Remember Tarisai Vushe, the 2007 Australian Idol contestant who started out sounding like the new Whitney Houston, then said "thank you" an awful lot, and ended up going completely bananas?

Well, she's baaaaack!

Tarisai has returned to the news after announcing that she was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend - but, er, it's okay, you don't have to call the police. Or something.

Vushe said she was returning DVDs at 11pm on Friday when she was grabbed.

"He grabbed me from behind and kept asking me why I left him, in a really obsessive way," she said.

"He left me in the car. I got out and walked to a service station (near Penrith) and called a taxi," she said.

Her manager, Alex Haddad, who co-ordinates Vushe's new band Method, insisted he believed her account of the ordeal.

"I've encouraged her to go to the police, but I can't make her," he said.

"When she didn't turn up for rehearsal last week, we rang her family and they mentioned she might be doing a gig interstate. But Tarisai didn't want them to tell us anything."

Hmm, we're torn. If she IS serious, then for god's sake, go to the police, girlfrien'! Too many cases of assault against women go unreported these days.

However, if she's telling fibs a la "Marcia Hates me", well, a thousand aspersions on "Method" and may all their gigs be on Wednesday nights at RSLs.

Which is probably pretty close to the reality they'll enjoy, anyway.

Poor old Mental As Anything drummer David Twohill. One minute he's picking up his bags after a tiring flight, and the next he's being unceremoniously booted out of his band!

The band has been one of the mainstays of the Australian music scene, but the NSW Industrial Relations Commission yesterday heard that relationships within Mental As Anything have hit a sour note.

Former drummer David Twohill is taking action against two former bandmates, singer-guitarist Martin Plaza and singer and keyboard player Andrew "Greedy" Smith, for unfair dismissal.

One of the original members of the outfit, Twohill claims he was sacked without notice in September 2004 as he retrieved his luggage from the baggage carousel at Sydney airport.

"I was given the bum's rush," Twohill said outside the commission yesterday.

Now David Twohill (via a roadie) and Martin Plaza are flinging accusations of on-stage boozing at each other, as though there's something wrong with rockers performing under the influence! Justice Frank Marks seems to have kept things nicely in perspective.

"I've never heard this band - maybe they played better when they were drunk," Justice Marks said.

That's often the way, Justice Marks. Can we get a hell yeah, Young Divas?

The drummer is seeking almost $70,000 in pay, annual leave and long service leave from his former colleagues and Mental As Anything Touring Pty Ltd, as well as $10,000 compensation for hurt, stress and suffering.

$10,000 compensation for hurt, stress and suffering? If David Twohill had any sense at all, he'd channel his hurt, stress and suffering into starting a new emo band, selling squillions of records to self-harming teens and leaving the rest of his old band for dust.

PS: Is emo still 'in' with the kids? We've been too busy listening to the new Stephen Cummings record/Kate Bush's entire back catalogue/'Electric Blue' by Icehouse to keep fully up to date with the latest musical tastes of the nation's young folk.