Also in 2005, Cave completed work on his script for The Proposition , set in 19th-century Australia directed by John Hillcoat . Cave and Ellis collaborated on the film’s score, a partnership that later also scored the films The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) and…
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On June 21, 2005, the day of the release of his first solo album, TheFutureEmbrace , Corgan took out full-page advertisements in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times to announce that he planned to reunite the band. “For a year now”, Corgan wrote, “I have walked around with a secret,…
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In 2005, the band released Out-of-State Plates , a collection of B-sides and two new songs. The compilation was supported by the single “Maureen” and a limited US tour that included some acoustic-only sets, a set on PBS Soundstage , and an appearance in the American Songbook concert series at…
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In 2005, Employment was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize , an annual music prize awarded for the best British or Irish album from the previous year. Bookmakers made it favourite to win the award, but they eventually lost out to Antony and the Johnsons .
In 2005 the double CD “Odd Warrior” was released
Dead By Sunrise formed in 2005 during Linkin Park’s break after the Meteora album cycle ended in September of 2004. According to Bennington, “I came up with a few songs that felt and sounded really good, but I knew they weren’t right stylistically for Linkin Park . They were darker…
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The band did not start work on a follow-up album until 2005, with the band finding the touring lifestyle too hectic to start writing or recording material. This, however, left the band with limited time to record new music, with their record label pressuring the band to get the album…
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Following touring in support of Punk Statik Paranoia , the band went on hiatus in late 2005.
There were also some aborted recordings made in 2005.
By the end of 2005, the Bigger Bang tour had set a record of $162 million in gross receipts, breaking the North American mark set by the band in 1994.