publishers of the Harry Potter novels, Tammi, revealed today the cover art for their edition of the final book in author J. K. Rowling’s series. This edition of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” translated by Jaana Kapari-Jatta, is set for publication on March 7, 2008 and features the cover art from illustrator Mika Launis.

A source said: "James is making a big impact in Hollywood at the moment. Hollywood bosses are convinced he is the perfect choice to play Kurt Cobain."

The film will be largely based on Charles Cross's biography Heavier than Heaven.

Cobain's unpublished journals will also be used to fill in personal details for the screenplay, which is being penned by Troy writer David Benioff.

Cobain enjoyed massive success fronting Nirvana with bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl in the early 90s with hits like Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are, but his life was dogged by depression and drug use.

He was just 27 when he shot himself, leaving behind Courtney and their daughter Frances Bean Cobain, now 16.

The filming for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie was to take place this week in the village of Lacock, England. TLC reader Phil was thoughtful enough to take a few photos of Church Street, where several of the scenes are due to be filmed starting this Wednesday. You can see two of his photos here (note: no film crews or cast present).

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is currently in production, and will be released in theaters November 21, 2008.

Gloucestershire Cathedral, the backdrop for Hogwarts scenes in the first two Harry Potter movies has just been confirmed as a filming location for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Additionally, students from local schools, King's, Crypt and Denmark Road will be invited to audition for roles as extras in the film. There is no news yet as to when these scenes will be filmed.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own the personally signed Silver Sparkle G&N Bass Guitar used by Chris Joannou Bass guitarist for Silverchair.  This is his personal guitar that Chris has played for the past 9 years when touring overseas. He also played this guitar at all the concerts while touring Australia during the "Across the Great Divide" tour.

Chris is the patron of "Nathans Bequest" a charity set up by the Rotary Club of Sydney CBD to provide funds for research into youth suicide and to raise awareness of mental health issues experienced by young adults in our community.

Youth suicide is a major killer of young people in Australia and funds are urgently needed to assist organisations that help young adults suffering mental illness and to provide funds for research. 

Chris has also organised a framed "Across the Great Divide" tour poster including 2 CD covers signed by all members of the Silverchair and Powdefinger bands .

Bids for both of these items can be placed by accessing the "Silverchair CBD Rotary" site on Ebay at www.ebay.com.au and enter either Silverchair CBD Rotary or the following  listing codes 320172194426  320172221378  to take you directly to the auction or through the Silverchair website which will direct you to the Ebay site. This Auction is ON NOW.

BE AWARE this Ebay auction will close on the 1^st November, 2007 at 10.00am (Sydney - Australian time) so get your bids in early and regularly monitor the site for bid updates.

All funds raised from this auction will be used by the "Nathan's Bequest" committee to provide funds for research and to assist organisations that work with youth suffering from mental illness.

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The history:  Sweeney Todd, an unfairly sharp barber in prison of which family life was destroyed, swears to avenge itself to his exit.  Of return in city to reopen his shop, it becomes the "Demon To Bore of Fleet Street" that "shaves the throat of the gentlemen of which one not some hears more to speak after". 

"I always saw Dumbledore as gay," Rowling said in answer to a fan's question about whether the wizard ever found love.

The crowd of about 2,000 hardcore Harry fans, who had won tickets through a nationwide drawing, exploded in screams and applause at the news. Rowling moments later joked, "Oh my God, the fan fiction now!"

The books contain virtually no references to the headmaster's sexuality and even screenwriters working on an upcoming "Harry Potter" movie didn't have an inkling, Rowling said.

She was recently reading a script draft in which Dumbledore reminisces about a girl he was once attracted to. "I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the script writer: 'Dumbledore's gay,' " Rowling said.

She told fans that they might read between the lines when they examine the relationship that unfolds in Book 7 between Dumbledore and his fellow wizard Gellert Grindelwald. "Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald," she said, but their friendship went awry with disastrous consequences.

The revelations about Dumbledore, who dies in Book 6, were unplanned and a surprise to Scholastic, Rowling's U.S. publisher, which sponsored four special readings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows across the country this week. Scholastic spokeswoman Kyle Good said afterward, "That's the first time she's brought that up."

Good brushed off any suggestion of controversy, saying fans could handle the news. "The conversation on fan sites about the characters is endless," she said. "This means there'll just be more of it."

The books have sold 350 million worldwide, more than 140 million are in print in the United States.

A quick survey of fans at the event revealed total support for Dumbledore's posthumous coming out. "He had a feminine quality to him, a sort of motherly quality as well as fatherly," said Kristen Coppola, 31, of Selden, N.Y.

She said fans wouldn't abandon the books because of the revelations. "I think a true fan wouldn't care if that comes out. Like she said, she wants the books to break all kinds of prejudices — why not that one?"

Her friend Kim Saldin, 36, of East Northport, N.Y., agreed. "I think it's great — she hadn't revealed any gay characters in the past, and they exist in society, so why not in the book? Some people are going to go nuts, but I think most people aren't going to care."

Outside Carnegie Hall, Vicky McKinley, 50, stood dressed as an English schoolboy, handing out cards for her fan site thepensieve.org. McKinley, who said she is gay, said the news "could be huge." The Chicago resident didn't exactly suspect that Dumbledore was gay, but added, "Maybe I had it in the back of my mind."

She added, "I think it's great that she can be so open-minded and that she had the courage to finally speak up about it."

As she walked out of the reading with her little sister, Pamela Misir, 35, of New York City, said she'd re-read the books (she's read them three times already) to find references she might have missed. "I never pictured him in that type of relationship, a love relationship."

"I love Dumbledore still," she said. "It just makes him more interesting. It makes him more human. ... It doesn't change who he is. It doesn't change what he did. he's still the lovable Dumbledore, mentor and father figure to Harry — to all of us."

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