Friday, 22 August 2008

Global Gathering is coming to Australia in 2008!

Future Entertainment, Angel Music Group And Ministry Of Sound Australia Deliver A November Knock Out With The World�s Undisputed Heavy Weight Of Dance Music Festivals!


Hot sour the heels of the most successful Global Gathering in the UK to date, Future Entertainment, the Angel Music Group and Ministry Of Sound Australia announce the most dynamic and groundbreaking joint venture the Australian music industry has seen in a very long time; the launch of the Global Gathering Festivals across the country this coming November.


Since its found in 2001, Global Gathering has become the world�s undisputed front runner of dance festivals. A massive 50,000 revellers congregate annually from all corners of the globe at the notable Long Marston Airfield in the last weekend in July, creating the biggest dance and live music weekender of the European summer. This year�s record attendance exceeded 55,000 and stood tall as the strongest performer amidst the 10000 of UK festivals this summer.


Headliners Kanye West, Moby and Mark Ronson nailed their live sets going away the entire audience breathless, whilst the likes of Armin Van Buuren, John Digwqeed, Roger Sanchez, Above and Beyond and many other awful superstar DJ�s rocked and rolled everyone in attendance.


This is a landmark marriage between Australia�s largest festival promoter and international touring agent, Australia�s most recognised dance music brand and record label, and the UK�s to the highest degree successful dance festival promoters. Future Entertainment, The Angel Music Group and Ministry of Sound Australia ar respectively leaders in their fields and collectively deliver what may well be the biggest venture of its tolerant in Australia to date.


Over the next few week�s details of the very first Global Gathering Festivals will be revealed. Make no fault; this will be a milestone for festival culture in Australia.


For major talent announcements, go dates and all event information go to Global Gathering,�Future Entertainment�or Ministry of Sound.





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Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Dotun Adebayo: From Shaft to Chef, remembering Isaac Hayes

When we heard the news on Sunday that Isaac Hayes had died, the companionship I was with divided a mo of daze and skepticism and an instant of contemplation. Then one of us exclaimed: "The Black Moses!"

That's how we remember him. A soul singer/musician/composer with the balls to be to a fault black, also strong and too beautiful at a time when the happy-clappy negro of Motown was the unthreatening template for the soundtrack of "brigham Young America". Isaac Hayes didn't do cute.

At least, not in 1971.

Back then, with his shaven head, full beard and dark specs, he looked like the "baaad mother ... shut your mouth" of his alter ego Shaft � the "private pecker" who's "a sex political machine to all the chicks" and wHO kickstarted a new musical genre of movies they called "blaxploitation". Hayes's album Theme From Shaft made it to Britain before the movie. But it wasn't what we expected.

Hayes didn't come from Tin Pan Alley. Neither was he shouting gaudy "I'm black and I'm proud." His score for the picture show was more subtle than that � a symphony with soul that forced you to sit and listen. There would be many boogie-woogie nights to come (Theme From Shaft marked the birth of a new kind of music: discotheque), but Isaac Hayes's masterpiece was besides cool for cats � from the black ghettoes of America's northern cities to the African-Caribbean "ghetto" of Tottenham, north London � to ignore.

So, they gave him a Best Original Song Oscar for it. A first for an African-American. And he didn't take to "step and fetchit". On the contrary, the Academy Award seemed to make him more warlike. The sir Ernst Boris Chain of slave rings about his chest was a reminder that his citizenry, like the Israelites, were enslaved, and his "Jesus in dark glasses" image on the cover of the Black Moses album emphasises the point that Hayes was more than scarcely a composer/musician/singer at a time when black America needed more from their superstars.

For a few days, it looked as though Isaac Hayes might be that blackened leader Americans were looking for for � to take the seat of the slain Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. But off the record, Hayes had become an icon in the entertainment earthly concern. We wanted him to lead us all right-hand, all the way to his adjacent gig or his side by side album and, besides, he wasn't truly as competitive as his image would suggest. He was likewise cuddly and too much Mr Nice Guy to call out "let my people go" to honest-to-god pharoah. He also had a sense of humour that sawing machine nothing amiss in the voice of southern soulfulness becoming the voice of the Chef in the cartoon series South Park.

That's how offspring black and white kids will remember Isaac Hayes. To them, he had balls, all right � "chocolate salty balls". An irony that was not lost on us as we took in his passing.







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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Crown Of Autumn

Crown Of Autumn   
Artist: Crown Of Autumn

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   


Discography:


The Treasures Arcane   
 The Treasures Arcane

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11



 






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Peter Green Splinter Group

Peter Green Splinter Group   
Artist: Peter Green Splinter Group

   Genre(s): 
Other
   


Discography:


Soho Session Disk2   
 Soho Session Disk2

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


Soho Session Disk1   
 Soho Session Disk1

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


Destiny Road   
 Destiny Road

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


Peter Green Splinter Group   
 Peter Green Splinter Group

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12



 






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Iggy and the Stooges' gear stolen in Montreal

Iggy and the Stooges' rented truck--containing all of the group's equipment--was stolen Monday morning (8/4) between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. outside the Embassy Suites Hotel (208 Saint Antoine Ouest) in Montreal, according to a conjure release.

A name of the missing equipment, including some photos of the stolen gear, is posted at band member Mike Watt's website.

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The website likewise includes striking information for use by anyone with information approximately the thieving of the 15-foot Penske truck with Michigan license plates (AC46494) and its contents.

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