Oct 20 2008
Take That announced plans for the follow-up to their highly successful reunion album, “Beautiful World.”
On December 1 the band will release “Circus” featuring their newest single, “Greatest Day.”
“Greatest Day” was written by all four members of the band- Jason Orange, Mark Owen, Gary Barlow and Howard Donald and is currently on radio rotation.
The single will be available on November 24. Here is a preview.
Oct 20 2008
Damon Albarn (Blur), Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) and Dot Allison (Babyshambles) will be featured in a production at Barbican Theatre in Central London titled, “Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker.”
Scott Walker, a.k.a. Noel Scott Engel from Hamilton, Ohio, started in music in the 1960’s. Since he has had a successful career- both in bands and solo.
The production is directed by Walker and will feature his original works- performed by others.
It includes Walker’s band as well as a 42 piece orchestra.
The show runs from November 13 through November 15.
Oct 20 2008
It’s hard to imagine that giving away music ultimately makes an album… successful?
Radiohead revealed their 2 year-long projects to the U.K. on Oct. 10, 2007 (the USA on Jan. 1, 2008) in a unique fashion. The band just ended their contract with EMI and decided to release the material not only as a physical CD and on iTunes, but for download off radiohead.com … for free.
Fans could have the music or pay whatever they wanted. Although no financial figure has been released, over the weekend at the You are in Control Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland it was announced “In Rainbows” sold a total of 3 million copies.
The 3 million includes downloads from iTunes, Amazon and other outlets, radiohead.com, physical CDs and boxed sets.
The album not only sold 3 million copies, but entered both the UK and USA charts at number one.
Now … that’s loyalty.. or smart business.
Oct 20 2008
Via MySpace and their Web site, The Long Blondes have officially announced their separation. Dorian Cox issued a statement blaming the split up on his illness. In June he fell ill and was diagnosed with having suffered a stroke. The band at the time was forced to cancel a string of gigs.
Unfortunately he is unsure when and if ever he will be ready to play guitar again.
Aside from announcing the separation Cox thanked the fans. ” On behalf of the band I’d like to say a big thank you to anyone who ever came to one of our shows, bought one of our records or danced to one of our songs in a club. Thank you, if it wasn’t for you the whole thing would have been pointless.”
The Long Blondes joined forces in 2005 and gained quick recognition earning the Philip Hall Radar Award at the Shockwave NME Awards in 2006.
Today the Long Blondes released their last album, a compilation, “Singles.” Past releases included 2006’s “Someone to Drive You Home” and early 2008’s “Couples.”
