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Monday 23 June 2008

Mike Rowland

Artist: Mike Rowland

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Arc-en-Ciel : The Healing

Year: 2001
Tracks: 10

The Land Of Hopes And Dreams

Year: 2000
Tracks: 9

Lady Of The Lake Pisces

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

My Elfin Friends

Year: 1999
Tracks: 11

And So to Dream

Year: 1997
Tracks: 7

Within The Light

Year: 1996
Tracks: 11

Mystic Angel

Year: 1996
Tracks: 11

Pisces

Year: 1993
Tracks: 12

The Brighter Side

Year: 1990
Tracks: 10

Solace

Year: 1990
Tracks: 4

The Magical Elfin Collection

Year: 1989
Tracks: 9

Silver Wings Suite

Year: 1985
Tracks: 6

Silver Wings

Year: 1985
Tracks: 6

The Fairy Ring Piano Version

Year: 1982
Tracks: 4

The Fairy Ring

Year: 1982
Tracks: 4

Titania The Fairy Queen

Year:
Tracks: 5

Angel Delight

Year:
Tracks: 9

New years composer Mike Rowland was born in London in 1958. As a nipper, Rowland showed a innate affinity for composing and playing the piano. After his schooling, he ran an passee rat, where he grew to prize the treasures that passed through his hands. He played the church variety meat at Albert Hall and St. Paul's Cathedral; piece at home, he created languid compositions at his piano and synthesizer.

One solar day in the early '80s, he heard an otherworldly, in time small, line patch walking through the woods. Back in his living room, Rowland mark up a tape recorder and played the music as charles Herbert Best he could recollect. After mixing in some orchestral string section with a synthesizer, Sprite Ring was nail. Rowland made duplicates on his home tape fipple flute and casually distributed them to friends and stores. From this ingenuous outset, Pansy Ring spread worldwide to become one of the near imperishable new age albums of all time; Shirley MacLaine immortalized the music on her video Inner Workout.

Rowland now and again gives populace concerts, and during a 1986 enlistment in The Hague, he signed on with Oreade Music, thus assuring his recordings ecumenical marketing and distribution. Rowland, however, has ne'er helpless that mystic innocence and charm. His record album roster includes Piesces (1990), Within the Light (1996), and My Elfin Friends (1999). Land of Hope and Dreams followed in other 2001.

Monday 16 June 2008

Cotton quits X Factor for US career

Television presenter Fearne Cotton has reportedly quit 'The X Factor' after landing a deal for a new talent show in the US.
The 25-year-old star, who has hosted just one series of the spin-off show 'The Xtra Factor', is now planning to move to the US to pursue her television career there.
A source told The Sun: "Fearne had fun working on 'X Factor' but she decided to quit while she was ahead."
"There was no guarantee she would have been doing a second series. It made sense to make a clean break and concentrate on America."
Cotton has signed up to co-host the US talent show 'Last Comic Standing' on NBC.

Monday 9 June 2008

Gold Carpet Confidential: It's Hugs Galore For Will Smith, Pussycat Dolls & More At The MTV Movie Awards

Will Smith, Diddy, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and others were sharing the love on the gold carpet at the MTV Movie Awards.

John Lennon adorning Liverpool gateway

London (ANI): A 14ft image of John Lennon has been painted at a key gateway to Liverpool to mark the city's year as 'European Capital of Culture'. The mural depicting the Beatles has been created on a gable end in Litherland, with the whole group on a wall next to it - with images of Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe walking away, reports Times Online. The mural was commissioned by the Riverside Group housing association from the Belfast artists Mark Ervine and Danny Devenny. The artists worked with local artists on the gable end. The gable end is in the style of the cover of John Lennon's album 'Rock'n'Roll'.

Weezer unveil 'Pork And Beans' video

Weezer have released the video for their chart-topping new single 'Pork And/ Beans'.

The video features a host of YouTube stars including Tay Zonday of 'Chocolate Rain' fame, Miss South Carolina, and Chris Crocker -- the platinum blond guy who cries to leave Britney Spears alone.

Spears' ex husband Kevin Federline also makes an appearance rocking out behind a mixing board.

"It's an homage and a spoof and a mash-up of YouTube phenomenon videos," guitarist Brian Bell told NME.COM when the band were recording it in Los Angeles two weeks ago.

The video, which was directed by Mathew Cullen (REM, Beck, Modest Mouse) can be seen now on Weezer's YouTube channel.

The channel also features behind-the-scenes clips from the making of the video and an introduction from the band.

Weezer's new self-titled album, also known as the 'Red Album', is due out in the US on June 3 and in the UK on June 16.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Lavrenchukki

Artist: Lavrenchukki

   Genre(s):
Ethnic

Discography:

Practica

Year: 2004
Tracks: 9

Geldof hailed as 'the coolest girl in town'

Pixie Geldof has been named "the coolest girl in town" by Tatler magazine.
The 17-year-old daughter of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates has followed in her mother's footsteps by gracing the front cover of the magazine.
Wearing a red cap and a striped miniskirt, Pixie mirrors her mother who posed for the magazine in September 1982.
According to the magazine, Geldof reveals her favourite poem is 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' by Oscar Wilde.
Pixie also says that she taught herself how to play the guitar while confined to bed with bronchitis and that she prefers listening to vinyl rather than CDs and iPods.
The teenager's profile as a style icon has been on the rise in recent months. She was recently listed at number 16 in Glamour magazine's annual best-dressed women list.

Davis launches own clothing line

Kristin Davis is launching her own fashion line, femalefirst.co.uk reports. The Sex And The City actress will release her debut collection in a partnership with American department store chain Belk, Inc. this fall. She said: �I grew up shopping at Belk. It was the nicest store we had, and I�d save my allowance to go to Belk.�

The �modern, feminine, style savvy� collection will feature dresses, knits, jeans, handbags, shoes, jewelry and lingerie ranging from $40 US to $240 per item. H.W. McKay Belk, president and chief merchandising officer of Belk, Inc., said: �We�re thrilled with our association with Kristin Davis and look forward to unveiling this exciting new line for Belk customers this fall.

�We think (customers will) love the modern fashion looks of the Kristin Davis brand. It�s designed to capture Kristin�s look and personality and to provide cutting-edge fashion assortments that customers won�t find in any other store.�

Davis� Sex And The City co-star Sarah Jessica Parker launched her own clothing line Bitten last year.

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Film celebrates tightrope walk between Twin Towers

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Even before they were built, New York's Twin Towers provided a dream for Philippe Petit, and he spent six years chasing that dream until he conquered them with a spectacular, illegal act.

On August 7, 1974, the Frenchman walked between the towers on a wire, without a net or a harness, some 1,362 feet (415 meters) above ground -- a seemingly impossible feat of guerrilla theater.

The story of what Petit and his team accomplished after months of scheming is the topic of "Man on Wire," a documentary screening at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.

"This film is about life: The life of the towers and the life of a mad poet aided by a few friends who clearly did the impossible. And that's what mad poets do," Petit, now 58, said from a Manhattan tavern.

The festival was created in 2002 in response to the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Director James Marsh chose not to mention the attacks in the film, concentrating on Petit and his co-conspirators.

"Why burden a surprising fairytale that happens to be true and happened in 1974?" said Marsh, shoehorned into the booth next to Petit.

Marsh weaves never-before-seen archival footage of Petit's preparations with dramatizations and interviews into something of a heist film, keeping viewers guessing as to how they achieved something Marsh called "subversive and beautiful."

"Man on Wire" won the grand jury prize and audience award for world cinema documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival in January despite limited buzz and screenings.

Sam Gopal

Artist: Sam Gopal

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Escalator

Year: 1968
Tracks: 13

Although in that respect was a tabla player and percussionist named Sam Gopal in this quartette, the true leader of Sam Gopal was Ian "Lemmy" Willis, aka Lemmy Kilminster, wHO was in beat and psychedelic bands in the sixties ahead joining Hawkwind and Motorhead. Sam Gopal played middling psychedelic rock 'n' roll with Eastern and blues influences, with Willis manipulation lead vocals, lead guitar, and much of the songwriting. That Eastern influence, such as it was, was most discernible in Gopal's tabla, unusual since the group's psychedelia much employed heavy guitar lines. Sam Gopal issued one album, Escalator clause, in the late sixties, and would likely be even more forgotten today had Lemmy non at rest on to greater fame.