The Zutons frontman Dave McCabe has denied claims that he snubbed Mark Ronson when they met for the first time.
McCabe was finally given the chance to get to know Ronson at Glastonbury in June. Though Mark had recorded a cover of the band's track 'Valerie' with Amy Winehouse, they had previously had little liaison with each other.
"Apparently, I'd come across him once before - but I was drunk so I don't really remember it," Dave told the Daily Star. "The thing is, I think Ronson sometimes says things to make them well-grounded more exciting. He told someone that the first time he tried to speak to me I walked away. That's not true."
Next month The Zutons will outlet 'What's Your Problem', the second single from their You Can Do Anything album.
McCabe added: "It's one of our favourite tracks on the album simply I don't think you'll see Ronson covering it - I think 'Valerie' was a one-off."
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Saturday 9 August 2008
Dark Star
Artist: Dark Star
Genre(s):
Alternative
Alternative
Discography:
Twenty Twenty Sound
Year: 1999
Tracks: 9
England's Dark Star was formed by trey erstwhile members of Levitation -- vocaliser and guitarist Christian Hayes, bassist Laurence O'Keefe (the Hope Blister), and drummer Dave Francolini. Like their early band (simply manifestly without guitarist Terry Bickers), the group's sound features dense, complex structures and needling guitars. The threesome debuted with the Graceadelica individual in belated 1998 and followed that with some other single, I Am the Sun, in March of the undermentioned year. The LP Twenty Twenty Sound appeared a month subsequently and was by and large reviewed positively, just failed to do practically commercially. A one-third single, About 3AM, supported the LP, as did a series of multi-format and remix singles. The banding underwent a hectic touring agenda, including a stint curtain raising for the Longpigs.
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Ice Cube Announces Two Month U.S. Tour
With Ice Cube due to drop his next album 'Raw Footage' in August, the same month will also see the rapper head out on a new tour.
Starting in Seattle on August 21st, Cube will perform live for twenty two nights until a final show in New York on September 21st.
A tracklisting for 'Raw Footage' has not been announced yet, but the record has a release date of August 19th.
August Tour Dates:
21 - Seattle, WA - Showbox at the Market
22 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
24 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
26 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
27 - Bakersfield, CA - The Fox
29 - Anaheim, CA - The Grove
30 - Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
September Tour Dates:
1 - West Hollywood, CA - House of Blues
2 - San Diego, CA - 4th and B
3 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theater
5 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
6 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up Aspen
7 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theater
9 - North Kansas City, MO - Harrah's North Kansas City/Voodoo Lounge
10 - St. Paul, MN - Myth
12 - Fort Wayne, IN - Piere's
13 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
14 - Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
16 - Mt. Clemens, MI - Emerald Theater
17 - Johnson City, NY - Magic City Music Hall
19 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore at Theater of Living Arts
21 - New York, NY - The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
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Lil Wayne Fans Duped By 'fake' Gig
Hundreds of LIL WAYNE fans were left fuming after a phony promoter tricked a nightclub into advertising a fake gig by the rapper.
More than 700 people turned up at Club Illusions in Alabama on Saturday (21Jun08) night, only to find the star was a no show.
And the club's manager has now revealed the gig was part of an elaborate scam by a bogus concert promoter, who promised a gig by the Lollipop star and then allegedly disappeared with over $45,000 (GBP22,500) from ticket sales.
Manager Esa Jones admits that all the club officials were fooled by the man, who identified himself as Tony Lee and claimed to be a representative for Coastal Boy Entertainment.
She says, "We got scammed real bad. It looked planned, they printed tickets, had radio advertisements, ticket locations, it looks so legit."
A police investigation has now been launched into the alleged fraud.
More than 700 people turned up at Club Illusions in Alabama on Saturday (21Jun08) night, only to find the star was a no show.
And the club's manager has now revealed the gig was part of an elaborate scam by a bogus concert promoter, who promised a gig by the Lollipop star and then allegedly disappeared with over $45,000 (GBP22,500) from ticket sales.
Manager Esa Jones admits that all the club officials were fooled by the man, who identified himself as Tony Lee and claimed to be a representative for Coastal Boy Entertainment.
She says, "We got scammed real bad. It looked planned, they printed tickets, had radio advertisements, ticket locations, it looks so legit."
A police investigation has now been launched into the alleged fraud.
Riccardo Cocciante
Artist: Riccardo Cocciante
Genre(s):
Retro
Discography:
Margherita E Le Altre... (CD 2)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Margherita E Le Altre... (CD 1)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
I Miti Musica
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Istantanea: Tour 98 (CD 2)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 15
Istantanea: Tour 98 (CD 1)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 16
Innamorato
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Sincerita'
Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Cocciante
Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
Cervo A Primavera
Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Concerto Per Margherita
Year: 1976
Tracks: 9
Songs
Year:
Tracks: 16
French-Italian singer/songwriter Ricardo Cocciante began acting medicine in Rome, Italy, subsequently collecting a stripe called the Nations. His debut as a solo creative person came in 1972 with the liberation of his number one full-length record. Poesia followed in 1973. Nevertheless, his breakthrough came after issuance Anima. The album featured the hit undivided "Belle Senz'Anima," which was arranged by Ennio Morricone and recorded in different languages. Concerto per Margherita featured his second smash, a power ballad called "Margherita." In 1983, the talented Italian contemporaneous creative person sign-language up to Virgin Records, cathartic Sincerita, a ten-track album recorded in Los Angeles, CA. After teaming up with French-Canadian lyricist Luc Plamondon, Ricardo Cocciante started working in a 21st one C adaption of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, coroneted Notre Dame de Paris. The musical was successfully performed for the first metre in 1999.
Making amends — and a movie — over slave-trading ancestors
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What if you found out that your Rhode Island ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history?
Spurred by this troubling discovery, Katrina Browne set off on an odyssey to make sense of this outrage and, maybe, to make some small amends.
She also made her first film. "Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North" follows Browne and nine other descendants of Mark Anthony DeWolf as they travel from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back — the infamous Triangle Trade by which the DeWolf family brought some 10,000 African slaves to the Americas (with as many as a half-million of these Africans' descendants alive today).
Airing at 10 p.m. Tuesday on KCTS, "Traces of the Trade" begins the 21st season of "P.O.V.," the Emmy- and Peabody-winning documentary series. "P.O.V." (shorthand for "point of view") will air "Traces" and 14 other films by a wide range of independent filmmakers on a broad scope of topics — from backroom Japanese politics to the legendary Johnny Cash.
Other shows to look out for:
PBS' "Masterpiece" (formerly "Masterpiece Theatre") moves into its weekly mystery phase with a summer of British crime thrillers. The plot thickens at 9 tonight on KCTS with the first of three "Inspector Lewis" films, starring Kevin Whately ("The English Patient") as Det. Inspector Robbie Lewis, a working-class crime-solver teamed up with laid-back, cerebral Det. Superintendent James Hathaway (Laurence Fox, "Gosford Park").
Thereafter, "Masterpiece Mystery!" will feature three weeks of "Foyle's War," two editions of "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" and two episodes of "Sally Lockhart" set in Victorian England. Host of "Masterpiece Mystery!": stage and film star Alan Cumming.
"We like to take a classic song and crucify it," says Mick, guitarist in the British punk-rock group Heavy Load. Witness their versions of "I Fought the Law" and "Wild Thing." But this band isn't just a latter-day reply to the Ramones. Three of the five members have learning disabilities. Michael, the drummer, has Down syndrome and for 19 years has lived in a social services group home.
They originally got together just for fun. But can Heavy Load make a play for the mainstream, and even record an album? Shot over a span of two years, "Heavy Load: The U.K.'s Only Disabled Punk Band" is described by its filmmaker, Jerry Rothwell, as "a comedy driven by a set of charismatic characters, each with their own conflicting dreams." It airs at 10 p.m. Monday on IFC network.
For richer and poorer: Most Americans feel shut out of what has been called "the new Gilded Age" and are hurting from the economic downturn.
A new CNBC documentary tells of the unprecedented explosion of personal wealth in the United States, as well as the plight of the rest of us, in "Untold Wealth: The Rise of the Super Rich." Reported by David Faber, it premieres at 10 p.m. Thursday.
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Steve Stevens
Artist: Steve Stevens
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Flamenco.A.Go.Go
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Atomic Playboys
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
One of the flashiest guitarists (both visually and instrumentally) to come forth from the '80s rock picture was Steve Stevens. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 5, 1959, Stevens number one picked up the guitar when he was only if seven-spot age old, and by and by became an avid prog sway fan, especially the likes of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Yes. Honing his craft patch playing in Manhattan, Stevens recorded an unreleased album with his set, Fine Maribus, and besides played as a sitting guitarist on Peter Criss' best forgotten irregular post-Kiss solo jaunt, 1982's Let Me Rock You (although Stevens did pull in a songwriting credit for the track "First gear Day in the Rain").
It was besides during the early '80s that Stevens hooked up with ex-Generation X vocaliser Billy Idol, wHO had resettled to New York in hopes of launching a solo career. Idol launch the unadulterated foil in Stevens, and with ex-Kiss manager Bill Aucoin patronage them, Idol's calling skyrocketed. Combining Idol's punk and Stevens' hard rock backgrounds with dance music, Idol became one of MTV's early video stars, as such albums as 1982's Billy goat Idol and 1983's Rebel Yell became blockbuster hits -- spurred on by Stevens' shredding guitar licks (and outrageous glam rock looks). It took an extended period for Idol and Stevens to provide a third album, 1986's Lash Smile, and although it was some other big strike, Stevens longed to launch his have solo career, and exited Idol's band by the end of the 10.
Stevens also remained an in demand chartered grease-gun, as he guested on recordings by Michael Jackson (Bad), Ric Ocasek (This Side of Paradise), Thompson Twins (Here's to Future Days), and Robert Palmer (Don't Explain), among others. Additionally, Stevens appeared on the mega-selling 1986 soundtrack to the Tom Cruise motion picture Spinning top Gun, for which he collaborated with keyboardist Harold Faltermeyer on "Cover Gun Anthem" (which earned Stevens a Grammy Award for Pop Instrumental Performance that twelvemonth). In 1989 Stevens formed his have group, Steve Stevens' Atomic Playboys, merely despite all the ballyhoo, the band solely lasted for a single release, Nuclear Playboys.
The early '90s saw Stevens keep up his engaged schedule, as he attempted to shape a new group with ex-Hanoi Rocks vocaliser Michael Monroe, named Jerusalem Slim, which to the disheartenment of fans ne'er got a great deal farther than the planning stages. In a strange twist of destiny, Stevens then signed on to second ex-Mötley Crüe isaac Merrit Singer Vince Neil, the same gentleman responsible for the breakup of Monroe's previous stripe, Hanoi Rocks. Stevens hung in for an album, 1993's Exposed, and its encouraging tour, earlier departing for greener pastures.
Stevens finally got his hazard to demonstrate off his womb-to-tomb grasp of prog rock when he united with bassist Tony Levin and drummer Terry Bozzio in the large kit Bozzio Levin Stevens, issuance a partner off of releases thus far -- 1997's Black Light Syndrome and 2000's Site Dangerous. Around the same time, Stevens reunited with Idol, coming into court aboard the singer on 2002's VH1 Storytellers, and as well ground time to issue another solo release, Flamenco A Go-Go.
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Music highlights for June 28
SATURDAY, June 28 Houma's Dax Riggs brings his spooky rock to One Eyed Jacks. Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes rock the Maple Leaf. Drummer Johnny Vidacovich celebrates his birthday and powers a CD release party for keyboardist Robert Walter's...
The best films on the box: July 1-7
Film and television critic Philip Wakefield assesses the best movies on offer on the box this week, for Tuesday, July 1 to Monday, July 7.
Tuesday, July 1
A View From the Top
2003, AO, 8.30pm, TV2
Bottom-of-the-barrel airline stewardess comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow that the New York Post dubbed "the movie equivalent of airline food". Mike Myers, Candice Bergen, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo and Rob Lowe co-star.
Wednesday, July 2
You, Me and Dupree
2006, AO, 8.30pm, Sky Movies
Owen Wilson’s sly, bumbling charm doesn’t wear out its welcome as quickly as his houseguest from hell in this movie debut from the directors of TV’s Arrested Development, Anthony and Joe Russo. He plays a honeymoon crasher who moves in with his best mate (Matt Dillon) and ingratiates himself with his new wife (Kate Hudson) and father-in-law boss (Michael Douglas). Wilson’s fun but the dark promise of the male unbonding premise is lost amid the slapstick and sappiness.
Thursday, July 3
The Corporation
2003, G, 8.30pm, Rialto Channel
Tour-de-force indictment of corporate capital that chronicles the rise of the corporation and analyses its insidious impact on politics and populations. Authoritative, illuminating and chilling, The Corporation couldn’t be more different from Michael Moore’s left-wing rants with laughs - indeed, Moore comes across with more integrity and intelligence here than he does in his own films. 
Friday, July 4
16 Blocks
2006, AO, 8.30pm, Sky Movies
Two of Hollywood’s best action practitioners, star Bruce Willis and director Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon), belatedly teamed for this corny but irresistible shoot-‘em-up that unfolds mostly in real time. Willis plays a bent, burnt-out cop who mounts one last stand in defence of his honour to save the life of a witness his crooked cronies want to kill. No matter how many times you’ve been around this block, Donner’s dynamite direction still makes it an exciting, suspenseful and surprisingly poignant trip.
Saturday, July 5
Scooby Doo
2002, PGR, 7.30pm, TV2
What saves Scooby Doo the movie from the dog house are its kaleidoscopic, cartoon-ish splendour, helter-skelter sight gags and stunning setpieces that not so long ago only could have been the domain of traditional animation. The computer-manipulated mutt sounds better than he looks but Matthew Lillard’s Shaggy and Linda Cardellini’s Velma are so pitch-perfect that you'll go “Zoinks!” in disbelief.
Just My Luck
2006, PGR, 7.30pm, TV3
It was just director Donald (Miss Congeniality) Petrie’s luck to get stuck with this lacklustre Lindsay Lohan lark about a New York socialist whose good fortune turns bad when she kisses a stranger at a masquerade ball. Chris Pine, who will play a junior James T Kirk in the next Star Trek movie, co-stars.
The Human Stain
2003, AO, 8.30pm, TV One
Set at the height of the Monica Lewinsky hysteria, this Philip Roth dramatisation stars Anthony Hopkins as a pioneering Jewish professor of classics whose fall from grace following an unintended racial slur about two of his students is reinforced by an affair with a university cleaner (Nicole Kidman) with a homicidal ex-hubby (Ed Harris). The tragedy that ensues should be writ large yet merely is of academic interest.
Planet of the Apes
2001, AO, 9.30pm, TV3
Tim Burton's re-make of the sci-fi favourite isn't quite the same chimp off the old Hollywood block - the ape planet isn’t Earth and the monkey suits convince more than the sets and performances. As for social satire, it’s been dumbed down to apes in frilly nightgowns who wear underarm deodorant while the ridiculously contrived ending was clearly born out of desperation to top the original’s. Mark Wahlberg and Tim Roth star; the original’s Charlton Heston has an ironic cameo.
Con Air
1997, AO, 9.40pm, TV2
A resourceful, ex-Army ranger (Nicolas Cage), who’s just finished serving seven years for justifiable homicide, is the authorities’ only hope of stopping a plane load of killer cons from flying out of the country. How he does so creates jumbo-sized tension and thrills, and preposterous but eye-popping pyrotechnic mayhem. John Cusack and John Malkovich co-star.
My House in Umbria
2003, AO, 10.40pm, TV One
A sterling cast headed by Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker and Timothy Spall, and post-September 11 ramifications elevate this quaint character study beyond pedestrian, picturesque period drama. About a group of misfits - a retired British general, an orphaned American girl, a young German - who recuperate in an eccentric author’s Italian villa after a terrorist attack, it charms and intrigues but is too embryonic to edify.
A Perfect World
1993, AO, 11.40pm, TV2
In this atmospheric but fatally-overlong drama about a surrogate dad on the lam, Kevin Costner plays an escaped convict whose abduction of a young Jehovah’s Witness leads to their forging a bond that neither has experienced with blood kin. The resolution of their predicament, however, it as tragic as it is inevitable. Co-starring as the law on their tail is Clint Eastwood, who also directed.
Sunday, July 6
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005, AO, 8.30pm, TV2
Those good ol’ boy racers are back to rev up a new generation with their hillbilly hi-jinks. Sean William Scott and Johnny Knoxville play the iconic hellraisers of the ‘80s TV series in a Hollywood re-make that confirms the franchise has really gone to the Hoggs. Jessica Simpson co-stars as their leggy cousin Daisy while Burt Reynolds recaptures his own White Lightning days as their arch rival, Boss Hogg.
Thirteen Ghosts
2001, AO, 10.40pm, TV2
An impoverished widower and his family inherit a futuristic home occupied by 12 imprisoned ghosts and with a floor plan that's the work of the Devil ... 13 Ghosts’ filming is first-rate, the special effects and production design sensational, and the surround sound ear-popping. But despite all the hi-tech trappings, this is still a haunted house hoot at heart that can’t overcome wretched writing and feeble frights. Tony Shalhoub(TV's Monk) and F Murray Abraham star.
Monday, July 7
The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000, AO, 8.30pm, Sky Movies Greats
In this enchanting fairway-of-dreams fable about finding the sweet spot in life, Matt Damon plays a golfing legend whose game has been traumatised by The Great War. When his ex-sweetheart (Charlize Theron) organises a $10,000 exhibition tournament to save her family’s grandiose golf course from financial ruin, he reluctantly agrees to compete against Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen. But only after coaxing from a nomadic caddy (Will Smith), who turns up to help him find his swing - and his way back to the 19th hole.
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Amy Winehouse Tests Negative For TB
Amy Winehouse has reportedly tested negative for tuberculosis, following speculation that she may have contracted the deadly disease.
Doctors now believe the singer is suffering from a chest infection.
The troubled star was admitted into a private clinic in Marylebone, London on Monday after she collapsed in her home in the British capital.
It had been reported the star may have contracted the infectious condition, which is said to be common among drug addicts and heavy drinkers, as they have a reduced immunity and are more vulnerable to infection.
But a representative for the star has confirmed she has been given the all-clear after a series of medical tests.
"She has a chest infection and she had a routine test for TB, which came back negative," Chris Goodman tells People.
The 24-year-old is still undergoing treatment and doctors will soon decide whether she is fit to honour her upcoming performance commitments - including an appearance at legendary British music festival Glastonbury at the end of the month.
Goodman adds, "She would really love to do the show - she always wants to do these things. But she will listen to her doctors."
Doctors now believe the singer is suffering from a chest infection.
The troubled star was admitted into a private clinic in Marylebone, London on Monday after she collapsed in her home in the British capital.
It had been reported the star may have contracted the infectious condition, which is said to be common among drug addicts and heavy drinkers, as they have a reduced immunity and are more vulnerable to infection.
But a representative for the star has confirmed she has been given the all-clear after a series of medical tests.
"She has a chest infection and she had a routine test for TB, which came back negative," Chris Goodman tells People.
The 24-year-old is still undergoing treatment and doctors will soon decide whether she is fit to honour her upcoming performance commitments - including an appearance at legendary British music festival Glastonbury at the end of the month.
Goodman adds, "She would really love to do the show - she always wants to do these things. But she will listen to her doctors."
Chris Carter film is covert operation
'X-Files' creator quietly working on a dark drama
Chris Carter, the creator of "The X-Files," knows a thing or two about secrets. So it's no surprise that he has managed to keep his latest film project under wraps for so long.
Carter is in the midst of directing "Fencewalker," a dark drama starring several up-and-comers, including "The Tudors" star Natalie Dormer; David Cassidy's daughter, Katie Cassidy; rapper-turned-actor Xzibit; and Derek Magyar and Meckah Brooks.
Neither Carter's reps at ICM nor the actors' reps would confirm that the film is shooting, but the story is essentially a coming-of-age semiautobiographical character piece with no supernatural elements. (After "X-Files," Carter created the similarly spooky series "Millennium," which ran for three seasons on Fox.)
The feature is shooting in the Los Angeles area, including in Carter's hometown of Bellflower.
Carter wrote the script for what is thought to be his passion project some time ago and raised the financing himself. The film has a modest budget and no distributor at this point.
Dormer appeared in 2005's "Casanova," while Cassidy was a regular on TV's "Supernatural." Xzibit appears in Carter's upcoming "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," while Magyar is in post on the horror thriller "Train."
The veil of secrecy surrounding "Fencewalker" is not only in keeping with Carter's persona but also reminiscent of the shroud that surrounded J.J. Abrams' "Cloverfield."
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