Emmerdale star leaves Dancing on Ice & other: May 2008

Friday 30 May 2008

Clint Black - Fascinating Fact 5351

Country star CLINT BLACK owns an impressive cognac collection with bottles that date back to the early 19th century.

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Tuesday 27 May 2008

Fascinating Fact 5359

LIZA MINELLI received six standing ovations following her sell-out performance at London's Coliseum on Sunday (26May08) night.

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Kamui

Artist: Kamui

   Genre(s):
Trance

Discography:

Arena (incl A.S.Y.S. Remix) (TT012)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Anna Friel joins cast of Ferrell movie

Former 'Brookside' star Anna Friel will reportedly star opposite Will Ferrell in Brad Silberling's adventure fantasy 'Land of the Lost'.
In this feature adaptation of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1970s live-action kids show, Friel will play the love interest of Ferrell, a disgraced palaeontologist who finds himself in a strange prehistoric world.
Friel, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for 'Pushing Daisies', will next appear in the soccer feature 'Goal! III'.

Fred Frith

Artist: Fred Frith

   Genre(s):
Retro
   Rock

Discography:

Gravity

Year: 2001
Tracks: 19

Clearing

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

Upbeat

Year: 1999
Tracks: 13

Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses

Year: 1997
Tracks: 14

Eye To Ear

Year: 1997
Tracks: 9

Step Across The Border

Year: 1990
Tracks: 26

In the '60s and '70s, much (if not virtually) present-day improvisation was jazz-based. That began to change in the '80s, when a meaning numeral of tilt musicians began exploring the possibilities of free improvisation and raw classical forms. Fred Frith is one of the more striking. Co-founder of the underground British dance band Henry Cow in 1968, Frith affected to the U.S. in the late '70s, where he began associations with such New York-based experimental musicians as cellist Tom Cora, harper Zeena Parkins, saxist John Zorn, and percussionist Ikue Mori. Frith lived in New York for 14 long time; some of his well-known ventures in that sentence included Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher), Skeleton Crew (with Cora and Parkins), and his sextet Keep the Dog. In the '80s, Frith's compositional activities increased; he began piece of writing for dance, motion-picture show, and theatre, and for such ensembles as the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Ensemble Moderne, Asko Ensemble, and his own Guitar Quartet. Primarily known as an improvising guitarist, Frith has also performed on sea bass (with Zorn's Naked City) and fiddle (with Lars Hollmer's Looping Home Orchestra). Frith has played on albums by the Residents, Brian Eno, Amy Denio, and RenÃ© Lussier, to name just a few. Frith was the subject of Step Across the Border, a documentary film by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzels. By 2000, Frith was a prof of typography at Mills College in Oakland, CA, and continued to handout a bevy of albums including Eleventh Hour in 2005 and Carbohydrate Factory in 2007.

Cannes Film Festival - Surprise Winner At Cannes Film Festival

Director Laurence Cantet's Entre les Murs (The Class), a film about
a year in the life of suburban Parisian students, was the surprise winner of the
Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday. It marked the first win by a French
film at the festival since 1987. Jury president Sean Penn told reporters that the
film "just touched us so deeply." Cantet brought the entire cast of 24 teenagers
onto the stage with him to accept the award from presenter Robert De Niro -- and
brought the entire audience at the Palais des Festivals to its feet. Of the four titles
from U.S. filmmakers in the competition, only one received any recognition -- Steven
Soderbergh's biopic Che, which garnered the best-actor trophy for Benicio
Del Toro, who portrayed the title figure, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. The award could
be helpful in securing a distribution deal for the $68-million film, which faces
an uphill battle given its 4 1/2-hour length, its controversial subject, and the
fact that the dialog is delivered in Spanish. Clint Eastwood's Changeling, which
received mostly solid reviews from critics and numerous predictions that it would
win the top award, was shut out for major awards, but the jury created a special
prize to honor Eastwood's achievement in films. (French actress Catherine Deneuve
was also so honored.) Turkey's Nuri Belge Ceylon received the best-director award
for his Three Monkeys. Two Italian films also fared well at the festival as
Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah won the Grand Prix and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo won
the Jury Prize. Brazil's Sandra Corveloni won the best actress award for Linha
de Passe and Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who had twice won
the Palme d'Or, received the best screenplay award for Le Silence de Lorna.

26/05/2008

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Corrupt Souls and Submerged

Artist: Corrupt Souls and Submerged

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

Flatline Audio (FLATLINE001)

Year: 2005
Tracks: 2

Flatline Audio

Year: 2005
Tracks: 2

Steve Backley out of Dancing on Ice