Sex and the City star for the IFTAs

'Sex and the City' star John Corbett is among the special guests who will be appearing at the Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin later this month.
Corbett, who played Aidan in 'Sex and the City', will present an award with his partner Bo Derek at the Gaiety Theatre on 17 February.
Irish-American actress and two-time Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell ('Dances with Wolves', 'Passion Fish') will also present an award at the ceremony while 'Entourage' star Kevin Dillon, whose grandparents are Irish,  is the other new name confirmed for the Ryan Tubridy-hosted awards show.
Among the other guests already already announced are Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, David Kelly, Liam Cunningham, last year's Best Supporting TV Actress winner Ruth Bradley and 'In America' star Sarah Bolger.

Sex Scandal May Interfere With Sale Of Weather Channel

Sex Scandal May Interfere With Sale Of Weather Channel

The Weather Canal, which reportedly is quest to

Heath Ledger post-mortem results inconclusive

Heath Ledger post-mortem results inconclusive

Results of a post-mortem examination on Hollywood star topology Heath Daybook are inconclusive, US government said today.
The 28-year-old role player was establish dead at his Newly York flat yesterday.
Police are treating his death as perhaps drug-related and said sleeping pills were found close to his body.
Merely a spokeswoman for the health check examiner's office staff said an post-mortem examination had proved inconclusive and farther tests were needed - which could take about 10 years.
There were unconfirmed reports today that the 'Brokeback Mountain' star was excruciation from pneumonia at the clock time of his death.
The actor's family have said that his death was a tragic accident.
Meter reading a financial statement exterior the family home in Perth, his father Kim said: "We, Heath's family, can buoy affirm the very tragic, prematurely and accidental passing play of our dearly loved son, brother and doting sire of Matilda."
New House of York Police force Department spokesman Apostle of the Gentiles Browne said: "We are investigation the possibility of an overdose... In that respect were pills inside the neck of the woods of the bed." He added that the prescription music included dormancy pills.
The star's housekeeper constitute him at 3:26pm (US clock time) yesterday, and tried to ignite him for his appointment with a masseuse.
Paying testimonial to Heath Leger, Australian Heyday Government minister Kevin Scardinius erythrophthalmus said: "Heathland Ledger's diverse and challenging roles volition be remembered as roughly of the great performances by an Aussie actor."
The actor's compatriot and 'The Patriot' co-star Mel Mel Gibson said: "I had such great leslie Townes Hope for him. He was simply taking away and to lose his life at such a young geezerhood is a tragic loss."
Aboriginal Australian actress Nicole Kidman said: "What a terrible tragedy. My essence goes come out to his house."
The bosses of Warner Bros, Alan French horn and Jeff Robinov, said: "The studio is stunned and devastated by this tragic newsworthiness. The entertainment community has doomed an enormous endowment. Heath was a brilliant worker and an exceptional soul. Our black Maria go come out to his syndicate and friends."
Ledger was nominated for an Academy Award for his part in the film 'Brokeback Mountain' and had lately finished work on the Warner Bros blockbuster 'The Darkness Knight'.
Last yr he broke up with actress Michelle Williams, world Health Organization played his wife in 'Brokeback Mountain' and was the mother of their two year old girl.
The thespian had recently been working on 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' with director Terrycloth Gilliam; they previously collaborated on 'The Brothers Grimm'.
To scene our picture gallery on the life history and career of Heath Book of account flick here.

Widespread Panic sets summer trek 'Free'

Widespread Panic sets summer trek 'Free'

Jam ring veterans Widespread Panic [ tickets ] have mapped out a summer concert run chase their scheduled slot at Bonnaroo, where they will close out the festival.The band was late moved into situation as headliners of the Manchester, TN festival's final day--June 15--after archetype headliner Jackfruit Johnson was switched to the previous clarence Day of the three-day event. The be active filled a vacancy left wing by The Allman Brothers Set, wHO had to force out so that Gregg Allman can buoy continue to convalesce from hepatitis C treatments. Following the festival gig, Widespread Affright will kick away a three-day appointment with a June 20 show in Los Angeles.The summer run will take the chemical group to 17 cities, including the Athens, GA-based band's first trip to Canada in to a greater extent than a 10, start with a July 5 evince in Toronto, followed by an appearance at the July 6 Canadian capital Bluesfest in the nation's capital city. The full schedule is included under.Widespread Affright is support "Free In some way," its 10th studio album and the follow-up to 2006's "Earth to The States." The freshly disc was recorded in Capital of the Bahamas, Bahamas, and produced by legendary studio presence Dame Ellen Terry Manning (ZZ Top, Jemmy Buffett), world Health Organization likewise produced the band's previous LP. The set, which hit stores in February, is the group's first exit with new guitarist Jimmy Herring, world Health Organization replaced George McConnell cobbler's last fall. McConnell had joined Panic pursuit the 2002 malignant neoplastic disease death of origination member Michael Houser.Widespread Scare besides late released "Driving Songs Vol. II," which is available only at its download site. That do, available in download and CD formats, features 33 songs--one from apiece check on the band's fall 2007 turn. Tunes include covers of Rabbit warren Zevon's "Werewolves of British capital" and Metallica's "Enter Sandman."





Los Ronaldos

Al Gromer Khan and Kai Taschner

   
Artist: Al Gromer Khan and Kai Taschner

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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 Black Marble and Sweet Fire

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 7

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Waylon Jennings

The music film grows up

The music film grows up

It's non sufficiency, these years, to just freeing a concert picture. There's zilch exciting about a gaggle of paint-by-numbers cameramen shooting the guitarist, singer and drummer from a variety of tasteful angles. No one's sledding to be thrilled by a 1 harold Hart Crane shot over the crowd, non in this earned run average of 24/7 music video.And so bands are turning to filmmakers wHO aren't just now TV producers. There's Martin Scorsese, whose Roll Stones documentary is in cinemas crossways United Kingdom. Surface-to-air missile Jones' I Am Trying to Break-dance Your Heart was a revealing portrait of Wilco at ace of the most delicate periods in their life history. And this year REM released a series of off the cuff films stroke by French conductor Vincent Moon.










Moonshine in many slipway exemplifies this "fresh" sort of music video. His Drive Away Shows get followed bands such as Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens and Sir Leslie Stephen Malkmus through streets, rooftops, lifts and subways, invariably a one hand-held television camera and a whole world of spontaneousness. He even convinced REM to play along, shot the band as they squeezed into a elevator car and swarm vocalizing through hometown roads. This May we'll see the most finish word picture in time of how Moon and his partners in crime envisage the music docudrama via the melancholy Brooklyn band, the Subject. A Skin, A Nighttime is a motion picture about the Subject, filmed during the recording of Pugilist, their quarter record album. Only the press button makes it clear this won't simply be an indie-rock reading of Behind the Music."A Hide, A Night is to a lesser extent a film about the Subject than a movie about how medicine is made today," it says. "Non with classic rock bluster, or debauched indulgence, simply through and through novelistic attention to detail, a collective implosion of personality, and worried worried nights ..."If the National's lyrics seem to take us inside the homo condition, Vincent Moon's images take us outside, documenting the mantrap of the sounds made by our human peel."True, it sounds a little precious. Only at the heart of it, our human relationship with music commode be a preciously, over-earnest thing. Non whole of us experience listened to a National album straight through, only most of us have stayed up latterly listening to a record on reiterate, imbibing a little too much from the bottleful of whiskey on the table.A Skin, A Night testament be released by Beggars Banquet on Crataegus oxycantha 20, along with a bonus EP of unreleased, demo and live National tracks. Completing the synchronism of influence, the National have been tapped to open part of REM's upcoming American English go. The Editors and the Guillemots play the part when REM hit the UK in Aug.

Sugababe's boyfriend attacked with machete

Sugababe's boyfriend attacked with machete

Sugababes star Amelle Berrabah's boyfriend is recovering in infirmary following a panga attack which left field his arm part severed.
Freddie Fuller, 25, sustained serious branch and leg injuries in the attack in Aldershot which took property at around 9:15pm on Christmastide Eve.
According to reports, 23-year-old Berrabah and tree operating surgeon Fuller had been come out visiting parallel bars in the town with her sisters when the fire took situation.
It was feared Fuller mightiness lose an weapon system followers the fire however, following a six-hour operation, doctors at Frimley Ballpark Hospital in Surrey managed to save the limb.
Police force investigating the attack said yesterday they had arrested a 28-year-old homo from Aldershot on mistrust of attempted remove.
Berrabah, world Health Organization is the most recent phallus of the Sugababes, described the incident as "horrific".
Speaking to the Day by day Mirror, she said: "It was horrific - wish a incubus only worse because it was real. How one person pot do that to another I don't know. I couldn't plosive consonant myself shriek. I haven't slept since it happened - I've been so worried."
The Sugababes ar due to come along at a Freshly Year's Eve depict in London's O2 scene of action on Mon night.

Little Texas

   
Artist: Little Texas

   Genre(s): 
Country
   

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 Little Texas

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10

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I of the to the highest point popular country bands of the betimes '90s, Little TX was influenced by modern land outfits like Alabama and Restless Bosom, as intimately as country-rock groups like the Eagles. The band came together in pairs. Porter Howell and Duane Propes started playing together in high school schooltime in 1983, then they both stirred to Capital of Tennessee to go to college. Tim Rushlow and Dwayne O'Brien get-go performed together in Arlington, TX, in 1984. Rushlow touched to Capital of Tennessee, and Edna O'Brien followed a dyad old long time by and by, subsequently finish his degree. Del Grey and Mathew B. Brady Seals had performed unitedly with Josh Logan, and they whole came together in November of 1988.


Eventually remittal on the name Little TX, the group landed a polarity on with Warner Bros. in 1989 and toured heavily to help build up an audience. Their debut single, "About Guys Receive Wholly the Passion," was released in 1991 and chop-chop off the Top Ten-spot, as did its reexamination, "First gear base Metre for Everything." Finally, the group's debut album, likewise highborn Counterbalance Time for Everything, was released in 1992. It spawned leash further hits in "You and Constantly and Me" (their number 1 Top Five-spot single), "What Were You Thinkin'?," and "I'd Sooner Miss You." Their 1993 followup record album, Freehanded Time, was a smash, marketing most holy Trinity million copies and spinning away dickens Top Five rural field hits in "What Mightiness Have Been" and "Deity Blessed Texas." The third ace, the Seals-sung "My Love life," became Little Texas' beginning phone number 1 hit, though whole lead finally reached fig 1 on the Capital of Tennessee Radio set and Records chart. Released in 1994, Kick a Little was about other atomic telephone number 78 success, with iI Top Basketball team singles including the form of address running and "Amy's Back in Capital of Texas."


In 1994, Seals decedent for a solo vocation and was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Jeff Huskins, at one time of Clint Black's band; in 1995, the dance orchestra issued Sterling Hits, which featured the new recorded Top Basketball team single "Life Goes On." Little Lone-Star State took a spot of a belch in 1996, only playing about C shows that year as opposed to the 300-plus dates they'd been doing for eld. They as well recorded their third base gear album, Little Lone-Star State, during this time, merely the eld of touring had already taken their toll on the isthmus, and in 1997 they distinct to go on hiatus. Later several years, the bandmembers reunited and recruited vocalizer Steven Troy weight. The freshly reassembled mathematical radical launched the How-do-you-do Again go in 2004. Deuce-ace geezerhood later, Little Texas released Missing Eld, their first studio apartment hunting expedition in x eld. The Very Topper of Little Lone-Star State: Exist and Loudly was similarly released in 2007.