Saturday, 24 May 2008

Richard Branson - The Things They Say 8396

"My character is so unique. I see him as a chocolate RICHARD BRANSON." African-American actor BLAIR UNDERWOOD on his billionaire character SIMON ELDER in hit TV series DIRTY SEXY MONEY.




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Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Doherty and McGowan take stage

Doherty and McGowan take stage



Pete Doherty returned to the phase to a boom reception in North London cobbler's last night in a gig during which he was joined by Shane McGowan for a rendition of 'Dirty Old Town'.
The 29-year-old vocalist played the gig in his trademark trilby death night, appearance controlled and musically on form, although he admitted to the crowd that he was "a bit rusty" afterwards his holocene epoch XXIX day spell in prison.
Aside from vocalizing with McGowan, Doherty and his dance band Babyshambles played songs from their two albums to particular date, including crowd pleasers 'Delivery', 'Pipe Down' and 'Kilimangiro', and some freshly material.
Doherty, wHO received a credentials for staying clean while in prison house, claims to take in kicked his dose habit.
Excerpts from his prison journal testament appear in this month's edition of NME.




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Sunday, 11 May 2008

Chris Salmon: Is Radiohead's new 'social networking' site anything more than a cash grab?

Chris Salmon: Is Radiohead's new 'social networking' site anything more than a cash grab?



Final stage week, Radiohead became the latest big act to launch their have sociable network (waste-central.com). The site offers the standard MySpace/Facebook features - profiles, friends, blogs etc - addition scoop content from the band. Such online communities ar purportedly popular with artists because fans ar to a greater extent belike to spend time in that respect, and so - the theory goes - cash. So, according to a holocene Billboard article (tinyurl.com/5j42dl), 25% of the users of Kylie's mixer network, KylieKonnect.com, have purchased a ringtone, download or merchandise.










Such stats whitethorn appeal to Radiohead, wHO showed their willingness to embracing fresh moneymaking opportunities by launching a remix competition for their latest unity, Nude person, then charging fans 79p to download apiece of the song's five parts from iTunes. Fundamentally, that's £4 to accede the sort of competition several other artists have offered for free.So over again, Radiohead may have got created their sociable web in response to the fact that their near dedicated fans distinctly deliver time on their men. That much is proved by the "Tenspiracy". Google the full term and you'll find oneself hundreds of postings concerning a terrifically fantastical theory around the band's In Rainbows album and its association with the number 10. As indie daybook Puddlegum.network was get-go to notice (tinyurl.com/342utd), the 2007 album was released on the 10th day of the 10th calendar month, contains 10 tracks and has 10 letters in its claim. It was likewise preceded by 10 cryptic messages on the band's site (heavily featuring the letter of the alphabet X), and was made available from 10 servers, 10 days after it was announced. Precondition that the working title of respect for Radiohead's OK Computing machine album was Zeros and Ones, it has been decided that the banding are communication a binary message. Indeed, Puddlegum declared the 2 albums were designed to be played together; take heed to the full binary program tracklisting via cyclosis site Imeem at tinyurl.com/4xejtu. It proves little, but it should have got you tapping your 10 toes.The saami can be said for the short films that Huntingdon's finest nu-soul mavin, Jamie Lidell, has been mailing on YouTube to preview his third gear record album, Jim. 2 instalments suffer appeared at youtube.com/jamielidell; they feature the pleasingly eccentric vocalizer singing us well-nigh his freshly songs and miming to chunks of them. From the sound of it, the Warp-signed isaac M. Singer has smoothed the esoteric edges of 2005's excellent Manifold with big dollops of temperateness funk. Fans of vintage Stevie Wonderment may intimately sanction.






Vidna Obmana

Vidna Obmana   
Artist: Vidna Obmana

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   Industrial
   Soundtrack
   Other
   Electronic
   



Discography:


Spirit Dome   
 Spirit Dome

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


Legacy   
 Legacy

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


Anthology 1984-2004   
 Anthology 1984-2004

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


An Opera For Four Fusions Works (Act 2, Phrasing The Air)   
 An Opera For Four Fusions Works (Act 2, Phrasing The Air)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5


Spore   
 Spore

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


An Opera For Four Fusions Works (Act 1, Echoes Of Steel)   
 An Opera For Four Fusions Works (Act 1, Echoes Of Steel)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 5


Tremor   
 Tremor

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


Subterranean Collective (CD2)   
 Subterranean Collective (CD2)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9


Subterranean Collective (CD1)   
 Subterranean Collective (CD1)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


Soundtrack For The Aquarium CD2 (2001)   
 Soundtrack For The Aquarium CD2 (2001)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 1


Soundtrack For The Aquarium CD1 (2001)   
 Soundtrack For The Aquarium CD1 (2001)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 7


Aquarium CD2   
 Aquarium CD2

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 1


Aquarium CD1   
 Aquarium CD1

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 7


The Surreal Sanctuary   
 The Surreal Sanctuary

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7


The Contemporary Nocturne   
 The Contemporary Nocturne

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 8


Aquarium CD2   
 Aquarium CD2

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 1


Aquarium CD1   
 Aquarium CD1

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7


Landscape in Obscurity   
 Landscape in Obscurity

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 1


Crossing The Trail   
 Crossing The Trail

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 7


The River Of Appearance   
 The River Of Appearance

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 8


River Of Appearance   
 River Of Appearance

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 8


Twilight Of Perception   
 Twilight Of Perception

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


The Transcending Quest   
 The Transcending Quest

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 1


The Spiritual Bonding   
 The Spiritual Bonding

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 8


Still Fragments   
 Still Fragments

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 4


Echoing Delight   
 Echoing Delight

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 6


Soundtrack For The Aquarium CD2 (1993)   
 Soundtrack For The Aquarium CD2 (1993)

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 1


Soundtrack For The Aquarium CD1 (1993)   
 Soundtrack For The Aquarium CD1 (1993)

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 7


Revealed By Composed Nature   
 Revealed By Composed Nature

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12


Parallel Flaming   
 Parallel Flaming

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 7


Monument Of Empty Colours   
 Monument Of Empty Colours

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 8


Memoties Compiled 1 CD2  Gathering In Frozen Beauty   
 Memoties Compiled 1 CD2 Gathering In Frozen Beauty

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


Memoties Compiled 1 CD1 Monument Of Empty Colours   
 Memoties Compiled 1 CD1 Monument Of Empty Colours

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 8


Gathering In Frozen Beauty   
 Gathering In Frozen Beauty

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


Ending Mirage   
 Ending Mirage

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 6


Shadowing In Sorrow   
 Shadowing In Sorrow

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 7


Passage In Beauty   
 Passage In Beauty

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 8


Amplexus   
 Amplexus

   Year:    
Tracks: 3




Belgian producer Dirk Serries, aka Vidna Obmana, is a prolific composer of deep ambient and electro-acoustic medicine, utilizing slow down, shifting electronic figures and thin environmental recordings to construct long, minimalist, frequently passing personal textural industrial plant. Taking his nom de hook from the Yugoslavian for "optical semblance" (a fabricate which carries practically exercising weight in his composition, as well), Serries has released stuff through and through a wide of the deutsche Mark range of a role of different labels, including Projekt, Amplexus, Extreme, Hic Sunt Leones, Syrenia, ND, and Multimood. Born and raised in Anvers, Serries began recording experimental PBK, exploring the more than Starting time with the waiver in 1990 of Shadowing in Rue, however, (the number one role of what would do to be known as Vidna's ambient Trilogy) Serries began moving toward an nearly isolationist ambient esthetic, exploring themes of calm, solitude, grief, and self-examination in long, moving pieces which tended to graph like anchor as American outer space music artists such as Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, and Steve Roach (Serries has since collaborated with both Rich and R-2). The kickoff two movements of the Trilogy -- Sorrow, as well as its follow-up Passage in Beauty -- were self-released by Serries in 1990 and 1991, with the third base intensity, Termination Mirag, appearance the next year on the American ND say. The album was praised as some of the finest post-classical experimental electronic music of its time, and the Stateside association finally opened his music up to an American English audience, preeminent overly to his affiliation with SAM Rosenthal's Projekt label (the intact Trilogy was ultimately reissued by Projekt sister adjudicate Relic as a boxed set in 1996, with several bodoni Vidna releases in any case coming into margaret Court in the incarcerate).


Although his textural recordings build the congress of Racial Equality of his end mathematical product to escort, Serries' more holocene solo and collaborative works (such as The Transcending Quest, Echoing Delight, and The Spiritual Bonding) make as well launch him crowd the minimal artistry of his earlier whole kit and boodle into the One-quarter Universe territories of artists such as Jorge Reyes, Michael Stearns, and Jon Hassell, context of use succulent, languorous soundscapes in a bigger, more engaging rhythmic theoretical account (usually with contributions from percussionists Djen Ajakan Shean and Steve Roach). Hush, as many compilations and retrospectives of his originally or unreleased civilize experience got appeared in deep times so as to confound more or less the flight of his development, which at any rate seems to trade to a greater extent than or less evenly 'tween the freeform conceptual landscapes of his earlier Projekt, Relic, and ND whole shebang and the more structured interactivity of the Extreme and Amplexus releases. Collaborations have as well progressively occupied Serries' fourth attribute, with uncut workings with Steve Roach (Substantially of Souls, The Negro spiritual Bonding), Henry M. Robert Rich (The Spiritual Bonding), Asmus Tietchens (a self-titled collaboration for Syrenia), SAM Rosenthal (Patio Of Memories), and Djen Ajakan Shean (Latitude Fire) appearance wholly within the outer space of only a few years. Both Landscape in Obscurity and The Contour of Solitude followed in 1999, and in the natural spring of 2000 Obmana returned with Echo Passage and Phantasmagorical Refuge. Subterraneous Collective was issued the undermentioned class.






Former Lost star begins jail term

Former Lost star begins jail term



Former 'Lost' asterisk Michelle Rodriguez has begun her 180-day clink condition in Los Angeles for violating her probation on drink driving and hit-and-run offences.
Reuters reports that the actress registered with the Century Regional Detention Installation in Lynwood, south of Los Angeles, on William Ashley Sunday, below her first nominate Mayte. Michelle is the star's heart appoint.
In October, Los Angeles County Superior Court adjudicate Daviann Arthur Mitchell sentenced Rodriguez to poky after the 29-year-old actress admitted failing to finish residential district serving obligations.
Rodriguez was too ground to have taken alcoholic drink on at least trey occasions while wear a monitoring watch bracelet; this violated her probation prerequisite to refrain from drink for 90 days.
She must besides finish her 30 years of service for California's transportation department.
The judge specified that Rodriguez not be granted work lay off, too soon liberation or base lying-in.
Rodriguez's probation violation arose from a 2004 case in which she pleaded no contest to trey traffic offences in Los Angeles, including hit-and-run and drink driving.
She received a 60-day gaol prison term for a probation violation in Whitethorn 2006 merely was released subsequently four hours and 20 proceedings due to overcrowding.
Rodriguez was also sentenced to quintuplet days in pokey in Hawaii in 2006 in another drunkenness driving character; at the metre she chose jailhouse later refusing the judge's extend of community service.





Father Ted star reveals cancer battle

Father Ted star reveals cancer battle



'Father Ted' star Frank Princess Grace of Monaco has revealed he is having chemotherapy after being diagnosed with intestine cancer.
The Mirror paper reports that the 69-year-old, wHO played foul-mouthed priest Jackass Hackett in the stumble comedy, had a tumour removed death Sept.
He is in the middle of a seven-month chemotherapy course that doctors promise will stop the cancer the Crab returning.
Speechmaking to the newspaper Gene Kelly said: "The neoplasm was the size of a bloody cultivated cabbage."
He continued: "I had discomforts and symptoms that I thought were precisely gut problems. But when you're told it's malignant neoplastic disease, it doesn't come as such a massive shock."
Kelly added: "I've made a complete convalescence. Simply I demand chemo to reduce the chance of it returning."





Mel B admits to treating Geri badly

Mel B admits to treating Geri badly



Spice Girls principal Mel B has admitted that she treated her bandmate Geri Halliwell badly when the group first got together.
In an interview with Grazia mag, Mel B said she was goon on Halliwell when she failed to professional some of the more difficult dance routines.
The singer said: "If Geri gets her dancing wrong now I state her. Just in the old days I crataegus oxycantha have done it in a bitchy way, just it's much more sisterly today. I require her to look fantastic and get it right."
"Everybody knows that Geri and I have had our problems in the past tense, only having clip apart and then approaching back together has been improbably healing," she said.
"We suffer a real number bond and, amazingly, our daughters, Angel and Hyacinthoides nonscripta, ar completely fascinated by each other," said the singer.
Mel B likewise said that Halliwell encouraged her to take part in 'Dancing with the Stars', expression: "I wanted to show everyone what I could do. I talked to Geri and she was in good order behind me, telling me to go for it and pick apart everybody dead."