Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Basia Bulat

Basia Bulat   
Artist: Basia Bulat

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   



Discography:


Oh My Darling   
 Oh My Darling

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12




Canadian singer/songwriter Basia Bulat came on the face of it verboten of nowhere to become one of the most talked about new artists in both Canada and the United Kingdom with the release of her number one uncut album, Oh, My Darling, in 2007. Originally from Toronto, Bulat lives and writes in the quieter community of London, Ontario, where she recorded a self-released EP in 2005. Bulat's rich, expressive voice is the ideal fomite for her songs, which manage with love and life-time with a combination of unhappiness and wonder, and her melodies are bolstered by a band that incorporates strings and keyboards along with the traditional drums and guitar. In 2006, producer Howard Bilerman, c. H. Best known for his operate with the Arcade Fire, took Bulat and her band into the studio to disk her first full-length album; the upshot, Oh, My Darling, caught the ear of the honored U.K. label Rough Trade, which signed Bulat and released the disc in the springtime of 2007 ahead she had a deal in Canada or the United States. British reviews for Oh, My Darling were wildly enthusiastic, and a circuit of England and Europe impressed both critics and fans. Canadian main label Hardwood Records (home to famed singer/songwriter Hayden) signed Bulat in the summertime of 2007, with Oh, My Darling scheduled for release in the fall.






Saturday, 31 May 2008

Indiana Jones - Ford Waxes Chest For Charity

INDIANA JONES star HARRISON FORD has had his chest waxed for a new advertising campaign to promote awareness of deforestation.

The 65-year-old actor is seen gritting his teeth and wincing with pain as a wax strip is pulled from his torso.

But the stunt is all for a good cause as the 30-second ad has been filmed for Conservation International - an environmental campaign group - to help raise awareness of the effect of deforestation on global warming.

Ford is seen saying, "Every bit of rain forest that gets ripped out over there really hurts us over here."

And Conservation International boss Peter Seligmann insists the Hollywood star really went through with the waxing, and his pained expression was totally genuine.

He says, "I didn't have to talk him into anything. I was there when he filmed it. It really hurt. There's nothing about the expression on his face that was fake."

The short film mirrors a scene from 2005 movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which sees actor Steve Carell screaming with pain during his chest hair removal session.




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Thursday, 29 May 2008

Saint Etienne Daho

Saint Etienne Daho   
Artist: Saint Etienne Daho

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   



Discography:


Reserection   
 Reserection

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 5




 






Pop princess Kylie Minogue turns 40

Pop princess Kylie Minogue celebrates her 40th birthday today - and she's not being allowed to ignore it.

Cannes Film Festival - Movie Reviews Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull


Film critics who held off their reviews of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last weekend are
having a go at it today (Thursday), the official opening day of the movie. Manohla
Dargis in the New York Times gives it merely a so-so critique. "There's plenty
of frantic energy here, lots of noise and money too, but what's absent is any sense
of rediscovery, the kind that's necessary whenever a filmmaker dusts off an old formula
or a genre standard," she writes. But who needs that? Ty Burr seems to ask in the
Boston Globe. What audiences want, he remarks, is "engaged nostalgia, I think,
and on that level Crystal Skull delivers. This isn't a reinvention but a reunion,
of characters, creators, even techniques." Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle
faults director Steven Spielberg for insisting on making the action nonstop,
resulting in what he calls "probably the worst of the Indiana Jones movies." Nevertheless,
he adds, that action "is more inventive, more lovingly detailed and a lot more pleasurable
than anything you could hope to see in [other] action movies." Stephen Hunter in
the Washington Post welcomes back "the hero." There's a pleasure, he writes,
in seeing the Indiana Jones character. He "hasn't a crystal jaw, much less a glass
one. Hit him, he gets up and hits you back. He always figures out a way to win. ...
It's romantic manliness at its purest, almost but not quite schmaltz, ideally calcula
ted to please true believers and ironic snorters at once."






22/05/2008




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Mortal Sanctuary

Mortal Sanctuary   
Artist: Mortal Sanctuary

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Agony   
 Agony

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 6




 





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Pete Doherty - Pete Dohertys Solo Show Rescheduled

PETE DOHERTY is planning a solo concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.

The gig was supposed to take place on April 26th but was delayed due to Pete's incarceration and will now happen on July 12th.

According to NME magazine, fans who purchased tickets for the original date will be able to exchange them for new tickets valid for the rescheduled date.

The publication adds that this show will not be Pete's first since he regained his freedom as he is set to join his band BABYSHAMBLES on stage at the London Kentish Town Forum on May 13th.

Pete was released from Wormwood Scrubs Prison, where he was serving time for breaching the terms of his probation, on Tuesday after 29 days of his 14-week sentence had passed.

OK! magazine reports that a special post-prison welfare fund set up by an online retailer, designed to furnish Pete with money to get his life back into shape, raised just £17.20 from the sale of stripy tops.

A spokesman from the website said: "Sales have been somewhat disappointing - we only sold six stripy tops.

"We had planned to do a big presentation and get a big cheque made up but it seems pointless for a mere £17 quid and change."



07/05/2008 12:04:11




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