Jet Added To Live 8

Australia will now have three ambassador's at Live 8 with the announcement that Jet has been added to the bill.
Melbourne's Jet will play from the Canadian Toronto show in the suburb of Barrie this Saturday.
They join fellow Melbourne artist Tina Arena, who will perform in Paris, and Queensland's Keith Urban, who is scheduled to appear at the Philadelphia show.
Live 8 will be broadcast in Australia on Fox8 and can also be heard nationally on the Triple M and Austereo radio networks.

Look out Ireland, here comes Sheedy

Sheedy, the AFL's longest-serving coach, will replace Garry Lyon for the annual Australia-Ireland competition.
He will be the first to combine club and international coaching.

Sheedy, 57, will take up his duties immediately after Essendon completes its commitments this year, and will take a team to Ireland in 2006.

The appointment gives further credibility to the international rules concept and comes on top of an AFL commitment for another 10 years.
Collingwood coach Michael Malthouse and former Richmond coach Danny Frawley had been linked to the role, but the AFL will be thrilled to have Sheedy.

Not only is he a four-time premiership coach, he is the busiest and most imaginative marketing force in the game. Despite his origins, he is bound to have the Irish scratching their heads.

Sheedy always has been a staunch supporter of representative football and toured Ireland as a player with Harry Beitzel's teams in the 1960s and '70s
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Today's appointment is the first hint of Sheedy looking beyond a career as a club coach, which started in 1981.

He has two seasons to run at Essendon, but there has been a school of thought for several years he will finish with the AFL in an ambassadorial role.

Lyon coached Australia from 2001-04. He followed Dermott Brereton, who followed Leigh Matthews.

Foo Fighters Have The Fastest Selling Album of the Year

Foo Fighters 'In Your Honor' is officially the fastest selling album so far this year in Australia.

'In Your Honor' sold 47912 units in the first week, beating the previous year's best from Anthony Callea (41524), Coldplay (40738), Jack Johnson (29154), Black Eyed Peas (25447) and System of a Down (25069).

Last year, U2 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' had first week sales of 47,972. Robbie Williams 'Greatest Hits' sold 64,346 in the Christmas week.

Black Eyed Peas 'Elephunk' achieved a number one week in August 2004 with just 6293 units sold.

Virtual Ads

Anthony Ward made up some quick banners for "What Not & So Forth" and put them in their game of Counter Strike after a kill.

Rocketman

Now I know why Craig drinks so much Coke.
I can see him doing this one day.

What's your Top 8

I've attempted to start a website devoted to poeples favourite songs of all time.

In collaberation with Scott Mac Web Design, We here at WNASF are inviting everyone to join in and take part in our little venture.

Visit this website and, useing the Email link, leave a list of your greatest eight songs of all time.
We understand that squeezing your favourites into a list of just eight can be difficult, So we are allowing you an additional eight omissions.
Also let us know your-

Best Solo ever
Best Intro
Best Outtro
Best Section
Best Lyrics
Best Cover
Best Band
Best Band pre 2000
Best Guitar
Best Live
(Cut and paste this list into your email)

Neil Murray Wins Environmental Award

Australian singer/songwriter Neil Murray has been granted the Glenelg Hopkins CMA Award for his work for the environment.

Murray has worked with community organizations including the hEEling Walk and Eel Festival in Lake Bolac to help raise awareness on environmental issues.

Neil Murray commented, "Although the award is an individual award I could not have done (the heeling walk) without the help of a lot of like minded people. People who feel, like myself, a deep and abiding connection to the land and a desire to live in harmony with it."

"Neil's ability to bring together a community for the common goal of raising awareness on a range of issues makes him a true environmental achiever", said Colin Dunkley, CEO, Glenelg Hopkins CMA.

Neil Murray is a founding member of Warumpi Band and penned two Australian classic tunes, My Island Home, later released by Christine Anu, and a song that I have in my TOP 8 greatest songs, Black Fella White Fella, later covered by Powderfinger.

Sold to the highest bidder

I'm going to be renovating both my bathrooms in the next month or two.
So you can imagine my excitement when I came across this little item on Charlie's blog.

Now I'm going to have to re-think my whole tile colour sheme.

LITTLE DO THEY KNOW

Something For Kate is sticking up for chickens. The Melbourne band has joined People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and released an advertisement condemning Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The ad shows the band crouched in a glass tube and features the statement "Cramped, Scared, Abused: See Life Through the Eyes of a KFC Chicken".

SFK wish to pressure KFC to improve welfare at its factory and abattoir suppliers.
PETA's investigation has uncovered alleged animal abuses including crippled chickens living in crowded, filthy conditions and sadistically tortured.

In other SFK news, the band has returned to the studio and is working on the next album. A release date is yet to be determined.

Really Really Don't "Love'em"

Foo Fighters To Play Roswell

Foo Fighters are heading to Roswell, the place where mysterious UFO was allegedly sighted and an alien captured in the 40s.

Foo Fighters will perform for 500 fans at a one-off invitation only gig at walker Air Force base later this month.

The base is where the U.S. government allegedly stored evidence from the crash of a mysterious unidentified flying object in July 1947.

"This is a long overdue and historic moment for this band," says Foo Fighters founder Dave Grohl. "Despite being in a band called Foo Fighters, having a label called Roswell Records, and being a total UFO nut, I have never been to Roswell, NM. So the fact that we finally get to go to Roswell and play a gig in the same hangar where they allegedly stored the remains of the 1947 UFO crash blows my mind. I can't think of a better way to celebrate the band's 10 year anniversary."

Foo Fighters took their name from similarly mysterious unidentified glowing balls that Allied and German pilots reported seeing at night during World War II. The pilots dubbed these objects "foo fighters," after a popular comic strip of the era.

They named their record label Roswell Records.

Live 8 Is Coming

Sir Bob Geldof has officially announced the Live 8 concert.
Live 8 will be held on July 2 and take place simultaneously in London, Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin and Rome.
It will coincide with the G8 Summit on July 6 - 9 in Gleneagles, Scotland which brings together the leaders of the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia.

Here's where the concerts are taking place and who is performing:

Hyde Park, London-
Coldplay, Dido, Keane, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Madonna, Muse, Razorlight, Scissor Sisters, Paul McCartney, Joss Stone, Stereophonics, Sting, Robbie Williams, U2, REM, Velvet Revolver, Bob Geldof, The Killers, The Cure, Snow Patrol

Museum of Art, Philadelphia-
Will Smith (host), Bon Jovi, Maroon 5, P Diddy, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, The Dave Matthews Band, Sarah McLachlan, Rob Thomas, Keith Urban, 50 Cent, Kaiser Chiefs

Eiffel Tower, Paris-
Jamiroquai, Craig David, Youssou N'Dour, Yannick Noah, Andrea Bocelli, Calo Gero, Kyo, Placebo, Axelle Red, Johnny Halliday, Manu Chao, Renaud

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin-
A-ha, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Brian Wilson, Lauryn Hill, Bap, Die Toten Hosen, Peter Maffay

Circus Maximus, Rome-
Duran Duran, Faith Hill, Irene Grandi, Jovanotti, Tim McGraw, Nek, Laura Pasini, Vasco Rossi, Zucchero