Dede Saint-Prix & other: May 2008

Thursday, 29 May 2008

Radiohead's 'eco-friendly' tour secrets revealed

Liars, who recently supported Radiohead on the first leg of their European tour, have praised the band for taking measures to reduce their carbon footprint as they tour.

The band revealed the lengths to which the band go to ensure that as few emissions and waste are created by the process of touring and playing live.

Writing on the Liars MySpace blog, the band revealed that they were given tour water flasks to drink from, rather than use disposable cups which are bad for the environment.

They also explained that all the tour buses and trucks used on the tour run on biofuel, and that air freight is banned.

In a gushing blog the band wrote: "In a world full of fear and ripe with insincerity it's such a relief to have met Radiohead. They are purveyors of truth, beauty and a moral responsibility to the planet.

"We've been welcomed with literal open ams and thoroughly schooled on how to function as a band � not just musically, but ethically, too.

"The important thing for us to make clear is just how awe inspiring this production is. We're not sure if there's any information made public about the efforts Radiohead go to to reduce their environmental impact, but there should be."

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Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Astroboys

Artist: Astroboys

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

A Not Satisfied

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Grey's Anatomy star joins Aniston in comedy

Phil Thornton

Artist: Phil Thornton

   Genre(s):
Easy Listening
   Electronic
   Other
   New Age

Discography:

Tibetan Meditation

Year: 2003
Tracks: 9

Dreamscapes

Year: 2002
Tracks: 8

Cloud Sculpting (Colors)

Year: 2001
Tracks: 7

Solstice

Year: 1999
Tracks: 8

Sorcerer - The Mask Of Seduction

Year: 1996
Tracks: 2

Shaman

Year: 1996
Tracks: 3

Illusions

Year: 1996
Tracks: 11

Entering The Circle

Year: 1996
Tracks: 10

Alien Encounter

Year: 1996
Tracks: 6

Pharaoh

Year: 1995
Tracks: 4

Beyond Heaven's River

Year: 1995
Tracks: 5

Fire Queen

Year: 1991
Tracks: 5

Between Two Worlds

Year: 1991
Tracks: 6

Initiation

Year: 1990
Tracks: 4

Transformation

Year: 1989
Tracks: 4

Forever Dream

Year: 1989
Tracks: 7

From Another Sky

Year: 1988
Tracks: 4

Flying

Year: 1987
Tracks: 7

Immortal Egypt

Year: 1986
Tracks: 10

Edge Of Dreams

Year: 1986
Tracks: 2

Alchemy

Year: 1983
Tracks: 6

Phil Thornton is straight off intimately associated with the British New Age medicine cause, just he is also an complete guitarist and has had a foresighted touring and recording association with Sinead O'Connor. He is a regular appendage of the neo-psychedelic English band Mandragon, and he has worked with Gordon Giltrap, Talking Heads, Stallion, Die Laughing, Naked Lunch, 4 B 2's, and Expandis. Thornton augments his musical talents as an effected studio manufacturer.

Thornton's first "non-rhythm" New Age work was the photographic film score for Overcast Sculpting, which was later released on the New World Music, home to nigh of his recordings. On this send off, he met didgeridoo player Steven Cragg, with whom he recorded Induction and Tibetan Horn. In his Sussex, England, transcription studio, Expandibubble, Thornton continues to explore new limits of sequenced electronic music (Alien Encounter) and the insights of tribal and ethnic cultures (Shaman).

T.I. Welcomes New Son

Rapper T.I. has become a dad again after his girlfriend TAMEKA "TINY" COTTLE gave birth to a little boy on Friday (16May08).
T.I. - real name Clifford Harris - chose the name Major for his newborn son, who is the second child for the couple.
Harris and 32-year-old Cottle, an American singer/songwriter and former member of R+B group Xscape, are already parents to three-year-old King.
This is the fifth child for the 27-year-old rapper.

Nena Daconte

Artist: Nena Daconte

   Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock

Discography:

He Perdido Los Zapatos

Year: 2006
Tracks: 11

Lords Of The New Church

Artist: Lords Of The New Church

   Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock

Discography:

Killer Lords

Year: 1985
Tracks: 19

Formed in 1981, the Lords of the New Church had a formidable intercontinental toughie rock pedigree. Singer Stiv Bators and guitarist Brian James were institution members of Cleveland's Dead Boys and London's the Damned, respectively, both successful and influential punk rocker pioneers. (Annotation: Much like Keith Richard(s), Stiv spelled his surname both with and without a terminal "s" at various points in his career. Throughout his meter with the Lords, however, he was billed as Bators.) Bassist Dave Tregunna and drummer Nick Turner were veterans of Sham 69 and the Barracudas, which were less seminal simply still long-familiar. But while the Lords' music had elements of toughie, it was more than melodic, better-produced, and played with a higher degree of professionalism. This alienated some of the hard-core kindling audience, just brought the Lords a much wider and more than diverse fan base.

The generation of the Lords was in 1980 when Bators and James, having schism from their late bands, renewed an aqcuaintance that began when the Dead Boys opened for the Damned on CBGB dates and an English go. The two experimented for a metre with different round sections, rehearsing shortly with ex-Generation X bassist Tony James and ex-Clash drummer Terry Chimes (how's that for a punk rocker john Rock supergroup?). A batting order of Bators, James, Tregunna, and Damned drummer Rat Scabies played a single 1980 gig as the "Utter Damned Sham Band." But by the meter the Lords' self-titled debut record album appeared in 1982, Turner had replaced Scabies to form the card that would stay fixed passim the band's to the highest degree productive geezerhood.

Though the album was well-received, the Lords became more infamous for their live shows, or more than specifically for Bators's crazed give up as a performer. A fan of Iggy Pop, Bators had in his Dead Boys years developed a reputation for being unafraid to danger his life in pursuit of rock and roll & roll glory. He suffered unnumberable onstage injuries during his calling, the most illustrious being the time he reportedly closely hung himself during a Lords show. As the tale goes, a front-runner stunt of Bators' where he looped the mic cord approximately his neck went askew, resulting in his organism clinically dead for several minutes. Nonetheless, Bators survived to phonograph recording 2 more successful albums with the Lords, 1983's Is Nothing Sacred? and 1984's The Method to Our Madness. After this, though, the Lords appeared to lose their originative impetus.

They continued to disc periodically including an amusing single where they violated Madonna's "Care a Virgin" and two first-class new tracks for the best-of Killer Lords, just by 1985, the Lords had slowly begun to disintegrate. Tregunna left, was replaced for a time by Grant Fleming, and then returned. A arcsecond guitar player, Alistair Simmons, was added and then pillaged. Turner stop and was replaced by Danny Fury. After 1988, Bators back injury light-emitting diode James to advertize for a permutation singer -- a impermanent one, he claimed -- the Lords rip acrimoniously, simply not earlier Bators played the encore of his last designate wear a T-shirt that eagre an expansion of James' paper ad. Possibilities of whatever future Lords reunions were quashed when Bators died in 1990 of injuries sustained when he was smitten by a car in the streets of Paris.

Potter star Watson parties with Borrell

"Sex and the City" film poses "big" question

By Michelle Nichols

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Do Carrie and Mr. Big marry or don't
they? That is the question "Sex and the City" fans hope is
answered when the long-awaited film about love and friendship
in New York City hits theaters worldwide this week.

Writer Carrie's relationship with a financier known as Big,
the love lives, and fashion choices, of her friends --
publicist Samantha, curator Charlotte and lawyer Miranda --
enthralled millions of television viewers during six seasons.

And now four years after the series ended they are back
with fans desperate to know the fate of Carrie and Mr. Big.

"Those people who like the show will expect the joy and the
good times and the whimsy and the clothes and the cocktails and
the salty language," said actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who
plays Carrie and also produced the movie and TV series.

"But what they might not expect is that the shank of the
movie is pretty sad," she said.

Based on Candace Bushnell's autobiographical columns in The
New York Observer newspaper, the TV series won eight Golden
Globes and seven Emmys and made Manolo Blahnik shoes and the
Cosmopolitan cocktail household names.

The movie picks up where the series ended -- Carrie and Big
are together, Samantha is in Los Angeles with her boy toy,
Charlotte and her husband are raising their adopted Chinese
daughter and Miranda is in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

"I always knew the big story left untold was literally the
'Big' story -- would Carrie and Big get married? What would
that be if they did or what wouldn't it be?" said Michael
Patrick King, writer and director of the film.