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INXS announces new album with different singers and 2010 World Tour INXS plans new album, world tour with 'guest vocalists,' to begin in Vcr Module body Tue Dec 8, 4:20 PM By Nick Patch, The Canadian Press ADVERTISEMENT TORONTO - INXS has announced a new album featuring a group of guest singers and a world tour that will kick off with a show at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Following a two-year hiatus from touring, INXS has been in the studio collaborating with "some of the best-known singers from across the world," according to a representative from the band. A spokeswoman for the band would not confirm whether INXS's former frontman, Canadian J.D. Fortune, is part of the new album, due out 2010. She said an announcement about the singers for the show would be made in the coming days. According to the band's rep, their Feb. 24 show at Vancouver's BC Place - announced Tuesday as part of a series of Olympic concerts - will kickstart one of the band's "most extensive world tours ever." "We said early this year that INXS was embarking on their most exciting project since 'Kick,' and we're not here to disappoint," Petrol Electric creative director and founder CM Murphy said in a release. "2010 will be one of the most dynamic, creative and diverse projects the band has undertaken." Fortune - from Mississauga, Ont., - made headlines in February when he claimed that the band unceremoniously dumped him at a Hong Kong airport after a 23-month tour, leaving him to live out of a truck. There was no mention of the upcoming tour Tuesday afternoon on Fortune's website. INXS had a string of hits in the 1980s and '90s, including "Need You Tonight," "Devil Inside" and "Never Tear Us Apart." In 1997, the band's charismatic lead singer, Michael Hutchence, hanged himself in a hotel room. Since then, the group has had a series of lead singers, including Terence Trent D'Arby and Jon Stevens. Fortune shot to stardom when he won the television reality contest "Rock Star: INXS" in 2005 and became the new frontman for the Aussie rock group. A song he wrote on the show called "Pretty Vegas" became a popular single off the band's subsequent album, "Switch," reaching No. 1 on the charts in Canada. But following the "Switch" tour, Fortune says the band dumped him at an airport. The band has since disputed the story, with a spokesman saying he wasn't even sure where the supposed incident Fortune referred to was to have taken place. Other performers for the Vancouver Victory Ceremonies include Nelly Furtado, Barenaked Ladies and Billy Talent. A performance is scheduled each night at BC Place from Feb. 14 to 26, and they will be accompanied by the presentation of Olympic medals in sports including speedskating, snowboarding and freestyle skiing. Tickets range from $22 to $50. The concerts will air nightly on MuchMusic "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said: Since then, the group has had a series of lead singers, including Terence Trent D'Arby
 really? how long did that last? i never knew that, but would've loved to have heard them.
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CHIC0 said: lastdecember said: Since then, the group has had a series of lead singers, including Terence Trent D'Arby
really? how long did that last? i never knew that, but would've loved to have heard them.Oh you HAVE to find it on youTube. I've seen it. There are about 4 or 5 videos. It was a short time after Michael died. They did 3 or 4 songs, and TTD's voice was SO fitting w/ the group. I wish he had done an album with them or something. The vidz are online though. | |
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ernestsewell said: CHIC0 said: really? how long did that last? i never knew that, but would've loved to have heard them.Oh you HAVE to find it on youTube. I've seen it. There are about 4 or 5 videos. It was a short time after Michael died. They did 3 or 4 songs, and TTD's voice was SO fitting w/ the group. I wish he had done an album with them or something. The vidz are online though. great!!! thanks i wil YouTube them. 
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ernestsewell said: CHIC0 said: really? how long did that last? i never knew that, but would've loved to have heard them.Oh you HAVE to find it on youTube. I've seen it. There are about 4 or 5 videos. It was a short time after Michael died. They did 3 or 4 songs, and TTD's voice was SO fitting w/ the group. I wish he had done an album with them or something. The vidz are online though. They were doing some one off shows, and i think it was best suited to stay that way. For what INXS had been through, it was good to have fill ins here and there because they werent even sure they were going to play together at all, but i think the "bigness" of both Terence and the Inxs name and history would have not worked overall, its kind of how George Michael was always the person on"paper" that people thought should be with Queen, but in reality that would have never worked for more than a concert. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said: ernestsewell said: Oh you HAVE to find it on youTube. I've seen it. There are about 4 or 5 videos. It was a short time after Michael died. They did 3 or 4 songs, and TTD's voice was SO fitting w/ the group. I wish he had done an album with them or something. The vidz are online though. They were doing some one off shows, and i think it was best suited to stay that way. For what INXS had been through, it was good to have fill ins here and there because they werent even sure they were going to play together at all, but i think the "bigness" of both Terence and the Inxs name and history would have not worked overall, its kind of how George Michael was always the person on"paper" that people thought should be with Queen, but in reality that would have never worked for more than a concert. Yeah, it's kind of insulting to TTD to say he was part of the band when in reality it was only a one off thing. Ditto the method of Hutchence's death. Did a twelve year old write this press release? Space for sale... | |
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So who's gonna sing on this tour? | |
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rainman1985 said: So who's gonna sing on this tour?
To me they actually need JD on the record. I dont like this idea of random vocalists, unless its some sort of tribute record with the band backing the vocalists, but to do a new album with all different vocals, is a little strange, I know Chris Murphy is back in the project, and he swore he would never work with INXS if they let JD back in, but then he also said later on that they need him as the front man? so who knows what will happen "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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It's fucking VanHalen all over again. Actually, I'd like to hear David Lee Roth sing "Guns In The Sky" or "Suicide Blonde", just for the shits of it. | |
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ernestsewell said: CHIC0 said: really? how long did that last? i never knew that, but would've loved to have heard them.Oh you HAVE to find it on youTube. I've seen it. There are about 4 or 5 videos. It was a short time after Michael died. They did 3 or 4 songs, and TTD's voice was SO fitting w/ the group. I wish he had done an album with them or something. The vidz are online though. | |
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