Move over, Gomez. The nominations are in for this year's Technics Mercury Music Prize, which honors the best British or Irish album of the year as selected by a select panel of journalists.| Gomez's Bring It On won the prize last year, but on September 7 it will go to Blur's 13, the Chemical Brothers's Surrender, Beth Orton's Central Reservation, Underworld's Beaucoup Fish, Manic Street Preachers' This is My Truth Tell Me Yours, Stereophonics' Performance and Cocktails, Talvin Singh's Ok, Faithless' Sunday 8 p.m., Blackstar Liner's Bengali Bantam Youth Experience, Kate Rusby's Sleepless, Thomas Ades' Asayla or Denys Baptiste's Be Where You Are . . .

Last year, with his book Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors, former Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek became an author. Now, he's adding "director" to his resume with a film called Love Her Madly. Although the flick has nothing to do with the famous song other than the same title, Variety reports that its about "love, madness, obsession and murder surrounding a captivating female drama student," all of which sounds suitably Doorsy. Manzarek also co-wrote the screenplay, and the film is produced by Doors videographer Rick Schmidlin. . .

After the book I, Tina and the ensuing movie What's Love Got To Do With It, not many people like Ike -- Ike Turner, that is. Tina Turner's autobiography is one of extreme hardships and glorious triumphs, not the least of which is the ditching of her abusive husband and musical partner. Well, Ike Turner is sick of being the bad guy in someone else's book, so he's decided to write his own. Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner is Ike's side of the story, and it hits bookstores in October. . .

BILL CRANDALL, RICHARD SKANSE and JAAN UHELSZKI
(July 27, 1999)