Gigwise is pleased to announce that Feeder will be joining us for this week's Tuborg Webchat Wednesday.
The band will be online from 4pm tomorrow (June18th) to answer all your questions.
With the group's new album sitting pretty in the UK top-40 it's sure to be an eventful chat.
All you have to do is log in tomorrow at 4pm to the following address.
http://chat.gigwise.com
See you in there!
George Michael has revealed that age was behind his decision to end his touring career.
The singer, now 45, said that he was seeking “a quieter life” and that “pop music should be about youth culture”.
"It shouldn't be an endurance test," he told the BBC.
The singer announced yesterday that two shows in London, dubbed 'The Final Two', will officially bring the curtain down on his full time career.
The shows at Earls Court will officially end his 25 Live Tour, which began in Barcelona in 2006 and will call in America before arriving in London.
A statement on the singer's website said the “very special shows will naturally feature Michael's hits, some tracks not previously performed in Britain, and a stunning new stage set."
Although the shows will end Michael's touring career, he is still expected to play one off performances in the future.
For more information, check out our new look Gig Guide.
He may be the modern master of suspense, but M. Night Shyamalan is about to take it to another level with his latest film, set for release Friday (a marketer's dream on Friday the 13th). Yes, "The Happening" is Shyamalan's first R-rated film. Nearly as surprising as his famed twist endings, right? Don't go into "The Happening" expecting one of those either. Instead, Shyamalan delivers a scarily plausible doomsday thrill ride starring Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel.
It's been a sometimes-bumpy trip for the director since he broke through in a big way with "The Sixth Sense" ("Lady in the Water," anyone?). He spoke with MTV News about his disturbing new flick, the Shyamalan backlash, and what film of his just might be getting a sequel.
MTV: You've gone from arguably your most family-friendly film, "Lady in the Water," to your darkest. Should we be worried about you? Is everything OK?
M. Night Shyamalan: [Laughs.] It's always a balance. I wrote "Stuart Little" and "The Sixth Sense" the same year. Those are the two sides of me. I have the "I like to mess with you" side and the "Aw, look at that baby. How cute!" side.
MTV: This one definitely favors the darker side.
Shyamalan: The canvas is pretty shocking and dark, definitely.
MTV: But it wasn't your idea to go R with this one. Was it the studio's?
Shyamalan: It really was the screenplay's idea. The screenplay I wrote was impossible to do PG-13, but I hadn't come to terms with that. The studio said, "We love it. Go make it as an R."
MTV: Were you comfortable going as far as you did with the rating?
Shyamalan: When I first shot it, I put everything in. It was off the charts. There would be a group of people that would have gone, "That's fantastic!" But it would have been a fringe group, a bloodthirsty group. There were three places I trimmed [to get the R].
MTV: So will there be a bloodthirsty DVD cut?
Shyamalan: No. They asked me to, but I'll put the other stuff in the extras so you'll see where it went over the line for me.
MTV: The working title of the film was "The Green Effect," and clearly there are some timely issues you're weighing in on here. Is there a clear message you're hoping an audience gets?
Shyamalan: It's a B-movie. It's the best B-movie you'll see. It should be the scariest movie of the year. It's meant to be entertainment. Now, once that's all said and done and you've been entertained thoroughly, you're traumatized. That's all happened, and then as you're walking out and somebody says, "That can't happen, right?" — if that's the reaction, we're golden.
MTV: You've gotten more than your share of backlash over the past few years. Who deserves the blame?
Shyamalan: I think it's just time. If I had a dollar for everybody that said I sucked and I took away a dollar for everyone who said I was a genius, I'd have no movie. Everything would be even. I'll just go make my movies, and hopefully over time, it'll all settle itself.
MTV: I'm one of those unabashed "Unbreakable" fans. Is it true you had always envisioned it as a trilogy?
Shyamalan: Yeah.
MTV: Do you regret not jumping right into a sequel after it came out?
Shyamalan: Yeah, because I believed the thing that the group was saying: that the movie wasn't good. There weren't a lot of you jumping up on opening day. [Laughs.] That wasn't the predominant feeling, and now it is about that movie. I made a mistake getting caught up in the hype of the immediate reaction to the movie. If I had been more confident and said, "I believe in that movie," that probably would have been the right move [to make a sequel]. I've still been thinking about it a lot. I wonder if it's too late. I genuinely ask the question all the time: "Should I make 'Unbreakable 2'?"
MTV: Did you ever come up with a title for it?
Shyamalan: I did have a title. [Laughs.]
MTV: Tell me about your next one, "The Last Airbender." It sounds much more effects-driven than anything you've done before.
Shyamalan: This one is totally different, totally big. Yes, there are tons of special effects in it, but it should be in service of the characters. That's what I loved about this piece, that I found a mythology where the CGI could be in service to the characters. It's an extension of them, of what they're feeling.
MTV: Does it need stars?
Shyamalan: I don't know. We'll have to see. We're just talking about it. It's an exciting conversation. My first movie that I flipped out over was "Star Wars." The guys who wrote this series were definitely inspired by "Star Wars."
MTV: Will it be shot on location or on soundstages?
Shyamalan: Both. We're going to shoot in Greenland and somewhere in Asia, maybe Vietnam.
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RAZORLIGHT bassist CARL DALEMO has denied the British rockers are planning to split - insisting the press are always making up rumours of trouble in the band.
The America hitmakers were rumoured to be planning to go their separate ways, amid speculation of a rift between frontman Johnny Borrell and drummer Andy Burrows.
But Dalemo claims the stories are pure nonsense, insisting the group is currently in the process of working on their forthcoming third album.
He says, "We are due to start recording the new album at the end of the month. But I don't think the new album will make any difference to the rumours that we are splitting up.
"It was the same before the last album so I doubt it will change this time."
Weezer have recorded three cover versions for b-sides on their next UK single 'Pork and Beans'.
Across three formats - two 7" vinyls and a CD - the band offer their takes on 'Oddfellows Local 151' by REM, 'Are Friends Electric?' by Tubeway Army and 'Love My Way' by The Psychedelic Furs.
The title track is taken from the new self-titled Weezer album, which is released in the UK this week - read our review.
CD Tracklisting:
1. Pork and Beans
2. Are Friends Electric? (Tubeway Army cover)
7" #1 Tracklisting:
A. Pork and Beans
B. Love My Way (The Psychedelic Furs cover)
7" #2 Tracklisting:
A. Pork and Beans
B. Oddfellows Local 151 (REM cover)
"I also put Coco Pops in my butt. Why? For comedy and experiment I was a scientist and I discovered you could put a lot of them up your butt." Funnyman JACK BLACK on the strange things he would do as a child.
CHICAGO - It took six years to get this far, but a jury in R. Kelly's long-delayed child pornography trial is now deciding whether the R&B singer is guilty or innocent of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl.
Jurors resumed deliberations Friday. The nine men and three women began deliberating Thursday and continued for three hours before being sequestered for the evening.
The panel includes the wife of a Baptist preacher from Kelly's Chicago-area hometown, as well as a compliance officer for a Chicago investment firm and a man in his 60s who emigrated from then-Communist Romania nearly 40 years ago.
As they left the courtroom Thursday to deliberate, jurors took the sex tape at the centre of the trial with them, and a monitor was set up in the jury room in case they wanted to review it.
Kelly, who returned to the courthouse Friday morning, is charged with 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison. He would also have to register as a sex offender in Illinois.
The 41-year-old superstar, who has pleaded not guilty, was charged in 2002. His trial was repeatedly delayed, once because the judge seriously injured himself falling off a ladder and another time because Kelly had emergency surgery to remove his appendix.
Jurors heard closing arguments on Thursday.
Kelly's attorney banged on the jury box with his fist, he yelled and he whispered, he laughed and he pleaded for more than in hour in his emotion-filled closing.
At one point, Sam Adam Jr. referred to a defence argument made repeatedly during the trial that a mole on the singer's back proved he simply can't be the man in the video.
After displaying a freeze frame of the man's back in the video - with no apparent mole - Adam walked over to the defence table and placed his hand on Kelly's shoulder.
"The truth be told, there is no mole ... that means one thing," Adam told jurors, then paused and lowered his voice. "It ain't him. And if it ain't him, you can't convict."
Prosecutors wrapped up their arguments the same way they began them a month ago: by playing the entire graphic sex tape in open court.
The 27-minute film played on a monitor just outside the jury box - the lights switched off and the blinds pulled across courtroom windows - as Assistant State's Attorney Robert Heilengoetter read through sections of the indictment.
Both Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, deny being on the tape. Neither testified at trial. But as the video played Thursday, Heilengoetter told jurors the man on the tape is Kelly and that he controlled the encounter.
At one point in the video, entered into evidence as "People's Exhibit No. 1," the female dances and urinates on the floor - the man out of view. Back in view, he has sex with her. In one scene near the end of the video, alluded to in one count of the indictment, the man urinates on the female. At another point, the man hands her money.
Kelly sat across the room from jurors at the defence table in a grey pinstripe suit, his hands folded in front of him. As the sex tape played, he appeared tense, keeping his eyes on the monitor, his mouth drawn tight and his brow furrowed.
"The one person who is responsible is sitting right here," Assistant State's Attorney Shauna Boliker said, pointing at Kelly. "What you know now is that this is not a whodunit, but a he-did-it."
Over seven days presenting their case, prosecutors called 22 witnesses, including several childhood friends of the alleged victim and four of her relatives who identified her as the female on the video.
In two days, the Grammy winner's lawyers called 12 witnesses. They included three relatives of the alleged victim who testified they did not recognize her as the female on the tape.
During the trial, Kelly endeavoured to make a good impression on jurors, always standing straight and folding his hands in front of him whenever they entered the courtroom.
Jurors, in turn, made a good impression on Judge Vincent Gaughan, who repeatedly praised their attentiveness. All appeared to take careful notes, even when testimony became highly technical.
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Associated Press writer Don Babwin contributed to this report.
If you thought Miley Cyrus’s Vanity Fair cover was bad, wait until you see the children posing for Beyonce Knowles’ new clothing range House Of Dereon.
Young girls barely out of pre-school parade around plastered in heavy make-up and high heeled stiletto shoes in the advertising posters, and it’s pretty creepy.
Let’s pray these little madams are sipping tea from those plastic cups and not something a whole lot stronger they bought with a fake ID!
If newlyweds Beyonce and Jay-Z plan on having children soon, let’s hope they don’t kit them out looking like this. Give the kids their childhood!
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