Smashing Pumpkins, Lenny Kravitz, Iggy Pop To Model Live Music At Fashion Awards

Iggy Pop, runway model?

While it's unknown whether the godfather of punk will take a turn on the catwalk or not, Pop has been tapped to perform along the Smashing Pumpkins, Janet Jackson, Lenny Kravitz at this year's VH1 Fashion Awards.

The show, which last year featured a performance by the Rolling Stones, will once again utilize live music to underscore the growing fusion between music and fashion.

The 1998 VH1 Fashion Awards will be recorded before a live audience at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City on October 23, with the show scheduled to be broadcast on October 27 at 9 p.m.

He [Billy] stayed around to talk with the announcers on TV during the bottom of the 7th. He basically talked about coming to Wrigley with his grandmother in the 70s. He also talked about how the strike disillusioned him, but that the Cubs have brought him back to baseball for the right reasons. Also said that he was good luck for the team sarcastically since the Cubs were losing. This is all I caught of the interview after he sang because I left the room.

I live in France, and I've watched the interview of Billy on MCM at least ten times. Billy was being sarcastic when he said "It will be back to Grunge", the interview wasn't really good due to the bad questions, so Billy tried to be smart and said that he had some huge Rock & Roll plans for the future and at the end of the interview he said that he was going back to Grunge (he was smilling when he said that). Then when the reporter said "Great, that's good news", Billy said "yeah right" - those were the last words he said.

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GARBAGE RECORD WITH CORGAN
AND GROHL ON THE ROAD

GARBAGE are recording a new album while on tour and BillyCorgan and Dave Grohl are among guest musicians who havealready made contributions.

The new songs have been taking shape during the band's recentsummer spate of European festival appearances. Butch Vig hastold friends that the impetus for the album came about whileGarbage were forced to wait for World Cup '98 football matchesto finish earlier this year. Most of the European festivals the bandplayed delayed their main stage appearances while video screensbroadcast the tournament matches to the audiences.

More new album material will be recorded during the band'ssoundchecks on their upcoming US tour which begins later thismonth. The band have also been recording all their Europeanfestival shows, tentatively for inclusion on forthcoming B-sides.

A mid-price Garbage live album is also being mooted for release,possibly before Christmas.

Meanwhile, despite being nominated in eight categories, Garbagefailed to receive a single MTV Video Award at the ceremony heldlast Thursday. A spokesman said the band were "obviouslydisappointed but hadn't expected to win anything".

"I work in a music store and yesterday we got all the new releases that arecoming out. One that was listed:

'An Evening with The Smashing Pumpkins' 2CD LIVE
Ttentative date: November 17

If you don't believe... see for yourself in the new Billboard magazine(Madonna's on the cover). Look in the "In the studio" part, it has thatCD listed as one of the live Cds being mixed by Paul Harris.