Doctor Who - Rsc Looks To Raise 1m To Renovate Main Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is looking to raise �1 million in order to fund the rebuilding of its main theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon

Last April, the RSC staged its last play at its main theatre before completion down the venue for a �100 million overhaul. The plans aim to upgrade the Grade II listed construction, which was built 76 years agone, into a Theatre Village.

The new designing will accommodate a new thrust stage, a riverside walkway as well as changes to the venue's entrance.

The BBC reports that the dramaturgy company has succeeded in raising the required �100 million and was directly hoping to secure a further �10 million, of which �1 million is expected to come from donations from the public.

This year, the RSC's performances of Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre were set-aside out months in move on after it was confirmed that Doctor Who star topology David Tennant would be playing the Prince of Denmark in the famous play.

The RSC had to urge theatregoers to annul purchasing usuriously priced tickets on Ebay as surging demand for seats at the carrying out made fans of the actor stamping ground to desperate measures.

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Artist: Indian Ocean: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other New Age Folk Ethnic     Discography:      Kandisa    Year: 2000    Tracks: 7      Desert Rain    Year: 1997    Tracks: 7      Indian Ocean    Year: 1993    Tracks: 7      Jhini    Year:     Tracks: 7      Desert Rain (Live)    Year:     Tracks: 7      Black Friday    Year:     Tracks: 9 Indian Ocean was matchless of the many ephemeral outlets for avant-gardist Arthur Russell's love of saltation music. The multi-instrumentalist and composer, wHO power be known more for his violoncello make than his contribution to the underground New York golf club scene of the late '70s and early '80s, released the Indian Ocean individual "Tree House/School Bell" in 1986. It was one of his final dance-related productions and was released on Sleeping Bag, the label he started earlier in the tenner with William Socolov. Featuring a bright dub-influenced conflate by buy at collaborator Walter Gibbons (an unannounced digit of dance euphony in his have right), the single hardly appealed to the dance floor as a good deal as other Russell projects, such as Dinosaur's "Kiss Me Again" or Loose Joints' "Is It All Over My Face?" Instead, the lackadaisical song was chiefly built on a bare, skipping percussive vallecula with Russell's high-pitched, quavering voice on spinning top and some blurts from trombone instrumentalist Peter Zummo.

Meryl Streep - Streep Ashamed Of Out Of Africa Audition

MERYL STREEP will constantly be ashamed of the lengths she went also to land the principal role in hit film OUT OF AFRICA - after director SYDNEY POLLACK revealed he didn't think she was sexy sufficiency.

The Mamma Mia! star desired the role of Karen Blixen in the 1985 film, just had to prove she was more than but a revered leading madam.

She recalls, "I went (to the hearing), pathetically, in a very low-cut blouse with a push-up bandeau."

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Transatlantic

   
Artist: Transatlantic

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Mike's Silver Hammer (CD 2)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 3


   
 Mike's Silver Hammer (CD 1)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 3


   
 Live in America (cd2)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 3


   
 Live in America (cd1)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 3


   
 Bridge Across Forever

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 4

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Drummer Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment) had a insight that gave birth to the band Transatlantic. He pictured a band of himself, Neal Morse (Spock's Beard), and Jim Matheos (Fates Warning). As it off out, Morse was available, merely Matheos was non. Morse came up with the idea of recruiting Roine Stolt (Flower Kings) instead, and all that was left wing was a bassist. Portnoy contacted Marillion's Pete Trewavas and the radical was plant. They recorded and released their first album, SMPTe, in 2000, working about everyone's main band obligations. Since that time, they have released a live video/CD place and Bridge Across Forever. Both of those releases came tabu in 2001.

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Artist: Coverage

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 Chrysalides Funebres

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8

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Euro-trance duo Groove Coverage emerged as one of the most successful German club acts of its generation with a series of crossover chart smashes. DJ Novus (born Markus Schafferzyk) and producer Axel Konrad co-founded the visualise in the summer of 2001. After a geminate of subway system club favorites, "Hit Me" and "Ar U Ready," they recruited vocalist Mell, wHO took center stage on the discovery Groove Coverage strike "Moon Shadow," a Mike Oldfield cover that earned the group its first German Top Ten strike. Mell's gestation forced her to go on foramen from the group, however, and with pinch hitter singer Verena, Groove Coverage scored its second serial Top Ten accounting entry with "Immortal Is a Girl," co-written by Lou Bega of "Mambo No. 5" celebrity. In the autumn of 2002 the duo issued its debut full-length, Covergirl, supporting its freeing with a term of enlistment crossways western and cardinal Europe. Mell returned in 2003, although Verena continued contributory extra vocals to 2004's 7 Years and 50 Days, an record album highlighted by its smash hit cover of Alice Cooper's "Envenom." The LP as well generated the hits "She" and "Fleer," the latter a break in Australia, Canada, and Japan as well. After a series of singles including "Holy place Virgin," "On the Radio," and "21st Century Digital Girl," Groove Coverage issued its third uncut, twenty-first Century Digital Girl, in mid-2006.

Cate Blanchett - Blanchetts Plea To Prime Minister Over Australian Exhibit

Actress CATE BLANCHETT has signed an open letter to Australian Prime Minister KEVIN RUDD - urging him not to censor a controversial photography exhibition.

Police in Sydney, Australia, shut down an exhibition of photographs by respected artist Bill Henson last week (beg19May08) because the show featured naked pictures of 12 and 13-year-old children.

The move has sparked a heated debate in the country over the line between art and pornography.

And Blanchett has come to the defence of the exhibition, insisting Rudd should not block Henson's work.

The letter reads: "We should remember that an important index of social freedom, in earlier times or in repressive regimes elsewhere in the world, is how artists and art are treated by the state.

"We wish to make absolutely clear that none of us endorses, in any way, the abuse of children. Henson's work has nothing to do with child pornography and, according to the judgment of some of the most respected curators and critics in the world, it is certainly art."

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Royworld, Dust

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London quartet Royworld are constantly touring at the moment! They release their new single, 'Dust', on 19th May 2008 through Virgin Records. It's taken from the band's forthcoming debut album 'Man In The Machine' released on 2nd June.



Fronted by Rod Futrille, Royworld have a unique way of creating their monolithic, skyscraping songcraft. The songwriting process in itself is unusual as it is split between Rod and his brother Crispin who does not feature in the Royworld line-up for the recording process nor their live shows. The band of close friends then delivers the Futrilles' brainchild to devastating effect.



A strong combination of Royworld's debut single, 'Man In The Machine' released in March, and their breath taking nationwide live shows has quickly moved them to the forefront of the latest handful of new British acts set to do well in 2008.



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3rd May Norwich, Arts Centre

4th May Oxford, Academy 2

5th May Birmingham, Bar Academy

7th May Liverpool, Barfly

8th May Glasgow, Tuts

9th May Dublin, Trinity Ball

11th May Leeds, Cockpit

12th May Lancaster Library

13th May Manchester, Night and Day

15th May Cardiff, Club Ifor Bach

16th May Brighton (The Great Escape Festival)

18th May Southampton, The Joiners

19th May London, Borderline

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Spice Girls - Halliwell Ashamed Of Poor Past

SPICE GIRLS star GERI HALLIWELL was ashamed of her "humble background" when she was at school - insisting she was bullied over her family's financial situation.

The singer, who grew up in Hertfordshire, England, admits she was "embarrassed" that her family were not wealthy and claims she was treated badly by her fellow schoolmates because of it.

She says, "There was a girl at school who threatened to throw me over the railway tracks. I maybe didn't' think of myself as a misfit but I came from a humble background.

"My parents didn't have much money and my Dad would drop me off in this old Mazda car. It was really old and I'd feel a little embarrassed.

"Your whole world at that age is based on those stupid things and if anything's different you think, 'Shame.'"

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David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir

   
Artist: David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir

   Genre(s): 
Ethnic
   

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Discography:


   
 Breath Of The Heart

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 4


   
 Hearing Solar Winds

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 8


   
 Harmonic Meetings

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 5

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No 315: Sian Alice Group

No 315: Sian Alice Group

Hometown: London.

The lineup: Hsian Ahern (vocals), Prince Rupert Clervaux and Ben Bend (instruments), Andy Ingle (guitars), Sasha Vine (violin, pianoforte, vocals) and Stephen Arnold Douglas Hart (electric automobile freshwater bass).

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The group were formed by Clerveaux and Bend, a squad of accountants, sorry, pair of behind-scenes music industry veterans with a full CV as musicians, criminal record producers and picture directors - Crook's most holocene epoch foray was a series of home recordings under the alias 40,000 Ghosts. Talking of ghosts, he and Clerveaux met Singan Ahern, she of the spectral cries and whispers, in fall 2006 and Sian Alice Group were max Born. In order to put some ethereal bod on their skeletal sound for their debut live show in Kobenhavn they enlisted three more members, including Stephen A. Douglas Hart, world Health Organization used to toy in a Scottish drone-rock jazz band called The Jesus & Mary Chain. In Apr 2007 the band played their moment and third ever so shows, gap for Spiritualized, and soon after released their debut single, Nightsong,




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Jay-z Speaks Out Over Glastonbury Furore

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Rapper Shawn Jay ZCARTER has defended his headline slot at legendary English music festival Glastonbury next




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Nas removes N-word from album title

Nas removes N-word from album title

Fresh House of York (Billboard) - Rapper Nas has ditched his controversial plan to call his newly record album "N*gger."


"It's important to me that this album gets to the fans," Nas said in a statement, referring to in all likelihood problems promoting and distributing the album.


"The people testament constantly know what the real statute title of this album is and what to shout it."


The untitled externalize will be released July 1 via Def Pack.


Last year, Nas announced the original title in response to the stir caused by former CBS wireless host Father Imus' comments toward the Rutgers women's basketball game squad. Simply he late told MTV that he was being pressured to change the title.


His last album, 2006's "Hip-hop Is Dead," has sold 757,000 copies in the U.S., according to Carl Nielsen SoundScan.


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50 Cent's diamond chain snatched on stage

50 Cent's diamond chain snatched on stage

During 50 Cent's current hitch of Africa, a fan jumped on stage and snatched a baseball field concatenation from the singers neck opening before escaping on foot from the concert locus in Republic of Angola.
According to MTV the fan grabbed the diamond encrusted necklace from the 'In Da Club' isaac M. Singer, whose real diagnose is Curtis Michael Joe Jackson, mid-song during a G-Unit show up in the African land.
On 50's personal web site, ThisIs50.com a statement said: "Of late 50 Cent, Harold Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo were playing in Republic of Angola, Africa. Existence that surety was express fans were able to interact with the group on stage.
"However 1 fan had a different motive and piece forth to a greater extent than he tush quid, as he attempted to lead up on 50 and snatch his chain."
According to TMZ.com, 50 Cent caught up with the thief and claimed back his necklace and a source told the site: "The chemical chain is around 50's neck opening right now."

Muppet creator's life screen bound

Muppet creator's life screen bound

A newly biopic about the life and work of 'The Muppets' creator Jim Henson is to be made.
Empire Photographic film Mathematical group, Iraqi National Congress has acquired the movement picture production and distribution rights to Henry M. Robert D Slane's screenplay 'Henson'.
The film is due to begin output in the recently summertime with a budget of $30m.
Commenting, Empire Home Amusement Chief Executive Eric Parkinson said: "Jim Henson is one of the best known and to the highest degree dearest entertainers of totally time. His story is inspiring, tragic, heartwarming and heroic poem, and volition make for an important and entertaining motion picture."