Sunday, 7 September 2008

Foals Praise Topless Fans At Jersey Live Festival

Foals nonrecreational tribute to the topless festival fans as they performed on the independent stage at the Jersey Live festival tonight (August 30th).


Performing as the sunshine set all over Trinity sports ground, the group treated fans to an energetic set packed with songs from their debut album �Antidotes�.


After a lengthy subservient introduction, the band before long engaged with the crowd via a storming interpretation of �Balloons�.


The band�s second gear guitarist, Walter Gervers, then paid tribute to the fans liberalism, telling the crowd that he had seen �more naked women [at Jersey Live] than any other festival this summer.�


As dark fell over the site, the band�s set grew with intensiveness thanks to extended versions of fan favourites �Cassius�, �Hummer� and �Red Socks Pugie�.


The action continues on the main stage later with a performance from We Are Scientists.


Stay tuned to Gigwise for all the latest news and interviews from this year's Jersey Live.




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Friday, 29 August 2008

Barenaked Ladies frontman survives plane crash

Ed Robertson, frontman for Canadian pop-rock outfit Barenaked Ladies [ ], walked away unhurt after a float-plane crash in southeast Ontario yesterday (8/24).

"As we're sure many have heard already, Ed and iII passengers were involved in a plane crash yesterday," the chemical group wrote in a message posted at its web site today. "We just want to let all of our fans know that, thankfully, everyone on gameboard was completely unharmed . Thank you to all those who have already reached out and sent their kind language and well wishes."

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According to the Canadian Press, Robertson's private plane lost speed while trying to take off from Baptiste Lake near Bancroft and crashed into some trees at the westerly end of the lake.

It's been an eventful summer for BNL; last month, singer/guitarist Steven Page was arrested in upstate New York and charged with fourth-degree possession of a controlled substance after law allegedly ground him and two other women in an apartment where cocaine and marijuana were pose. He reportedly is scheduled to appear in a New York court tomorrow (8/26).





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Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Salma Hayek: Single Mom & Loving It!


Sexy new mom Salma Hayek has discovered her calling.

"She's nuturing and maternal," Salma's friend Phillip Bloch says of her mothering instinct.� The actress, 41, gave birth to daughter Valentina, 11 months, and immediately settled into nesting with her new-sprung baby.

The Frida star has managed to stay strong despite ripping with Valentina's father, Francois Henri Pinault.

"Salma has survived many romances," Phillip says.� "She finds happiness in the ones she loves.� She's passionido!"










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Saturday, 9 August 2008

Abraham denies property career report

Former 'X-Factor' runner-up Andy Abraham has denied sheet claims that he is to quit the music business for a career in prop development.

The Daily Star Sunday claimed that Abraham, world Health Organization famously worked as a bin-man ahead appearing on 'X-Factor', was set to start a new aliveness in property development later coming utmost in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Abraham's managing director Denise Abraham told DigitalSpy: "We have an up and coming theatre circuit booked in starting from 31 October. Andy has never been involved in the belongings development business and has an active career in the music business.

"He has released his current album 'Even If' on his own record label B-Line Records and has farther projects in the pipeline."



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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Black Mountain play early afternoon slot at Glastonbury

Canadian five-piece Black Mountain bought their psychedelic stoner rock to Glastonbury festival today (June 29).

Taking to the stage at 1.10pm (BST) on Glastonbury's Other Stage, although playing the early afternoon slot, the band managed to pull a small-but-keen sleepy mellowed-out crowd.

Starting on 'Stormy High', which saw singer Amber Webber howling and shaking her maracas along to fellow frontman Stephen McBean's bluesy riffs, while the rest of the band gathered round nodding their heads in time, the quintet started as they meant to go on.

Wearing checked shirt and shades McBean and Webber then shared vocals for second track 'We Could Be Together'.

With the track finished drummer Josh Wells said after spotting a Canadian flag in the audience: "Hey, thanks a lot for coming - I know it's only one o'clock and we really appreciate it."

Staying pretty stationary throughout the set, apart from nodding their heads in time to their solid epic rock outs, the band let the music do the talking with tracks including 'Stay Free'.

The crowd had started to grow throughout the set - with a few girls dancing on shoulders down the front left of stage.

It wasn't all rock-outs for the band's debut Glastonbury show though - and the group took the mood down to mellow with lead singer guy bringing out an acoustic guitar for 'Stay Free'.

Towards end of set drummer Wells said: "This is our last song - I just want to say thanks for coming down especially to all your hardcore tenters."

The band then launched into 'Bright Lights' which saw Webber bashing her tambourine with the wind blowing her hair until last notes of guitar, bass and organ sounds ricocheted through the field.

Keep up with all the action from Glastonbury this weekend (June 27-29) as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking the NME.COM's Glastonbury Festival page. Plus make sure you get next week's issue of NME �?? on UK newsstands from July 2 �?? for the ultimate Glastonbury review

Monday, 23 June 2008

Lydon blasts "humourless" Coldplay

John Lydon has launched a scathing attack on Coldplay, calling the group "utterly humourless".

Speaking to The Sun, the lead singer of the Sex Pistols also described their music as joyless.

He said: "I pity the poor bastards who have to watch them. They are utterly humourless.

"I met them a few years ago, said hello and realised they were just men in anoraks. They looked like a gang of little poncey masturbators.

"There is no fun, they don't offer joy. Their music has a couple of quite nice tones here and there but it's a box of tosh sold to slightly inadequate, half-baked people."

Lydon, who headlined the Isle of Wight Festival with the Sex Pistols at the weekend, also discussed the group's plans to record a new album.

"There could be a new record. That would be nice," Lydon said. "But I won't do anything in a patronising way. The music, the subject and the attitude all have to be right at the same time. Everything has to be from the heart."



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Monday, 16 June 2008

Lockup

Lockup   
Artist: Lockup

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   



Discography:


Hate Breeds Suffering   
 Hate Breeds Suffering

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16


Pleasures Pave Sewers   
 Pleasures Pave Sewers

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13




 






"Indiana Jones" unearths more gold at box office

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The massively hyped "Indiana Jones" movie whipped up an impressive $56 million in its first two days of release across North America, its distributor said on Saturday, but will struggle to break industry records during the U.S. Memorial Day holiday weekend.


"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," the first film in the adventure series to hit the big screen in 19 years, earned an estimated $31 million on Friday, according to Paramount Pictures.


A day earlier, it opened amid mixed reviews to $25 million -- the fourth highest-grossing Thursday debut on record. The industry, suffering a tepid year so far, is seizing on such benchmarks as early signs of a recovery. The second-day tally ranked more modestly at No. 15 for Friday sales, according to Box Office Mojo, which analyzes movie sales data.


"Indiana Jones," reuniting actor Harrison Ford as the eponymous archeologist, director Steven Spielberg and executive producer George Lucas, also opened in 61 foreign countries on the heels of its glitzy world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last Sunday. Paramount, a unit of Viacom Inc, did not have early foreign returns.


In North America, industry observers expect "Indiana Jones" to earn more than $150 million in its first five days.


Comparisons with the record-holder for the Memorial Day weekend, last year's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," are a little difficult. The third film in the swashbuckler franchise also opened on a Thursday -- but in the evening, whereas "Indiana Jones" screened for a full day. Ticket prices have also risen since then.


Still, "Pirates" also managed to earn $56 million for the two-day period, on its way to $153 million for the five days through Monday. The five-day record is held by "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith," which opened to $173 million in 2005, a week before the Memorial Day holiday in 2005.


"Indiana Jones" siphoned off some of the audience from last week's leader, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," which opened to a disappointing $55 million last weekend. 

Sunday, 8 June 2008

Erik Norlander

Erik Norlander   
Artist: Erik Norlander

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Electronic
   



Discography:


Threshold   
 Threshold

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 8


Seas Of Orion   
 Seas Of Orion

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 6


Music Machine ( CD2-2)   
 Music Machine ( CD2-2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


Music Machine ( CD1-2)   
 Music Machine ( CD1-2)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


Into The Sunset   
 Into The Sunset

   Year:    
Tracks: 12




 






Friday, 6 June 2008

Clooney jokes about fight with model

Hollywood star George Clooney has joked about his alleged feud with Italian male model Fabio.
Media reports claimed that the pair exchanged words in a restaurant recently, with Fabio later saying that he could beat Clooney in a physical fight.
In an interview with Esquire magazine, Clooney said of the comments: "Yeah, that's probably true. He's a big guy."
"There is a moment when you are actually in the argument and you're thinking, 'If I do get beaten down by Fabio, that will be far worse than the pain.' I wouldn't shake that."

World Of Music

World Of Music   
Artist: World Of Music

   Genre(s): 
Instrumental
   



Discography:


The Andes   
 The Andes

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 20




 





Gareth Gates voted off Dancing on Ice

Avril Lavigne to launch her own perfume

Fancy smelling like a Sk8er Boi? You may indeed have a chance, as next year punk brat Avril Lavigne launches her own perfume.

The Canadian singer has inked a deal with that fragrance house of renown - Procter & Gamble. The first bottles are expected to hit stores (and then Costcutter bargain bins) in the autumn of 2009.

Lavigne, who evokes for us the scent of bubblegum and vinegar, said that she was delighted "to be working with Procter & Gamble on releasing my first fragrance. Creating this fragrance is a fun process and I am looking forward to sharing it with everyone."












Parents will be happy to learn that the line of fragrances will be targeted at the early-teens market. Soon, every little girl will be able to spritz some punk-pop perfume and go scampering into the arms of a Sum 41 member.

Lavigne does, however, have some of the most fashionable 11-year-old fans around. Madonna and Guy Ritchie's daughter, Lourdes, was spotted at the pipsqueak punk's gig in London on Wednesday.


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Lindsay Sloane joins 'Orgy'

Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte among comedy cast





Lindsay Sloane has been cast as one of the female leads in "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy."


The Endgame Entertainment comedy stars Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte and Leslie Bibb and follows a 30-year-old man who is forced to grow up when his parents decide to sell the family vacation home and enlists his friends to throw one final party: an orgy.


Sloane will play a high school teacher who has found religion and is trying to get her friends to go to Bible study but ends up going to the orgy.


Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory are directing "Orgy," which is being produced by James Stern and Wendy Japhet.


Sloane, repped by Endeavor and Thruline, is in production on "She's Out of My League" and will next be seen in the upcoming in "The Six Wives of Henry Lefay." She recently starred in "The TV Set."



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Eddie Murphy To Make Beverly Hills Cop 4?

Eddie Murphy is set to return as Axel Foley in a new Beverly Hills Cop movie, according to latest reports.

The comic actor will pair up with director Brett Ratner to bring audiences a fourth instalment of the popular 1980s series.

It is hoped the film will be shot next year in time for a 2010 release, reports industry publication Variety.

If the project does go ahead, Murphy will be following in the footsteps of Harrison Ford who recently reprised his role in Indiana Jones.

Would you like to see Axel Foley make a comeback? Be sure to leave your comments below.

Sydney Pollack Dies at 73

Acclaimed director, producer, and actor Sydney Pollack has died of cancer. He was 73.



According to the AP, quoting Pollack's agent Leslee Dart, Pollack died Monday afternoon (5/26/08) at his home in Pacific Palisades, surrounded by family and friends.



Though Sydney Pollack started out as an actor and acting coach and later ended his career doubling producer duties with cameo and supporting roles, it was as a director that Pollack will probably best be remembered. His films had the sheen of the Golden Era of Hollywood, even though most were made in the `70s and `80s. They also spanned genres and included The Way We Were (`73), Three Days of the Condor (`75), The Electric Horseman (`79), Tootsie (`82), culminating in what was arguably his greatest success, Out of Africa (`85).



Sydney Irwin Pollack was born on July 1, 1934, in Lafayette and raised in South Bend, Indiana. He developed a love of acting at South Bend High School and went straight to New York and the Neighborhood Playhouse School for Theater. There, Sanford Meisner took him under his wing, first as a student and then as his assistant. Pollack received favorable marks from his students, which included Robert Duvall and Rip Torn, and Claire Griswold, a former pupil whom Pollack married and remained married to for 50 years.



His time at the Neighborhood Playhouse was destined not to last as long and, under the encouragement of director John Frankenheimer and nudging from Burt Lancaster, Pollack began directing. He started out small, in television shows such as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Ben Casey.



He soon branched out into feature filmmaking. His first was The Slender Thread, starring Anne Bancroft and Sydney Poitier in a story about a desperate woman and the suicide hotline volunteer who attempts to keep her on the line while waiting for the police to find her.



The film fared poorly, both critically and financially, as, to a lesser extent, did Pollack's second feature, 1966's This Property Is Condemned, based upon a Tennessee Williams play (with a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola). It featured Natalie Wood as a girl desperate to break out of her small town who sets her sights and hopes on a traveling railroad official and company hatchet man, played by Robert Redford. Property was the start of a lifelong association and friendship with Redford; Pollack would direct Redford in seven films in total, including some of his most famous.



His first success came with the depression-era The Shoot Horses, Don't They?, which followed the characters involved in a grueling dance marathon. It starred Jane Fonda and shattered her American image as a comely ingénue or a sex kitten and established her as a serious actress once and for all. She received her first Oscar nomination for the part.



Most actors benefited from appearing in a Pollack film. Twelve actors received Oscar nominations after being in one of his movies, including Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, and Dustin Hoffman. He was no stranger to the Academy himself. He was nominated three times for Best Director (Horses and Tootsie, winning for Out of Africa). Oddly enough, Redford never received a nomination for any of the multiply-lauded films in which he starred for Pollack.



Industry recognition was just part of his success. His films were also profitable at the box office. Hits included Horses, The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor, The Electric Horseman and The Firm.



Out of Africa was where everything gelled. It had an enormous canvas, an epic scope, a glorious score, luscious cinematography and two superstars (Redford and Streep) in the leads. The film was nominated for 11 awards, picking up seven including Best Picture and Director.



He had misses too. Havana, Random Hearts and Sabrina were the rare examples of critical and commercial failures.



Producing became a passion for him after this string of misfires. Along with the late Anthony Minghella, who died earlier this year during a throat operation, Pollack created Mirage Enterprises. The shop produced The Fabulous Baker Boys, Sense and Sensibility, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain. But Mirage represented just a smattering of Pollack's producing duties, which also included Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Quiet American, Michael Clayton and the HBO film, Recount.



In recent years Pollack also specialized in the role of the powerful corporate or societal patriarch, one willing to lay down the law or to teach the hard truths of life to the protagonist. He played variations of it in Eyes Wide Shut, Changing Lanes and Michael Clayton and created what can only be described as avuncular malevolence, inspiring fear and awe while exuding a tinge of mercy. It was the stature of Pollack in the industry itself and his commanding presence on and off the screen that lent the roles their gravitas. They sprang from the man himself.



Pollack is survived by his wife, Claire; two daughters, Rebecca and Rachel; his brother Bernie; and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his son, Steven, who died in 1993 in a plane crash in Santa Monica.





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Psidream and Mechwarrior

Psidream and Mechwarrior   
Artist: Psidream and Mechwarrior

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   



Discography:


Stitches / Last Walk   
 Stitches / Last Walk

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


BAR05W   
 BAR05W

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2