New Film Club for Over 55s & other: May 2008

Sunday, 25 May 2008

PHIL STACEY

Phil Stacey (Lyric Street): C+

The Southern-fried country feel of “American Idol” season six finalist Stacey’s debut can’t disguise its lack of flair. While pleasant, well sung and even pretty in spots, Stacey’s participation seems marginal: no songwriting credits, no instruments played. So while he makes a believable interpreter, it’s hard to get past the notion that this is more product than personal expression. Download: “Looking Like Love.”

Sunday, 18 May 2008

Aylin Alaz

Artist: Aylin Alaz

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Kokun Uzerimde

Year: 2005
Tracks: 10

Mark Ronson to helm 'Kaiser Chiefs mk.III'

Kaiser Chiefs never miss a beat. Wait - sorry, we got that wrong. Kaiser Chiefs experience written a song called Never Miss a Beat. And now they're recording it."We've been hard at work writing, rehearsing and transcription," the band confided in a mailing list message this calendar week. "Firmly at make" is a comfortably vague condition, import anything from dig ditches to noodling in a transcription studio piece label interns feed you peeled grapes.

Simply Kaiser Chiefs want you to know they mean business. "It wholly started with the deuce fresh songs you may have heard on the UK turn at the end of last class: You Want Story and Never Miss a Beat. We went into the studio to record and kept on going."This time, however, they won't be enlisting Stephen Street, the producer responsible for their first-class honours degree deuce albums. Rather, two fresh faces ar working slow the decks. Ace is unfamiliar, the other ... well, you could call him the face-du-jour."There's been a consignment of rumours about what we're doing," the band wrote. "The accuracy is we're workings with Thomas Stearns Eliot James and Mark Ronson at a couple of studios in British capital."Mark Ronson is, of class, er, Crisscross Ronson, he of solo albums, collaborations and (lest we forget) Lily Ethan Allen and Amy Winehouse. Eliot Saint James is what the Chiefs call "a edward Young British people manufacturer we like very a good deal", which is to say he's engineered around soundtracks, remixed Idlewild, and done bits'n'bobs for the Futureheads, Axis Party and, er, S Clubhouse 7."As a geminate they're dynamite and we're enjoying plotting Kaiser Chiefs mk.Tercet with them pressing buttons and turning dials," the band tell us.Kaiser Chiefs mk.Leash? That sounds like a automaton. A gigantic, atomic number 22, laser-touting rock music machine. If we're lucky, Ronson and Epistle of James will convert the band to fighting the album and devote themselves to cybernetics.The Kaiser Chiefs play a "homecoming" gig at Leeds' Elland Route Sports stadium on May 24. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9am.

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Two EastEnders stars to quit the show

'EastEnders' stars Rob Kazinsky and Mahound George are to leave the soap.
According to The Dominicus, a BBC spokesperson confirmed that both actors would be going away their roles.
Kazinsky, world Health Organization plays Sean Slater in the show, reportedly wants to move to Hollywood to further his acting career in that location.
A source told the newspaper: "He's desperate to be a Hollywood star. He's ambitious, which Americans sexual love, and slowly on the eye - the first gear thing that Hollywood producers look at."
The report also suggests that Brad Pitt's agent has already signed up to represent the player.
A representative for 'EastEnders' reportedly said: "'EastEnders' can affirm that Rob Kazinsky testament be leaving later this class. We wish him all the topper for the future tense."
Kazinsky said: "If I had done everything I wanted to do as an thespian in front I joined 'EastEnders' I would have wanted to stay forever and a day."
"I have very enjoyed my time with the picture - it's such a wonderful place to work and it's get more like a second household to me. I'll be sad to pass on."
Mahomet George, wHO plays Gus Adam Smith in the show, is also moving on from Albert Square.
A BBC spokesperson said: "As the character did not have any big plots climax up it was agreed Mohammad would leave. He is in talks with the BBC around other projects."

Phonem

Artist: Phonem

   Genre(s):
Industrial

Discography:

Ilisu

Year: 2002
Tracks: 8

Like roughly of his Morr Music labelmates, Phonem's ambient-leaning productions lineament blur melodies; the occasional easy, broken posture; and light atmospherical touches. A bloke member of the Beta Bodega collective, Elliot Perkins made his debut as Phonem with The Mechanic Verses on Jetlag. After that, Perkins hooked up with the well-regarded German language label Morr Music for Phonetik. Hydro Electric was released in 2000. Perkins teamed up with Uwe Zahn (Arovane) in 2001 for Aer (Valid), a saucer that featured a couple of collaborations between the iI producers and more or less other tracks that were made one by 1. The following year, Ilisu close out a trilogy of sorts for Phonem's Morr releases. Away from his turn as Phonem, Perkins has another treasonably identify called Spike.

Domestic vs. Space Cat

The Hold Steady firms up summer trek

Indie bikers The Hold Calm [ tickets ] get confirmed a full US summertime spell to support their forthcoming album, "Rest Positive degree."The 23-date junket is scheduled to crisscross the nation, start June 8 in Chula Scene, CA, and wrapper August. 13 in Norfolk, VA. In addition to playacting clubs and theaters, the band will perform a few fete shows, including the June 28 Apostle Paul Green School of Tilt Festival in City of Brotherly Love and the July 19 Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. The Hold Calm will as well pop crossways the Pool for a week's worth of UK gigs in ahead of time July. US dates are listed under and those oversea commode be found at the band's MySpace thomas Nelson Page.Pre-sale tickets for the US shows will be available tomorrow (5/16), and the general public will have admission rootage Crataegus oxycantha 20.The Contain Steady's fourth studio apartment album, "Stay Positive," is due July 15, and the lead bingle, "Sequestered in Memphis," will be available on iTunes May 20, according to a press release.The newly record, produced by John Agnello (Son V, Dinosaur Jr.), came together piece the The Admit Stabilize was touring the worldly concern behind 2006's critically lauded "Boys and Girls in America," according to the group's publiciser. That outing saw the Brooklyn-based quintet play to a greater extent than 200 shows in 2007 only. "Stick Positive" is said to capture a sort of evolution that finds The Withstand Steady becoming more musically complex. On the record, the bandmates experiment with instruments including harpsichord, banjo and spill box, according to a press exit.