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Michael Hutchence Memorial This Weekend, Mushroom Concert Video Due Soon

A memorial service for Michael Hutchence is scheduled at the Northern Chapel of Sydney's Northern Suburbs Crematorium on Sunday November 22nd, the first anniversary of the INXS singer's death. The occasion is being marked by the unveiling of a memorial stone in a park on the grounds.

Sources at Mercury in Australia say they expect the event, organized by the singer's father, Kelland, to be low-key. There's differing reports as to which of the singer's friends and bandmates will attend, but girlfriend Paula Yates has told British press sources that she will be staying in London along with Hutchence pal Nick Cave. Yates and the senior Mr. Hutchence are estranged over the latter's attempt to gain temporary custody of his grandchild, Yates and Hutchences' daughter, Tiger.

Meanwhile, fans who missed the regrouping of the remaining members of INXS last week at a giant concert to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Mushroom Records can take heart. Australian music journalist Christie

Eliezer reports that a video and 3-CD set from the event is expected to be completed within three weeks of the concert.

There aren't many in Australia who haven't already seen the show. In addition to the 75,000 people in attendance, the last two hours of the nine hour event were taped and broadcast nationally to an audience of 1.5 million viewers, the top rated program in the timeslot.

The concert's highlight was the surviving INXS bandmembers -- Tim, Jon and Andrew Farriss, Garry Beers and Kirk Pengilly -- teaming with top Aussie singer Jimmy Barnes on two Australian '60s covers, The Loved Ones' "The Loved One" and the Easybeats' "Good Times." INXS was marked prominently on the drum kit.

Tim Farriss had previously told press sources that the band would most likely revert to their original name, the Farriss Bros, and begin recording this fall (see [article id="1430345"]"INXS May Reform As Farriss Bros, Tribute Concert Planned"[/article]). But reps at Mercury

in Australia had no knowledge of the Farriss Brothers recording project and could not confirm the band's status with the label. A source close to the band told MTV News that the group was recording but the sessions were informal.

The company also had no word on a tribute concert other than to confirm that one slated for New York in the New Year had been called off.

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