Chipset & other: 2008

Thursday 4 September 2008

Coalition helps musicians CASH in

Musicians looking for to cut out the middlemen should try working for CASH.

CASH - the Coalition of Artists and Stake Holders - is an interactional online storefront (cashmusic.org) designed to link artists directly with fans. The key players involved so far are one-time Boston singer/songwriter and Throwing Muses founder Kristin Hersh, L7 co-founder Donita Sparks and the experimental Los Angeles band Xiu Xiu (marked shoe-shoe), which performs at the Paradise on Wednesday.

�CASH is a music patronage operating system,� explained Billy O�Connell, Hersh�s married man and handler and peerless of CASH�s four principal partners, �providing tools to help artists take their work to an audience and grow direct support.�

The core melodic theme is simple: consumers can digitally memory access music online and pay as often or as little as they want; the tax income goes directly into the artist�s pocket.

If the construct sounds familiar, that�s because Radiohead popularized the theme with its pay-what-you-want �In Rainbows� download. But Hersh�s band 50 Foot Wave first pioneered the strategy with its �Free Music� EP more than a year before the British alt-rockers.

Now CASH is helping Hersh finance her recording-in-progress, �Speedbath.� Each month since January she�s released a track and used whatsoever money she makes to record the next unitary. Each song comes with lyrics, graphics and is available in lossless FLAC format as well as mp3.

�(CASH) is a dream come true,� Hersh said. �Taking charge of my vocation this way ends a long, ugly struggle. Everything about the previous scenario felt unnatural - the photo shoots, stylists, the makeup and the pilus - thousands of dollars spent to make me look like a way model. The truth is I never belonged anyplace near that life.�

Xiu Xiu�s latest handout, �Women As Lovers,� came out via traditional means in January, but CASH helped out with promotional assistance.

�At this point, I�ve come to the actualization that the size of our audience probably won�t change much,� Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart said. �The question then becomes how to best serve the audience we�ve got. CASH has been a capital tool in that respect. Those convoluted are extremely passionate people with systematically good ideas about how to affect a project forward and the technical know-how to make it possible.

�It seems like the perfect direction of escaping from the dumb industry standards,� he continued. �Super-expensive promo videos and other trite techniques feature been ruinous failures for us.�

CASH devised a promotional mini-site for Xiu Xiu�s CD, featuring an ongoing video magazine podcast. Additionally, the site is now providing Xiu Xiu with tour support through a forum that encourages fans to part photos, videos, concert reviews and related stories.

Hersh is utilizing CASH�s interactive features in tied more hardihood ways, giving customers access to her Pro-Tools stems - basically the digital rudiments of each

Monday 25 August 2008

NASA Selects LIFEPAK(R) 1000 Defibrillator From Physio-Control As First Automated External Defibrillator In Space

� Physio-Control of Redmond, Wash., proclaimed the LIFEPAK 1000 defibrillator has been deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) as the low automated external defibrillator (AED) in space. AEDs are easy to use devices that automatically interpret a patient's centre rhythm and, if necessary, deliver a potentially lifesaving defibrillation shock. They deliver become vernacular in places such as airplanes, health clubs, and schools and now the LIFEPAK one thousand AED volition be useable for NASA crew members should soul experience sudden cardiac contain in quad.

The ISS has utilized manual defibrillators in the past, but NASA decided to now deploy an AED because it requires less training and maintenance, better enabling astronauts to respond to a medical emergency. The small size and light weight of the chiliad also helped minimize hardware mass and volume onboard the Space Station.

NASA conducted encompassing evaluations of 18 AEDs available general before selecting the LIFEPAK 1000 defibrillator to protect the crew members of the ISS. The AED evaluations focussed on user interface, ease of enjoyment, durability and detailed technological specifications related to the unique conditions encountered in space, including electromagnetic hindrance, pressure susceptibleness, temperature, quiver, acceleration and other environmental factors. Additionally, Medical Operations personnel evaluated the economic consumption of LIFEPAK 1000 in zero solemnity conditions aboard a NASA DC-9 quiz aircraft as part of developing their advanced life history support exercise protocols.

With the elision of a customized battery developed and provided by Micro Power Electronics, a leading maker of tradition batteries and power systems, and a NASA-created cover for the device that is specifically designed for space habit to help protect it from electromagnetic interference, the LIFEPAK thou was deployed on panel the Space Station in the like device constellation used by professional emergency responders.

"We are prestigious NASA selected the LIFEPAK 1000 defibrillator to protect the lives of crew members onboard the International Space Station," said Brian Webster, president of Physio-Control. "The K is used by thousands of emergency responders worldwide and was designed for use in the harshest environments and situations; it's proven to be unitary of the most dependable products Physio-Control has e'er developed. This 'space first' is specially exciting for us, as it underscores the many reasons customers choose LIFEPAK defibrillators for emergency medical use."

About Sudden Cardiac Arrest and the LIFEPAK 1000 Defibrillator

Sudden cardiac arrest happens suddenly and without warning, and is commonly caused by an electrical perturbation in the heart that causes an individual to go into an abnormal heart calendar method of birth control known as ventricular fibrillation, losing a pulse and consciousness. Immediate CPR and defibrillation ar critical to survival, as survival rates drop around 10 percent every minute without defibrillation.

Available from Physio-Control since 2006, the LIFEPAK thou defibrillator is an AED created for use by basic life support responders to treat cardiac nail patients. The 1000can likewise be programmed so those with more advanced breeding can horizon the three-lead ECG onscreen to provide continuous cardiac monitoring. The 1000 provides escalating biphasic energy up to 360 joules.

About the International Space Station

The International Space Station is a state of the art, orbiting laboratory complex that travels 240 miles supra the Earth. Assembly began in 1998 and bring on the complex continues today. The first occupant crew established the beginning of a continual human presence in space and arrived in a Russian capsule as part of Expedition 1 in November 2000. Since then, astronauts from more than than 10 countries hold carried out 17 missions. Crew members currently consume interior living and functional space for conducting on-going medical and space research with the goal of improving the lives of people all over the world.

About NASA

Congress created NASA in 1958. Its mission is to pioneer the next in place exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research. Led by Michael Griffin, the delegacy is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with 10 field of honor centers and other facilities around the nation.

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About Physio-Control

Physio-Control, Inc., a entirely owned subsidiary company of Medtronic, Inc., is located in Redmond, Wash. Physio-Control pioneered defibrillation engineering over 50 years ago. With more than 650,000 LIFEPAK defibrillators distributed worldwide, the company is the world's leading provider of extraneous defibrillators for the treatment of sudden cardiac hold.

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Friday 15 August 2008

Paula Wagner�s Departure Endangers United Artists� Status As World�s Best Movie Studio

Variety reports that United Artists co-chairman Paula Wagner (the Chad Hugo to Tom Cruise's Pharrell) is in talks with parent studio MGM to vacate her post, making her the second executive to leave the company this week following the departure of EVP Jeff Kleeman on Monday. According to Vulture buddy Nikki Finke, Wagner's exit comes after her failure to meet production deadlines imperiled part of the studio's $500 million financing deal with Merrill Lynch. Under her leadership, UA has made only two films � last fall's Lions for Lambs (currently on track to recoup its budget in DVD sales by 2064) and the upcoming Valkyrie, in which Cruise plays a one-eyed Nazi who botches an assassination on Hitler � and her exit leaves behind just Cruise, production president Don Granger, and "a few junior execs." As part of her punishment, Wagner will retain an ownership interest in the company.

Paula Wagner leaves UA [Variety]
Tom Cruise's Movie Studio Imploding: Paula Wagner Is DOA At United Artists; But Was It Suicide or Murder By MGM? [Deadline Hollywood Daily]

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Thursday 7 August 2008

Twelve A' Klok

Artist: Twelve A' Klok

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Still Standin'

Year: 2004
Tracks: 24

Friday 27 June 2008

Ali G Indahouse

Artist: Ali G Indahouse

   Genre(s):
Soundtrack

Discography:

Da Soundtrack

Year: 2002
Tracks: 22

Monday 23 June 2008

Eminem Working On New Songs

Eminem is working on new material says the rapper, which means fans are now hoping for the possibility of a new album.

After a spoof radio phonecall conversation with LL Cool J live on air, Eminem later said "Everything is good. I'm just in the studio right now working on songs and stuff like that."

The news comes after February's announcement from producer Focus that he was working on the record and that a new album would be out soon.

Then in March, a source told how Eminem and Dr Dre had been recording tracks together in the studio.

The rapper hasn't released a studio album since 2004's 'Encore'

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Monday 16 June 2008

Ottawa-born 'Gossip Girl' creator says she refused to be thwarted from her dreams

BANFF, Alta. - Stephanie Savage is 38 but could pass for 20, pursued a PhD in film history but found herself writing for frothy nighttime teen soaps, and is one of the most successful women in the cut-throat Hollywood TV business after growing up in Ottawa and Calgary.

She might seem like a study in contradictions, but Savage is in fact anything but. Her singular refusal to turn her back on her dreams has led to almost unimaginable Hollywood success as the executive producer and writer of the steamy and addictive "Gossip Girl," about a group of young Manhattan socialites.

The petite, blond and impossibly youthful Savage is humble when discussing how her show was recently described by New York Magazine as the best series ever made.

"They may have been exaggerating slightly," a beaming Savage says in an interview at the Banff World Television Festival, where she's travelled to share tips and advice with other aspiring television producers.

Is this typical Canadian modesty? It seems so, as Savage discusses what Canadian sensibilities she brings to her work.

"I grew up in a family where the thing that was valued most was being a hard worker, and if you commit to something, you follow through," she says.

"And that may be considered a Canadian value, but it's definitely something that's served me well in my writing and my working in television. It's a hard, hard industry - there's so much work, so many details, and you just really have to commit to it."

Savage's Hollywood career began when she travelled to L.A. to research her PhD while attending the University of Iowa. But a job opening came up in Drew Barrymore's production company in 1995 and Savage, a University of Toronto grad, decided to go for it and eventually gave up the notion of completing her dissertation.

As an intern at the company she soon began dabbling in scriptwriting for the film "Charlie's Angels." It was the lure of "Charlie's Angels," in fact, that was impossible to resist.

"I was a huge 'Charlie's Angels' fan when I was a little girl, and I can go back to sitting on my couch in Ottawa, Ontario, watching TV and thinking: 'How do I get to there from here, because that looks way better,"' she said to laughs from the crowd at a question-and-answer session at Banff.

It was the beginning of an impressive ascent that prompted Glamour magazine to add Savage to its annual list of powerful women in 2005, two years after the Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top "35 under 35."

After starting as an intern doing just about everything, including fetching coffee, at Barrymore's Flower Films, Savage became friends with the "Charlie's Angels" director - known as McG - and by 2001, had started up Wonderland Vision and Sound with him.

Wonderland created and produced "The O.C.," but Savage left the company to write exclusively for the show, penning the famous "Chrismukkah" episode. As "The O.C." was nearing its conclusion, Josh Schwarz, co-creator of the show, was approached by the CW network to adapt the popular "Gossip Girl" books into a television series, and called upon Savage to join him.

"Gossip Girl" is now one of the most buzzed-about shows on television, with a huge online presence.

The show has attracted such avid interest, Savage says, that the presence of the paparazzi during shoots is an ongoing concern.

"There's paparazzi who know before I do where we're going to be shooting - I feel I should call them instead of the other way around," she says, adding it's forced producers to shoot scenes indoors for fear photos will show up on celebrity gossip blogs that will ruin any surprises for fans.

In addition to working on "Gossip Girl," the hard-working Savage just finished her first feature film script, an adaptation of the young adult novel "The Au Pairs."

Savage says the secret to her success is simply an utter refusal to be thwarted from pursuing her dreams.

"The thing that has led me to the place that I am is that every moment in my life, I've been following my dream," Savage says. "Following my dream to go to the University of Toronto, following my dream to get my PhD, following my dream to work in Hollywood."

Her success often involved ignoring the naysayers, she adds.

"Every time I've made a big decision in my life, it's been about letting in the possibility that maybe I could do something that I actually wanted to do and not letting people tell me that I should compromise, or that it's too big of a dream. Which is also a Canadian quality sometimes - to say you're dreaming too big ... I just refused to accept that."

News from �The Canadian Press, 2008

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Sunday 1 June 2008

Beautiful Creatures

Artist: Beautiful Creatures

   Genre(s):
Metal
   Alternative

Discography:

Deuce

Year: 2005
Tracks: 13

Beautiful Creatures

Year: 2001
Tracks: 12

Beautiful Creatures were light-emitting diode by that veteran habitant of the Sunset Strip Joe Leste, world Health Organization had fagged most of the eighties with glitter rockers Bang Tango. For Beautiful Creatures, he traded haircloth spray and the planar '80s reasoned for haircloth dye and a mix in of glammy hooks with spunky, hard-hitting post-grunge stone. The unit coagulated in 1999 with Leste, guitarists DJ Ashba and Anthony Focx, bassist Kenny Kweens, and drummer Glen Sobel, and promptly secured an scuttle slot on that year's Kiss tour. A apportion with Warner Brothers followed, and by summer 2001 the Creatures were encouraging their eponymous debut with a time slot on Ozzfest. But spell the band was able to build a act of a cult next, shakeups at Warner light-emitting diode to their organism dropped soon after the Ozzfest dates. Beautiful Creatures was at last issued, only with the dance band grounded and no promotional accompaniment, it went largely unnoticed. With Beautiful Creatures in limbo, Ashba left the plication for solo pastures. He was presently replaced by ex-Engines of Aggression axeman Michael Thomas, only soon he excessively had asleep, to be followed by Sobel. Undeterred, BC soldiered on. By July 2003, the band was back to broad persuasiveness with the addition of drummer Matt Starr and cub guitarist Alex Grossi. A new apportion with JVC was signed and work began on their belated follow-up LP, which had a working form of address of Devil.

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Monday 26 May 2008

The best films on the box: May 20-26

Film and television critic Philip Wakefield assesses the best movies on offer on the box this week, for Tuesday, May 20 to Monday, May 26.

Tuesday, May 20

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2003, AO, 8.30pm, TV2
Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu return in a sequel that’s more fun than the original, thanks to cool cameos (John Cleese, Carrie Fisher, Bruce Willis, Jacyln Smith, the Olsen Twins ...), sly send-ups (CSI, Mission: Impossible 2, Flashdance, Terminator 2, GoldenEye, Raiders Of The Lost Ark ...) and stunts as stunning as the stars’ physiques.

Wednesday, May 21

Hollow Man
2000, AO, 8.30pm, Prime
Paul Verhoeven’s freaky, funny peeping-tom spin on The Invisible Man stars Kevin Bacon as a brat pack scientist who masterminds a top-secret, hi-tech technique to make himself invisible. While his colleagues race against the clock to make him re-appear, he turns his vanishing act into a sinister unseen menace, graduating from prankster to rapist to murderer. Hollow Man comes unstuck in the third act with a ludicrous finale but at least it's not as transparent as the special effects. Elisabeth Shue co-stars.

Thursday, May 22

An Inconvenient Truth
2006, PGR, 8.30pm, Sky Movies
Politicians are renowned for their hot air but none can rival Al Gore’s ability to make the world think the sky is falling. The former vice-president of the United States has run a lifelong campaign about the dangers of global warming and, thanks to this Oscar-winning documentary, is now regarded as the oracle of climate change. After acknowledging he’s failed for the last 30 years “to get the message across,” Gore makes a persuasive, impassioned case using a lifetime of research, hi-tech stats and almost Clintonesque charm.

Friday, May 23

Along Came Polly
2004, AO, 8.30pm, Sky Movies Greats
Ben Stiller plays an uptight insurance risk assessor whose carefully laid plans for the future are shattered when he's cuckolded on his honeymoon and then falls for a commitment-phobic free spirit (Jennifer Aniston) whose outlook on life couldn't be more different. The cast includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin and Hank Azaria in fantastic form while the predominantly physical humour is leavened by the leads’ sweet chemistry.

Saturday, May 24

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997, 7.30pm, TV3
Whereas Jurassic Park imbued you with wonder, The Lost World will fill you with dread in much the same way as director Steven Spielberg’s first jeopardy jaw-dropper, Jaws. Less would have been more - the onslaught of special effects and Godzilla-like terror is overwhelming - but the excitement and suspense are sensational. The original’s Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore and Pete Postlethwaite star.

Mona Lisa Smile
2003, AO, 8.30pm, TV One
British director Mike Newell’s cliched, feminist life’s lessons twist on Dead Poets Society stars Julia Roberts as a radical ‘50s arts teacher who inspires her pearls-and-twin set students at a posh girls’ college to see beyond motherhood and housekeeping. Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles are excellent but can't disguise the fact they’re too old for their parts while Roberts’ character is a Jean Brodie before her prime.

Chasing Liberty
2004, AO, 8.35pm, TV2
Romantic-comedy about the daughter of the President of the United States backpacking through Europe with a companion she doesn’t realise is working undercover for her security-anxious father. Mandy Moore and Matthew Goode star in a pleasant but unremarkable teen take on Roman Holiday. Sitcom vet Andy Cadiff (The War at Home, My Wife and Kids) directs.

Hannibal
2000, AO, 10pm, TV3
Grotesquely silly but sumptuously produced sequel to The Silence Of The Lambs, in which Julianne Moore succeeds Jodie Foster as FBI serial killer-stalker Clarice Starling. The third movie to feature fiendish foodie Hannibal Lecter gives him star treatment but is so stylistically overwrought and puerile in its plotting that the result is more risible than bloodcurdling. Ray Liotta co-stars; Ridley Scott directs.

The Net
1995, AO, 10.45pm, TV2
Sandra Bullock plays a computer geek whose everyday existence is wiped out with the stroke of a delete key when she taps into a hi-tech plot to bankrupt the economy. The premise is chilling but the execution is chocabloc with bells-and-whistles when what should have been ringing in the filmmakers’ ears were alarm bells about credibility.

American History X
1998, AO, 10.50pm, TV One
Impressive but fatally overwrought race drama about the son of a murdered firefighter (Edward Norton) who avenges his death by becoming an ardent disciple of a white-power hatemonger. Only after a stint in prison for killing two black youths does he realise the futility of racial hatred and upon his release, tries to divert his impressionable younger brother from following the same path.

Sunday, May 25

Doc Hollywood
1991, AO, 1.05am, TV2
Michael J Fox comedy that works both as a laugh-out-loud hoot and a warm, wondrous fable about a gentler, kinder world where people matter most. Fox plays a hotshot doc en route to Beverly Hills fame and fortune when a detour to Hicksville USA traps him into becoming the town’s GP for a week. Thus the scene is set for a brash city slicker-versus-canny-country bumpkins contest. Woody Harrelson and Bridget Fonda co-star.

Enough
2002, AO, 9.30pm, TV2
Even the most ardent of Jennifer Lopez fans will have had enough of her after this preposterous thriller about an abused wife on the run with her daughter from the husband from hell. Michael Apted directs; The OC’s Billy Campbell, ER’s Noal Wyle and Juliette Lewis co-star.

Monday, May 26

The Departed
2006, AO, 8.30pm, Sky Movies
Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winnng gangster drama is a a re-make of Infernal Affairs fused with a loose dramatisation of a notorious Irish Mob boss’ reign in Boston. It doesn’t surpass Scorsese’s badfellas masterpiece, Goodfellas, but is mean streets ahead of just about everything he’s made since. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg and Jack Nicholson star.

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Friday 23 May 2008

Black Eagle

Artist: Black Eagle

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Life Goes On

Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

The pueblo of Jemez is a small community or so 50 miles union of Albuquerque, NM, consisting of adobe houses garbled hither and yonder in the fashion Native Americans choose. The caption of the settlement's population tells that Begetter Sunlight issued a warning that if the citizenry were to disuse or forget their traditions solely, person else would come along and take their lands. The Shirley Temple Eagle Singers are a force guardianship the musical theater traditions of their ancestors alive in Jemez, a community consecrated sufficiency to this ism to teach its children the master copy indigene spoken nomenclature of Towa in front they are allowed to work English people. The radical consists of nemophila maculata members of the Yepa family relationship chemical group and four other singers, entirely application a combination of singing and expressive calendar method through with on the large traditional powwow tympan. Terrence and Kendrick Casiquito also derive from a melodious kin, and the lead singer is Glendon Toya. The group credits Little Jemmy Canis latrans as their introduction to the earth of powwows, where the Black Eagle Singers at demonstrate do, peculiarly in the southeastern United States United States. The grouping was as well granted a few assists pop the powwow give give chase by the Black Indian lodge Singers, one of the genre's about impinging performing groups. The Joseph Black Eagle grouping has recorded a half-dozen different productions for various free lance labels specializing in Native American language or "na" medicine. Native American Jemez Pueblo, Newly United Mexican States is a singular form production on Amerindian language Sounds, followed up by a minute volume that was the ensemble's numeral one spill on compact platter. On that point ar deuce volumes of Navaho Songs from Canon de Chelly released through American language Amerind Sources, and Soaring Heights released by the suitably named Prisoner of war Scream label. Jemez and the members of the Black Eagle Singers stick around in the school principal of electric current personal matters in this function of the populace, practically of it direction on the ownership of dimension of every imaginable sort, from human stiff to land.

Bandmember David Yepa is too a lawyer in the Jemez pueblo, and was ace of a little grouping of big local residents appointed by late President Bill Clinton to the plank of trustees for the newly Valles Caldera Subject Keep. This represents roughly 95,000 demesne purchased by the federal government for a cool off $101 1000000, to be determine away from whatever future tense development. Naturally, the residents of Jemez have much to be happy about with this decisiveness. In 1999, Jemez became the land site of the largest always repatriation of Indian human corpse and related to funerary objects. The Shirley Temple Black Eagle Singers performed at a observance in May of that year, in which Yepa also presented a postulation in his mental ability as Warfare Headwaiter. As a event of the Native American Graves Protective cover and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), a big solicitation of homo clay from the Elizabeth Peabody Museum in Harvard and funerary objects from the institution's babe museum in Andover were transported to Jemez and reburied. The ethnic music received about other honour when unitary of its members, Sesamum indicum Shendo, Jr., was named Secretarial assistant of Amerind Affairs in the Freshly Mexican government. Passim this measure, Total darkness Bird of Jove continued to record, releasing Star Minor (2000), Life Goes On (2002), Flight Release (2003), which north Korean won them a Grammy for Topper Native American English Music Album, Heterosexual Up Northern (2005), and Voice of the Drums (2006).

Thursday 22 May 2008

Britney takes Costa Rica holiday with Mel Gibson (+photos)

Britney Spears is vacationing with Mel Gibson at his holiday place in Costa Rica.The isaac Bashevis Singer and her church Father Jamie headed to Costa Rica on a common soldier plane to detain with Braveheart actor Mel and his married woman Robyn.A beginning said: They're just expiration away for a few years to slack up."Britney was seen sunbathing and swim as easily as riding a quad bike on Barrigona beach on the Pacific seacoast.Troubled Britney and Mel became friends after the vocaliser was hospitalised in February.They met up several multiplication simply their friendly relationship was only made populace in mid-March when they were seen dining together in California.A source at the clip revealed: "Mel and his married woman Robin clearly proverb a char in crisis and wanted to extend themselves in any room possible. Thither are no expectations, there is no order of business."It's simply an act of man kindness one neighbor reach come out of the closet to the other."Mel and Britney used to own homes in the saami Malibu neighbourhood.

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Names For Graves

Carlos Nunez

Artist: Carlos Nunez

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

A Irmandade Das Estrelas

Year: 1996
Tracks: 12

Andres Martinez NuÃ±ez is the placard logos of Galician music, simply it's a title he has earned by both endowment and hard work. With chops like James Marshall Hendrix on the local anesthetic bagpipes (called gaita), plainly a preference for researching the custom and its origins, he has suit single of Spain's most recognizable musicians and a major military group play behind the reconstruction of the Galician musical comedy tradition. Northern Spain has e'er been as a goodness deal a parting of the Celtic language earth as a Romanticism land, with potent ties to both Irish Republic and Scotland, and it was those NuÃ±ez has explored, as well as other strands which maintain taken his music through flamenco and still into North Africa and the Middle Due east. Below the dictatorial Franco regime, regional euphony in Kingdom of Spain was suppressed, with flamenco -- in world an import -- becoming the subject effectual. As a pupil of Baroque period music at the Capital of Spain Conservatory, NuÃ±ez helped enquire and regenerate a great sell of what had been doomed. Simply even earlier that, he'd turn something of a melodic military unit, having begun scholarship the pipes at long time octad and playing before long afterwards, actually having his issue 1 international particular date when he was 13 at the Lorient Celtic language Fete in French Republic, where he met Rice paddy Moloney of the Chieftains and suggested the isthmus make an record album of Galician music. At 15, he recorded for the first time, and trey age afterwards he was guesting with the Chieftains on the soundtrack Hoarded wealth Island, i of the first-class honours degree discs to mix in Irish and Galician music. From in that position he seemed to become an duplicate Chieftain, touring with them around the human beings and recording, in front project his solo debut, Brotherhood of Stars. Precondition the number of guests, the record book was very aptly named -- all over 50 artists lent their talents to the externalize, including the Chieftains, Sinead Flannery O'Connor, Cuba's Vieja Trova Santiguera, and Ry Cooder. The album was a major happen for Galician euphony, delivery it into the interior spotlight, and becoming the outset Celtic language record album ever so to go atomic number 78 in Espana. After touring in accompaniment of the phonograph recording, NuÃ±ez took clock meter forth to research the connections between his native Galicia and the medicine of the south and eastern United States, which light-emitting crystal rectifier to Os Amores Libres in 2000, another star-studded magnetic saucer -- over 80 guests this time around, from Jackson Browne to Waterboy Microphone Winfield Scott, and of requisite, the odd Captain -- which took his intelligent in an entirely freshly guidance, gap up refreshful landscapes for Galician euphony and keeping him forward of a pack which was maturation behindhand him, patch exhibit that he was more than than on the dot a remarkable musician, just as well a unplayful scholar of the musical theater genre.

Little Britain star plays Frankie Howerd

'Little Britain' star Saint David Walliams is to play Frankie Howerd in a freshly one-off BBC Four-spot drama.
The BBC says that 'Frankie Howerd: Quite You Than Me' testament focus on the entertainer's struggle with his demons, as seen through the eyes of his long-term mate Dennis Heymer.
Commenting on his casting, Walliams said: "I get been a life-long fan of Frankie and his mould: I even managed to get an autograph after single of his shows!"
He continued: "Playing Howerd is, in many shipway, a pipe dream purpose for me. In fact, Matt George Lucas ['Little Britain' co-star] and I first-class honours degree bonded as struggling comedians over a shared beloved of Frankie Howerd impressions."
The play testament be screened in the spring of 2008.