Dolly Parton album set for UK release

Dolly Parton is set to release her first country album in 17 years.

'Backwoods Barbie' is out on June 9 in the UK, having had a US release earlier in the year.

"The song 'Backwoods Barbie' pretty much says it all," said Parton of the new record�s title track.

"I grew up poor and ragged, always dreamed of being beautiful like Barbie and the models in the Fredericks catalogue. It�s true that the way I look is just a country girl's idea of glamour, but it comes from an honest place.

"'Backwoods Barbie' just seemed like such a perfect title for a country album for me."

As previously reported, Parton is set to play the following UK and Irish dates:

Kilkenny Nowlan Park (June 22)
Belfast Odyssey Arena (24,25)
Glasgow SECC (27, 29)
Manchester Evening News Arena (28)
Nottingham Arena (July 1)
Birmingham NIA (2)
Cardiff International Arena (4)
London 02 Arena (5,6)

To check the availability of Dolly Parton tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

Pink Floyd's missing giant pig has landed

Pink Floyd's missing giant pig has landed

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A giant inflatable slob that went missing from a Southern Calif. music festival at the weekend has been establish in tatters in a desert town.


The pig bed, which has been a signature Pinko Floyd level prop since its appearance on the 1977 cover of "Animals" and the song "Pigs on Wings," broke by from its tethers on Sunday night at Coachella Valley Liberal arts and Music Festival.


The festival organizers offered a $10,000 reward for the two-story inflatable slob belonging to ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Amnionic fluid.


2 couples said on Wed they had plant the shredded charge plate clay of the bull outside their homes.


The squealer, mien political slogans and the book "Obama" next to a ticked ballot box for U.S. Democratic presidential wannabe Barack Obama, was used by Amniotic fluid during his set at the festival in the desert east of Los Angeles.


Steve Stoltz found a big voltaic pile of shredded plastic in his La Quinta, California, driveway too soon on Mon dawn when he went to get his paper.


"We didn't even live what it was then, but that's whole I hear about instantly," his wife Susan Stoltz told Reuters.


Her neighbour, Judy Rimmer, found an even bigger stack in her drive. Since and so the neighbors have shared several pork jokes, she said. 





Steve Vai