Brian Wilson and Motorhead have both been confirmed as headliners for this year's GuilFest which takes place from July 10-12.

Wilson, whose songs include "Surfin' USA", "I Get Around" and "Good Vibrations" will perform at the three day Guilford-based festival on Saturday July 11.

Motorhead, fronted by legendary rocker Lemmy Kilmister will headline on Friday July 10, playing tracks from their 24 album career.

A further 200 acts are still to be confirmed for GuilFest, stay tuned to uncut.co.uk for details over the next few months.

Day and weekend passes are available now from www.guilfest.co.uk

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FALL OUT BOY have announced that they will be joined on tour by 50 Cent.

The rapper will be the band's special guest star on their upcoming tour and will join them for five dates in April, including shows in Denver, Texas, North Carolina and Maryland.

50 Cent said: "This will be a major moment in music history. Joining forces with Fall Out Boy, one of the most dynamic rock bands in the industry, will be an exciting and historic event for rock and hip-hop.

"This is a chance for me to bring my music not only to hip-hop fans, but to a broader music audience."

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz said: "We've been fans of 50 since we heard 'W**ksta' in 8 Mile.

"We've wanted to do something with him for awhile, and having him out on the tour is gonna take the show to a whole new level.

"It's exciting to bring two different genres together and give the fans a new experience."

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The Zombies have confirmed the April 20th UK and European DVD release of "Odessey and Oracle Revisited: The 40TH Anniversary Concert".

Mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound, and boasting an exclusive 2008 filmed interview, the DVD was originally filmed during March 2008 when the band performed three sold out nights at the London Shepherd's Bush Empire. The gigs were attended by Paul Weller, Robert Plant, Robyn Hitchcock, Snow Patrol and Garbage.

The release of the live DVD coincides with The Zombies' last-ever UK concert performances of the "Odessey and Oracle" album. The band will perform the milestone 1968 album at the Glasgow ABC (April 21), Bristol Colston Hall (April 23), Manchester Bridgewater Hall (April 24) and London Hammersmith Apollo (April 25). Ticket Hotline: 08700 600 100. Book Online: www.ticketweb.co.uk.

This will be the very last time the remaining original line-up of The Zombies will perform the entirety of this seminal album in the UK. The original founding members include Rod Argent (keyboards), Colin Blunstone (vocals), Hugh Grundy (drums), Chris White (bass).

When the album was originally released in 1968, it was cited as being one of the most significant and influential psychedelic album of all time, and is often compared to The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" and the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds"

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Eighteen years is nothing to sneeze at. When the band Counting Crows signed with Geffen Records in the early '90s, it was the start of the grunge era. They were an odd fit then (bursting through with the occasional hit like Mr Jones), and now, with the label an entirely different place, they're more of an odd fit.

Which might explain why they're leaving Geffen after an 18-year run. Singer Adam Durvitz took to the band's website to explain their decision, saying, "When Counting Crows signed our first record contract, we were an unknown band signed to DGC, the cool indie-flavored boutique label of Geffen Records."

Durvitz remembers the Geffen of yesteryear

"Our label mates were Sonic Youth, The Posies, Nirvana, The Sundays, Maria McKee and That Dog, to name a few," Durvitz continues, "Bands knew each other, played on each other's records, toured together. It was a dream environment...

"A lot of things changed in seventeen years. DGC disappeared except as a logo on our records, and Geffen became one of many labels of a much larger conglomerate. Still, Geffen and Counting Crows never stopped working together and never stopped succeeding together. We made great music and together we sold a lot of records. We're still here.

"The Internet opens a world of limitless possibility, where the only boundaries are the boundaries of your own imagination. We want a chance to push those boundaries back as far as we can. Unfortunately, the directions we want to go and the opportunities we want to pursue are often things that our label is simply not allowed to do…We all want what's best for everyone which is why we've decided to part ways."

One can read a lot into Durvitz's comments (and you can check out his entire post here), but one thing we take from it is that the band could be plotting a Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails-type scenario.

Whether Counting Crows give their music away for free remains to be seen, but they're off to something of a start. On their website they're offering a free download of their cover of Madonna's Borderline, recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall.

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Mick Jones, guitarist and songwriter with The Clash and producer of The Libertines, today opens his own 'rock & roll library'.

Jones has been collecting music and culture paraphernalia for most of his 53 years. The collection includes books, magazines, videos, stage clothes, instruments, flight cases, records, amplifiers and recording gear, posters, original song lyrics and much more.

Rarities include rare David Bowie tapes and hand-written poems by Allen Ginsberg.

Jones says: "Since the millennium I've been on a mission. The world didn't end so I thought it was time to share [the collection] with others. On one level it's a way of finding out if all this stuff from the 20th century means anything in the new century.

"It means something to me. A lot of my life is tied up in this. But does it mean anything to others?"

The collection includes a gold disc for the debut Clash's debut album.

Jones says: "There's a funny story connected to this. I didn't know you could play a gold disc, but we put it on and it was an album by Abba.

"They [the record company] just sprayed it gold, put a label on it, and recycled it."

You can visit the exhibition in Chelsea, London, from 18 March.

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The early life of John Lennon is coming to the screen in a film called Nowhere Boy, and The Weinstein Company has just picked up the picture, currently lensing in Liverpool.

Starring as Lennon is actor Aaron Johnson, who played the young Edward Norton in The Illusionist. English Patient star Kristen Scott Thomas will portray Lennon's fiercely protective Aunt Mimi, who battled his mother Julia for custody.

Nowhere Boy will explore the relationship between the two woman and Lennon, and will also detail the close bond the future Beatle formed with Paul McCartney.

It is said that the picture concludes with The Beatles - or were they still The Silver Beatles? - heading to Hamburg, Germany, where they would develop into a powerful rock 'n' roll band.

The play's the thing

"It starts with the script," says Weinstein Company honcho Tom Ortenberg, who describes Nowhere Boy as "a relatable Beatles coming-of-age story about a young boy finding his place in the world, finding his passion, as his mother Julia introduces him to music and guitar when he's 15. There's something in it for everyone."

The screenplay was written by Matt Greenhalgh (who penned the recent New Order biopic Control), and the picture is being directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, whose Buzzcocks-inspired short Love You More debuted at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

No doubt the folks at the Weinstein Company are hoping Nowhere Boy goes to "the toppermost of the poppermost" - Oscar-wise, that is.

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