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While in West Cork last week, as well as renewing acquaintances with many old friends, I also renewed the acquaintances of some trees I planted or worked with in some way, and it was fascinating to see how they have grown. If you ever want a clear and powerful indicator of how time passes, plant [...]
LONDON - After weeks of speculation Simon Cowell, president of 19th Hole Productions, and manager of Susan Boyle has stated that he has signed the all-girl South Korean group, The Wonder Rice Girls to be Susan Boyle's opening act. The Susan Boyle...
Such are the nominees this year for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Patrick Goldstein moans: It's pretty pathetic when you consider that you can vote for the Chantels and Darlene Love, but not for Linda Ronstadt, Steve Miller, Chicago, Rush, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Journey, Dire Straits or Stevie Ray Vaughan, just to name a few of the ineligible worthies... Those of us who are actual voters are...
American Primitive is an excellent gay drama with an outstanding cast. It also doesn't hurt that it's set in 1973 with a groovy soundtrack of music. Give me the Hollies' "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" emanating from a car radio and I'm happy. However, cool oldies do not necessarily make a good film, so I was quite pleased that the screenplay by director Gwen Wynne and Mary Beth Fielder...
I was a rock critic in a past life, so every year around this time, I still get a ballot allowing me to vote for my favorite nominees in the annual election at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
This is basically a covered outdoor social space, with a clay pizza oven , a Rumford fireplace, lots of seating and many beautiful sculptural cob embellishments. The Roundhouse was built later, and is a larger social space for events and ...
Spent the half term weekend in West Cork in Ireland, revisiting people and places that made up my life between 1996 and 2005. It was like visiting a parallel world, a ‘Sliding Doors’-like glimpse at what could have been, offering reflections on where I am now and where I have come from. I will write [...]
Many of our regulars here are very familiar with the screen name PUK, or PeterUK. He had been conspicuously absent for the last week, so much so that I was compelled to contact a mutual friend, Clarice Feldman. She’d been having the same concerns and was busy racking her brain trying to think of a [...]
Photo: Kambouris/WireImage If the first night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary concerts were about looking back and celebrating legacies, night number two was about looking forward. From the performances — which focused heavily on punk, post-punk and metal — to the conversations that took place backstage, Friday night at Madison Square [...]
Richard Curtis’ upcoming Pirate Radio is getting a lot of attention for having a great cast (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gemma Arterton, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy and others) as well as having real-life subject material that is so great, one might think it is fictional. The film revolves around a group of rock deejays who took [...]
To honor WNEW's legendary Firecracker 500, every day we are highlighting the music that populated the 1991 and 1996 lists, with classic videos, live performances and little-known facts about the songs and how they came to be... Sometimes, for all...
Can the trio of servicemen hit the number one spot? Three British soldiers who served in Afghanistan and Iraq are set to release a single for charity. The single is titled ‘Coming Home’ and is a celebration of those who make it back and a remembrance of the fallen. Royalties from the single will go to the Army [...]
Three servicemen who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan release their debut album, Coming Home They may lack Cheryl's smile, Robbie's wit or Alexandra's dance moves, but they do have a unique selling point: each member of the band has risked their life for their country. The Soldiers , three servicemen who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, today released their debut album, Coming Home. The trio...
The Boat That Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio for US release) is an ensemble comedy film, released in the UK on April 1st 2009 and currently scheduled for a US release on November 13th 2009. Set in 1966, it tells a story about a fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship to the United Kingdom. The film was written and directed by Richard Curtis and made by Working Title Films for Universal