The Brand New Heavies & other: May 2008

Wednesday 28 May 2008

Specials Star Hall Struggling With Lyrics

The SPECIALS frontman TERRY HALL is studying his band's old albums in preparation for a reunion tour later this year (08) - because he can't remember the words to songs he wrote.

The Ghost Town singer fears old age has robbed him of his memory and, as a result, the band will only perform songs from their first two albums.

Hall says, "There's like an album-and-a-half that I haven't even thought about since 1981. I'm using lots of lyric sheets because I keep on getting words mixed up."

The Specials recently reformed and are now planning their first dates together in 25 years.

Hall and his bandmates have ignored big-money offers to perform at British arenas and instead are planning a tour of theatre-sized venues.

The frontman explains, "That's the kind of venue where we started. I don't like arena dates, at all. They're just soulless."

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Thursday 22 May 2008

Kaiser Chiefs warm up for Leeds homecoming with Highland fling

Kaiser Chiefs played a gig in the tiny Scots English small town of Strathpeffer last night (May 19), in formulation for their picture at Leeds United's Elland Road Arena this Sat (May 24).

The lot performed at Strathpeffer Resort hotel Pavilion, unremarkably used for Scots area saltation demonstrations, in front of a few 100 fans.

Drummer Nick Hodgson told BBC Scotland: "We needed warm-ups for the big gig - Elland Road - and it was suggested that why don't we go and play somewhere remote control, where no one plays.

"We like doing things like that, so here we are. I've just been to the shops and it's a quiet home."

The Watering hole Pavilion saw its flower in the 1960s, when bands such as Freddie And The Dreamers performed in the hamlet.

Kaiser Chiefs are define to do once more at the Strathpeffer Spa Marquee tonight (Crataegus laevigata 20), ahead playing Oban's Corran Halls on English hawthorn 21.

They then play the home of Leeds United on Crataegus laevigata 24, supported by The Foe, Kate Nash, Young Knives and Friendly Fires.

NME.COM volition be there, delivery you live coverage from massive homecoming, so make sure as shooting you're here on Sabbatum (24) for totally the action.

May 24, 2008 at Elland Road, Leeds -
To a greater extent Kaiser Chiefs tickets

Friday 9 May 2008

MacMillan premiere, Barbican, London

Colin Davis's protagonism of James MacMillan has reached a high point with this premiere of the Scots English composer's place setting of the St John Lackland Passion, for full orchestra, deuce choirs and baritone soloist; Davis's affair has ensured further performances in Amsterdam, Bean Town and Berlin, in add-on to this glamorous launch with the LSO.Largely song in English, MacMillan's setting divides the narrative 'tween a baritone horn Saviour, sung by St. Christopher Maltman, on sterling form, a small choir of narrators, and a larger grouping representing Peter, Pontius Pilate and other characters - the British capital Symphony Chorus. Much of the chorale writing is like plainsong writ large, patch the solo baritone line is full of quasi-oriental melismas. At the end of from each one section, there is a related Latin motet place in a bodoni reading of Renaissance fashion to add a to a greater extent reflective element.

Granted, MacMillan uses only standard organization, but they and the percussion let rent as well often. When a sequence of godhead crashes ends the third incision, and then recurs to open up the fourth, it sounds nigh comically over-scored. It is regrettable as well that MacMillan chooses to extrapolate a setting of the Goodness Fri Reproaches, an antediluvian holy Sacrament whose antisemitism has rightly brought it into disrepute. They are non voice of the regular Passion of Christ text.This was an exemplary operation, though the piece relies likewise heavily on totally personal manner of previous chorale kit and caboodle, and even Hollywood religious epics, plus enigmatic quotes from Wagner, to launch its possess positive identity.

Leny Andrade

Thursday 8 May 2008

Woody McBride

Artist: Woody McBride

   Genre(s):
Other
   Pop

Discography:

Rasta pon top

Year:
Tracks: 10

Pure Ideas

Year:
Tracks: 12

Max Born in North Dakota just based in Minneapolis, Woody McBride number 1 gained a signalize for his acid-based techno under the aliases DJ E.S.P., 4D, and through and through the Fishing worm series, recorded for Fresh York's EX grade. McBride besides released singles through Drop Bass Network and Germany's Labworks, merely founded his own Dispatch german mark (plus subsidiaries Sounz and Head in the Clouds) for recordings from Banter Flash, DJ Skull, Damon Wilderness and his possess singles.

Andre Moraes, Igor Cavalera and Andreas Kisser

Artist: Andre Moraes, Igor Cavalera and Andreas Kisser

   Genre(s):
Soundtrack

Discography:

No Coracao Dos Deuses

Year: 1999
Tracks: 14

Haddaway

Troubled singer Winehouse in rehab

Years after she was seen in a video on an alleged do drugs binge, soul vocalizer Amy Winehouse has entered rehab.
In a statement released yesterday, Winehouse's track record society Universal Music Chemical group said: "Amy Winehouse's planned show at the NRJ Awards in France on Saturday has been cancelled as the creative person has entered a rehabilitation clinic."
It continued: "Amy decided to go in the facility today later talks with her disc label, management, kin and doctors."
"She has amount to understand that she requires specialist treatment to continue her ongoing retrieval from drug addiction and prepare for her planned appearance at the Grammy Awards," the statement added.

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