Carl Barat has declared he will play this weekend's Glastonbury festival - despite being rushed to hospital last week (June 17).
The Dirty Pretty Things frontman was diagnosed with a acute pancreatitis after suffering from stomach pains. However he is now on the mend, and is confident he'll play this weekend's (June 27-29) festival.
"I am feeling much better, almost as good as I ever do. Its not as bad as I thought, it appears that the pancreatitis was probably caused by a combination of the medication I was talking (for congestion that I still get after my ear operation) and maybe the odd drink too many," Barat told NME.COM.
"I was discharged from hospital at the weekend, which was liberating," he added. "I have been told to take it easy this week and I shan't be over exerting myself, which may be difficult as the LP is out next week and there are rehearsals to be had. Anyways, as long as I behave I should be right as rain before you know it. We play in Switzerland on Saturday and then I will be doing an acoustic set at Glastonbury on Sunday (June 29) (for Jail Guitar Doors/Real Fits). Got to go, things to do � slowly�"
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Wednesday 25 June 2008
Silicone Soul
Artist: Silicone Soul
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
Staring Into Space
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Silicone Soul, composed of techno heads Graeme Reedie and Craig Morrison, carries the torch load-bearing club/dance music in Scotland. Hailing from Glasgow, Reedie and Morrison instantly clicked as kids, for the deuce were punk misfits wHO loved music. They formed a stripe, Dead City Radio, and played unnumerable gigs in and around their hometown. The fire of the deuce, however, flickered out after Morrison witnessed a Primal Scream show, and most at once they scrapped their obnoxious embrangle for an electronic lookout. The early '90s were fagged frolicking with techtronics, palling around with Slam's Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle patch gaining confidence as house music makers. Forming Depth Perception Records by 1996 and establishing Silicone Soul as a legit dissemble, Reedie and Morrison inked a deal with Soma in 1998 and released trine raved tracks, "Mounting Walls," "All Nite Long," and "Right on 4 Tha Darkness." The duet gained praise from some of the genre's forerunners (Laurent Garnier, Pete Tong, Andrew Weatherall) and played festival dates at Roskilde and T in the Park, odd perfectionists in their scope of intricate family music. Debut LP A Soul Thing followed in 2000.
Monday 16 June 2008
Cameron Diaz - Diaz Loses Locks For Movie Role
Hollywood actress CAMERON DIAZ has shed her trademark blonde locks for a new movie role.
The 35-year-old was fitted with a bald cap before shooting scenes for upcoming picture My Sister's Keeper at Los Angeles' Santa Monica Pier.
The movie - also starring Alec Baldwin - is slated for release next year (09).
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Tuesday 10 June 2008
Sienna Miller - Miller Uses Pyjamas To Remember Ledger
SIENNA MILLER has a special way of remembering her late pal HEATH LEDGER - she wears a pair of pyjamas the actor once gave to her.
The British beauty starred opposite Ledger in 2005's Casanova and the pair became close, socialising with each other after the film had wrapped.
And Ledger gave Miller the comfortable bedwear when she got soaked after falling in the rain after a night out with him and her mother in Venice.
She tells Britain's Telegraph magazine, "Heath and I had this amazing night out in Venice with my mother. It had been pouring with rain. Heath ran out in the middle of St. Mark's square and we were running around, and I slipped over.
"We all ran back to his (apartment) and he gave me these dry pyjamas to get home in."
And the star repaid the favour two years later, when the Brokeback Mountain star struggled to sleep while staying at her house.
She explains, "When he came over to my house last November, and he was having trouble sleeping, I gave them back, to help him sleep."
Ledger, who was found dead at his New York apartment in January (08), was said to have struggled with sleeping, which led him to overdose on the prescribed medication which killed him.
And Miller was so devastated after hearing about Ledger's death earlier this year (08), she asked the tragic star's father Kim to send the pyjamas to her so she would have a keepsake to remember him by.
She adds, "When he died, I was so sad that I didn't have these stupid pyjamas anymore, so his father found them to give to me."
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Stone Temple Pilots reunite for 65-city tour
After a five-year breakup and nearly eight-year absence from the
concert scene, Stone Temple Pilots will reunite for a North
American tour.
On Monday, Singer Scott Weiland, guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist
Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz revealed the details of their
65-city tour, set to begin May 17 in Columbus, Ohio.
"The story's not finished," Weiland told The Associated Press.
"There's more to be revealed and more to be told."
DeLeo said the band plans to record a new album after the tour
which is set to wrap in November.
Formed in 1992, the band has sold more than 35 million albums
worldwide.
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concert scene, Stone Temple Pilots will reunite for a North
American tour.
On Monday, Singer Scott Weiland, guitarist Dean DeLeo, bassist
Robert DeLeo and drummer Eric Kretz revealed the details of their
65-city tour, set to begin May 17 in Columbus, Ohio.
"The story's not finished," Weiland told The Associated Press.
"There's more to be revealed and more to be told."
DeLeo said the band plans to record a new album after the tour
which is set to wrap in November.
Formed in 1992, the band has sold more than 35 million albums
worldwide.
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'Simpsons' leads Key Art noms
BLT & Associates tops agency honorees
"The Simpsons Movie" has earned seven nominations, the most for any film, for the 37th annual Hollywood Reporter Movie Marketing Key Art Awards.
BLT & Associates leads all agencies with 18 noms, while Fox and Paramount each had strong studio showings.
The Key Art Awards is the only international competition honoring the design and creation of theatrical and home entertainment motion picture marketing materials in such categories as posters, standees, outdoor, trailers, TV spots, motion graphics, new media and copywriting.
Winners will be announced June 13 during an awards ceremony hosted by Jeff Garlin at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza.
"30 Days of Night" was right behind "Simpsons" with six noms, followed by "300," "No Country for Old Men," "Superbad" and "Transformers" with five mentions apiece.
On the strength of "Simpsons" and such titles as "Live Free or Die Hard," Fox collected 16 noms. Combined with its Fox Searchlight, Fox Atomic and home entertainment units, the studio earned a total of 27.
Paramount -- combined with its DreamWorks and Paramount Vantage brands and its home entertainment units -- earned 28 noms, collecting mentions for such films as "Sweeney Todd" and "Transformers."
BLT's 18 noms included work on "Sweeney Todd" and 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story." Ignition followed with 17, for such trailers as "Superbad" and "30 days of Night," and the Ant Farm had 12 noms, including for trailers for "Shrek the Third" and "Surf's Up."
"The goal is to honor the best work that is done in movie marketing, and the quality of the work that is done in this area gets better and better every year and moves into new areas every year," said Bob Israel, chairman of the Key Art Awards Advisory Board and executive producer of the show.
"We have more categories and more judges than ever before," he added. "Between the print and the A/V categories, we had about 500 judges who work in movie marketing. We expanded our new-media category. ... We added a home entertainment/new-media category."
Also new this year, a special Key Art Award will be presented to honor the work of the studio/distributor that conceived the year's most innovative and successful marketing strategy and whose creative advertising materials as a whole reflect the implementation of the year's best campaign. A blue-ribbon panel will judge the category, and nominations will be announced separately.
A total of 1,335 submissions were judged this year. The Hollywood Reporter's sister company, Nielsen Research Group, administered and tabulated the ballots and will determine the winners in each category.
Judd Apatow will receive the Visionary Award, recognizing a filmmaker who inspires movie marketers, during the awards presentation.
This year's Key Art Awards sponsors include the Los Angeles Times, Crew Creative Advertising, Menagerie Creative and Weston/Mason Entertainment Advertising. Tickets go on sale Friday and can be purchased online at KeyArtAward.com.
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Hugh Hefner won't marry girlfriend Holly
Hugh Hefner doesn't want to marry girlfriend Holly Madison.
The Playboy tycoon - who lives in a Los Angeles mansion with Holly and his two other girlfriends Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt - has no plans to tie the knot again after going through two divorces.
He said: "I love Holly very much and I think we're going to be together the rest of my life. But marriage isn't part of my puzzle. It's not a personal thing - I just haven't had much luck with marriages."
Holly, 28, is still keen on the idea of marriage, but accepts it is unlikely to happen.
She said: "We are no closer to getting married than we were years ago. It's like a car stalled at the side of the road."
Meanwhile, Hugh has revealed he has no intention of giving up work, despite being 82-years-old.
He said: "I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me."
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Anne Hathaway - The Things They Say 8356
"I go skydiving. I do my own stunts. But the idea of calling the pizza guy frightens the hell out of me". Actress ANNE HATHAWAY is terrified of talking to strangers on the phone.
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Estelle retracts Adele, Duffy comments
Estelle has taken back comments she made about two of her contemporaries.
In a recent interview with The Guardian, the 'American Boy' singer criticised the music press for favouring Adele and Duffy over black soul singers.
"How the hell is there not a single black person in the press singing soul?" she was quoted as saying. "Adele ain't soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha records once, and she's got a deeper voice - that don't mean she's soul."
However, Estelle said she now believes her words were twisted into an attack on white singers.
She explained: "They asked about the genre, and I spoke about the genre - and they took it into a race thing. The interesting thing for me is that they never mentioned that I thought Amy Winehouse is soul.
"I love Duffy, Adele - I don't have any ill feelings. Me and Adele are cool. I have no beefs," she added.
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In a recent interview with The Guardian, the 'American Boy' singer criticised the music press for favouring Adele and Duffy over black soul singers.
"How the hell is there not a single black person in the press singing soul?" she was quoted as saying. "Adele ain't soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha records once, and she's got a deeper voice - that don't mean she's soul."
However, Estelle said she now believes her words were twisted into an attack on white singers.
She explained: "They asked about the genre, and I spoke about the genre - and they took it into a race thing. The interesting thing for me is that they never mentioned that I thought Amy Winehouse is soul.
"I love Duffy, Adele - I don't have any ill feelings. Me and Adele are cool. I have no beefs," she added.
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Judge: 50 Cent Can't Sell Property
A New York property at the center of a dispute between 50 Cent and his ex-girlfriend - which was burnt down last month - has been barred from being sold, a judge told the rapper on Tuesday (June 10).
50 Cent owns the $2.4 million Long Island home and rented to his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins and their 10-year-old son.
Fire broke out at the property on May 30, with no cause determined as yet.
According to Tompkin's lawyer Paul Catsandonis, she was suing the rapper for half of his estate, based on an oral agreement the couple made during their relationship.
State Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead ordered 50 Cent not to sell the property, and ordered that Tompkins pay the rapper the US$4,500 rent that was due for her final month in the house.
Brett Kimmel, the rapper's lawyer, stated that Tompkins had repeatedly ignored orders to pay rent that formed conditions of her living in the house.
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David Friedman
Artist: David Friedman
Genre(s):
New Age
Jazz
Discography:
Moonrise
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Rios
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Vibist and marimba player David Friedman has recorded and played extensively since the early '70s. He studied drums in the mid-'50s, and marimba and xylophone in the '60s. Friedman attended Juilliard, with his major stress percussion. He as well was tutored by Teddy Charles and Hall Overton. Friedman played with The New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Operas in the '60s, then worked with Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Joe Chambers, Hubert Laws and Horacee Arnold in the '70s. After touring and active in Ludwig Drum Co. workshops with Dave Samuels, Friedman and Samuels formed The Mallet Duo in 1975 and co-led the quartet Double Image from 1977 to 1980. Friedman recorded with Daniel Humair in 1979 and Chet Baker in 1982. He was an teacher at New York's Manhattan School of Music and Montreux's Institute for Advanced Musical Studies in the mid-'70s.
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