Australias Got Talent: Chooka on the Piano
This has to be the most amazing performance on any Talent show I have ever seen! Im not just saying that cause im Australian, but this is amazing (and funny at the same time).
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened today for the first ever time at The Belasco Theater 1975 in New York, initially for 45 shows March 10th 1975.
Nelly Furtado Donates One Million Dollors
To many times we’ve heard about how rock stars want to save the world, they organise some sort of charity event, stick themselves on the top of the bill and shout horrah because the ticket sale donated to charity raise about a tenth of the extra personal wealth they managed on the last album. Bono is my favourite Idiot quilty of this. I never forget the time he demanded to have a hat flown to him half way across Europe, costing thousands of pound and chucking tonnes of aviation fumes into the atmosphere, because he couldn’t sing without it. This was a concert to help raise awareness about the environment by the way. God I hate Bono so much.
Members of the music industry are calling on Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Usher and 50 Cent to donate to charity the money they had made by performing private gigs for family members of Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi. So far none of them have commented on the matter, but earlier today Nelly Furtado tweeted that that she played a show for the Qaddafi family four years ago – and she’s going to give the money to charity.
“In 2007, I received 1million$ from the Qaddafi clan to perform a 45 min. Show for guests at a hotel in Italy,” she Tweeted. “I am going to donate the $.”
And she actually did, finally a pop star that came good and did what we expected. Lets hope more follow suite.
Pink Floyd Released Thier First Song Today
Pink Floyd releases their 1st song – Arnold Layne on March 2, 1967
Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross Won An Oscar
Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor has won his first Academy Award. Reznor and his frequent collaborator Atticus Ross won the Oscar for Best Original Score forThe Social Network, a superb achievement considering the duo’s inaugural project as composers for film.
This is not the first major award Reznor and Ross have won for their work on The Social Network. They previously took home awards for Best Score from the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Society, Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Boston Society of Film Critics to name a few.
Gutitar Hero Live On Like An Old Rock Anthem
Activision as it confirms plans to release more download content for the series thanks to huge continued support from fans. With a bit of DJ Hero too it would seem.
After axing both the DJ Hero and Guitar Hero series in a shock announcement earlier this month, the publisher then confirmed that February’s planned Guitar Hero Downloadable Content releases would be the last, and that it “will not be able to release new DLC packs” in future. This month would official see the end of the GH and DJH series.
But it seems Activision has had a change of heart (sensed a money-making opportunity says I). A statement on the GH Facebook page reads: “Thank you for being a part of this community and all 3 MILLION of you rock! In thanks for your continued support, we’ve decided to celebrate by releasing some more downloadable content. Details coming soon…” As well as the DJ Hero fan-page on twitter states, ”Thanks for being a member of our community. In recognition of your continued support, we’ve decided to release more DLC! Details soon!” If it was a REAL gift and a GENUINE thank you, the content would be free wouldn’t it.
Stop Making Musicals
I enjoy going to see a good musical just as much as the next person. My father and I enjoyed the Vienna State Orchestra on new years eve 1999 and my wife and I have been to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Fame, I liked them all so you can healthily say that I have broad taste in entertainment, I fancy that some of these talent shows, So You Think You Can Dance? for example, are in bad taste but that’s an argument for another day.
The reason for this article was something I heard on the radio this morning. We broke the normal etiquette of musicals I think around half a dozen years ago, and brought them into modern culture more obviously with the Gerry Springer musical. Song about cheating and drugs and people ripping each others clothes off all tied up nicely with a slash of swearing. The Gerry Springer Opera was good. It enjoyed these tours dates in the UK. But now its just getting silly.
We had a Spider Man musical, we had a Jade Goody Musical. I stuck Top Gun The Musical into Google for a laugh, AND THERE IS ONE! There is also a Green day musical, and somehow it got good reviews. But the latest had had an effect. I’m not watching another Musical/Opera again unless is one about me.
Nick Clegg, for those that don’t know, (im thinking of the US here really) is the leader of the third run political party in the UK and, thanks to the closest general election the country has seen for ages, is now second in command of her majesty’s government in a coalition cabinet with David Cameron, a Conservative/Lib-Dem super-team.
And we’re making a musical about him, and to make it worse, its a Hip-Hop one. A HIP-HOP ONE. The show, which has the working title “Nicked” (which is quite a good name actually), features David Cameron in a “rap off” with his backbenchers and promises to take in the student demonstrations and the run-up to the referendum on voting reform.Steven Atkinson, the artistic director of the HighTide Festival, where the show will be performed, said it will follow “the rise and fall of Nick Clegg”.
Creed Rescue Boy Of 13 From Wolves
A 13-year-old Norwegian boy escaped a pack of wolves by playing them Creed’s single Overcome, authorities want to know what the kid was doing listening to Creed.
Walter Eikrem from Rakkestdad was coming home from the school bus stop this week when he noticed a pack of wolves near his farm house, reports Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine. He mistook them for dogs but soon realized that it was pack of wolves, the boy remembered his mother’s oft-repeated drill to never run away from wolves.
Instead the teen yanked his earphones from his smartphone, turned it ALL THE WAY TO 11 and blasted everyone’s favorite Creed single at the wolf pack. “They didn’t really get scared. They just turned around and simply trotted away,” the boy said.
The Jackson Five Make Their TV Debut
In this day, February 21st in the years 1790, the Jackson 5 Made their TV debut on American prime-time variety act television show American Bandstand.
This a clip is from 1979.