Entertainment
The Bees Release New Single & Tour Dates
The Bees are back. Isle of Wight’s finest return to the live circuit in February before the release of their third album, ‘Octopus’. The band made their first (mercury nominated) album (Sunshine Hit Me) in their shed and their second (Free The Bees) in Abbey Road. Their new record called ‘Octopus’ has been recorded in their new basement studio (The Steamroom) on the Isle of Wight.
English National Ballet To Perform Swan Lake In Versailles
English National Ballet is delighted to announce that it will perform Derek Deane’s Swan Lake on one of Europe’s most spectacular stages. The Palace of Versailles will play host to English National Ballet in July 2007 when the full Company will perform Swan Lake on a pontoon on the Bassin de Neptune with the spectacular Chateau de Versailles as a backdrop.
New Literature: Worthless by Marilyn Hardy
‘I was thirteen years old when I decided to end my life. Though, at the time, it was probably more of a cry for attention than a deliberate suicide attempt. All my young life I felt that I had been striving to win my mother’s affection, yet in my heart I could only feel her bitter rejection.’ Marilyn.
Travis To Release New Album
Three years on from their last outing 12 Memories, there is a palpable excitement within the Travis camp and a genuine enthusiasm for a return to the road. Having long been regarded as the trailblazers for the emotionally engaging pop anthem, they can truly claim, on their fifth album The Boy With No Name, to have re-discovered what made us love them in the first place.
Wii Launches Titles From Goldenage Of Gaming
This week Wii’s innovative Virtual Console has gone back in time to offer players across Europe a selection of popular games from the 1980s. Leading the charge is Gradius, a classic side-scrolling shoot em-up from Konami, first playable on the Nintendo Entertainment System, which set-the standard for its genre as well as delighting game fans across the globe.
Animated Exeter Film Festival
Animated lions, bears and pigs are set to visit the largest animation festival in the South West! Now in its 8th record breaking year. Animated Exeter organised by Exeter City Council takes place from 12th - 24th February and will be home to ‘Paddington Bear’, ‘Huxley Pig’, Susie Templeton’s ‘Peter & the Wolf’ and Aardman creation ‘Angry Kid’.
An Arresting New Drama For BBC One
Filming has started on HolbyBlue, the eagerly anticipated first production from Tony Jordan’s new company Red Planet Pictures for the BBC. The involvement of co-producers Kudos (Life on Mars, Spooks and Hustle) adds to the stellar creative team behind HolbyBlue, a series which is sure to attract attention from the fanbase of its sister dramas Holby City and Casualty.
Billy Piper In Treats At The Richmond Theatre
Richmond Theatre is proud to be one of only four tour dates before Billie Piper makes her West End debut in Christopher Hampton’s sharply observed and darkly funny drama of interchanging relationships.
Sadie Frost Launches Charlie And Lola Comic Relief Book
Sadie Frost will launch But I Do Know All About Chocolate (published by Puffin Books February 2007), a very special Red Nose Day Charlie and Lola book about Fairtrade chocolate in aid of Comic Relief with a reading at Foyles Bookshop. £2.00 from the sale of each book will go to Comic Relief.
Pokémon Ranger Launches On Nintendo DS
Get set to put your skills to the test as Pokémon Ranger launches across Europe on 30th March 2007 only for the Nintendo DS. For the first time ever, fans finally get the chance to fill the coveted role of a Ranger, an elite task force who protect Pokémon.
The Rough Guide To The Blues
The Rough Guide to The Blues is the essential blues companion, telling its fascinating story and giving the lowdown on all the grittiest singers, bottleneck guitarists, belt-it-out divas and wailing harmonica players.
iPod shuffle Now In Five Brilliant Colors
Apple today announced that the world’s most wearable digital music player is now available in five brilliant colors: blue, pink, green, orange and the original silver.
Opulence & Anxiety From The Royal Academy Of Arts
Opulence and Anxiety charts an illuminating path through the history of British landscape painting, presenting an innovative survey of the subject from the eighteenth-century to the present day. Britain’s industrial and commercial progress in the years leading up to 1800 inaugurated an age of opulence, represented by a period of wealth and global power, yet the nation also entered an era of extreme anxiety.
Download Festival Returns For 2007
Starting the festival mania early, tickets for Download 2007 go on sale at 9am on Wednesday 31 January. Leaving no doubt that the fifth Download Festival will be more exciting than ever, the three headliners for Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively are confirmed as My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park and Iron Maiden. A mixture of the best new and established talent from across the globe is what makes Download the must see event of the year.
Fascinating New Read: Kings Of New York
The world of professional competitive chess has always been shrouded in intrigue, from its role in the cold war, with the infamous Fischer-Spassky match of 1972—when an eccentric American genius smashed 25 years of Soviet chess hegemony—marking the beginning of the end of the cold war, to recent teenage chess prodigy suicides. Kings of New York gets beyond the myths to explore this fascinating and compelling world and its unconventional cast of chess fanatics.