Loose Ends: Pilate Become Pilot Speed, Miniatures Robbed And Axl's Out Of Jail

MapleMusic Recordings band Pilate have changed their name to Pilot Speed worldwide and effective immediately.

The Toronto-based band's second album, Sell Control For Life's Speed, was released domestically in April and will be issued internationally through Wind-up Entertainment soon. The band will wrap up a national tour in support of the new album with shows at Toronto's Kool Haus on Thursday and the L3 Nightclub in St. Catharines, Ontario on Friday.

Another Maple band, Kitchener, Ont.'s The Miniatures, had to cut their western Canadian tour in support of their Dead Flowers album short after their van, trailer and all of their gear were stolen in Edmonton on Saturday night.

The band were flown home by manager Dan Brooks on Monday. A benefit concert to raise funds to replace the stolen goods will take place at The Pavillion in Kitchener on July 8. Labelmates Danny Michel and The Marble Index will also be on the bill.

On a more positive note, The Miniatures just signed with U.K. label High Coin, which will release Dead Flowers late this year.

Who fans will be able to download the British rock legends' entire July 2 concert at Hyde Park in London, England from the TheWhoLive website for just 99 cents.

The band had previously made three tracks available from other tour stops. Money raised from the Hyde Park concert downloads will benefit various charities supported by guitarist Pete Townshend's Double O charity.

A sobered-up Axl Rose was released from a Stockholm, Sweden jail late on Tuesday following his arrest for damaging property, assaulting a security guard and threatening police following an altercation at a hotel after a Guns N' Roses concert.

Rose agreed to pay a fine of $5,500 U.S. and he was also ordered to pay $1,300 in damages to the security guard whom he bit and assaulted during the melee. Rose made it to Oslo, Norway in time for his band's next show on Wednesday night.

Boy George will serve five days of court-ordered community service working for New York City's sanitation department as part of a March plea bargain agreement he made after confessing to filing a false burglary report.

The 45-year-old former Culture Club singer has been threatened with jail time if he doesn't fulfill his obligation by August 28.

Toronto concert announcements:

July 8 The Birthday Massacre, Lye and Obsidian @ Opera House
July 9 Unseen, Hostage Life and 3 Tards @ Kathedral
July 10 Whitey Houston and Veal @ Horseshoe Tavern
July 12 Alejandro Escovedo and Atomic 7 @ El Mocambo
July 14 Diplo, Bonde Do Role and CSS @ Mod Club
July 14 Molly Hatchet @ Opera House
July 14 DJ AM @ Ultra
July 15 Agitator @ Opera House
July 15 Handsome Family @ Horseshoe Tavern
July 15 Galore, The Ride Theory and The Machines @ Savoy
July 16 God Made Me Funky and The Nathan Warriner Band @ Rodney's Oyster House
July 17 Strapping Young Lad @ Opera House
July 18 Peaches, Eagles Of Death Metal and The World Provider @ Kool Haus
July 19 Goapele, Noel and Justin Nozuka @ Mod Club
July 20 People, DD/MM/YYYY, Sing That Yell That Spell, Deep Dark United and Tradition @ Tranzac Club
July 21 Grade @ Opera House
July 22 The Matadors and Creepshow @ Kathedral
July 25 Tacoma Redd @ Horseshoe Tavern
July 27 Sunset Rubdown @ Lee's Palace
July 29 Nash The Slash, Rademaker, The Rook and Trapdoor @ Reverb
July 30 Jon-Rae & The River, Garbage! Violence! Enthusiasm!, Bad Robot(s) and Evil Doers @ Sneaky Dee's
Aug. 1 Jim & Jenny And The Pinetops and Nicolai Dunger @ Lee's Palace
Aug. 2 Gaelic Storm @ Mod Club
Aug. 7 Jeremy Enigk and Jim Noir @ El Mocambo
Aug. 8 Sonic Youth and The Go! Team @ Kool Haus
Aug. 12 Siakol, Addictive Remedy, Black Paranoia and Sixteen Gauge @ Opera House
Aug. 16 Smoking Popes @ Lee's Palace
Sept. 1 Rancid and Big D & The Kid's Table @ Kool Haus
Sept. 2 Rancid and The Planet Smashers @ Kool Haus
Sept. 9 Rita Chiarelli @ Hugh's Room
Sept. 14 Nouvelle Vague @ Mod Club
Oct. 7 Cryptopsy @ Opera House
Oct. 28-29 Dixie Chicks @ Air Canada Centre

Vancouver concert announcements:

July 22 Nicolai Dunger @ Media Club
July 28 The Subways @ Commodore Ballroom
July 29 Immaculate Machine @ Media Club
Aug. 16 Silver Mt. Zion and Carla Bozulich @ Richard's On Richards
Sept. 1 Vashti Bunyan and P:ano @ Richard's On Richards
Sept. 2 M. Ward @ Plaza Club
Sept. 5 Nouvelle Vague @ Plaza Club
Nov. 3 Bruce Cockburn @ Centre In Vancouver For Performing Arts