Floyd “Reunites” For Palestine July 13, 2010
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For the first time in five years, the two driving forces behind Pink Floyd, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, reunited onstage at a benefit in England over the weekend. The unannounced team-up went down before the 200 attendees of the Hoping Foundation benefit in Oxfordshire, which raised money for young Palestinian refugees. The duo’s four-song set included Phil Spector’s “To Know Him Is To Love Him” (a Floyd sound-check staple according to the blog on Gilmour’s website) and the band’s classics “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb” and “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.” (more…)
Prince losing it? July 11, 2010
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George Michael has crashed his car, again, this time into a Snappy Snaps at 3.30am. Cheryl Cole is the second most beautiful woman of the 20th century – between Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe – and she has malaria. Ozzy Osbourne is now the health columnist for Rolling Stone and his genetic code is being mapped to see how the hell he has survived to 61 going on 356. Lady Gaga is the new creative director for Polaroid, the lenses she wore in the “Bad Romance” video pose a risk to eyesight, she thinks money is boring and has overtaken Barack Obama with her Facebook followers to become the first living person to have more than 10 million fans. DJ Tiësto has issued a statement denying that he is dead, which must mean he’s alive. Fernando Torres thinks Kasabian are the best group since the Beatles and you can ask Liam Gallagher questions at Ask Liam via his Pretty Green fashion label.
Nomads Rocks June 24, 2010
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Now that things have calmed down Big Jeff T over at Nomads is back to keepin’ the blues alive here in Bangkok with Soi Dog Blues band holding down a weekly slot at Nomads Silom Soi 4 every Thursday night from 9.00pm to Midnight. Note the earlier start/finish times so you can all make it to work the next day!
You Heard It Here First: The Mighty Orq June 13, 2010
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Internet Kills ‘Local’Music? June 13, 2010
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Once upon a time, sounds were attached to places. Rock’n'roll travelled the Atlantic and docked at Liverpool, giving birth to Merseybeat. Manchester married raving and rock music, and spawned Madchester. Grunge formed under Seattle’s gloomy skies and then took over the world. The local scene – the notion of several bands and musicians from the same area appropriating a similar style of records – would begin with friends listening to the same music and forming bands that would play in the same clubs, before record labels, DJs and writers would take note, at which point a city’s bands would find themselves the centre of worldwide attention.
