Warner boss raises a glass ...(Dooley's Diary)

Remember where you heard it: While industry watchers on both sides of the Atlantic were speculating about the future of Warner Music last week, Roger Ames--one of the men at the eye of the storm was taking it easy at a carnival in his native Trinidad. And when Dooley caught up with him he was full of his latest news: namely that--wait for it--the winning song at the carnival's competition was sung by a guy from Tobago ... Scrooge counterfeiters flogging pirate DVD and VHS copies of 1985 charity concert Live Aid on the internet have been stopped in their tracks by the BPI's sterling team after a tip-off from Sir Bob Geldof himself led to a raid on a Leeds address ... As Dooley's good vibrations continue after Brian Wilson's stunning Royal Festival Hall series of Smile concerts last week, word has it that EMI execs Stateside are now in discussions to put out the album more than 37 years after it was originally planned to appear. A new Wilson solo album is also on the way ... EMI may not have approved, but support for Dangermouse aka DJ Brian Burton's The Grey Album (featurinq samples from The Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's The Black Album) gathered force on the internet last week. While he has reportedly complied with the major's cease and desist order and no longer sells the album, several hundred websites launched "Grey Tuesday", an effort to spread downloads of Burton's album in protest of EMI's clampdown ... Franz Ferdinand's Bowery Ballroom show in NY last week raised the heat on the US bidding war for the Glasgow boys, while a March 9 release is reportedly ...