Briefly: Janet Jackson, Mick Jagger, Jewel
plus: Musicians, their instruments and air travel. The Philadelphia Experiment plans three concert dates. U.S. law enforcement targets raves.
HBO will broadcast " Janet Jackson : All for You: Live in Concert from Hawaii" on Feb. 17. The concert will take place at Honolulu's Aloha Stadium.
Mick Jagger , 58, performed a solo show at the 800-capacity El Rey Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday night (11/16).
According to a Reuters, "organizers paid dozens of young models $100 each to surround the small stage and catwalk, and shooed away regular-looking people. The cute young faces earned their money by shrieking and clawing at Jagger's skinny legs as he pranced past them."
According to Jagger's official website, the new single "God Gave Me Everything" was taped, and will be broadcast as part of a documentary titled "Being Mick," which airs on ABC-TV on Nov. 22.
Jagger reportedly told the crowd that the El Rey performance would be his only one in support of his album "Goddess in the Doorway," due out on Tuesday (11/20).
Jewel is scheduled to perform the National Anthem prior to the world heavyweight boxing title rematch between Hasim "The Rock" Rahman and Lennox Lewis. The match takes place at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Saturday (11/17).
Pollstar reported that a music-industry coalition is fighting to ensure that airport-security legislation takes into account traveling musicians who need to treat their instruments as carry-on items.
The coalition, led by the American Federation of Musicians, "is concerned that storage of instruments in an airplane's cargo hold could result in damage due to climatic changes, excessive turbulence or rough handling."
Though rap-jazz quintet the Philadelphia Experiment was originally conceived as a studio project, the group has decided to play three December concert dates. They are: the 14th at the State Theater in Washington, D.C., the 15th at Theater of Living Artis in Philadelphia and the 16th at the Bowery Ballroom in New York.
From the Austin Chronicle's cover story on the future of the rave scene:
The American rave movement ... is suddenly facing the kind of coordinated law-enforcement attention that the U.K. experienced way back in the summer of 1994.There, legal skirmishes over the increasingly prevalent amounts of ecstasy flooding the country's nightclubs eventually resulted in the widely despised Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, a draconian brace of laws that dramatically increased the constabulary and New Scotland Yard's powers, including the removal of the right to silence and much wider search and seizure powers. Most astonishingly, the act targeted raves with precision specificity, defining a rave as anywhere with over 100 people playing or listening to "music characterized by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats," and allowing the police to break up gatherings with as few as 10 individuals.
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