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Tuesday 19 August 2008
Saturday 9 August 2008
Delta's homecoming plan
DELTA Goodrem has announced her first Australian tour in three years, which will take her to a series of intimate venues across the country. Check tour dates here.
In an exclusive interview, the singer revealed she is swapping fame in Australia for starting over in America..
Her debut US album, Delta, was released this week, the single In This Life has topped radio airplay charts in Texas.
Related link: Delta's personal diary from her tour of the US
Goodrem performed on US chat show The View last week and has secured a Letterman slot for September.
"It�s been humbling and challenging,'' Goodrem said of her American assault. "It�s starting to hit but at the same time it�s such a big place it�s going to take a while, I have no doubt about that. But I�m still young, I want to give it a shot. I have patience. I�m very relaxed about it, I�m enjoying doing it, it�s been a beautiful process to watch it growing step by step."
Goodrem has been slowly winning over radio, press and TV, including influential blogger Perez Hilton.
"I'm a new artist over there," Goodrem said. "Most people�s journeys haven't been as disjointed as mine. This is the first time I can spend time there, go in there and build the foundation, commit to it and give it a great shot."
Her US record company adding her 2002 No.1 Born to Try to the American version of her album.
It is expected to be her second American single later this year.
"I don�t have any expectations," Goodrem said. "I�m just excited I get to sing all the time. There�s nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen. It�s actually a beautiful feeling, you only get to discover an artist once. Because I�ve experienced that before I can enjoy it for the first time because I was so nervous when I started in Australia. Now I can go there and I know how it all works, I can just sing and enjoy it."
The singer admits being based in LA while fiance Brian McFadden launches his Australian career has been difficult.
"I miss him to pieces, it�s absolutely heartbreaking being away from him and being away from my family, but I choose to do this."
Goodrem will perform at Hamer Hall on January 16 and 17, with tickets on sale August 31 through Ticketmaster.
Concert dates for Delta Goodrem's 2009 Believe Again tour are:�
January 9 - Civic Theatre, Newcastle�
January 12 and 13 - State Theatre, Sydney�
January 16 and 17 - Hamer Hall, Melbourne�
January 24 - Royal Theatre, Canberra�
January 27 - Convention Centre, Brisbane�
January 30 - Adelaide Entertainment Centre�
February 3 - Perth Kings Park
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Winehouse punch victim forgives her
Put away the law books, turn off the sirens, call off the police dogs - the man punched by Amy Winehouse isn't even angry. James Gostelow was the talk of Glastonbury on Saturday night, after being conked in the head by the plucky singer. But he has no harsh words for Winehouse. "She did a great act," Gostelow told BBC News. "Not everyone can say they have been hit by Amy Winehouse."
The 25-year-old Londoner blamed the whole affair on an incident of mistaken identity. There he was in the crowd, enjoying Winehouse's set, when someone somewhere behind him lobbed a hat in her general direction.
"I saw a hat being thrown from behind me and it hit Amy's beehive," Gostelow explained. "She looked down, saw me looking up, and her elbow went for me. She caught my forehead, then someone may have shouted something from the back, which is when she went in again."
Though Gostelow may be sporting a bruise the size of Winehouse's fist, he's delighted to have had the chance to meet her fist at all. "At the end of the day it is all part of being at the front and being pushed by thousands of people. It is all part of the Glastonbury experience. I'm just pleased I got to see her."
And, he said, "I just want to shake the person who threw the hat."
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Monday 23 June 2008
YouTube enshrines Universal Studios' lost attractions
Several of Universal Studios' workhorse sets and rides went up in smoke Sunday, but their images live on -- online.
In one of its curious and vaguely morbid capacities, YouTube now functions as a de facto memorial to Universal Studios' lost rides and buildings. Shaky tourist videos from the theme park that would otherwise be of little interest have been transformed into (still shaky) historical artifacts.
Since some or most of the areas burned in the fire are unlikely to be rebuilt exactly as they were before (and when you see the cheesy but beloved old King Kong ride below, you'll see why), these videos are the closest we're likely to come to riding them again.
"King Kong" (1986)
Here's some cellphone footage of the Hill Valley Courthouse from "Back to the Future," now firmly part of the past. The building also appeared in "To Kill a Mockingbird," "War of the Worlds," and "Bye Bye Birdie," among others.
The New York Street area was used, as the tour guide in the (very shaky) video says, for "Spider Man 2," the "Transformers," "Ghost Whisperer," "Crossing Jordan" and many more.
As a bonus, here's a little amateur video I shot of the fire.
Around midday Sunday I climbed up on the roof of a building across the Cahuenga Pass from the Universal Studios fire and recorded a few seconds of the main smoke plume. You can see in the foreground that traffic on the 101 was mostly unaffected. At restaurants in the area, you had the strange sight of people talking and eating lunch as the blaze burned outside the windows.
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Wednesday 18 June 2008
Suzie McNeil
Artist: Suzie McNeil
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Broken and Beautiful
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Canadian-born Suzie McNeil had already enjoyed a divers and successful vocation as a musician before she rose to fame in North America as a contestant on the musical realness evidence Stone Star: INXS, in which she was one of 15 vocalists competing for the probability to become the modern lead story vocalist for veteran Australian pop/rock band INXS. McNeil was born in 1976 in Mississauga, Ontario, to a musically inclined family, and began singing as a kid with her sister and her mummy. McNeil was blessed with a voice that was suited to a wide variety of material, and she put her instrument to good use, supporting herself recording commercial jingles and working as a championship vocaliser while sharing stages with a number of leading Canadian musicians, including Garth Hudson, Jeff Healey, Ronnie Hawkins, and Alan Frew of Glass Tiger. NcNeil as well panax quinquefolius with several original groups, including Fourstar and Rounder, though she faced some of her biggest audiences singing with a mate of testimonial bands -- AbbaMania, in which she handled the vocal parts originated by Agnetha Faltskog, and Sweetleaf, a Black Sabbath cover act where she wailed like Ozzy Osbourne. In 2005, McNeil, eager to launch her career outside Canada, relocated to Los Angeles for the Rock Star: INXS auditions; McNeil became an hearing favorite and made it into the competition's Final Four, but ultimately bemused out to J.D. Fortune. However, McNeil did made a guest appearance on the album INXS after recorded with Fortune, Switch, and her exposure on the show light-emitting diode to a circuit as a backup singer for Pink and a outspoken cameo on Clay Aiken's album A Thousand Different Ways, dueting with the American language Idol star on the Foreigner chestnut "I Want to Know What Love Is." In the spring of 2007, McNeil released her first solo album, Broken and Beautiful, which appeared in stores as she was appearing in the Toronto product of We Will Rock You, a musical adapted from the songs of the fabled British rock chemical group Queen.
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Saturday 14 June 2008
Flowers, Jones offer Web details on Bill Clinton
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —
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Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones are offering Internet viewers the lurid details of encounters they claim they had with former President Clinton - for $1.99 a pop.
The women, who gained notoriety in the early 1990s after claiming to have had sexual encounters with Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas, have created a Web site offering videos of their thoughts on Clinton, his wife Hillary and other matters. Each video segment is available for $1.99.
"It's a way we can get our story out there in our own words, without someone making their own interpretations or corrections," Jones said.
On Monday, both walked down a manicured avenue to the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock and chatted with an interviewer from the syndicated television program "Extra."
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50 Cent's Mansion Burns Down
A mansion owned by 50 Cent burnt down this morning around 5am, in a suspicious fire (May 30th).
The house, which is worth a reported $1.4 million, is at the centre of a current legal dispute between the rapper and former girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins.
When the blaze took hold, six people were inside the house (located in Long Island, New York) and later taken to Huntington Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, say reports.
In April, Tompkins filed a breach of contract against 50 Cent, claiming he was trying to evict her and their 10-year-old son.
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