When Stone Temple Pilots issued a statement to say that they have “terminated” their erstwhile singer Scott Weiland, we feared the worst. Clearly, we have been watching too many action movies. They may have killed...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 27th February 2013
Is that Tina Fey ‘No Way’ to the Oscars response really any surprise? After seeing the trashing that Seth Macfarlane received in the press following his Oscars presenting stint on Sunday (February 24, 2013), we...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 27th February 2013
“It’s pretty bad.” These were the words spoken to Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, by his wife, the morning after he fell off the wagon in a bad way and smashed his guitar up...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 27th February 2013
Reports that Carrie Fisher was drunk during a recent cruise ship performance have been denied by her representative, who explained that her odd behaviour was in fact caused by her bi-polar disorder. The 56 year-old...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 27th February 2013
Enough already! We’re officially calling an amnesty on all ideas for future Harlem Shake videos. The latest internet dance craze (which, if you ask, came a little too swiftly after Gangnam Style, giving us very...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 27th February 2013
Michael Le Vell, the Coronation Street actor, has appeared at Manchester Magistrates’ Court today, charged with child sex offences. Le Vell, whose real name is Michael Turner, spoke only to confirm his name, address and...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 27th February 2013
Sad news for rock fans today as Dan Toler dies. The guitarist, who formerly played for The Allman Brothers Band, was in his sixties when he passed away, his manager Glen Halverson confirmed to Reuters....
News posted in Music / Festivals on 27th February 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch’s new period drama Parade’s End depicts life in World War I England and the co-production between HBO and the BBC has so far impressed TV critics, with the first of five episodes, due...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26th February 2013
Albums of Note... Heaped with praise and riding high in the UK charts, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 15th studio album, Push the Sky Away is not only an artistic triumph but a commercial...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 26th February 2013
Looks as though we weren’t the only ones struggling to keep our eyes open during last weeks Brit Awards. Robbie Williams just posted a new song on his website that he’d written with Guy Chambers...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 26th February 2013
Janet Jackson married her partner Wissam Al Mana in an intimate ceremony last year, the singer has confirmed. Janet’s not one for flaunting her private life in the tabloids so there was a little confusion...
The Oscar-winning visual effects team behind Life of Pi had their awards acceptance speech cut short on Sunday night (February 24, 2013), it sparked further outrage amongst beleaguered visual effects workers in the film industry....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26th February 2013
Just when you thought the whole ‘Jennifer Lawrence at the Oscars’ thing couldn’t get any better, along comes Jack Nicholson to make the whole thing a lot more entertaining. Lawrence was being interviewed by Good...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26th February 2013
After four years together, Martyn LeNoble and Christina Applegate have tied the knot. E! News confirms that the 41 year old actress (perhaps best known for her role in Married With Children) and the 43...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 26th February 2013
Sofia Vergara’s illness was the reason that the Modern Family actress missed out on The Oscars. The 40 year-old kindly decided that she would be better off watching the ceremony on TV, rather than...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 26th February 2013
Rule number one: Don’t call a nine year-old a c*nt. We can only assume that this was the opening gambit of The Onion’s “new and tighter Twitter procedures” after they were forced to apologise for...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26th February 2013
They say that all publicity is good publicity, right? Though it has to be said, if Seth Macfarlane happens to be self-googling this morning, he will probably be questioning why they say that and whether...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 26th February 2013
Last night, when Jennifer Lawrence tripped up the stairs on the way to collect her Oscar, it was simply the icing on the cake, after several weeks of stumbles, bumbles, wardrobe malfunctions and unprofessional confessionals....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th February 2013
Tamara Ecclestone’s former boyfriend has been found guilty of blackmail, the BBC reports today (February 25, 2013). Derek Rose, 33 and Tamara, now 28 dated for two years when Eccleston was a teenager. Rose has...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 25th February 2013
Union J have been announced as one of the acts appearing at this year’s Alton Towers Live event. The former X Factor contestants will be appearing alongside the likes of Olly Murs, Labrinth Rizzle Kicks,...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 25th February 2013
The negative press surrounding Zero Dark Thirty, has slowly dragged the movie from being an Oscars favourite, to one of the evening’s biggest disappointments. Kathryn Bigelow’s political drama was nominated in the all-important Best Picture...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th February 2013
Lindsay Lohan’s cash woes are far from behind her. TMZ have revealed that Lindsay is now in trouble for unpaid taxes for the third consecutive year in a row. We know that Charlie Sheen already...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 25th February 2013
There’s never an end to the headlines in the on-going media circus that is the life of Katie Price. Katie (aka Jordan) just married for the third time and one month down the line, it...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 25th February 2013
The news has broken that we have a DWTS Idol Contestant in the making. TMZ have discovered the identity of four of this year’s Dancing With The Stars contestants and one of them is a...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th February 2013
Despite everything that Tiger Woods put his former partner Elin Nordegren through, with his past (and very public) infidelities, it looks as though the three years that have passed since their personal dramas erupted have...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 25th February 2013
The designer of Doctor Who’s most famous cyborgs, the Daleks, has died, at the age of 84. Raymond Cusick, from Horsham, West Sussex, created the pepper-pot villains and also developed their sinister gliding motion. Despite...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th February 2013
Video footage of that awkward-as-hell kiss between 50 Cent, Erin Andrews has made its way online, prompting 50 Cent to defend himself on Twitter by saying “Hey I wanted to kiss her so I did.”...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 25th February 2013
The night before Hollywood got glammed up in back-patting mode at the Oscars, the annual Razzies ceremony – an antidote to the self-congratulatory narcissism of the Oscars – took a more cynical look at the...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th February 2013
Steven Tyler probably thought that he could receive no higher accolade than being asked to participate in the American Idol judging panel so imagine the joy that the Aerosmith frontman must have experienced when he...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 22nd February 2013
Taylor Swift is fast gaining a reputation for skipping between boyfriends faster that you can say ‘We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together,’ which, let’s face it, as song titles go, is a bit of...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 22nd February 2013
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
Ahead of the imminent release of his second solo album - Dekker, aka Brookln Dekker, took time out to let us know about the musical project he...
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