Wild In The Country Organisers Respond To Bjork Cancellation

Organisers of Wild in the Country says they are “disappointed” that Bjork, who was scheduled to headline the festival, has pulled out.



The Icelandic singer withdrew from the festival at the end of last week, calling the event “volatile” and accusing organisers of failing to provide production equipment.



In a statement, the festival said they had only become aware of Bjork's decision “outside normal business hours on the evening of Friday June 27th.”



The event, which takes place on Saturday (July 5th), was to be Bjork's only UK festival appearance of 2008.



The statement continued: “There have been what we believed to be still ongoing discussions regarding Bjork's production requirements.



“We are obviously disappointed, having the utmost respect for Bjork as an artiste, and extend our best wishes to her.



“Contrary to what has been suggested, we have diligently provided all production requirements for all of the other acts appearing on this years line-up.”



The festival will still go ahead on Saturday with performances from Soulwax, Sasha and Hercules and Love Affair.

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Full Force

   
Artist: Full Force

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Drum & Bass
   

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 Full Force (FF001)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2

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Full Force rose to jut in the mid-'80s, committal to writing and producing popular R&B hits for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam earlier embarking on a pretty successful solo vocation that in the end light-emitting diode them back to production run in the previous '90s. The six-man collective -- featuring Paul Anthony, Bowlegged Lou, B-Fine, Baby Gerry, Shy Shy, and Curt-t-t -- originated in Brooklyn, NY, where they in the beginning met up with Steve Salem in the late '70s, a business-savvy case-by-case wHO functioned as their manager. With a coach in place and plenteousness of talent between the assorted group members, Full Force struggled throughout the early '80s to chance a label willing to sign them. Eventually they got a break when they wrote and produced fellow Brooklyn mathematical group U.T.F.O.'s "Roxanne Roxanne," a whack song that would accomplish a certain degree of fame thanks to a serial of answer records. In early 1985, the single unwell at number ten on Billboard's R&B charts, proving a solid hit for both the blame chemical group and the output team. From thither, Full Force touched onto their next major success with Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, a dance-pop mathematical group lED by a 16-year-old isaac Merrit Singer named Lisa Velez. Originally Velez had auditioned for the production team, wHO and so went ahead and recorded "I Wonder if I Take You Home" with her, releasing the single under the soubriquet Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam With Full Force on an indie New York label, Personal. The song dynasty scored success ab initio abroad earlier finally organism released by Columbia in the U.S. after getting immense bring in New York clubs as an consequence single. Almost overnight, the song topped Billboard's dance chart and went on to meridian at number sixer on the R&B chart by summer 1985. Thanks to the momentum surrounding the off single, Full Force sign-language a deal with Columbia to departure solo material. Though they scored some minor R&B hits on their own ("Temporary Love Thing," "Unfaithful So Much," "All in My Mind"), their biggest success continued to be as a production team for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam ("All Cried Out," "Head to Toe," "Missed in Emotion"). In 1988, Full Force produced James Brown's I'm Real, marking a real off for the struggling legend with the album's title path, and worked with a number of late-'80s dance-pop stars: Jasmine Guy, Cheryl Pepsii Riley, and Samantha Fox, among others. Throughout the early and mid-'90s, the production squad remained relatively still earlier once more turbulent out a number of late-'90s R&B-flavored pop hits with Selena, Backstreet Boys, and LFO, among others.





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Foals play first-ever LA gig

Foals played their first-ever Los Angeles gig last night (May 24), which culminated with frontman Yannis Philippakis stage-diving into the crowd.

The Oxford quintet drew a sold-out crowd to the Troubadour, even on a holiday weekend when many people typically leave town.

The band kicked off the night with the first two tracks from their debut album 'Antidotes'. The packed house thrived on the band's tremendous energy, pogoing and dancing throughout their hour-long set.

Philippakis led the charge, and threw himself into the crowd before returning to the stage to bang on the drums for the final tracks, which included an extended jam of 'Mathletics' during the two-song encore.

"We were really looking forward to our first gig in LA," Philippakis told NME.COM after their set. "The people were really warm. I enjoyed jumping into the crowd, I'm just glad I didn't take anyone's face off."

The band will continue their tour of the US with shows up and down the west coast until the end of the week.

Foals played:

'The French Open'
'Cassius'
'Olympic Airways'
'Balloons'
'Heavy Water'
'Two Steps Twice'
'Hummer'
'Red Socks Pugie'
'Electric Bloom'
'Mathletics'

--By our Los Angeles staff.
Find out more about NME.




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Jack Black covers Kung Fu Fighting

Jack Black has joined forces with Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo to cover Carl Douglas' 1974 disco hit 'Kung Fu Fighting'.
Billboard reports that the song will feature on the soundtrack to Black's new animated film 'Kung Fu Panda'.
The film also features the vocal talents of Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and Jackie Chan.
Commenting, Cee-Lo said: "It was inspiring and an honour to have the opportunity to reintroduce the record to a brand new audience, sprinkled with a little of me on top."

Gandalf and Galadriel

   
Artist: Gandalf and Galadriel

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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 The Shining

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Cowell angry over Osbourne's behaviour

Cowell angry over Osbourne's behaviour

Simon Zelotes Cowell has criticised Sharon Osbourne, describing her recent literary criticism of comrade 'X-Factor' approximate Dannii Minogue as "legal injury".
Speech production to the Sunday Mirror, Cowell said that he was unhappy around Osbourne's appearance on 'The Graham flour Norton Show', where she claimed that Minogue had but been hired for her looks.
Cowell said: "You see a grownup Sharon behaving like this in public. I conceive it's wrong. Certain things should be done behindhand closed doors - the spotlight shouldn't be taken from the contestants. I like Sharon would inquire my advice before she does things alternatively of trying to deal with it herself."
"Sharon would be the first to admit that we've had a turbulent human relationship o'er the death trey or little Joe years, just I've got to know her a lot better this year," he added.
Cowell besides insisted that Minogue had more than enough experience to justify her position as a label on the show.
He said: "I was intrigued as to whether or not she could do the job. She's done a gross ton of songs, movies, 'Grease' and 'Home and Away'. That's exactly the sort of have you need to be a judge. And she's worked harder with the artists than anyone else. She did 20-hour days."
Asked if entirely of the judges will be back next year, Cowell replied: "A one C per cent - if they potty get on."