Sarah Jessica ParkerEmmy Rossum at Sex And The City NYC Premier Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Photo Credit: Janet Mayer / PR Photos
May 28, 2008 () - The big screen version of HBO�s hugely successful TV serial, Sex and the City, premiered in New York City on Tuesday, May 27, at Radio City Music Hall.
The film's leading ladies, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis were all there.
Sarah Jessica Parker was the sartorial standout in a flowing metallic Nina Ricci gown. She walked the red carpet along with Matthew Broderick.
"It's the end of an incredibly long, blessed, happy, and amazing journey for all of us," Parker told ET
Other stars from the film present at the event included Chris Noth, Jason Lewis, Jennifer Hudson and Mario Cantone
Fergie, who recorded a song for the film, made an impressive style statement.
'Sex and the City' premieres in theaters nationwide this Friday, May 30.
Monday, 16 June 2008
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Just wha enough
With the release of her group's fourth album, Moana Maniapoto is taking stock of where her life, her music and her politics meet. She talks to Scott Kara
Moana Maniapoto wanders round her kitchen making cups of tea, cutting cake, slicing fudge, and pouring milk into a fancy white jug that looks more like a gravy boat. All this takes a while as she chats about meeting Bob Geldof in Germany last week ("I like him, he's very self-deprecating.") and how her 17-year-old son keeps her in touch with today's music, like the White Stripes, Kanye West ("He likes his politics"), and local lad Tiki Taane (who she wants to remix a song from her new album, Wha).She's nothing like the staunch, hard-talking Maori activist many people know her as. The musician and documentary maker, and leader of Moana and the Tribe, has never been scared to front up, be it about politics, Maori sovereignty issues, or getting te reo songs played on the radio."I haven't always been like that," she offers. "I come from a family who are shy and don't like conflict. But I've ended up with a whole bunch of people around me who can't be bothered with mucking around and are like, 'Bring it on'."
Like who?"Well, hell, I was married to Willie for years," she says of her ex-husband, the talkback host and former politician Willie Jackson. "The Jackson clan are a very strong family. And then there's my mentors and friends in my band, like [singer] Amiria Reriti, and I've watched my sister [Katarina] over the last few years, and she has come from the space I was at of being nice and accommodating and now, I tell ya, she's turned out just like us."But today, sitting at the dining table in her Grey Lynn apartment which has stunning views over sprawling rooftops towards the Waitemata, she's laid back, serene and at times, when talking about Wha, almost dreamy. Even so, she agrees she is a no bullshit-type person."I suppose you get to a certain age where you are very clear about your values and what's right and wrong and some things are immovable, and for your own piece of mind say something or do something about it rather than moaning,".On Wha there's the militant protest song Te Apo, which uses haka and sounds recorded by the Tribe at a protest in Hong Kong during the World Trade Organisation conference in 2006; the title track is about independence and sovereignty; and other tracks pay tribute to her heroes like the late Syd Jackson ("He was described as an activist but really he was a very compassionate person with a big heart.") and members of the Maori Battalion.These days though, for Maniapoto it's more about the music and the songs than pushing any cultural or political barrows."I'm not always trying to make a cultural point. Perhaps in the early days I was trying to say you can pull elements from traditional Maori music into the contemporary, and culturally and politically that fusion is going to produce something great. But now it's more about how do the musical elements all work together."
Moana Maniapoto wanders round her kitchen making cups of tea, cutting cake, slicing fudge, and pouring milk into a fancy white jug that looks more like a gravy boat. All this takes a while as she chats about meeting Bob Geldof in Germany last week ("I like him, he's very self-deprecating.") and how her 17-year-old son keeps her in touch with today's music, like the White Stripes, Kanye West ("He likes his politics"), and local lad Tiki Taane (who she wants to remix a song from her new album, Wha).She's nothing like the staunch, hard-talking Maori activist many people know her as. The musician and documentary maker, and leader of Moana and the Tribe, has never been scared to front up, be it about politics, Maori sovereignty issues, or getting te reo songs played on the radio."I haven't always been like that," she offers. "I come from a family who are shy and don't like conflict. But I've ended up with a whole bunch of people around me who can't be bothered with mucking around and are like, 'Bring it on'."
Like who?"Well, hell, I was married to Willie for years," she says of her ex-husband, the talkback host and former politician Willie Jackson. "The Jackson clan are a very strong family. And then there's my mentors and friends in my band, like [singer] Amiria Reriti, and I've watched my sister [Katarina] over the last few years, and she has come from the space I was at of being nice and accommodating and now, I tell ya, she's turned out just like us."But today, sitting at the dining table in her Grey Lynn apartment which has stunning views over sprawling rooftops towards the Waitemata, she's laid back, serene and at times, when talking about Wha, almost dreamy. Even so, she agrees she is a no bullshit-type person."I suppose you get to a certain age where you are very clear about your values and what's right and wrong and some things are immovable, and for your own piece of mind say something or do something about it rather than moaning,".On Wha there's the militant protest song Te Apo, which uses haka and sounds recorded by the Tribe at a protest in Hong Kong during the World Trade Organisation conference in 2006; the title track is about independence and sovereignty; and other tracks pay tribute to her heroes like the late Syd Jackson ("He was described as an activist but really he was a very compassionate person with a big heart.") and members of the Maori Battalion.These days though, for Maniapoto it's more about the music and the songs than pushing any cultural or political barrows."I'm not always trying to make a cultural point. Perhaps in the early days I was trying to say you can pull elements from traditional Maori music into the contemporary, and culturally and politically that fusion is going to produce something great. But now it's more about how do the musical elements all work together."
Friday, 6 June 2008
Jah Wobble and The Temple of Sound
Artist: Jah Wobble and The Temple of Sound
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Shout at the Devil
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
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Shane MacGowan
Artist: Shane MacGowan
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
The Crock Of Gold
Year: 1997
Tracks: 17
The Snake
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
A surpassing singer/songwriter and two-fisted gutter poet whose infamous sottish doings, stinky teeth and drug-fueled excesses often threatened to occult his reputation as a performer, Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas Day, 1957 in Kent, England. Within months, his home returned to their native Ireland, where he spent the first base respective eld of his life immersed in the traditional music of the Irish culture. When MacGowan was six, the family touched to London; in that location his talents as a writer gradually blossomed, and he won a number of poetry contests prior to his projection from schoolhouse at the age of 14 for ownership of drugs. In 1976, he attended his first base Sex Pistols concert, and quickly became a regular at local punk shows; he before long formed his possess band, the Nipple Erectors (renamed the Nips later on cathartic their 1978 debut single "King of the Bop"). Despite finding a mentor in the Jam's Paul Weller, the Nips were for the most part unsuccessful, and disbanded in late 1980; MacGowan so took a chore in a record storage, now and then filling in with his admirer Spider Stacy's stripe the Millwall Chainsaws.
When the Chainsaws shortly split up as well, MacGowan and Stacy formed the Pogues -- originally dubbed Pogue Mahone, Gaelic for "osculation my piece of tail" -- along with accordionist James Fearnley, bassist Cait O'Riordan, guitar player Jem Finer, and drummer Andrew Rankin. Hot-wiring traditional Irish music with the energy and passionateness of punk, the Pogues chop-chop developed into ane of the to the highest degree well-thought-of and colourful bands of their epoch, scoring a number of U.K. hits including "A Pair of Brown Eyes" and "Fairy story of New York" and recording such superb LPs as 1985's Elvis Costello-produced Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and 1988's If I Should Fall From Grace With God. However, as stories of MacGowan's voracious appetence for alcoholic drink and drugs swelled to mythological proportions, he grew increasingly undependable, often missing live performances (including a series of 1988 dates hatchway for Bob Dylan). By the fall of 1991, the other Pogues had eventually had enough, and he was dismissed from the band. As MacGowan's imbibition problem worsened, many feared for his life; apart from a 1992 duet with Nick Cave on "What a Wonderful World," he was largely silent for several years, making only the occasional bibulous concert or tv set appearance. In 1994, however, he silenced critics by pulling himself together to form a young band, the Popes; after making a fitting St. Patrick's Day debut carrying into action at a London taphouse, the mathematical group -- which likewise included guitar player Paul McGuinness, bassist Berni France, drummer Danny Pope, tenor banjoist Tom McAnimal, guitar player Kieran 'Mo' O'Hagan and whistle histrion Colm O'Maonlai -- entered the studio to commence recording their first LP, dubbed The Snake. "Haunted," a gorgeous duet with Sinead O'Connor, later became a minor hit; McGowan's followup, Lonesome Highway, appeared in 1997.
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Parov Stelar, Shine
A native of Linz, Austria's third largest city, Parov Stelar – AKA the rather more Teutonic-sounding Marcus Fuereder - is the head of Etage Noir Recordings. Home to a small but colourful roster of like-minded musicians, DJs and producers, the label nurtures those who share a love of fusing modern dance beats with more organic sounds.
Shine, Stelar's third album, will be a welcome addition to any record collection that already features St.Germain, Moby and fellow Austrians Kruder and Dorfmeister. Clocking in at nearly an hour, it's a slick, toe-tappingly soulful stew of breakbeat, house and jazz, featuring live trumpet, saxophone and vocals alongside the main man's electronic wizardry.
Like Moby's once ubiquitous album, Play, Shine is at turns uplifting, solemn and occasionally cheesy, using a range of samples to effectively evoke different moods. The best example of this is the sinister groove of Lost In Amsterdam, which combines a portentous brass riff with a vivid voiceover to create a three-and-a-half minute film noir soundtrack that is utterly beguiling.
Sometimes music like Stelar's runs the risk of becoming the inoffensive soundtrack to a dinner party, and while some of the tracks here do simply meander pleasantly, he does occasionally prove adept at making your ears prick up unexpectedly. The absurdly catchy Charleston Butterfly will send you careering round the room like a flapper on acid. Happy End's lazily squalling trumpet and laid-back beats bring to mind Groove Armada's At The River, with an added dose of continental chic. And closing cut, Homesick, throbs and pulses with menace before spreading its wings and taking off as a real dance floor anthem.
A work of effortless sophistication and not inconsiderable invention, Shine establishes Parov Stelar as one of the most promising producers active in Europe today. The third largest city in Austria may not be big enough for him much longer.
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Friends - Schwimmer Takes Over Little Britain
Former FRIENDS star DAVID SCHWIMMER is to further his love of British culture by directing the Los Angeles studio segments of hit sitcom LITTLE BRITAIN's U.S. spin-off.
The Run Fat Boy Run director, who fell in love with London life while acting onstage there, will take charge of segments for the six-episode transplant of the cult sketch comedy series, starring comedians David Walliams and Matt Lucas.
Michael Patrick Jann will direct other parts of the episodes, which are shooting on location in North Carolina.
Schwimmer's segments feature guest stars Rosie O'Donnell and Sting, according to Daily Variety.
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Dave Specter with Bill Smith
Artist: Dave Specter with Bill Smith
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Bluebird Blues with Ronnie Ear
Year:
Tracks: 10
Amy Winehouse - Israel Next Stop As Winehouse Beats To Bid Drugs
Amy Winehouse is to undergo intensive treatment in Israel as she battles with her drug addiction problems.
The singer, who won an Ivor Novello award on Thursday, will pay £6,400 for the 36-hour rehab programme.
"Amy's people spoke to a renowned Israeli institution and an Israeli professor who conducts a very special and effective method," Eliezer Cohen, chairman of Israel's anti-drug authority, told the Jewish Chronicle.
"She has requested to come to him to do this method, since it's a method that is suitable for her."
Andrew Waismann, who will run Winehouse's rehabilitation programme, told the Sun he was confident he could end the 24-year-old's drug addictions.
"There is a misunderstanding about drug addiction. People think it is a social and psychological problem, but it's a neurological problem," he explained.
"Whether it's Amy Winehouse or anyone else, it is a privilege to be able to treat anyone who is opiate-dependent, and allow them to live a normal life."
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JB and Spice and Twisted Individua
Artist: JB and Spice and Twisted Individua
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Back 2 Basics (B2B12088)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
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