Amy Winehouse turned up late for her "make-or-break" gig in Lisbon yesterday.
The troubled singer had been instructed to prove her reliability at the Rock In Rio festival if she wanted her US tour to go ahead.
However, her comeback got off to a poor start when she failed to appear at the scheduled time of 10pm. Though the audience booed when there was no sign of Winehouse, she got a warm reception when she finally came on stage at 10.35pm.
Amy apologised for her lack of punctuality and told the audience that she had a sore throat which was making her voice weak. She later said that she "should have cancelled" her appearance.
Winehouse played a 55-minute set, which included her hit song 'Rehab'. She decided not to play an encore.
Reaction to the star's performance was mixed. One crowd member, 26-year-old Alexandra Marques, told the BBC: "It took so much time for her to come on - people were getting impatient. And her voice really wasn't in a good state."
Marta Hugens, 26, was also critical: "For someone who earns so much money, it shows a lack of respect for the public - although I suppose it was expected she'd make a scene."
Anabela Costa said that the singer's behaviour was not surprising: "I think she was how she is normally and that's all."
Winehouse was recently confirmed for Nelson Mandela's birthday gig in Hyde Park.
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Rage Against The Machine
Artist: Rage Against The Machine
Genre(s):
Alternative
Metal
Metal: Alternative
Alternative
Metal
Metal: Alternative
Discography:
Testify (Single)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 3
Renegades
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Renegades
Year: 2000
Tracks: 8
Platinum Collection 2000
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
The Battle Of Los Angeles
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Live and Rare
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Evil Empire
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Rage Against The Mashine
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Best Of Rage Against The Machine CD1
Year:
Tracks: 15
Rage Against the Machine earned acclaim from disenfranchised fans (and not unimportant derision from critics) for their bombastic, fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering left-winger rants against corporate America, cultural imperialism, and authorities oppression into a Molotov cocktail of thug, hip-hop, and slam dance. Rage formed in Los Angeles in the early '90s out of the wreckage of a issue of local groups: singer Zack de la Rocha (the son of Chicano political artist Beto) emerged from the bands Headstance, Farside, and Inside Out; guitar player Tom Morello (the nephew of Jomo Kenyatta, the low Kenyan chief Executive) originated in Lock Up; and drummer Brad Wilk played with future Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. Rounded out by bassist Tim Bob (aka Tim C., innate Tim Commerford), a puerility protagonist of de la Rocha's, Rage debuted in 1992 with a self-released, self-titled 12-song cassette featuring the song "Bullet train in the Head," which became a hit when reissued as a single by and by in the yr.
The tape south Korean won the isthmus a address with Epic, and their saltation to the big league did not go unnoticed by detractors, wHO questioned the revolutionary wholeness of Rage Against the Machine's conclusion to ordinate itself with the label's parent company, media titan Sony. Undeterred, the little Joe emerged in late 1992 with their eponymous official debut, which scored the hits "Killing in the Name" and "Bombtrack." After touring with Lollapalooza and declaring their support of groups like FAIR (Candour and Accuracy in Reporting), Rock for Choice, and Refuse & Resist, Rage worn out a reportedly riotous iV geezerhood functional on their follow-up; despite rumors of a breakup, they returned in 1996 with Wickedness Empire, which entered the U.S. album charts at number one and scored a attain single with "Bulls on Parade." During 1997, the mathematical group joined forces with rap supergroup the Wu-Tang Clan for a summer circuit and remained active in support of various collectivist political causes, including a controversial 1999 benefit concert for death house inpatient Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Battle of Los Angeles followed later in 1999, too debuting at number one and leaving double atomic number 78 by the following summer. In early 2000, de la Rocha proclaimed plans for a solo project, and the band performed an incendiary designate outside the Democratic National Convention in August. The next month, bassist Commerford was arrested for disorderly take at MTV's Video Music Awards next his eccentric disruption of a Limp Bizkit acceptance speech, in which he climbed to the top of a 15-foot determine piece and rocked back and onward.
Plans for a live album were announced shortly thereafter, simply in October, de la Rocha dead proclaimed his deviation from the band, citing breakdowns in communicating and group decision making. Surprised just non furious, the residual of Rage proclaimed plans to go forward with a new vocalizer, patch de la Rocha re-focused on his solo album, which was slated to admit collaborations with acclaimed hip-hop artists including DJ Shadow and El-P of Company Flow. December 2000 sawing machine the press release of de la Rocha's last studio campaign with the band, the Rick Rubin-produced Renegades; it featured intimately a twelve covers of hip-hop, stone, and punk rocker artists like EPMD, Bruce Springsteen, Devo, the Rolling Stones, the MC5, and more. By 2001, Morello, Wilk, and Commerford had formed Audioslave with old Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, and the mathematical group released an eponymic album by the end of 2002. With a de la Rocha solo album silent not proclaimed, Epic finally released the long-promised concert album Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium on CD and DVD in time for Christmas 2003.
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Thursday, 5 June 2008
Jaws star Roy Scheider dies, aged 75
Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as the beleaguered police chief Martin Brody in 'Jaws', has died. He was 75.
The two-time Oscar nominee died of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
Hospital spokesperson Leslie Taylor said the actor had been treated there for the disease at different times over the past two years.
New Jersey-born Scheider earned his first Oscar nomination (Best Supporting Actor) in 1971 for 'The French Connection'.
Eight years later he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in 'All That Jazz'.
Among his other credits were 'Klute', 'Marathon Man', 'Still of the Night' and the TV adventure series 'SeaQuest DSV'.
The two-time Oscar nominee died of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
Hospital spokesperson Leslie Taylor said the actor had been treated there for the disease at different times over the past two years.
New Jersey-born Scheider earned his first Oscar nomination (Best Supporting Actor) in 1971 for 'The French Connection'.
Eight years later he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in 'All That Jazz'.
Among his other credits were 'Klute', 'Marathon Man', 'Still of the Night' and the TV adventure series 'SeaQuest DSV'.
Monday, 2 June 2008
Country star Eddy Arnold dies
Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like "Make the World Go Away" made him one of the most successful country singers in history, has died.
Police won't question Olsen about Ledger
The New York City Police Commissioner, Ray Kelly, has said that Mary-Kate Olsen will not be questioned by detectives about Heath Ledger's death.
"There's absolutely no indication investigators were going to speak to Mary-Kate Olsen," Kelly said at a news conference, echoing a previous statement by police officials.
He continued: "They determined that they had all the info needed from witnesses who were on scene: the cleaning woman and the masseuse."
Ledger's masseuse, Diana Wolozin, found his body on Tuesday 22 January in his Manhattan apartment when she arrived for an appointment she had with the she had with the 'Brokeback Mountain' star.
Police have said Wolozin made three calls to Olsen before dialling 911 for help and then phoned the 21-year-old actress a fourth time after paramedics arrived.
At some point during the calls Olsen, who was in California, summoned her personal security guards to the apartment to help, police have said.
She has not spoken publicly about the calls and has only said: "Heath was a friend. His death is a tragic loss. My thoughts are with his family during this very difficult time."
"There's absolutely no indication investigators were going to speak to Mary-Kate Olsen," Kelly said at a news conference, echoing a previous statement by police officials.
He continued: "They determined that they had all the info needed from witnesses who were on scene: the cleaning woman and the masseuse."
Ledger's masseuse, Diana Wolozin, found his body on Tuesday 22 January in his Manhattan apartment when she arrived for an appointment she had with the she had with the 'Brokeback Mountain' star.
Police have said Wolozin made three calls to Olsen before dialling 911 for help and then phoned the 21-year-old actress a fourth time after paramedics arrived.
At some point during the calls Olsen, who was in California, summoned her personal security guards to the apartment to help, police have said.
She has not spoken publicly about the calls and has only said: "Heath was a friend. His death is a tragic loss. My thoughts are with his family during this very difficult time."
Josh Brolin to replace Arnie as Terminator?
Actor Josh Brolin is rumoured to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger in his iconic role as the Terminator in the franchises fourth film.
According to Comingsoon.net the 'No Country for Old Men' actor, who will also be playing American President George Bush in 'W' the biopic about his life, will play the lead in 'Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins'.
Christian Bale will also star in the film as John Connor.Shooting on the project, estimated to cost about $150 million, began this week in New Mexico.
However according to Reuters there are concerns that there could be an actors strike in July.
Following the 100-day screenwriters strike that ended in February, many studios have avoided launching new productions before the Screen Actors Guild contract expires on 30 June, a date being treated as a facto strike deadline.
Steven Spielberg called off an April start to his film about the trial of the 1968 anti-war activists 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' but Michael Bay is still hopeful for an early June start for a sequel to his 'Transformers'.
'Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins' is due for release in May 2009.
According to Comingsoon.net the 'No Country for Old Men' actor, who will also be playing American President George Bush in 'W' the biopic about his life, will play the lead in 'Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins'.
Christian Bale will also star in the film as John Connor.Shooting on the project, estimated to cost about $150 million, began this week in New Mexico.
However according to Reuters there are concerns that there could be an actors strike in July.
Following the 100-day screenwriters strike that ended in February, many studios have avoided launching new productions before the Screen Actors Guild contract expires on 30 June, a date being treated as a facto strike deadline.
Steven Spielberg called off an April start to his film about the trial of the 1968 anti-war activists 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' but Michael Bay is still hopeful for an early June start for a sequel to his 'Transformers'.
'Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins' is due for release in May 2009.
Michael Moore - Madonna To Headline Michael Moore Film Festival
Documentary maker MICHAEL MOORE has landed a big boost for his Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan - MADONNA's coming home for it.
The pop superstar's I am Because We Are documentary, about Aids orphans in Malawi, will headline the alternative film festival in August (08).
And the Material Girl will be there in person.
Thrilled Moore says, "Madonna will present the film, watch it with the audience and conduct a question-and-answer session afterwards.
"It's a huge coup for the Film Festival, and for Traverse City."
And the hard-hitting documentarian, who has taken the U.S. medical profession and President George W. Bush to task in his films, has nothing but praise for Madonna's new release, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
He adds, "She spent the past couple of years filming what the people go through, and the efforts to help them. I saw the film about a month ago. It's a fantastic, powerful movie."
Madonna produced and narrated the documentary after travelling to Malawi, where she met toddler David Banda. She and husband Guy Ritchie are adopting the child.
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Paul Weller: Bowie's music is no longer 'pish'
Smart Gordon, Smart Gordon, Smart Gordon. Like the dream where our boss raps us over the knuckles screaming "Never! Never! Never! Will you marry me?" we can't get him out of our heads.
Why? Because there's something not quite right about him. Not in a physical way, although there does appear to be something of a disparity between his flashy photo byline and any other pictures that appear of the Sun's Bizarre columnist. No, it's more his continuing attempt to strike a balance between being a tough-guy scourge of pop stars and a restless fan boy desperate for approval, as is the case today with David Bowie.
The peg for this revelation is the news that Bowie and Paul Weller have made friends after Weller rolled back on his opinion that Bowie's music is "pish". Weller made his warm-spirited remarks after receiving the Brits lifetime achievement award in 2006, but rolled back in an interview with Mojo (who else?), saying: "Whatever gripes I've had about Bowie in the past, Low's been a constant since I bought it in 1977."
So hurrahs all around, so much so that Gordon's gone and got a little over-excited. "I'm delighted these two have buried the hatchet," he squeals today. "It slightly improves my chances of getting them round to my place for a crate of beer and a game of Guitar Hero. Slightly."
This makes us worry about Smart Gordon. Not because his worship is unworthy of a hardened Fleet Street hack, but because the whole soiree sounds ill-planned. Crate of beer? Guitar Hero? Whatever happened to vintage Cristal and bizarre sexual practices?
Also in Smart's column this morning is news of a Stateside triumph for Duffy, a development that will surely lift the hearts of all right-thinking people. Who are chronically uncool.
"Duffy has stormed into the US album chart at No 4. Shifting more than 70,000 copies of her debut album Rockferry, the Welsh warbler has raced past Leona Lewis who sits at No 5. Nice to see two British girls flying the flag in the States."
And so it is. Or is it? Are they flying the flag? Or offering cleverly repackaged versions of American soul music? These are questions that we're sure will someday be resolved over a game of Guitar Hero.
The corrupting influence of Liam Gallagher on his six-year-old son seems to have offended the delicate sensibility of the Times. The Oasis frontman was papped emerging from London restaurant Nobu carrying little Gene Gallagher, who is proudly giving the assembled throng of photographers a two-finger salute. "Clearly he has been well schooled in the delicate art of how rock aristocracy should behave," diarist Hugo Rifkind sarcastically notes.
Finally, the Star is reporting that Amy Winehouse believes her house is haunted. And that's all we'll be saying on that one.
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Fall Out Boy - Pete Wentz We Might Have A Gremlin-themed Wedding
FALL OUT BOY star PETE WENTZ has joked that he would like his upcoming nuptials to be inspired by GREMLINS 2.
The musician, who is engaged to songstress ASHLEE SIMPSON, told Female First that the movie – which sees green monsters trying to take over a New York building – is one of his all-time favourites.
"I think we're going to have our theme based around Gremlins 2! We could have it take place in a mall and there could be little green naked monsters running about! We could even have Gizmo as a guest!" he told the publication.
Meanwhile, it was recently reported that Ashlee and Pete's wedding could take place sooner than expected, with Hollyscoop.com claming that invitations have been sent to close friends and family notifying them of an event on May 16th.
The invitation reportedly states that the celebration will be held within an hour drive of Los Angeles, but all other details remain secret.
Last week, Ashlee's famous older sister JESSICA SIMPSON told People magazine that she is going to be the maid of honour at Ashlee's big day.
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Roy Drusky
Artist: Roy Drusky
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
Songs Of The Cities
Year:
Tracks: 12
A singer/songwriter often called "the Perry Como of rural area music," Roy Drusky enjoyed success end-to-end the sixties as a performer in the Nashville sound nervure. Born June 22, 1930, in Atlanta, GA, Drusky's mother, a christian church organist, well-tried for eld to interest her son in music, but throughout his childhood he focussed the majority of his energies on sports. It was non until during a two-year stint in the U.S. Navy that he bought his offset guitar, and presently afterwards began playacting for his comrade crowd members.
Afterwards going the Navy, Drusky returned to college, and unsuccessfully tried out for baseball's Cleveland Indians. In 1951, he started his offset striation, the Southern Ranch Boys; the group's success on a Decatur, GA-radio natural endowment show landed Drusky work as a DJ, where he attracted a substantial undermentioned among listeners. He as well continued to perform in local clubs after the Southern Ranch Boys called it quits, and on the strength of a 1953 single, "Such a Fool," he was signed to Columbia Records in 1955.
Later on moving to Minneapolis to extend his work in radio, Drusky began headlining at the Twin Cities' prestigious Flame Club, where countersign of his talents began spreading to Nashville. As a upshot, Faron Young recorded Drusky's "Alone With You" in 1958; the single was the biggest of Young's vocation, topping the charts for 13 weeks. Soon later on, Drusky moved to Nashville, and in 1960 released back-to-back Top Five hits, the whitey tonk ballads "Some other" and "Anymore," which light-emitting diode to an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry. In the same year, he also released a strike duet with Kitty Wells, "I Can't Tell My Heart That."
In 1961, Drusky released the double-sided hit "I'd Rather Loan You Out"/"Three Hearts in a Tangle," and likewise issued his commencement LP, Anymore With Roy Drusky. The following year, he reached the Top Ten again with "Second Hand Rose," from the album It's My Way. Throughout the first base half of the x, he continued to release chart hits, peaking in 1965 with his lone bit one, "Yes, Mr. Peters." He likewise issued 2 part albums in 1964, Songs of the Cities and Yesterday's Gone. In 1965, Drusky appeared in his first base film, Patrick Victor Martindale White Lightnin' Express, and likewise panax quinquefolius the feature's form of address song; he by and by appeared in iI other films, The Golden Guitar and Forty Acre Feud. In the middle of the decennium, he also began recording with singer Priscilla Mitchell, and with her released deuce albums of duets, 1965's Love's Eternal Triangle and Together Again in 1966. In accession, Drusky began a career as a producer for acts of the Apostles like Pete Sayers and Brenda Byers.
As a recording creative person, Drusky's achiever narrowing off after 1965; although he released 11 chart hits between 1966 and 1969, only two, "Where the Blue and Lonely Go" and "Such a Fool," reached the Top Ten. However, in the early years of the following decennary he made a counter: 1970's "Long Long Texas Road," from the album All My Hard Times, was his first base Top Five hit in hexad age. It was likewise his final, however, and as Drusky's brand of rural area hide victim to changing tastes, his singles and albums were less and less successful; afterward cathartic deuce LPs in 1976, This Life of Mine and Nox Flying, he returned to writing and producing. After leftover understood passim the eighties, he began a newfangled sideline as a country-influenced gospel balladeer in the early 1990s. Roy Drusky passed away September 23, 2004.
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Skid Row
Artist: Skid Row
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock
Discography:
Thickskin
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Thick Skin
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Forty Seasons: The Best Of
Year: 1998
Tracks: 16
Subhuman Race
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
B-Side Ourselves
Year: 1992
Tracks: 5
Slave to the Grind
Year: 1991
Tracks: 12
Skid Row
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
Skid Row was one of the last fuzz metallic element bands to strike the mainstream earlier grease took over in the early '90s. They were also arguably the final of such bands to take whatsoever originality. While their 1989 self-titled release used standard pop-metal riffs and contained a smattering of generic lyrics, 1991's Slave to the Grind and 1995's Subhuman Race skint away from the pop-metal mold with uncharacteristically hard, thrashy guitars and more singular songwriting spell noneffervescent relying on varying '80s alloy formulas. Though personal differences and changing trends would eventually tear the band asunder by 1996, Skid Row showed a tremendous amount of assure during their short run in the mainstream.
Skid Row was formed in 1986 by bassist Rachel Bolan and former Bon Jovi guitar player Dave "The Snake" Sabo. The geminate added guitarist Scott Hill, drummer Rob Affuso, and vocalist Sebastian Bach to the card by early 1987 and the band exhausted the next year and a half playing a series of local clubs in the easterly U.S. Still in tangency with Jon Bon Jovi, Sabo positive the established stone star to demesne Skid Row a record dispense with Mercury. In 1989, the circle released their first record album, Skid Row, which went multi-platinum on the effectiveness of the Top 40 singles "18 and Life" and "I Remember You." Success was non without rebound, nonetheless -- the band had naïvely signed away much of their royalties and Sebastian Bach's childly conduct would demesne the chemical group in additional trouble. During the subsequent tour, Bach received harsh literary criticism for a T-shirt he publically sported displaying the message: AIDS KILLS FAGS DEAD. Suits were also filed against Bach later a concert during the supporting tour, where the isaac Bashevis Singer allegedly threw a methamphetamine bottle into the crowd together, injuring a young female fan.
Even so, Skid Row maintained a devoted audience. 1991's Hard worker to the Grind debuted at number one on the Billboard chart, an unprecedented achievement for a metallic element band. While the record album did not chart whatsoever real wireless hits, Grind standard stronger critical praise and would finally reach platinum status. Like so many of their peers, Skid Row deep in thought much of their fan infrastructure during the grease phase of the '90s. As Nirvana stormed the aspect in 1992, Skid Row took a reprieve, wait out the dirt menses and contemplative breakups (ironically, Nirvana had one time done for under the list Skid Row in the '80s). Skid Row returned in 1995 with Subhuman Race, which astonishingly charted in the Top 40 simply otherwise did non attract whatever real attention.
During the load-bearing go, tensions between the group members ran high and Skid Row disbanded shortly afterwards. Bach went on to form the Last Hard Men with Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, simply the chemical group skint up after transcription a cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" for the Shriek soundtrack in 1996. Plans to criminal record raw songs for the Skid Row greatest-hits album, 1998's XL Seasons, fell through, as Bach went on to form a solo project and portray the title of respect role in the Broadway musical Jeckyll and Hyde. In mid-2000, Skid Row re-formed with raw vocalist Johnny Solinger and toured as the opening band for Kiss' leave-taking go. They released Thickskin with Solinger in 2003, followed by Revolutions Per Minute in 2006.
Ray Noble and his Orchestra
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