After a few weeks of ignorant, thoughtless and insensitive tweets, ranging from interesting political views (people on the Forbes' rich list needing a tax break too), and insensitive views of Hurricane Sandy (or Hurricane Sally,...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 1st November 2012
Daniel Day Lewis has been widely reported to be one of the most dedicated method actors in the business. According to the New York Times, while filming for Gangs of New York, he didn't break...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 31st October 2012
To mark Rihanna's landmark seventh studio album, she's setting off on a tour named 777, flying around the world to do said tour on a Boeing 777 and doing 7 shows, in 7 countries in...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 31st October 2012
The Mercury Prize is set to be awarded tomorrow (1st Nov. 2012), and true to form and tradition, many of the artists in the nomination lists are ones that you may never have heard, or...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 31st October 2012
The well spoken Sherlock Holmes hunk, Benedict Cumberbatch, is having a rather brilliant week; in two music driven stories, Cumberbatch has collaborated with Herfordshire's preeminent inditronica band Friendly Fire, and will be starring as the...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 31st October 2012
Despite impressing at Cannes, animal rights activists are not quite as impressed with the excellent cinematography, nor impeccable dramatic performances that are present in French/Belgian film 'Rust and Bone'.Star of the film Marion Cotillard has...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 31st October 2012
These are the questions we were asking as soon as we found out the news- who on earth is Skylar Grey? And What does she do? Is she a female rapper? Is she the newest,...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 31st October 2012
It's only been available to buy for a week but Taylor Swift's fourth album 'Red' has managed to sell over 1.2 million records, which makes it the highest first week sales of any album since...
In possibly her most revealing interview to date, Kate Moss has spoken to Vanity Fair candidly about her initiations into modelling and the fashion industry, which left her having a 'breakdown' as a teenager.Moss did...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 31st October 2012
Recently, Lady Gaga advised young girls to "sit in front of the mirror with all of the paints and colours and wigs that you have at your disposal, and just have a real talk with...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 31st October 2012
Country music artist Toby Keith has rejected the CMA Awards, where he's nominated for Music Video of the Year, with the video for 'Red Solo Cup'. While speaking to Country Weekly, in his endearing country...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 31st October 2012
Edward Furlong, who played John Connor in the second movie of the Terminator series, was arrested yesterday (30th Oct 2012) at LAX Airport. The Airport police gave a statement reported by E!: "On Oct. 30,...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 31st October 2012
Postmodern life has deigned that we receive the world through a media lens. Very little of what we encounter do we take at face value, rather everything is realised and equated with what we've seen...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 31st October 2012
Victor Sneed, with a name worthy of Royston Vasey, is suing Russell Brand for allegedly running into him with his car earlier this year. Sneed is looking for over $25,000 in compensation. This sum is...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 31st October 2012
While the news normally constantly bombards us with the ills of the world, the injustices and atrocities, abuses and deaths, breaches of freedom and crimes of war, The Pride of Britain is a rare and...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 31st October 2012
In a cruel twist of fate, and somewhat tragic irony, Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong has been forced to cancel the band's tour, in favour of spending time in rehab - a place...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 30th October 2012
It's just one bad thing after another for some of us, and it seems the bad side of karma has hit Lil Wayne this week. Firstly his private jet had to make an emergency landing...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 30th October 2012
The second part of Breaking Dawn, the final movie in the Twilight Saga, is set for release on November 16th worldwide, and with just three weeks to go the moviemakers have released some more teaser...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th October 2012
After her death last year aged 79, just two years after her great friend Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor has become the world's highest grossing dead celebrity, according to Forbes. This result sees the growth of...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 30th October 2012
Nicole Scherzinger has been dating F1 driver Lewis Hamilton for four years and recently she has spoken about how difficult it is to conduct a well-working long-distance relationship. In fact, she said to the Sun...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th October 2012
Fans of the instant cult hit Community were distraught last month when the return of the show was put back indefinitely. In the largely uncertain world of television, many questioned whether the show would return...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th October 2012
The Jimmy Savile scandal has already officially claimed its first victim in the arrest of Gary Glitter last Sunday (28th Oct. 2012), however there are undoubtedly many more people waiting uncomfortably for their fated call....
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 30th October 2012
When Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring first opened in Paris almost 100 years ago, the country's centuries old division between classes; the bourgeoisie vs the bohemian, reared its ugly head once again and almost...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 30th October 2012
Ronnie Wood's dating history is somewhat dubious. Having left his wife of over 20 years for a not-quite-twenty Russian called Ekaterina Ivanova in 2008, the news was met with outrage from friends, family and fans...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 30th October 2012
Yesterday (29th Oct. 2012) Anderson Live, the daytime chat show eponymously hosted by Anderson Cooper, was officially cancelled. Ratings for the news anchor's show just never really kicked off. Format changes, including a name change...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th October 2012
Taylor Swift can put no foot wrong it seems, as her album sells outrageously quickly, and now she has been picked to host the Grammy nominations, from her home town, Nashville, which is also the...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 30th October 2012
In 2010 singer and actress Toni Braxton filed for bankruptcy, reportedly owing somewhere between $10m-50m, reports the Daily Mail. Although the first thought the comes to mind is- HOW does someone let that kind of...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 30th October 2012
There have been few more interesting ways to release news about an upcoming album than by releasing a flatpeak that implies it, but that's just what Eminem has done. Using the Detroit Tigers colours and...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 30th October 2012
As the end of The Office is nigh, it was expected that various spinoff shows would be tried and tested. The idea that got farthest is The Farm which even had a pilot made. The...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th October 2012
Madonna's latest tour MDNA has faced controversy for months. It began with her bizarre choice of using a swastika in a video included in the show, which she subsequently removed (The Guardian), and has continued...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 29th October 2012
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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