Friday, 5 September 2008

Led Zeppelin To Reform At 2012 London Olympics?

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has said he would be honoured to perform at the 2012 London Olympics � fuelling speculation that the full band may reform for the event.


Page closed this year's games in Beijing alongside Leona Lewis with a cover of the band's strain 'Whole Lotta Love'.


Their performance drew assorted reactions, with some critics calling it the poorest part of the ceremony.


Speaking about the yoke, Page is quoted as saying that he can't understand why it drew so often criticism.


�People scarce need to be less cynical. You know we went out there, we only had ten transactions - what did people expect?" he said.


Then, when asked if he would play at the London games, he replied: �If they asked, it would be an honour�.


Talk of farther reunion shows has been constant since Led Zeppelin played a one off concert at the O2 Arena in London last December.


Their execution, which was praised by critics, attracted 1 billion ticket applicants for just 9,000 pairs of tickets.

As previously reported on Gigwise, Page and Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant solicitation a Lifetime Achievement award at the GQ Men of the Year awards in London this workweek for their set.


Led Zeppelin - Through The Years


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Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Madonna Plans 'Anti-Age' 50th Birthday Party

Madonna has apparently told guests not to advert to her age when she holds her birthday celebrations later.


The pop lead, who turns 50 today, has issued instructions tattle people not to bring cards or presents that display her age.


Madonna is expected to hold her birthday party at her home in Wiltshire � despite spin her articulatio talocruralis earlier this week.


"Plans are very clandestine but Madonna is unquestionably going to celebrate in style,� a source told the Mirror newspaper


"Unfortunately, not everything has gone as expected as she's had many other things on her mind. On top of all the stress, she twisted her ankle all over the weekend.�


To see Gigwise�s tribute to Madonna on her fiftieth birthday, CLICK HERE.




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Saturday, 16 August 2008

Gabriele Muccino falls for 'Love'

Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment may link project




NEW YORK -- Gabriele Muccino, the Italian conductor and Will Smith cooperator, is setting up a new project.

Muccino volition direct "What I Know About Love," a plastic film described as a contemporary "Kramer vs. Kramer."

Like that 1970s hands saga, Muccino said that "Love" will seek to explore the wounds of divorce and single parenthood.

"It's the write up of a family's collapse, but with the complexity that relationships have today," Muccino aforementioned. "It's a different populace now, one that I think is more exposed and more destructive somehow."

The director is known for exploring the difficulties of romantic couplings as well as parent-child relationships.

Muccino will write "Love" with "Sex and the City" penman Liz Tuccillo, with whom he collaborated on his latest propose, the Mediaset-produced "Four Single Fathers." "Love" likely will be produced by Muccino's Indiana Prods. banner.

The picture potentially too could involve Overbrook Entertainment, Smith and James Lassiter's Columbia-set production company with which Muccino made his two most recent films, "The Pursuit of Happyness" and the upcoming "Seven Pounds," both of which star Smith. (Columbia, by the bye, also made "Kramer vs. Kramer.")

The Italy-born Muccino has moved fluidly between borders during his career. Although his past tense two movies have been English-language, U.S.-set tales, he has a background in Italian cinema, directing and writing the middle-class dramatic event "Ricordati Di Me" as well as "L'ultimo Bacio," the Italian film that became the basis for Tony Goldwyn's 2006 Zach Braff starrer "The Last Kiss."

Muccino's "Fathers," an indie feature that doubles as a pilot for Italian television, crossed borders to tell the story of Italian workforce who were once marital to and had children with American women.

"The Italian in New York tends to import a cultural system, and the interrogative sentence is how, with American children, he can come up the correct way to communicate with American children," Muccino aforesaid of that film.

Muccino also has the immigrant tale "Man & Wife" in development at Universal.


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Thursday, 7 August 2008

Mat Kearney

Mat Kearney   
Artist: Mat Kearney

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Pop-Rock
   



Discography:


Nothing Left to Lose   
 Nothing Left to Lose

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13




Born in Eugene, OR, singer/songwriter Mat Kearney began his musical life history at California State University, Chico, where he studied lit and played on the soccer team. After complementary his junior class, Kearney went to Nashville with quaker and producer Robert Marvin, with the aim of only staying the summer to lay down a few songs. However, later the offers for recording deals began coming in, Kearney distinct to persist in Tennessee to hard follow euphony. His interesting blend of rap and tribe intrigued Inpop Records, which offered Kearney the carry on he was looking for for and released his debut album, Bullet, in 2004. His followup, Nada Left to Lose, recorded at Dark Horse Studios in Nashville, set up Kearney departing slimly from his rhymes and concentrating more on guitar influence, and was issued by Aware/Columbia Records in 2006.






Friday, 27 June 2008

Blazing Saddles - Comic Actor Korman Dies

BLAZING SADDLES star HARVEY KORMAN has died. He was 81.

The Emmy Award-winning actor passed away at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Thursday (29May08) after suffering complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm - an often fatal swelling of one of the body's main arteries.

Korman's daughter Kate has paid tribute to her father, insisting he fought hard against his ailing health.

She says, "It was a miracle in itself that he survived the incident (the aneurysm) at all. Everyone in the hospital referred to him as 'miracle man' because of his strong will and ability to bounce right back after several major operations.

"Tragically, after such a hard-fought battle, he passed away."

Korman was best known for his role opposite Mel Brooks in 1974 spoof film Blazing Saddles. But his regular appearances on 1960s TV programme The Carol Burnett Show won him critical acclaim and four Emmy Awards. He also landed a Golden Globe for the show in 1975. He went on to front his own programme The Harvey Korman Show in 1978 and star in a variety of movies including 1995's Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

Korman is survived by his wife Deborah, daughters Kate, Laura and Maria, son Chris and three grandchildren.




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Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Melodium

Melodium   
Artist: Melodium

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   Dance
   Techno
   



Discography:


Music for Invisible People   
 Music for Invisible People

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13


There Is Something In The Universe   
 There Is Something In The Universe

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 15


La Tete Qui Flotte   
 La Tete Qui Flotte

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 15


A Possible Way Of Spending Time   
 A Possible Way Of Spending Time

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11




 






Wednesday, 11 June 2008

BPI, Virgin partner on file sharing

New education campaign will help combat piracy





The British record industry has achieved a breakthrough in its ongoing engagement with Internet service providers to help rein in illegal file sharing.
Virgin Media and the British Phonographic Institute have agreed on a new "education campaign" to help the media group's broadband customers legitimately download music on their network.
Virgin Media customers who have been found to distribute music files in breach of copyright will receive informative letters from the ISP and BPI.