No Doubt Australia

• A number of behind the scenes photos from the Harajuku Lovers fragrance photo shoot have been added to their official Flickr page, check them out here. 
• I was in the Perfume Connection today, and they’re the only store I’ve seen so far to have any kind of promotional stuff for the fragrance.

• Myer and the Perfume Connection are both selling a new L gift set for $130, it contains the 100ml bottle, 30ml bottle, shower gel and body lotion. 
 

• Thanks to RobotInDisguise, Sanity are now selling the Gwen’s charity Whatever It Takes shirts for $19.95 (they’re pink with the sketched logo). 
• Toys R Us also have the season two Gwen dolls on sale for $24.

• Thanks to Anne for this:
‘Little Brown Book, Bloomingdale’s custom publication, will celebrate music in its November issue. Gwen Stefani talks about her glamorous life in the issue, for which she also designed the cover. Tony Bennett talks music, style and art. Justin Timberlake and Trace Ayala, creators of the William Rast fashion line, contribute a style scrapbook featuring their holiday secrets. And, each of the magazine’s “Insiders Only” offers relate to music - whether it’s tickets to The Grammy Awards or the opportunity to purchase a print of a signed, numbered album from The Beatles.’ 

• Thanks to Jenny, from NME.com:
‘James Brown, Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dogg and TV On The Radio are among the acts to have donated items to the 20th annual Rock for Kids Rock & Roll Charity Auction taking place next month in Chicago.
The auction will raise money for Chicago’s homeless and underprivileged children, and so far has raised over $3 million over its 20 year existence.’
A signed jacket of Gwen’s will be available for the auction.

• The Rossdale’s are headed back to London, which is why Zuma was getting his passport photo taken last week. X17 Online have photos from the airport. 

• As previously reported, Gabe is currently on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins playing horns, along with Kris Pooley who played keyboards on Gwen’s solo tours. Well now it turns out that Steve has also joined! I’ll hunt down some videos soon.

• Nina posted on the No Doubt Community today, also urging fans in California to vote no on Proposition 8
“Hey Guys, If you happen to be of voting age and live in California, I urge you to vote No ON PROP 8!! There is absolutely NO justification for hatred and inequality. I thought we had gotten rid of discrimination. All human beings are equal. No one is better than anyone else. Someone else’s right to marry doesn’t affect your life at all. If this passes, we are proving that we are as biased now as we were racist in the past. Thanks so much!” 

• ‘Sober’ has been confirmed as the second single from Pink’s album Funhouse, co-written by Tony.

• From No Doubt.com:
‘We wanted to share with you the first photo of Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale. Gwen, Gavin, Kingston and Zuma are all doing well and enjoying being a party of four.’

• Just Jared and Celebrity Gossip also have a few candids of Gwen, Gavin and Zuma at the library. Zuma was being photographed for his first passport!

• Tom has posted a quick update on his website, asking people in the US to consider voting ‘no on prop 8‘, which would mean a law is brought in not to allow gay marriage in California.

• Nordstrom and Zappos have both added quite a few new L.A.M.B shoes.

• Just Jared have posted the first photo of Zuma!
‘Here is the very first picture of Zuma Rossdale, the 2-month-old son of rocker couple Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. Yes, it’s not the best photo in the world, but it’s better than nothing!
This photo of baby Zuma was snapped this past Saturday night at an early Halloween celebration at Gwen’s brother Todd’s house in West Hollywood. Gwen dressed up as a sunny-side-up egg while Gavin brought home the bacon.’

• Thanks to Paulo, as previously mentioned Tom, Tony and Adrian all contributed to writing on the new Scott Weiland (formerly of Stone Temple Pilots) album. You can now watch the video for one of the tracks ‘Paralysis’ on Youtube. Adrian plays drums on the song, and all three ND members contributed to the writing. 

• For anyone who doesn’t know, the Smashing Pumpkins are my all time second favourite band after No Doubt, and I’ve always been looking for some kind of connection that the two had. The other week i found out that Kris Pooley who played keyboards for Gwen’s tour recently married Ginger Reyes, the new bass player for the Smashing Pumpkins (replacing D’arcy).
The following was brought to my attention by another Smashing Pumpkins fan, it turns out that Gabe will be played horns on Sunkissed at a Guitar Hero party the Smashing Pumpkins did over the weekend, and will be playing on their upcoming 20th anniversary tour in the US.

From Keight Beaven.com:
‘I grabbed this poster, and sat down next to Tony something from No Doubt. We started chatting about the Smashing Pumpkins show that I am going to on Sat which went like this:
Keight: This is insane! I love the 90s and to see Jane’s Addiction tonight and then Smashing Pumkins on Sat is like blowing my mind.
Tony: Yeah…wait…Smashing Pumpkins is playing on Saturday? Where?
Keight: At this Gutar Hero party at Best Buy.
Tony: In LA?
Keight: Um yeah. 
Tony: How did I not know about this? How did you know about this?
Keight: My friend is throwing the party. I can email him tomorrow if you wanna go. 
Tony: I think I’ll be ok, but this is weird. The guy that plays horns in my band is rehearsing with them and going to go on tour with them, so that’s why its weird I didn’t know about the show. Are you sure?
Keight: yes. I have a barcode.’

This video of the Smashing Pumpkins performing their new single G.L.O.W at the Spike Scream Awards looks as though Kris joined them on keyboards. I have yet to find anything with Gabe in it, but I will post some as soon as I do.

• Thanks to Pablo for bringing this to our attention, there’s a song titled “Freak Out” that has been registered to the ASCAP that was co-written by Tony, along with Jimmy Harry (who has written/produced for Britney, Kylie, Kelly Clarkson and others). It’s possible that this track was written for Pink’s new album.

• Okay I have some updates on the Harajuku Lovers fragrance in Australia! I went to Chadstone yesterday and visited David Jones and Myer. Myer had only just put out the 5pc gift set (five 10ml bottles) and will be selling it for $125. They didn’t have to 30ml bottles out yet but will be selling those for $60. They will be doing the proper launch the week after Melbourne Cup week (around Wednesday November 12th). They also said there will be a gift with purchase which will be the bracelet that was available in the US. 

David Jones (in Chadstone) didn’t have anything out, but since Myer is their main competitor they said they will try and get it out asap. They didn’t know if they would be doing a gift with purchase.

I also visited Myer in Knox City, they had both the individual bottles and the gift packs out, but said they were keeping it very low-key for now until the proper launch in a few weeks. They had a few cards out for spraying testers, but it was very minimal (see photo below).
If anyone is thinking of buying the perfumes I suggest waiting a couple of weeks until it’s been officially launched. 

• Thanks to Rosemarie, Just Jared have a new interview up on their site with Gavin discussing their plans for Halloween:
 JJ: Halloween is coming up. Do you and Gwen have any Halloween plans yet?
GR: Yeah, her brother is having a party, so we’re going to that. I’m playing that night and then we’re gonna go off and I don’t know. She’s really good at that stuff. I’m English so we’re too uptight to be good at that stuff. I’d like dress as doctor and nurse but covered in blood. That’s great. So anything to do with blood would probably be good.

JJ: Are Kingston and Zuma going to be be dressing up? 
GR: Yea, Kingston has like three outfits. He’s got a rhino, a tiger and I think an elephant, so he’s got to choose between them. We keep rotating them. He’s got style like his Mom. 

JJ: Have Kingston and Zuma started fighting yet?
GR: It’s mainly a one-sided fight right now because Zuma’s pretty defenseless. But he’s not a small baby, so I think that Kingston’s got a couple years left and then he’s gonna get in trouble.

JJ: Do you and Gwen plan to start your own foundation to give back?
GR: Yeah, that would be good, wouldn’t it? We have talked about that. It’s kind of a leap of faith to have your own foundation because you gotta be super successful unless it’s a really small foundation. I did this event last week called The Lily Claire Foundation and I played the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. I played like a few songs there and it’s such a good feeling when you do something like that that isn’t about you so. I’ll tell Gwen that you suggested it.

• The Giant Peach are having a 10% off storewide sale until monday, prices are already marked down on the site.
• Pink’s album Funhouse was released this week if anyone wants to check it out for Tony’s tracks.

• Thanks to Jillian, ShopBop have added some new L.A.M.B Fall 2008 items, and for today only you can get 20% any items that aren’t on sale with the code ‘TREATS2008′.

• Also thanks to Jillian & the original (unknown) poster on Live Journal, some photos from last week’s L.A.M.B trunk show previewing new items can be found here. Other info:
“Order sheets had about 120 items being released in 4 shipments. Each shipment is a different collection named and inspired by 4 regions of India.
January (AKA Jaipur) is the most subtly colored of the shipments
February (AKA Darjeeling)- Fall-like colors. Oranges, browns and creams. Lots of intricate patterns on dresses and tanks.
March (AKA Madras) is more fun, more spring and getting away from the prints and moving onto solids and stripes.
April (AKA Goa)Most colorful. Bold bright patterns in electric pink, clementine and green”

• Thanks to Lauren, it looks like the theme of the next season of Harajuku Lovers will be a cuckoo/Dutch theme to tie in with one of the current bag designs. This seller on ebay has a number of new items, mainly thermals, all following that theme. 

• It looks like Gwen’s Harajuku Lovers fragrance has finally hit Australia! Thanks to Ali, David Jones are selling the 30ml bottles for $60, and that’s the only size they have. No word yet as to whether Myer have them, but I think it would be a safe assumption that they would. Just a reminder too that David Jones also stock Gwen’s charity Whatever It Takes mug & plate. 

• Nordstrom have added a number of new Fall 2008 L.A.M.B items to their site.
• The Giant Peach have added a large number of new Harajuku Lovers bags.

• Pink will be performing on the ARIAs tonight, I’m not sure what she’ll be singing but Sober is going to be the second single released from her new album (co-written with Tony), so it’s a possibility she’ll perform that. Watch just in case!

• Happy birthday to Gwen, she turns 39 today! 
 

• I was in Hype DC on Chapel St yesterday and was told by one of the sales people that they don’t think the company will be ordering the shoes anymore. They also said that they’d sent all the ones they had left to the Bourke St store in Melbourne, so grab them while you can!

• Thanks to nxdmarryme for this info regarding the new ND album - “I spoke with Tony at the park on Sunday and No Doubt is taking the next few months off. They have really rough demos and the album should be released at the end of 2009.”

• Revolve Clothing have added some new Harajuku Lovers items.

Hi everyone, I’m so sorry for the lack of updates lately but i’ve been really busy! Everything should be back to normal soon.

• Tom made a quick post on the No Doubt Community the other week:
“Hey there, I’m just fine today, thanks for asking. I’m just settling in, our family moved recently, and I’m getting my home studio up and running again, which is very exciting.” 

• Adrian’s wife Nina also posted on the forum:
 ”Hey Guys, What’s going on? Just wanted to let you, the best fans in the world, know that Adrian (and his incredible drumming) will be featured in the Ben Sherman Macy’s Passport Fashion Show in San Francisco next week (September 16, 17, 18) and in Los Angeles the week after. If you’re going to be around either city, we’d love to see your support! xxx’s and ooo’s Nina ”
More details can be found here (thanks to Rosemarie).

• Thanks to Pinkeekeen, Tony will be featured on a track called ‘Sober’ appearing on Pink’s forthcoming album ‘Funhouse’. Seeing as the song is second on the album, it’s quite likely that this will be a single. 
Tracklisting here.

• For anyone around Australia heading out to your local shows this month (ie Royal Melbourne Show, Perth Show etc), the Gwen dolls are again available in the Greatest Showbag for around $18. I’m not sure which season they are, but either way it’s a pretty good deal!

• Wow, huge thankyou to Chase for finding this - according to Billboard.com, Tom, Tony AND Adrian will all be making guest appearances on Scott Weiland’s upcoming solo album.
‘Scott Weiland’s second solo album, “Happy,” will arrive Nov. 18 via his own Softdrive label. The set was co-produced by Weiland and Doug Grean, with Steve Albini also engineering a handful of songs.
“Happy” boasts guest appearances from three members of No Doubt: Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young.

Although the full track list has yet to be announced, “Happy” includes “Paralysis” (a Bowie-esque midempo with a crunchy chorus) the banjo- and acoustic guitar-addled “She’s So Cold,” the peppy rocker “Talk About Love,” the bedroom pop-leaning “Somedays” and the glammy, riffy “Missing Cleveland.”

• Thanks to frenchfrytoast1, Adrian played with his brother’s band Mo Bigsley this past week and put his previously mentioned new drum kit to good use at the Spare The Air festival. Photos can be viewed on their myspace and on the NDC.