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Oasis split 'a sad day' for music « Result #3 on Aug 29, 2009, 4:49pm »
Noel Gallagher's departure from Oasis has been described as a "sad day" for music by the man who originally signed the band.
Alan McGee, the founder of Creation Records, attributed the split to a "change of consciousness" that meant money was no longer enough to motivate people.
He said: "People don't do things for money any more."
"I know how much money Oasis were making from their tour - you could buy two very good football strikers with that amount.
"But it's very hard for someone to do what they really don't want to do."
He described the split as "the end of the age of materialism".
But, he added, Noel's walkout was a "really, really sad day".
The bust-up is the brothers' most serious one to date, he said, but he predicted that they may tour together again in about five years' time.
He said: "I think this is pretty major. Noel's a proud person, he won't go back on it.
"And he knows he could make a successful solo album."
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Marcus is evicted! « Result #4 on Aug 28, 2009, 10:48pm »
The wolf cannot be kept from the door any longer… You have kicked out Marcus with 64 per cent of the vote, and his mullet has been asked to leave with him.
The lairy Londoner will leave a Wolverine-shaped hole in the House after a hair-raising ten weeks.
It's fair to say that Marcus will be remembered for liking a rant – whether it was directed at others or the world in general. In the early days Sree was on the receiving end of Marcus's tongue-lashings, but as time went on Noirin got all his attention – good and bad.
He had a serious weakness for the Irish girl and what started as a friendship turned into a full-on infatuation. It wasn't until Noirin seemingly fell for Siavash that the spell was broken. Spurned Marcus spent a couple of days sitting alone in surly silence Then Noirin's supposedly ex-boyfriend, Isaac, showed up and that was the end of her whirlwind romance with Siavash. Marcus soon cheered up once he had another of Noirin's rejects on his side.
The next object of Marcus's affection was blonde latecomer Bea, who snuggled up to him when no one else would. But it wasn't long before the gloves came off, and they turned to bickering and badmouthing each other.
When he wasn't raging against injustice, breaking the rules or suffering from a broken heart, Marcus liked to spend long periods in the Diary Room telling Big Brother how to do Big Brother’s job.
Now at least we can ask him all the big questions. Most importantly, does he categorize that facial hair as a pair of massive sideburns, or is it a single beard with the middle cut out?
Farewell Marcus, it seems the Irrepressible Dark Horse had to fall at the last hurdle...
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Attack Threat To Shops Over Early Xmas Cards « Result #6 on Aug 28, 2009, 5:54pm »
Police are investigating a threat made against several charity shops in a campaign to stop Christmas cards being sold too early.
A group calling itself Movement for the Containment of Xmas has posted letters to three charities and a newsagents in Headingley, Leeds.
The stores were warned their premises would be attacked if any cards went on sale before November.
The letter read: "This is a very polite but serious reminder not to display Xmas cards until 1st Nov. We will put super glue in your locks if you do. Peace and goodwill."
The lock of mental health charity shop Mind has already been glued shut.
The store's manager, who did not want to be named, told the Yorkshire Evening Post: "This has made staff feel very uneasy and we have alerted the police.
"We have removed our current Christmas card sales display... This is a great pity as we have been selling off last year's stock and making £70 a week for the charity."
The letter was also delivered to an Oxfam shop on Otley Road.
Manager Clive Baker said it was "very odd".
"Every morning I wonder if I am going to be able to open up or will the lock be glued," he said.
"We are not going to take our cards down as we are a charity and we raise money for all the Oxfam projects. The cards are important for our fundraising."
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Madonna - Celebration « Result #11 on Aug 28, 2009, 5:28pm »
Celebration is probably the most calculated single of Madonna’s career. It is the Trojan Horse meant to propel the greatest hits into new bedrooms, designed to get younger fans to pick up the album, realise Madonna’s finest output was before the millennium, and go out and buy the entire back catalogue. Celebration is less about music and more about commercial product, something Madonna has become increasingly guilty of with every new album release. Her last album, and perhaps my least favourite of all her records, Hard Candy (2008), was specifically orchestrated to re-establish Madonna into the American, r’n’b music buying public’s heart. The majority of it on reflection was dross (apart from some moments of brilliance courtesy of Pharrell Williams), but it proved that Madonna, who has so brilliantly bridged art and commerce throughout her career, had landed on the side of commerce. The cold calculation of Four Minutes left so many shuddering that the album, although selling reasonably well, didn’t quite have the desired effect.
Perhaps learning her lesson, Madonna enlisted Paul Oakenfold to provide a Euro-centred clubby feel for Celebration, bringing back to mind Get Together, one of my favourite songs from Confessions On A Dance Floor (2005). Perhaps lacking Stuart Price’s sonic innovation, Paul Oakenfold places Madonna back in the spot she likes best - the dancefloor - and in some ways Celebration sounds like an artist coming full circle. Although Madonna is equated with being Queen of Pop, she is rather Queen of Clubs, her music often keying into what is going on in the underground club scene. She stole the synth-sleaze sound heard in New York club’s for tracks such as Everybody and Physical Attraction (1983), capitalised on the a dance craze and the House music of the early nineties for Vogue (1990), went back to the modern clubby sound of New York for Deeper and Deeper and Fever (1992), was inspired by Ibiza for most of Ray of Light (1997), looked to French House and electronica on Music (2000), and went Euro-dance on all of Confessions (2005). Even the poppier singles were given heavier club overhauls by the likes of David Morales, Masters At Work, Junior Vasquez, Felix da Housecat and Victor Calderone.
Although the lyrics are largely mindless, there seems a calculation in their recycled nature. Madonna makes references to hits such as Holiday, Everybody, Into the Groove and Hung Up, but rather than appear as an artist who can no longer be bothered writing anything meaningful, it may suggest that she is strengthening a manifesto that she has made throughout her career – that the dance floor is the only place where all life’s troubles can be forgotten. It’s not exactly Satre, but when we remember that Madonna started out life as a dancer, it certainly shows that there is some thematic consistency to her canon. Will Celebration be a huge hit? Most likely (though in Europe rather than America). Is it the best single of her career? No, but I would rather it to almost everything on Hard Candy. The case in fact is that it says what it does on the tin – Madonna is celebrating twenty-five years of still making dance music that demands you get your groove on.
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Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend « Result #12 on Aug 28, 2009, 5:18pm »
You should like Calvin Harris. You should let him fill your Twitter feed with reviews of crisp flavours and random outbursts of “Vanessa Feltz!” You should like the fact he says he started making music aged 15 on a Commodore Amiga – the greatest home computer of the 1990s! – when at the same age I was trying to complete the notoriously tricky snow mountain stage on Lemmings. But most of all, you should like the fact he hasn’t got a beard.
Let me explain: what I really like about Harris’ second record, the follow-up to his 2007 debut ‘I Created Disco’ – a record which was massively and defiantly successful in a way only the internet can enable – is that from the diva-encrusted disco of the title track to the frantic, pop grime of album highpoint ‘Worst Day’, you get the impression that all Harris really wants from his career is the opportunity to make fuckloads of people punch the air in unison. Compare that with the non-vision of the horde of grubby tramps singing about unicorns that have given me high blood pressure from thinking of ways for them to die. Or the battalion of vile supermarket indie bands who would smash baby ducks’ faces in for the chance to get on the cover of NME. Or rather just giggle at the doofus ABC-style sax break on opener ‘The Rain’. Or smile at the Giorgio Moroder/Cher (depending on your reference points for this kind of thing) vocoder wig-out on ‘Burns Night’. Because music’s there to be enjoyed, isn’t it? Not to soundtrack all day every day thinking of ways to maim folk musicians.
What I’m saying is this: the populist music-for-the-people philosophy embodied at the core of Harris’ anthem-heavy new record – which is basically the aural distillation of his hedonistic yet geeky everyman persona – is something to be cherished right now. He’s talked recently of the idea of “stadium dance” and “playing football stadiums with big hands-in-the-air anthems” – all of which kinda makes him the Fatboy Slim you don’t want to clip around the ear – and you have to concede that such vision, in context of the self-serving, utterly mediocre pop dishwash that surrounds him, is an admirable stance. So yeah, you should like Calvin Harris heaps. Long may he bosh. Until he grows a beard, obviously…
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Florence And The Machine open Reading « Result #14 on Aug 28, 2009, 3:29pm »
Florence And The Machine open Reading Festival with secret birthday gig
Florence and The Machine kicked off Reading Festival by playing a two-song secret gig on the BBC Introducing... Stage today (August 28).
Initially coming onstage just after noon to a small crowd - some of whom were simply sheltering from the rain under the canvas – Florence Welch and co soon had a sizable audience to play to.
Organisers informed the audience that today was Welch's birthday, inviting them to sing 'Happy Birthday' to her. As the crowd did so, Welch collapsed into a fit of giggles before sheepishly thanking them and announcing her first track, 'Drumming Song'.
She was joined onstage by a harpist and acoustic guitarist.
After finishing 'Drumming Song', Welch launched into an acoustic version of her cover of Candi Staton's club classic 'You Got The Love', before leaving the stage.
She is now due to play the NME/Radio 1 Stage at Reading Festival early this evening.
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Apple approves Spotify iPhone App « Result #15 on Aug 28, 2009, 3:16pm »
Spotify’s iPhone App has been approved by Apple, it has been confirmed.
The application will be free to use, but will require the user to have a premium Spotify subscription, which costs £10. Users will also be able to save playlists to use when there is no internet connection.
Apple are now working to add the Spotify App Store.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek told BBC News that the company had a “great” relationship with Apple.
"We're not surprised but we're thrilled," he said. "We had a great dialogue with Apple from day one."
The Swedish music portal applied for the iPhone app in July.
Spotify is now set to launch in the US by the end of the year.
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Dizzee Rascal reveals new album tracklist « Result #16 on Aug 11, 2009, 5:34pm »
Dizzee Rascal has announced the tracklisting of his forthcoming album 'Tongue 'N' Cheek' exclusively to NME.COM.
The album, which will be the London rapper's fourth, will be released on September 21 and features 11 songs.
Included in the tracklisting are both Dizzee's UK Number One singles 'Dance Wiv Me', a collaboration with Calvin Harris, and 'Bonkers', which he made with Armand Van Helden. 'Holiday', another Harris collaboration set for release as a single on August 24, is also included.
The tracklisting of 'Tongue 'N' Cheek' is:
'Bonkers' 'Road Rage' 'Dance Wiv Me' 'Freaky Freaky' 'Can't Tek No More' 'Chillin' Wiv Da Man Dem' 'Dirtee Cash' 'Money Money Money' 'Leisure' 'Holiday' 'Bad Behaviour'
Meanwhile, the rapper, real name Dylan Mills, is set to head out on tour in October.
Dizzee Rascal will play:
Edinburgh Picture House (October 4) Glasgow O2 Academy (5) Newcastle O2 Academy (6) Manchester Apollo (7) Cambridge Corn Exchange (9) Exeter University Great Hall (10) Bristol O2 Academy (11) Nottingham Rock City (13) Bournemouth Opera House (14) Norwich UEA (16) Birmingham O2 Academy (17) London O2 Brixton Academy (22) Liverpool University (24) Sheffield O2 Academy (25) Leeds O2 Academy (26) Brighton Dome (27) Swindon Oasis (30) Preston 53 Degrees (31) Southend Cliffs Pavillion (November 1) Lincoln Engine Shed (2)
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World mourns pop legend Jackson « Result #21 on Jun 26, 2009, 3:52pm »
Tributes from stars and fans have been pouring in for singer Michael Jackson, who has died aged 50 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home.
Pop star Madonna said: "The world has lost one of its greats, but his music will live on forever."
Jackson fans gathered outside the UCLA medical centre where he was pronounced dead on Thursday. A post-mortem is set to take place at the centre on Friday.
The star had been due in London for a series of comeback concerts next month.
Musician Sir Paul McCartney said: "I feel privileged to have hung out and worked with Michael. He was a massively talented boy-man with a gentle soul."
The singer's ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley said she was "sad and confused". "This is such a massive loss on so many levels, words fail me."
Pop star Justin Timberlake, who has been compared to Jackson, said: "We have lost a genius and a true ambassador of, not only pop music, but of all music."
The musician added: "He has been an inspiration to multiple generations."
Paramedics were called to the singer's Beverly Hills home at about midday on Thursday after he stopped breathing.
He was pronounced dead two hours later at the UCLA medical centre in west Hollywood. Jackson's brother, Jermaine, said he was believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest.
Speaking on behalf of the Jackson family, Jermaine said doctors had tried to resuscitate the star for more than an hour without success.
He added: "The family request that the media please respect our privacy during this tough time."
"And Allah be with you Michael, always. I love you."
Jackson, who had a history of health problems, had been due to stage 50 concerts at the O2 arena in London, beginning on 13 July.
Concerns were raised last month when four of Jackson's planned comeback shows were postponed, but organisers insisted the dates had been moved due to the complexity of staging the show.
A spokeswoman for The Outside Organisation, which was organising the publicity for the shows, said she had no comment at this time.
Broadcaster Paul Gambaccini said: "I always doubted that he would have been able to go through that schedule, those concerts. It seemed to be too much of a demand on the unhealthy body of a 50 year old.
"I'm wondering, as we find out details of his death, if perhaps the stress of preparing for those dates was a factor in his collapse.
"It was wishful thinking that at this stage of his life he could be Michael Jackson again."
Following the news of his death, the singer's albums are currently occupying the top 15 slots of online music retailer Amazon.com's best-seller chart, led by his 1982 smash hit Thriller.
Bands playing at the Glastonbury Festival this weekend are also expected to pay tribute to Jackson's musical achievements.
Thriller Live, a tribute show to featuring the star's music in London's West End, announced it would go ahead.
A minute's silence will be held before the performance and the lights outside the Lyric Theatre, in Shaftesbury Avenue, will be dimmed as a mark of respect.
A special on the life and career of Michael Jackson will be screened on the News channel and BBC One at 1930 BST.
Paramedics were called to the singer's house in Bel Air at 1221 (1921GMT) where they performed CPR on Jackson, before rushing him to hospital.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said the robbery and homicide team was investigating Jackson's death because of its "high profile", but there was no suggestion of foul play.
Jackson began his career as a child in family group The Jackson 5.
He went on to achieve global fame as a solo artist with smash hits such as Billie Jean and Bad.
Thriller, released in 1982, is the biggest-selling album of all time, shifting 65m copies, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
He scored seven UK number ones as a solo artist and won a total of 13 Grammy awards.
"For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words," said Quincy Jones, who produced Thriller, Bad and Off The Wall.
"He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I've lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him."
The singer had been dogged by controversy and money trouble in recent years, becoming a virtual recluse.
He was arrested in 2003 on charges of molesting a 14-year-old boy, but was found not guilty following a five-month trial.
The star had three children, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson II.
He is survived by his mother, Katherine, father, Joseph and eight siblings - including Janet, Randy, Jermaine and La Toya Jackson.
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