Archive for May, 2008
Holly Willoughby backs Children’s Hospice Week
Star presenter of TV’s Dancing on Ice, Holly Willoughby, is supporting this year’s Children’s Hospice Week, 20-27 September. Holly, patron of Children’s Hospices UK, has been a keen supporter of children’s hospices since seeing first-hand [Read More]
Fila Trainer gets a kicking by Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan
Fila has produced a short film using the brand’s ambassadors, Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan aimed to attract cult fans of the actors and the brand as well as creating a buzz for a wider audience. The gangster style film, focuses on the new pre-distressed footwear style, [Read More]
You can have a career in music
Tech Music Schools in Acton, West London, is one of the UK’s leading popular music schools and for the last 25 years they have successfully trained musicians for long careers within the music industry. [Read More]
Quireboys back to rock again
THE far from angelic Quireboys are returning to the airwaves in July with some classic rock, rather than a heavenly chorus. Born out of London’s Soho scene three decades ago, the leather-clad band are back with a new album, Homewreckers and Heartbreakers, released on [Read More]
Naked Lady Godiva’s in Hyde Park
The young film director, Vicky Jewson, caused quite a stir in Hyde Park today as 20 women stripped off all their clothing and rode through Hyde Park naked. The naked ride raised money for Maggie’s Cancer Support Centre; and launched the release of Vicky Jewson film, [Read More]
Laura Marling returns to Belfast
Laura Marling has announced her return to Belfast on Wednesday 2nd July for a date upstairs in Auntie Annies. Laura Marling is a young small town girl. She began playing the guitar at the age of five, first being taught the blues by her father in front of the family fire, [Read More]
Blues-rock guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa to play at Spring & Airbrake
Renowned for his fluid phrasing and post-modern fusion of traditional roots blues with rock and roll guts, Bonamassa began playing guitar at age four, and toured with blues icon B.B. King when he was twelve. Recently, Joe was named Best Blues Guitarist in Guitar Player [Read More]
Stiff Little Fingers back to Belfast
Stiff Little Fingers return to Belfast following on from last spring’s Ulster Hall sold out appearance, since immortalised as part of the Don Lett’s produced Still Burning DVD. With the Ulster Hall closed for refurbishment through 2008, the band return to [Read More]
The Charlatans and Gary Numan to play at The Mighty Boosh Festival
Indie behemoths, The Charlatans, and , the ‘Godfather of electronic music’, hotly tipped dirt rock trio White Denim and abstract jazz-sters, Polar Bear have been confirmed as the first four music acts to perform at the much-anticipated Mighty Boosh Festival. [Read More]
Dizzee Rascal to release new video single in support of CALM
Dizzee Rascal video, DEAN, released in support of Campaign Against Living Miserably. The video, produced by legendary film director Dick Carruthers, is about Dean a friend of Dizzee Rascal’s who killed himself aged 18. [Read More]
