Veselin Tasev Aka DJ Maximix & other: May 2008

Amy Winehouse - Winehouse Offered 2 Million Russian Gig

Troubled star AMY WINEHOUSE has reportedly been offered $2 million (GBP1 million) to perform a private show at a Russian art gallery.

The Back To Black singer was asked by Daria Zhukova, the girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, to sing in front of a select group of art fans at the new gallery she has founded in Moscow.

Winehouse will sing at the Center for Contemporary Culture in September (08), and is thought to have been offered a six-figure sum for her appearance, reports British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

It is not the first time the British star has been hired for a lucrative private concert - she was reportedly paid $1 million (GBP500,000) to appear at a Louis Vuitton catwalk show in Paris, France in February (08).

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Cerys Matthews and Marc Bannerman finished?

Cerys Matthews has reportedly ended her relationship with former 'EastEnders' star Marc Bannerman.
The couple fell for each other last year during the filming of the reality TV show 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here!'.
After the programme was finished, the pair got together and declared that they were "in love" and even planned marriage and having children.
However, sources have apparently told the Sunday Mirror newspaper that Matthews had become bored of the relationship and split with Bannerman two days before Valentine's Day. She is now hoping to focus on her music career.
The paper reported: "The passion fizzled out and they've hardly seen each other in the last month. All the talk of having babies and settling down turned to dust. She realised the relationship was going nowhere and wants to concentrate on her tour, so she told Marc they were finished this week."
Bannerman's mother Dolores Noronha confirmed the news saying: "It's finished with Cerys. He's very upset, very down."

The Wreckers

Artist: The Wreckers

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Stand Still, Look Pretty

Year: 2006
Tracks: 12

Vangelis At Aphrodite's Child

Coldplay on a mission to connect with fans

LONDON (Billboard) - The album that will put the new EMI under its greatest global scrutiny to date is also 2008's most eagerly awaited release. That's the official word from Coldplay's new boss.

The band's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" will be released June 12 internationally on Parlophone/EMI and on June 17 in North America on Capitol. EMI Group chairman Guy Hands, who led the buyout of the music company last summer through his private-equity firm Terra Firma, says, "Right across the world, this is the most anticipated album of the year."

As the follow-up to the British melodic rock band's "X&Y" album of summer 2005, which scaled global sales north of 10 million units, according to the label, it's a significant release for many reasons. Just as "Viva La Vida" is a bold musical statement by a group that Martin says had grown to feel "a little dirty" by the end of its last campaign, the importance of this album to the new EMI, in the midst of its management restructuring, is hard to overstate.

But Martin, sitting in the band's own studio, the Bakery in northwest London, offers a typically relaxed and realistic interpretation.

"Being on a major label at the moment is like living in your grandparents' house," he says. "Everyone knows they need to move out, and they will eventually, but we kind of like our grandmother.

"It's obviously an antiquated model, because of the Internet, but we really love the people we work with. If we knew what the solution was to everything, then we'd do it. We have absolute respect for the Radioheads and Raconteurs and people who can do what they like. We're in contract though, so we're just going to make the most of it and enjoy the people we get to work with."

A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE WEB

In a bold move to reassert its close relationship with its fans, Coldplay made the album's first single, "Violet Hill" -- a track, with something of the flavor of 1967-68 era Beatles -- available as a free download April 29, shifting more than 2 million units in its week of being available for free, according to EMI. A cover-mounted 7-inch vinyl edition of the single was given away with the May 10 issue of British music weekly NME, which went on sale May 6 -- the only physical version of the single to be made available, although it also went on sale at digital outlets the same day.

Glenn Tilbrook

Artist: Glenn Tilbrook

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Rock

Discography:

Past Has Been Bottled

Year: 2007
Tracks: 18

Transatlantic Ping Pong

Year: 2004
Tracks: 12

Singer/composer Glenn Tilbrook teamed with lyricist/guitarist Chris Difford to confidential information Squeeze, one of the most acclaimed and longest-lived bands to emerge from the new wave epoch. Often regarded as the Lennon and McCartney of their generation, the duo's saucy, sophisticated blade of drink down never achieved commercial success commensurate with their critical favor, although singles like "Pull Mussels (From the Shell)," "Tempted," and "Contraband Coffee in Bed" stay timeless religious cult classics. Born August 31, 1957, in London, Tilbrook studied guitar and pianissimo from age sextet forrader and at 13, he made his populace debut at a local talent express. He began writing and playing with Difford in 1973 and the undermentioned year, they formed Squeeze; the group's self-titled, John Cale-produced debut LP followed in 1978, yielding the venial rack up "Contract Me, I'm Yours." 1979's Cool for Cats was Squeeze's U.K. chart breakthrough, generating a couple of act iI singles, "Up the Junction" and the title track. The follow-up, Argybargy, yielded the lesser hits "Some other Nail in My Heart" and "Pull Mussels (From the Shell)," just coagulated the group's decisive standing on the strengh of Difford's wry, literate paronomasia and Tilbrook's crisp, cagey melodies.

Squeeze's chef-d'oeuvre East Side Story followed in 1981, grading the band's biggest U.S. arrive at to date with the memorable "Tempted"; though 1982's Sweets From a Stranger cracked the U.S. Top 40 buoyed by the unmarried "Fatal Coffee in Bed," creative exhaustion forced the band's breakup soon after. A 1983 hits collection, Singles 45's and Under, in the end went pt. Tilbrook straightaway resumed his collaborationism with Difford, however, composing songs for fellow Squeeze alum Jools Holland, as well as Paul Young, Billy Bremner, and Helen Shapiro. The duette likewise mounted Labelled With Love, a transitory 1983 degree musical adapted from their songs. A self-titled 1984 album credited simply to Difford and Tilbrook also appeared, only the following class they reunited Squeeze to press release Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti; 1987's Babylon and On was their biggest U.S. arrive at, notching a pair of Top 40 singles in "Hourglass" and "853-5937," only subsequent efforts appealed near exclusively to their devoted religious cult following.

The '90s base Tilbrook guesting on albums by artists including Aimee Mann and the Soft Boys' Kimberley Rew. He formally kicked off a solo career with the release of the single Parallel of latitude World on his have Quixotic Records in late 2000. The following year brought the release of another undivided, This Is Where You Ain't, and his first base full-length record album, The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook, which included songs cowritten with Aimee Mann ("Lookout") and Ron Sexsmith ("You See Me").