Lilys & other: 2008

Tuesday 2 September 2008

Franz to headline Falls

SCOTTISH rockers Franz Ferdinand are set to headline this year's Falls Festival, where they will join other artists such as The Hives, Gomez and The Kooks.

THE first line-up of bands for this year's Falls Festival has been announced.

Glasgow's Franz Ferdinand return to Australia for the event, at Lorne and Marion Bay in Tasmania from December 29 to January 1.

Franz Ferdinand have hit the festival circuit in Europe this year while preparing their third album.
The album has been pushed back to a January 2009 release. Grabs of new songs feature on www.franzferdinand.co.uk

The band started recording the album with producers Xenomania, best known for working with pop acts Girls Aloud, Kylie Minogue and Gabriella Cilmi.

But those sessions were aborted, leading to the album's delayed release. A new single is due at the end of this year.

Swedish rockers The Hives will return to the Falls, as will Donavon Frankenreiter, Gomez, Jamie Liddel, the Mystery Jets, Tegan and Sara, and soul act Eli ``Paperboy'' Reed and the True Loves.

The Kooks, who play a sold-out show at the HiFi Bar on August 26, will make a swift return for the Falls.

Also on the bill are the Cat Empire, French act Soko, Faker, Tzu, Architecture in Helsinki, Atmosphere featuring Brother Ali, the Grates, the Dodos, A-Trak, Wolf and Cub, Liam Finn, the Drones and TZU.

All artists in this first announcement will play at the Lorne and Marion Bay events. Playing times will be announced on the Falls website.

Subscribers to the Falls website will get the first chance to buy tickets. Subscriptions close on August 27. Tickets left over go on sale to the public on September 9.

Last year the event sold out in 20 minutes, after which organisers adopted a balloting system.

Rumours the B-52s would play at the event have been nixed by organisers. More bands will be announced during the next few months.�

More info available at �www.fallsfestival.com

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Saturday 23 August 2008

Mp3 music: Ozomatli

Artist: Ozomatli: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Rap: Hip-Hop
Rock

Ozomatli's discography:

Don't Mess With The Dragon

Year: 2007

Tracks: 12

Street Signs

Year: 2004

Tracks: 13

Coming Up

Year: 2003

Tracks: 6

Embrace the Chaos

Year: 2001

Tracks: 11

Ozomatli

Year: 1998

Tracks: 12

Brewing a vital confection of Latin salsa, urban rap euphony, and jazz-funk, Ozomatli formed in Los Angeles in the mid-'90s, finally subsidence on a lineup that included RaÃºl "El Bully" Pacheco, Ulises Bella, Jiro Yamaguchi, Cut Chemist, Chali 2na, Wil-Dog Abers, Mairo Calire, Rene "Spinobi" Dominguez, Justin "NiÃ±o" PorÃ©e, Asdrubal Sierra, and Jabu. After making their appoint on the local night order circuit, the grouping made an appearance on the urban late-night spill show Vibe! and released their self-titled debut in June 1998. Embrace the Chaos was released in 2001, followed by an EP, Sexual climax Up, in 2003. A third base full-length, Street Signs, which featured a changed card (both Cut Chemist and Chali 2na, for workout, left the grouping on just price), came out in 2004 and later south Korean won a Grammy. A concert CD, Alive at the Fillmore, with an resultant DVD of the show, was released in 2005, on the side observance the group's ten percent day of remembrance, and in 2007 Don't Mess with the Dragon came out.

Wednesday 13 August 2008

Download John Tejeda

Artist: John Tejeda: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

New Age

Discography:

Socio

Year: 2002

Tracks: 2

Born the logos of a Vienna composer/conservatory teacher and an opera-singer mother, John Tejada linked Cosmic Baby and BT as classically trained techno changelings. Unlike those producers notwithstanding, Tejada's recordings for Plug Research and A13 emphasise the rougher, more black bile aspects of techno elysian by Detroit icons like Juan Atkins and Derrick May. Raised on the West Coast, Tejada played pianissimo and drums as a child, then began hearing to rap music and electro, starting time his DJ career by playing out in those styles. After audience the Detroit techno blueprints courtesy of recordings by Atkins and May, Tejada began producing; during 1996 unique, he recorded dickens singles for A13 Records (as Lucid Dream) and an EP for Electric Ladyland (as Autodidact). Early the following year, his debut Lucid Dream record album Consummate appeared, followed by a single for Plug Research as Mr. Hazeltine. After the 1997 Stopple Research & Development compiling earned extolment about the home-listening techno community, Tejada formed his possess pronounce Palette Records, collaborated with Joe Babylon of Plug Research and Allen Avan as Frankie Carbone and recorded on his possess for Organised Noise, Ferox, and one-seventh City. His number 1 album Little Green Lights and Four Inch Faders appeared in 1999 on A13 Records. Backstock, a cover of his Palette mark recordings, was released in 2001, and his moment broad production LP (Daydreams in Cold Weather) followed one year later on Plug Research.

Wednesday 6 August 2008

Blur's Dave Rowntree loses council bid

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has failed in his bid to become a London councillor.

Rowntree, who had been representing Labour in his bid for the Church Street seat in the Westminster City Council, lost out to Conservative nominee Mehfuz Ahmed, reports BBC news.

Rowntree lost by 303 votes, with Ahmed triumphing with 955 votes in a 24 per cent turnout.

The drummer had previously come third in a London by-election last year.

However, he has been selected as the prospective parliamentary Labour prospect for the Cities of London & Westminster constituency in the next general election.

Thursday 19 June 2008

Young Buck Breaks Down, Begs 50 Cent To Allow Him Back In G-Unit On Leaked Tape

Young Buck broke down and begged 50 Cent to allow him back into G-Unit on a tape of a phone conversation that is posted on Missinfo.TV.

Wednesday 11 June 2008

Clooney tells Cruise to mock himself

Hollywood star George Clooney has advised Tom Cruise to "make fun of himself" in order to increase his popularity.
Clooney made the comments in an interview with Time, saying that he isn't afraid to mock himself.
The actor said: "Before they could kill me on 'Batman & Robin', I said: 'It's a bad film, and I'm the worst thing in it.' You try to defend an indefensible position, you'll look like a schmuck."
"The guys I dig don't do that. Look at Winston Churchill. He said: 'These are our shortcomings. Now let's get past it'."
Referring to Cruise, Clooney said: "I talked to him the other day, and he's a good egg. There's nothing self-serving about what he's saying. He has to turn it into a way to make fun of himself."

Wednesday 4 June 2008

Designer Saint Laurent Dies

French fashion designer YVES SAINT LAURENT has died. He was 71.

Saint Laurent died on Sunday (01Jun08) following a long illness, according to the Pierre-Berg-Saint Laurent Foundation.

The fashion maestro retired from haute couture in 2002, after four decades at the top of his trade.

Saint Laurent launched his fashion career after taking over the Christian Dior fashion house following the death of its founder in 1957. But he was soon conscripted to serve in the French army during the Algerian War of Independence where he suffered a mental breakdown .He was institutionalised in a French mental hospital at the age of 22.

Upon his release from hospital, he founded his own company.

Saint Laurent went on to dominate the 1960s fashion market and was the first designer to use black models the catwalk. Last week (ends30May08), Naomi Campbell - who first worked with Saint Laurent in the 1990s - signed a comeback deal to front the company's autumn/winter 2008 campaign.

In 1983, he became the first living fashion designer to be honoured by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in 2001 he was awarded the rank of Commander of the Legion d'Honneur by former French president Jacques Chirac .

In his latter years, Saint Laurent - who came out as gay in 1991 - became a recluse and spent much of his time at his house in Marrakech, Morocco.

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Saturday 31 May 2008

Bronski Beat

Artist: Bronski Beat

   Genre(s):
Other
   Dance
   Dance: Pop
   Pop

Discography:

Rainbow Nation

Year: 1995
Tracks: 12

I'm Gonna Run Away From You (Single)

Year: 1990
Tracks: 3

Truthdare Doubledare

Year: 1986
Tracks: 13

Hundreds and Thousands

Year: 1985
Tracks: 10

The Age Of Consent

Year: 1984
Tracks: 11

London's Bronski Beat will be remembered for a number of things. Anyone world Health Organization has seen the video for "Smalltown Boy" -- which remains fascinating and sobering decades afterward -- privy likely remember at least unrivaled of its scenes in vivid detail. It was only Bronski Beat's number one single, just it became the group's best-known, arrival the top of Billboard's U.S. dance chart while peaking at number trey on the U.K. pop chart. More importantly, the strain was distinctive for the grouping in that it centered on isaac M. Singer Jimmy Somerville's experiences as a pres Young gay homo. It as well exemplified the group's helen Newington Wills electronic-pop levelheaded and introduced a number of mass to a voice that continues to sound like no other -- ane that can soar into a unique falsetto patch drawing from a deep pool of emotions that ranges from acute internal strife to bliss.Somerville, mate Glasweigan Steve Bronski (keyboards), and Londoner Larry Steinbachek (as well keyboards) formed Bronski Beat in 1983. They performed at venues in and about London, and scored a major takeover by landing an opening gig for Tina Turner. The London label before long swept up the grouping, and the bandmembers near immediately became pop stars in the U.K. "Smalltown Boy" proved to be a brobdingnagian breakthrough. The Age of Consent, supported by that single, "Why," and a cover of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love," went over extremely well. Not only did the record album win attending for its combination of compelling songwriting and club-friendly pop; the inner sleeve listed the legal geezerhood of consent for homophile acts in respective countries across Europe. Somerville boldly left the radical a year later, earlier it was able to criminal record a followup; he started the more than overtly political Communards with Richard Coles. Bronski and Steinbachek continued with vocaliser John Jon, world Health Organization had antecedently been in Bust. The new version of Bronski Beat was quite successful as well, notching club hits in the U.K. and afield; Truthdare Doubledare, the 1986 sophomore record album, went Top 20 in the group's base nation, and "Hit That Perfect Beat" rivaled "Smalltown Boy" in high chart placements. Before the year's final stage, John Jon left the grouping, which eventually disbanded. Steve Bronski brought a new card together in the mid-'90s -- including vocalist Jonathan Hellyner -- and recorded Rainbow Nation for the German ZYX label. Somerville enjoyed modest success in the Communards and has recorded periodically as a solo creative person since the late '80s.