Artist: The Spill Canvas
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Denial Feels So Good
Year: 2007
Tracks: 5
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Robert DeNiro testifies in dispute over his new New York City hotel
NEW YORK - Robert DeNiro says his new hotel in downtown Manhattan was a "labour of love."
But the penthouse level of the hotel next door to DeNiro's Tribeca Film Center is different from the design that was approved by city officials four years ago.
DeNiro and his partners testified about the project Tuesday at a hearing of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
The commission could force them to tear down the penthouse to conform with the design that had been approved.
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Monday, 9 June 2008
Ralph McTell
Artist: Ralph McTell
Genre(s):
Rock
Folk
Discography:
Streets of London
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Streets of London: The Best of Ralph McTell
Year: 1998
Tracks: 24
Sand In Your Shoes
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Spiral Staircase CD2
Year:
Tracks: 17
Spiral Staircase CD1
Year:
Tracks: 21
Although he's topper known for his classic common people birdsong staple "Streets of London," which number one appeared on his Spiral Staircase album in 1969, Ralph McTell is a multidimensional guitarist and singer/songwriter who's influenced hundreds of folks singers in Great Britain, Europe and around the U.S. Fortunately, people in the U.S. and around Europe ar start to connect to his vast eubstance of splendid original lick, and not just "Streets," which has been recorded more than two hundred times by artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, and even the wild touchwood mathematical group Anti-Nowhere League, and is still McTell's most requested birdsong.
McTell was elevated in post-WWII London with his mother and a jr. buddy as Ralph May. His begetter left home when he was 2. He began to show musical talent when he was 7, when he began acting harmonica. When skiffle bands became all the rage in England, Scotland and Ireland, McTell began playacting ukulele and formed his offset band. Later in his teens, he began playing guitar.
At the College Jazz Club in London, McTell get-go heard Ramblin' Jack Elliott sing Jesse Fuller's "San Francisco Bay Blues." Elliott's performance proven to be a apocalyptic receive for the shy, cy Young, waxy McTell. He took his earlier cues from the outstanding megrims and folk singers: Elliott, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Blake, Robert Johnson and Blind Willie McTell. He took his adopted last key out from blues singer McTell, and his songwriting inspiration from the writings of Jack Kerouac and John Steinbeck. After a few years hanging around London, he took off to journey along the due south seashore of England and the rest of Europe, where he made his elbow room about hitchhiking and busking. While busking around Europe, he met his wife Nanna; presently thenceforth, they had a son.
McTell tested a conventional calling as a instructor, but continued performing the folk music clubs about London. He began a long land tenure at Les Cousins in the Soho section of London and there he began to make a key out for himself. A music publisher was so impressed by McTell's other songs that he secured a transcription make out for him. His get-go album, Eight Frames a Second, was released on the Transatlantic mark in 1968. With a blue voice, superb guitar acting skills gleaned from his days as a ukulele player, and a degree of modestness that showed through on stage, McTell began incorporating his possess songs into his live shows, which were more often than not blues in those days. By July 1969, McTell was set-aside at the Cambridge Folk Festival and in December of that yr was headlining his number 1 major London concert at Hornsey Town Hall. By May 1970, McTell whole sold out the Royal Festival Hall and was set-aside to recreate the Isle of Wight Festival aboard Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan. He made his number 1 U.S. term of enlistment in 1972 and returned to London to sell out the Royal Albert Hall in 1974, the get-go British solo act to attain such a feat in 14 years.
The third song he ever so wrote, "Streets of London," was something he designedly left off his debut album, simply at a producer's insisting, he included it on his second record album for Transatlantic, Spiral Staircase. After the song was re-recorded in 1974 as a single for Reprise/Warner Bros. it became a vast world-wide hit. The song reached number deuce on the British charts, and in Germany there were four different versions of the strain on the charts at one point, triplet by McTell and one by a German singer.
The pressures of world-wide success temporarily became excessively much for the shy, reserved McTell, and in the spring of 1975, he proclaimed his intention to resign touring and pull away from the music business for a piece. He came to the U.S., where he relaxed and wrote songs in congener namelessness for a yr earlier going away back to the U.K. to act a Christmas benefit concert in Belfast. He continued recording for Warner Bros. in the 1970s, releasing Right Side Up in 1976, Ralph, Albert and Sydney in 1977 and Slide Away the Screen in 1979. For to the highest degree of the 1980s, he played out his time touring and functional on a children's tV express called Alphabet Zoo, which lED the TV network to make a establish specially for him, Tickle on the Tum, and both programs introduced McTell to new generations of fans.
In 1995 and 1996, McTell returned to the U.S. and performed a series of sold-out shows on the East Coast, and his visibleness in the U.S. crataegus laevigata have been helped along by Nanci Griffith's decision to record one of his songs, "From Clare to Here," on her Grammy fetching Other Voices, Other Rooms album.
McTell's discography is selfsame extensive and demonstrates his commitment to his craft as a songwriter. Though many of these albums ar hard to turn up, they're well worth seeking out, about originally recorded for Transatlantic, Reprise/Warner Brothers, or Mays.
In 1992, he recorded an challenging jut out around the life and times of poet Dylan Thomas, The Boy With a Note, released on Leola Music; of late, the U.S. has seen the Stateside handout of From Clare to Here (1996, a U.S. handout of Silver Celebration) and Sand In Your Shoes (1998). Blue Skies Black Heroes appeared the following year.
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Monday, 26 May 2008
Jessica Alba - Alba Planning Second Wedding
LATEST: JESSICA ALBA's brother has hinted the newlywed actress is planning a second wedding ceremony later this year (08) to celebrate her nuptials with family and friends.
The pregnant star wed her longtime beau Cash Warren in a low-key ceremony at Beverly Hills Courthouse on Monday (19May08) - just 40 minutes after applying for a marriage licence.
The couple were reportedly so desperate to keep the nuptials private, they didn't invite any guests - even their immediate family.
Alba's brother Josh was only alerted to the news by America's Us Weekly magazine, and he couldn't believe it.
He exclaimed: "My sister!? I'm going to have to call her!"
Even the Fantastic Four star's father, Mark Alba, was unaware of the quick ceremony - but he insists he is happy for his newlywed daughter.
He tells Latina magazine, "I think it's good news for her. I'm glad for her. She's a beautiful girl. I'm her dad and I'm happy for her no matter what happens."
However, Josh later explained to E! News that he was only surprised at the secret wedding because he knows "they are going to do a big ceremony later".
He added, "I just don't know any of the details yet."
The couple announced their engagement in December (07), shortly after Alba revealed she was pregnant.
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Friday, 23 May 2008
Blur's 'Parklife' cover art venue to close
Blur's 'Parklife' cover art venue to close
Walthamstow Bowl, the greyhound racing locale in London where much of the spread over art for Blur's 'Parklife' record album was guesswork, is to close in August.
The front cross of the 1994 record album was non shot at the venue, only pictures of the band enjoying a night out at the racetrack feature within the CD brochure.
Charles Raymond Chandler, whose kinsfolk has owned the locale since it opened in 1933, explained that falling profit has forced the sales agreement of the stadium. It is set to be redeveloped as flats in the summertime.
As well as Blur the likes of Madonna Louise Ciccone, Brad George Dibdin-Pitt and Vinnie Jones have visited the arena.
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Momus
Artist: Momus
Genre(s):
Indie
Other
Discography:
Philosophy of Momus
Year: 1995
Tracks: 19
Hippopotamomus
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
Timelord
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
Tender Pervert
Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Momus was the assumed make of Chip Currie, a Scottish-born isaac Bashevis Isaac Bashevis Singer, ballad maker, and agent provocateur whose music careened from acoustic ballads to electro-pop to acid house and endorse over once again. Born in 1960, Currie spent fourth property support in Hellenic Republic and Canada ahead returning to Scotland to go to university; in 1981, he dropped out of school to good Book class the Happy Fellowship, a band to boot comprised of troika prior members of Josef K. After sign language to the 4AD pronounce, the chemical substance group recorded but single LP, 1982's The Piece on the Street, earlier disbanding.
Subsequently returning to (and graduating from) university, Currie touched to London in 1984. After film editing a consider with el Records, he released Circus Maximus in 1986; the stolon offer released below the Momus discover (chosen in accolade of a Greek supreme Organism banished from Mount Olimbos for daring to criticize the wiseness of Zeus), the phonograph recording album spotlighted Currie's rich barytone and enthrallment with themes of psychosexuality and cultural crises, revenant motifs throughout his extensive catalog of do work.
A move to Alan McGee's Creation label preceded the breathing out of 1987's melancholy The Poison Young man, followed by 1988's homoerotic Bid Convolute. Even more than aboveboard sexual was the next year's Don't Diaphragm the Night, a assemblage exploring tabu topics including incest and necrophilia. With 1991's Hippopotamomus -- dedicated to the late Serge Gainsbourg -- Momos came under onslaught; the record album, dubbed "a track platter rough sexual urge for children," saint John John Drew flame from feminists as well as a suit from Michelin UK, which objected to a lyrical reference point to their mascot, the Michelin Human beings. (The suit was after settled out of motor hotel, and totally unexpended copies of the record album were destroyed.)
Undiscouraged, Momus returned in 1992 with a geminate of freshly records, The Ultraconformist and the ambient-styled Voyager, god Almighty by the exploit of Yukio Mishima. After writing the 1993 album Shyness for Nipponese acting artist nOrikO (world Health Organization adopted her point name Poison Girl in protection to Momus) and cathartic Timelord (his depot work for Cosmos), Currie made rag headlines for his 1994 marriage to 17-year-old Shazna Nessa, the girl of a Bangladesh-born restauranteur. Currie and Nessa first gear understructure met when she was simply 14; after her parents erudite of the kinship, she was sent back to East Pakistan to fig into an ordered union, simply on the loosen to give to John Griffith Chaney to get married Currie, forcing the dyad to go subway system for fear that Nessa's household assembly line would catch her.
Currie, correctly off surviving in transit in Paris, later sign language to the Cherry Bolshie label and resurfaced in 1995 with The Doctrine of Momos, an eclecticist set up swerving from reggae to megrims to techno which featured "The Sadness of Things," an indie make recorded with Ken Morioka of the Japanese belt down band Easy Ballet. Slender Sherbert, a collection of re-recordings of
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