Mr. Hudson and the Library

   
Artist: Mr. Hudson and the Library

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 A Tale of Two Cities

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12

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Sienna Miller - Miller Nervous About Acting With Skinny Knightley

British actress SIENNA MILLER was "nervous" about acting alongside super-slender KEIRA KNIGHTLEY - as she had been forced to put on weight for the role.

Miller appears with Knightley in forthcoming movie The Edge of Love, and the normally svelte star was asked to pile on the pounds for picture, which tells the story of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

And Miller, 26, admits having to gain weight for the film worried her - as she feared her trim co-star would emphasise her added bulk.

She says, "I was actually pretty nervous about acting alongside Keira because my part required me to put on weight.

"I stuffed my face for the months we were in production. I had huge fry-up breakfasts, pasties for lunch and lots of toasties (toasted sandwiches).

"Then, I had to face seeing myself alongside Keira, who is the most beautiful woman in the world."

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It's simply Black magic: Duo hits all right Keys

Being in a power trio ain’t easy. With three guys, you gotta do the lifting of four or five. And you gotta do it with, well, power. So being a power duo should be nearly impossible. Yet somehow the Black Keys’ live show manages to generate the same feel as a classic set from Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The Black Keys have no business competing as a twosome with the world’s greatest threesomes. Singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach’s lyrics are simple and repetitive, drummer Patrick Carney’s kit is half the size of Ginger Baker’s, and new album “Attack & Release” is filled with keyboards, woodwinds and second guitar parts (not easy songs to pull off live). But there they were Saturday, in front of a rabid, youthful capacity Orpheum crowd, absolutely killing it.
So how do they do it? How do they do nothing new with less and make it work?



The Keys attacked the set the old-fashion way. They switched up
the tempo at all the right times, moved from quiet to deafening with well-placed crescendos and gave each other plenty of space, letting the audience to lose itself briefly in the drums or guitar. Oh yeah, and Auerbach also is a stoned-out, fuzzed-out Zen master of the rock riff.
In the middle of the hour-plus set, right as things threatened to lapse into a sameness, the Akron, Ohio, act broke into tender ballad “You’re the One.” Against the backdrop of so much heavy blues, the spot of tenderness buoyed the set. But before anyone got mellow, the Keys were into new single “Strange Times” and its sped-up Sabbath opening riff and psychedelic change. Then came a manic version of “Your Touch” with stops and starts, the drums cutting in and out, giving Auerbach’s guitar even more force.
All night long, using songs from all five of their albums, the Keys put together similar combinations. The second-best one-two-three punch of the night being when they rushed through the already rushed rocker “Remember When (Side B),” then lulled the crowd with the sweet soul of obscure Captain Beefheart cover “I’m Glad,” then got lost in feedback of “I Got Mine.”
Maybe it’s easier to have that extra guy, maybe it’s easier to put together a set if you embrace post-Woodstock rock, but it’s not necessary. Well, at least if you’re the Black Keys it’s not.
Fellow Ohio retro rockers the Buffalo Killers opened up. A clearly talented power trio, the band suffered through an (unintentional) muddy mix and had trouble finding the right sound.

Steven Soderbergh resists splitting 'Che'

He's willing to divide the four-hour film, but with a caveat

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CANNES -- Steven Soderbergh said Thursday that he was willing to split his epic four-hour, two-part "Che" into two separate movies upon release -- with one caveat.


"What I'd like to do is that if it opens in a town, you can see it for a week as one movie, and then you split it up," the filmmaker said. "To me that would be an event."


Distributors have said privately that they'd prefer the option to break it up, as has been the case with double bills like "Grindhouse," which the Weinstein Co. split up overseas. Soderbergh previously was thought to be steadfast about the two parts screening together, as they did in Cannes (with an intermission).


Soderbergh did not say whether he'd be willing to cut the project to a single two- or 21⁄2-hour film.


The Benicido del Toro-toplined film is an examination of two revolutions which Ernesto "Che" Guevara undertook; the first explores the successful uprising he led in Cuba, and the second looks at his failed revolt in Bolivia.


The Wild Bunch production has yet to sell to a U.S. distributor. Buyers gave it a tepid reaction after the marathon Palais screening Wednesday night, in part because of its length.


At the news conference, Soderbergh explained the length as a matter of historical necessity. "If you're going to have context, it's going to have size," he said.


He also took a defiant posture when asked his response to those who said he should have taken a more conventional biopic structure.


"I find it hilarious that people say that movies are too conventional," Soderbergh said, "and then when (something comes out) that isn't conventional, they seem annoyed."

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BBC announces Grange Hill will end

BBC announces Grange Hill will end

The BBC has announced that its school drama 'Grange Hill' is to end later 30 old age.
At a set in motion for new and recurring dramas for CBBC today, it was announced the upcoming series of 'Grange Hill' would be the last.
Announcing the end of 'Grange Hill', Anne Gilchrist, Control, CBBC, said: "Component part of CBBC's reputation for reflecting coeval Great Britain back to UK children has been built upon Phil Redmond's ['Grange Hill' creator] brightly realised idea and of path it's sad to say arrivederci to such a often loved foundation. The lives of children have got changed a great deal since 'Grange Hill' began and we owe it to our audience to reflect this."
She continued: "We're actively seeking out freshly and exciting ways of delivery social platonism to the CBBC audience through drama and other genres. Yesterday we announced iI 'Newsround' Specials tackling divorce and knife offence and we will carry on to make programmes around the ups and downs of coeval Britain."
Jon East, Mind of CBBC Drama, said: "For 30 long time, Grange James Jerome Hill has become a adage for realistic and coeval children's drama. It's at present time to apply what we've learned over the years to around of the newly ideas we're exploring."

Galaxy Sound Orchestra

   
Artist: Galaxy Sound Orchestra

   Genre(s): 
Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Synthesizer Hits Vol. 4

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 16


   
 Synthesizer Hits Vol. 3

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 16


   
 Synthesizer Hits Vol. 2

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 16


   
 Synthesizer Hits Vol. 1

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 16

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Cowell to produce Potts Hollywood film

Cowell to produce Potts Hollywood film

The story of Britain's Got Gift success Alice Paul Potts is to be made into a Hollywood film produced by Neil Simon Cowell.
The former Carphone Storage warehouse salesman became the unlikely star of the TV talent express with his performance of opera classic 'Nessun Dorma'.
His tale is to get the big screen handling after Paramount Pictures snapped up the rights to his story, according to Variety show cartridge clip.
In response to the film news Cowell said: "This company got that it's another Billy Elliot, a tale anyone in the earth crapper empathize."
Talk around Potts Britain's Got Talent chronicle he said: "This was his last prospect and he literally decided to enter based on the cast away of a mint. And despite his success off the back of the show, the merely difference I see in him is that he got his teeth fixed."
The 37-year-old Welsh isaac Merrit Singer has sold tierce meg copies of his debut album 'One Chance'.