Mindrot & other: May 2008

Friday, 30 May 2008

Neon Neon announce 'double N-side' single

Neon Neon � aka Boom Bip and Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys � have announced details of a new single.

The duo will release a "double N-side" single, 'I Told Her On Alderaan'/'Trick For Treat' on July 14. The latter of the two songs features Har Mar Superstar and Spank Rock on vocals.

Neon Neon are set to appear at many festivals this summer, including Glastonbury, O2 Wireless, Sonar and Hove.

They will also play a one-off gig in a car park off Hearn Street, London on July 6.

The band have promised that anyone who turns up to the gig in a DeLorean car � the inspiration behind their album, 'Stainless Style', will be granted free entry.

To check the availability of Neon Neon tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

New girlfriend for Corrie's David Platt

'Coronation Street's David Platt is set for some romance in his life when new character Tina McIntyre develops an interest in him.
Tina, who will be played by 20-year-old actress Michelle Keegan, makes a loud arrival when she has a heated argument with Gail Platt at the medical centre.
Later she runs into David Platt, played by Jack P Shepherd, and the pair discover that they have a lot in common.
Speaking to the Daily Star, the actress said: "I'm proud to be considered the new sex kitten of the 'Street'."

Man dressed as Darth Vader attacked Jedis

A man has received a suspended sentence for assaulting the founders of Britain's first Jedi church while dressed as Darth Vader.

Wearing a garbage bag as a cape to complete his Star Wars-themed costume, Arwel Wynne Hughes used a metal crutch to hit Barney Jones, also known as Master Jonba Hehol, on the head, the Associated Press reported.

Mr Hughes, 27, also attacked Jones' cousin Michael Jones, known as Master Mormi Hehol, and wounded him in the thigh, a British court was told.

Alcohol was a likely factor behind the assault, since Hughes claimed he couldn't remember what happened because he had consumed most of 10 litre box of wine before.

The incident was caught on a video camera, which the two Jedi masters had set up to film themselves in a light sabre battle.

"Darth Vader! Jedis!" Hughes yelled as he came on to the scene.

Hughes was given a suspended sentence of two months in jail and a £260 fine.

Jones' Church of Jediism, a philosophy gleaned from the popular Star Wars movies, was set up last year and has about 30 members.

See Also

Enon

Artist: Enon

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence

Year: 2005
Tracks: 16

Hocus Pocus

Year: 2003
Tracks: 13

High Society

Year: 2002
Tracks: 15

Believo!

Year: 1999
Tracks: 11

Enon is the trio of John Schmersal (world Health Organization was involved with Brainiac and John Stuart Mill) and Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon (both of Skeleton Key). Like groups such as Olivia Tremor Control, they're concerned in exploring that wide territory between pop/rock songs and dissonance, employing a wealth of samples, industrial sound processing, and percussion section that veers toward crockery-smashing fogginess. Not as inclined toward melodies of the 1960s and '70s as groups like Olivia Tremor Control are, at that place are yet a great deal pensive, flake pop tunes lurking in their swathe of profound. Enon, originally the project of Schmersal alone, put out a distich of indie singles ahead Schmersal moved to New York to link up with Calhoon and Lee. Calhoon left the banding and was replaced by Toko Yasuda; the accession of Matt Schulz made the grouping a quartet. Their debut album, Believo!, was released in 2000, and proved that the card was a successful one. High Society followed in 2002, with the same players merely a more poppy, uptempo sound. The following year, the group issued the In This City EP and went on tour with the Faint. 2003 also adage the dismissal of Hocus Pocus, which establish the banding moving in an electronic pop management. The B-sides collection Deep in thought Marbles and Exploded Evidence arrived in early 2005. In 2007, Enon returned with their first base new album in quatern age, Grass Geysers, Carbon Clouds, which blended the band's electronic, pop, and rock elements even more seamlessly.

James Bond to wed in Quantum Of Solace?

Agyness sings with US rockers

SHE'S the most talked about model in fashion.

And now AGYNESS DEYN is aiming to win over a new audience - with her
singing skills.

To see and hear the Manchester supermodel featuring on new wave rock group FIVE
O'CLOCK HEROES' latest single, Who, click below.

Agyness's vocals feature alongside the US band's frontman ANTONY ELLIS and
the single will be the first off their album, Speak Your Language.

Agyness, who the band describe as a "good friend", may have got some
singing tips from her rocker boyfriend, THE PADDINGTONS guitarist JOSH
HUBBARD.
Let us know what you think on the MySun talkboards below.

Combs Shocked By Biggie Biopic Cast's Likeness

Rap mogul SEAN 'DIDDY' COMBS has lavished praise on the cast of the upcoming NOTORIOUS B.I.G. biopic, because the actors bear an uncanny resemblance to the hip-hop stars they portray on screen.
The film, Notorious, tells the story of the late rapper's rise to stardom in the mid-1990s, and features portrayals of stars like Lil' Kim, Tupac Shakur, and Combs himself.
And, after a visit to the movie's set, the 38-year-old came away especially impressed by actor Derek Luke, who has been cast as Diddy.
He tells MTV.com, "It's rare that you get a movie made about you when you're still relevant, but (they) took on the challenge.
"People asked me years ago who you'd want to play me, and I said Derek Luke... So it was just destined. I got to see him do his thing, and it was scary for me. I had to leave, 'cause he was acting just like me."
But Combs reserved his highest praise for Jamal 'Gravy' Woolard, a young rapper who has landed the lead role.
He adds, "Gravy, the guy playing B.I.G., it was just too eerie for me to be on that. Gravy's killing it. If I tell you he's killing it, then that's all we need to say, you know what I'm saying? I don't think anybody could have done a better job."
Notorious B.I.G., real name Christopher Wallace, was gunned down after a Vibe magazine party in Los Angeles in 1997

Rihanna

Artist: Rihanna

   Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
   Dance
   Pop

Discography:

Umbrella (EP)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 4

Shut Up And Drive

Year: 2007
Tracks: 2

Good Girl Gone Bad

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

A Girl Like Me

Year: 2006
Tracks: 16

Music Of The Sun

Year: 2005
Tracks: 13

Rihanna established herself big time in summer 2005 with her debut dash hit, "Pon de Replay," and continued to shew her smash hit potential in subsequent old age (e.g., "S.O.S.," 2006; "Umbrella," 2007). By the prison term of her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), she was a fully fledged external pop star with a regular presence atop the charts, from Germany to Japan. Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados, she always exhibited a special quality, fetching beaut and talent contests as a schoolchild. But because she lived on the passably remote island of Barbados in the West Indies, she never foresaw the sort of stardom that would later befall her.

That stardom came courtesy of a disastrous get together with a man named Evan Rogers. The New Yorker was vacationing in Barbados with his married woman, a native of the island, when somebody sour him on to Rihanna. Since Rogers had washed-out geezerhood producing pop artists -- including superstars like *NSYNC, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Laura Pausini, and Rod Stewart -- he offered her the chance to record some euphony after he recognized her talent and potency. Along with Rogers' production better half, Carl Sturken (the other half of Syndicated Rhythm Productions), Rihanna recorded some demos that sparked the interest of the Carter Administration -- that is, new appointed Def Jam chairperson Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. This lED to an tryout and, in turn, an on the spot offer to sign with Def Jam, which Rihanna indeed inked on the blot.

Come summer 2005, Def Jam rolled stunned "Pon de Replay," the lead single of Music of the Sun, which was produced well-nigh only by Rogers and Sturken and which synthesized Caribbean rhythms and beat generation with urban-pop songwriting. "Pon de Replay" caught fire almost immediately, climb all the way to issue two on The Billboard Hot one C and contesting the half-summer reign of Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" atop the chart, and this was before Euphony of the Sun regular had been released. The album spawned one other hit, "If It's Lovin' That You Want," which stony-broke the Top 40. Rihanna's followup album, A Girl Like Me, was a greater success, spawning trey big hits: a chart-topper ("S.O.S.") and two Top Tens ("Unfaithful," "Break off It Off").

Rihanna's third album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), continued her success and, more notably, signaled a change of counsel. Whereas her past two albums had been been unbalanced -- often weighed low by faceless balladry and canned Caribbean-isms -- Honest Girl Gone Bad was a topnotch dance-pop album. Moreover, it was amazingly solid, curvy with potential singles and easily enjoyable from beginning to end. Collaborators included Jay-Z, Ne-Yo, Timbaland, and StarGate. The lead single, "Umbrella," shaft to number one and, for the third year in a row, was a potential drop "birdcall of the summer." By this point in time it was clear that Rihanna had suit one of the biggest singles artists of the mid-2000s.