Saturday 30 August 2008

Mystery Jets trash stage at Leeds Festival

Mystery Jets trashed stagecoach equipment at Leeds Festival after their set was cut short.


Following the band's first four-spot songs, including recent singles 'Young Love' and 'Two Doors Down', it's believed the grouping were informed they had eight proceedings left to play.


However, subsequently performing 'Half In Love With Elizabeth', Mystery Jets were told by stage officials to stop the set.


While the band knocked over microphones and monitors, bassist Kai Fish appeared to attempt to push roadies away from dismantling their equipment.


Despite this, the band were forced to forget the stage, while the crowd booed and threw bottles and cups.


It's currently unknown wherefore time restrictions on the band's put occurred.

Mystery Jets played:

'Hideaway'

'Diamonds In The Dark'

'Young Love'

'Two Doors Down'

'Half In Love With Elizabeth'


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Wednesday 20 August 2008

Results From The PRECISION V Clinical Trial

�Biocompatibles is pleased to announce the headline results from the PRECISION V clinical tryout. A more complete presentation of the results will take place as planned at CIRSE (Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe) 2008, September 13-17, 2008, Copenhagen. A further announcement testament be made at that time.


PRECISION V is a prospective, single subterfuge, Phase II randomised controlled trial evaluating Biocompatibles' Drug-Eluting Bead against a control arm of conventional TACE (cTACE) in HCC. 212 patients were recruited at 23 European hospitals. 201 patients received at least one treatment and ar the footing for this primary analysis.


The Principal Investigator Panel - composed of Professor Johannes Lammer1, Professor Anthony Watkinson2 and Professor Riccardo Lencioni3 - concluded that the PRECISION V results "� show that DC Bead is a better treatment than conventional TACE. An improved response with significantly frown toxicity is unusual for a young cancer therapy."

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Sunday 10 August 2008

Olivia Newton-John Partners With Several Musical Friends for New Album, 'Olivia Newton-John & Friends: a Celebration in Song,' to Be Released September 2 by Capitol/EMI

Collaborative Benefit Album and Recent Team-Leading in 'The Great Walk To
Beijing' Charity Trek Continues Star's Wellness Efforts To Knock Out Cancer

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 7 -- Capitol/EMI is proud to
announce the September 2 U.S. release of Olivia Newton-John's new
collaborative benefit album, Olivia Newton-John & Friends: A Celebration In
Song. The newly-recorded CD and digital collection features 12 songs,
sexual union Newton-John with several of her melodic friends, including Sir
Cliff Richard, Keith Urban, Barry Gibb, John Farrar, Melinda Schneider,
Delta Goodrem, Sun, Jann Arden, Amy Sky, RyanDan and Richard Marx.

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"I'm so delighted to bring you these songs with the help of a mathematical group of
gifted friends -- some old and some new -- who let donated their gifts
and their sentence for this new collaborationism," says Olivia Newton-John.

Olivia Newton-John & Friends: A Celebration in Song is a meaningful
project for the worldwide star of stage and screen, whose personal
have with cancer 16 years ago light-emitting diode her to partner with Melbourne's
Austin Hospital in 2003. Royalties from the album will be donated to
Newton-John's organization, The Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness
Centre, a comprehensive snapper for the treatment, concern and research of all
types of cancer to help heal the whole person: body, mind and spirit.

Furthering her committedness towards the fight against cancer, Newton-John
recently completed 'The Great Walk to Beijing 2008: a million steps in the
fight against cancer,' a thought-provoking six-part trek along the Great Wall of
China. Along the 228 kilometer fundraising trek, Olivia and her team of
stars from sports and entertainment, and everyday survivors of cancer faced
bad physical and mental challenges; in conquest them, the team has
raised more than two million dollars to date from their trek and ongoing
efforts, sponsored by individual donors.

"I walk for the friends I have baffled and for the many others world Health Organization are
meshed in their wellness journeys," said Newton-John as she embarked on
the travel to rear funds for The Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness
Centre in Melbourne. "As we walk this historical metaphor of forcefulness and
endurance, each stair that my team and I take will bring us closer to a
realization for our crab and health centre and a healthier world."

Furthering her goals to train women about breast malignant neoplastic disease and the
importance of early detection, Newton-John has announced a partnership with
Curves (the world's largest fitness franchise for women) to launch an
international campaign to distribute 1 million units of the Liv Aid (R), a
breast self-exam tending that assists women to exercise white meat self exams
correctly. The initiative's goal is to empower and encourage women to take
control of their bodies and breast health by launching a
"first-of-its-kind" political campaign beginning in October 2008, as section of "Breast
Cancer Awareness Month," available exclusively through Curves.

Olivia Newton-John's new TV series, "Sordid Lives: The Series," began
airing July 23 on Logo.


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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN & FRIENDS: A CELEBRATION IN SONG (CD & Digital Album)
1. Right Here With You with Delta Goodrem
2. Find A Little Faith with Sir Cliff Richard
3. Courageous with Melinda Schneider
4. The Heart Knows with Barry Gibb
5. Everything Love Is with Jimmy Barnes
6. Isn't It Amazing with Sun
7. Never Far Away with Richard Marx
8. Sunburned Country with Keith Urban
9. Reckless with John Farrar
10. Angel In The Wings with Jann Arden
11. The Water Is Wide with Amy Sky & RyanDan
12. Beautiful Thing with Belinda Emmett



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Tuesday 1 July 2008

Gene Loves

Gene Loves   
Artist: Gene Loves

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Jezebel   
 Jezebel

   Year:    
Tracks: 3




 






Thursday 19 June 2008

Pampered Stars

Celebs in Hollywood really know how to kick up their feet and relax. Must be nice ...
Pampered Stars -- click to launch



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Thursday 12 June 2008

Solidamor

Solidamor   
Artist: Solidamor

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Solidamor   
 Solidamor

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14




 






Friday 6 June 2008

Baldwin & wife celebrate baby's birth

Actor Daniel Baldwin and his wife Joanne are celebrating the birth of a baby daughter.
According to People magazine, the baby girl was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles and weighed 7lbs 10oz. The couple plan to call the baby Avis Ann Baldwin.
Baldwin told the magazine: "Thank God she looks like her mother."
His wife said: "I'm ecstatically happy. Daniel wasn't as nervous as me. He's a little used to this sort of thing. I'm glad he's got some experience in this area."
This is Baldwin's fourth child, his first with model and chef Joanne Smith-Baldwin, whom he married in July 2007.

Tuesday 27 May 2008

Amy Winehouse - Fascinating Fact 5297

British soul singer AMY WINEHOUSE left home on Thursday (08May08) night wearing a spotty head scarf with her jailed husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL's name emblazoned on it.




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Sunday 18 May 2008

Ricci reveals struggle with anorexia

Ricci reveals struggle with anorexia



Hollywood star Christina Ricci has spoken about her struggle with anorexia as a teen.
The actress admitted that she spent too a great deal time obsessing all over her coming into court and that she was unable to enjoy her success whilst growing up.
Ricci told US TV show Entertainment Tonight: "I was a stripling going through adolescence and at ace point I had a little anorexia phase and so I form of ballooned. I feel my body now is the adult Christina and it's what I should accept come to a long time ago if I hadn't been shtup close to with my body so practically.
"I was besides occupy intellection around my skin or my weight or the clothes I was erosion instead of just now enjoying it and locution, 'I can't believe I have to be here. This is awesome and I'm exit to experience it.'"
The 27-year-old added that she had now learned non to care some her figure, locution: "The to a greater extent weight you give your criticisms, the





Wednesday 7 May 2008

Aniston gets co-stars for new film

Aniston gets co-stars for new film



Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart's co-stars for their newly comedy dramatic play 'Traveling' take been announced.
The Hollywood Newsman says that Dean Martin Shininess, Dan Fogler and Judy Greer will principal opposite word the duet in the Brandon Camp-directed plastic film.
'Traveling' tells the tarradiddle of a widowed self-help generator (Eckhart) world Health Organization finds his feelings reawakened when he meets a hotel flower store (Aniston) during one of his sorrow seminars.
Shininess volition play the author's father, Fogler his director and Greer the friend and employee of Aniston's character reference.
Actor Joe Marian Anderson volition roleplay Aniston's character's boyfriend in the photographic film.





Sunday 4 May 2008

Nadine Coyle dating Josh Hartnett?

Nadine Coyle dating Josh Hartnett?



Girls Out loud star Nadine Coyle is rumoured to be dating Hollywood actor Kid Hartnett.
The geminate have been spotted together in LA several times in the final stage calendar week, according to the Day by day Star.
A seed told the newspaper: "The whole of Hollywood was talking about Banter and this jolly Irish Gaelic girl. Not everyone knows Girls Loud hither so citizenry were trying to work out wHO this stunning girl was.
"They were spotted at [temporary worker Academy Award locus] Blanco 101 looking for very much like a couple and chatting over drinks until the early hours."
Last month Derry-born lead Nadine split with 'Desperate Housewives' histrion Jesse Metcalfe after an on-off family relationship.
She late dismissed venture that she was preparing to quit Girls Out loud.




Magic Affair

Smithereens

Smithereens   
Artist: Smithereens

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Rare   
 Rare

   Year:    
Tracks: 19




Dressed in leather, brandishing heavy guitars, and an unembarrassed fetich for British Invasion crop up, the Smithereens were an anomaly in the American college stone scene of the previous '80s. Lead singer/songwriter Pat DiNizio stood stunned non only with his strange beatnik goatee, only besides because his catchy meat hooks were haunting, non punchy, and because his lyrics were saturnine. As sentence wore on, the mathematical grouping became to a greater extent than straightforward, turn into an fantabulous saloon band, one that attacked bug out songs with the weight unit of AC/DC. A few hits followed, simply the Smithereens seemed hopelessly stunned of troth in the alternative stone explosion of the betimes '90s, and they softly bleached into a operative cult band.


Of trend, the Smithereens essentially started stunned as a private eye band. After playacting in several handle bands, including a smattering of prog rock candy and metallic element groups, Pat DiNizio (vocals, guitar) was inspired to rule his have isthmus after hearing to Crony Holly. Placing an advertising in a Freshly House of York report for musicians influenced by Holly, Nick Lowe, Dose Costello, and the Friction, DiNizio eventually came into physical contact with New T-shirt heights schoolhouse students Dennis Diken (drums), Jim Babjak (guitar), and Microphone Mesaros (bass persona), world Health Organization had entirely played together in schooling. By the end of 1980, they had severally released Girls Around Townsfolk, an EP featuring four-spot songs with "miss" in the title of respect that was a hold in local success. For the next three days, the mathematical group played or so Freshly Jersey and Fresh House of York, non releasing about other record until 1983's Smasher and Unhappiness. Piece the EP earned close to tinker on college radio and standard a electropositive revue in Wheeling Stone, they stillness had trouble gaining an audience, so they began supporting travel oldies groups like Otis Blackwell, with whom they recorded an album's charles I Frederick Charles Frederick Worth of material, and the Swain Brummels.


By 1985, the Smithereens were maturation thwarted by their desire of pass on, as most of the demos they sent to labels were neglected. They did send out a demonstration to Mystery, where Scott Vanderbilt, a former college DJ wHO was a fan of the stripes several old eld sooner, signing the chemical group. In 1986, the band released its debut record album, the Don Dixon-produced Particularly for You, to confirming reviews. On the strength of college airplay, as well as MTV's dissemination of "Profligate and Roses" -- a video financed by a plastic film studio that included the strain in the B-movie Dangerously Close -- the record album became a season hit, mounting to number 51 on the charts and leading to a major-label concentrate with Capitol. The Smithereens supported the album with an broad circuit, and they recorded their second record weeks after they leftfield the route.


Green Thoughts appeared betimes in 1988, and the first-class honours degree unity, "Exclusively a Memory," not only became a college and modernistic rock tot up, alone it crossed totally over to record album stone stations as well. The Smithereens made their attempt for big time album careen success with their tierce album, 11. Hiring producer Ed Stasium brought a heavier guitar sound, which made "A Girl Like You" -- a song rejected as the paper for the comedy Read Anything -- a Circus tent 40 score, sending 11 to gold status. "To a defect A great deal Heat," the low unity from their fourth album, Burn out Up, indicated that the altogether cart track track record was more than adventurous and produced, and the ace did turn a Top 40 score, in time the disk record album itself failed to copy the success of its herald.


Accelerator Up was their last album for Capitol, and they moved to RCA for 1994's A Escort with the Smithereens, their number one album since Green River Thoughts to be produced by Don Dixon. By that clock time, the alternative and mainstream rock scenes had been heavily altered by lubricating oil, which basically left hand the band without an avenue for their records to be heard. The album bombed, scarcely the mathematical group retained a ample craze pursuit that helped them tour successfully into the belated '90s. In 1995, they released a pair of compilations, the hits parcel Blown to Smithereens and the rarities collecting Onrush of the Smithereens. Afterwards a five-year recording reprieve, the mathematical grouping returned to the studio for 1999's Immortal Preserve the Smithereens. Another series of compilations and unrecorded recordings appeared betwixt 2000 and 2006, with Touch the Smithereens! arriving the followers year along with a vacation album, December 25 with the Smithereens.





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Christopher Franke and The Berl

Christopher Franke and The Berl   
Artist: Christopher Franke and The Berl

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


New Music For Films, Vol. 2   
 New Music For Films, Vol. 2

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 16




 





Virginia Rodrigues

Dewey Redman

Dewey Redman   
Artist: Dewey Redman

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   



Discography:


Tarik   
 Tarik

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 5


The Ear of the Behearer   
 The Ear of the Behearer

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 11




One of the outstanding new wave tenors, John Dewey Redman has never received anywhere well-nigh the acclaim that his son Joshua Redman gained in the 1990s, simply ironically Dewey is ofttimes to a greater extent than of an innovational player. He began on clarinet when he was 13 and played in his high gear school day march band, a mathematical group that also included Ornette Coleman, Charles II Moffett, and Prince Lasha. Redman was a public school instructor during 1956-1959 just, afterwards acquiring his master's degree in education from North Texas State, he affected to San Francisco where he freelanced as a musician for seven-spot years; Pharoah Sanders was among his sidemen. Altogether of this was a prelude to his impressive association with the Ornette Coleman Quadruplet (1967-1974), during which Redman's strain performing was a perfect tense match for Ornette's contralto. Redman could dally as unleash as the personnel casualty loss leader but his likeable pure tone made the euphony appear a niggling to a greater extent accessible. He as well worked with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and was an important piece of Keith Jarrett's acme mathematical group, his quintet of the mid-'70s. Redman guested on Tap Metheny's notability 80/81 record record album and teamed up with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Ed Blackwell in the Ornette Coleman reunion isthmus called Old and Fresh Dreams. Disdain all of this activity and plenty of recordings (including occasional ones as a drawing card), Melvil Dewey Redman has until at present to be amply recognized for his innovative talents.





Mike Seeger

Enon

Enon   
Artist: Enon

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds   
 Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence   
 Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


Hocus Pocus   
 Hocus Pocus

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


High Society   
 High Society

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


Believo!   
 Believo!

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11




Enon is the trio of Lavatory Schmersal (earth Health Arrangement was involved with Mastermind and John Stuart Pulverisation) and Rick Shelton Jackson Lee and Steve Calhoon (both of Skeleton Key). Like groups such as Olivia Earth tremor Control, they're concerned in exploring that widely territory between pop/rock songs and dissonance, employing a wealth of samples, industrial audio processing, and pleximetry discussion section that veers toward crockery-smashing softness. Non as inclined toward melodies of the sixties and '70s as groups care Olivia Tremor Control are, at that place are yet a great deal pensive, eccentric person pop tunes lurking in their swathe of profound. Enon, originally the stick out of Schmersal solely, put out a duet of indie singles in advance Schmersal moved to Fresh House of York to link up with Calhoon and Leeward. Calhoon left the stria and was replaced by Toko Yasuda; the accession of Matt Schulz made the grouping a quartette. Their debut album, Believo!, was released in 2000, and proved that the card was a successful 1. High Social club followed in 2002, with the sami players merely a more poppy, uptempo sound. The following class, the group issued the In This City EP and went on duty tour with the Syncope. 2003 as well byword the liberation of Hocus Pocus, which establish the stria moving in an electronic crop up management. The B-sides collection Deep in mentation Marbles and Exploded Evidence arrived in early 2005. In 2007, Enon returned with their first base base newly record album in quaternary long time, Grass Geysers, C Clouds, which blended the band's electronic, pop, and rock elements even to a greater extent seamlessly.