Entertainment
Aernout Mik: Shifting Shifting
Camden Arts Centre presents four new films by renowned Dutch artist Aernout Mik which have unsettling links to recent global events. The shifting distribution of power and patterns of human behaviour are combined with Mik’s unique sense of the absurd. For his first exhibition in the UK since 2000, Mik uses unseen footage from the conflict in former Yugoslavia and stages a fictional account of the aftermath of a disaster.
Rogue Traders - New Single 'Way To Go'
Rogue Traders will release ‘Way To Go’ the third single from their debut album ‘Here Comes The Drums’ on 26th March. This is set to follow in the footsteps of previous singles ‘Voodoo Child’ and ‘Watching You’. ‘Voodoo Child’ was one of the top 10 tracks of 2007 and has now gone silver.
Crowded House To Reform
Crowded House founders Neil Finn and Nick Seymour have confirmed that they will be putting the band back together, with plans for a new studio album and world tour.
Release Date Announced For Factory Girl Starring Sienna Miller
Paramount Pictures UK and The Weinstein Company have announced that Factory Girl, the highly anticipated film about the life of Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller), who was Andy Warhol’s (Guy Pearce) most controversial muse, will be released in cinemas on March 16th, 2007.
Live the Lifestyle at Playboy Gaming.Com
PlayboyGaming.com , a new online gaming site launches its poker room today, offering online players the opportunity to win not only money, but also money-can’t-buy Playboy experiences. Players will earn Bunny Money via their game play, which can be traded in at the PlayboyGaming.com Rewards Club for exclusive VIP trips to the Playboy Club in Las Vegas, lunch with Playmates and exclusive invites to Hugh Hefner’s famous Playboy Mansion parties.
Primeval: Prehistoric Action Adventure
The past and present are about to collide in this fantastic new ITV1 drama. Primeval, the prehistoric action- packed adventure, starts on ITV1 on 10th February in a primetime Saturday evening slot.
Fabulous February With True Movies
True Movies – the only UK channel dedicated to true stories – is delighted to present its February premieres. With 2.3 million unique viewers per month per channel, True Movies and True Movies 2 are together the most watched movie channels on Sky. Here are some of the February 2007 highlights.
A Celebration Of Friendship & Poetry At The Lowry
During the First World War, two of England’s greatest twentieth century poets met at Craiglockhart War Hospital. Siegfried Sassoon was a decorated war hero who was hospitalised after protesting against the continuing war. Wilfred Owen was a victim of shell shock and accused of cowardice. Upon returning to the front, Sassoon was shot in the head but survived. Owen went on to win the military cross, then die in the trenches seven days before Armistice Day and receive posthumous fame as the greatest poet of the war.
'Most Haunted Live' To Brave Transylvania
For the first time ever, Most Haunted Live will be filmed abroad, choosing the spookiest and most legendary of all places; Transylvania, as Yvette Fielding, psychic David Wells, and the regular Most Haunted crew search for the legend of Dracula.
More Exposure For Unsigned Artists
7digital today announces a partnership with Ricall, an online music marketplace that is used by TV, advertising, computer game and film producers. These professional music buyers will now see unsigned and independent indiestore.com artists added to Ricall’s music database of over 3 million commercially available tracks. This means that in addition to selling to the public, indiestore.com artists will now have the opportunity to get exposure to commercial music buyers and be in with a chance of getting their music on TV ads and programmes, films and computer games.
A Model Girl: The Profumo Affair Musical
With its heady cocktail of sex, politics, guns and espionage, the Profumo Affair of 1963 became Britain’s first tabloid scandal. Now the sensational story of a girl whose dalliance with a Cabinet minister and a Russian diplomat led to jail, suicide and a Prime Minister’s resignation, is to be dramatised in a new musical – ‘A Model Girl’.
Jade Goody - “I am not racist”
Jade Goody faced the British public for the first time on Tuesday on Five's daily topical debate show The Wright Stuff. Goody was questioned by the show's studio audience, viewers phoning in as well as studio guests and host, journalist Matthew Wright. She revealed that she was planning to visit India and that she had returned to her home for the first time that morning and that her windows had been smashed.
Hilary Duff & Sister Haylie Are Material Girls
To Ava (Haylie Duff) and Tanzie Marchetta (Hilary Duff), adult responsibilities consist of getting into the right clubs and making sure their shoes are in season. As the ‘faces’ and heiresses of their late father’s company, Marchetta Cosmetics, they’ve never had to develop any skills beyond looking good. They leave the running of Marchetta to their father’s trusted partner, Tommy (Brent Spiner) while their housekeeper, Inez (Maria Conchita Alonso), the only “mother” they’ve ever known, looks after their house. For the girls, life is one long party!
The Enemy To Tour With The Fratellis
The Enemy are poised to launch a hybrid of frenzied activity that befits their status as one of the hottest emerging talents of 2007. The dynamic trio are currently embarking upon a headline tour that will conclude with an incredible collaboration with Neville Staples of The Specials during their hometown set at Coventry Coloseum (already sold-out).
Virgin Classics Signs Diana Damrau Exclusive
Virgin Classics has the pleasure of announcing the signing of a long-term exclusive recording contract with German soprano Diana Damrau. Her first release on the label (due out January 2008) will be a recital programme of opera arias by Mozart, Salieri and Righini, with the recently founded period instrument ensemble, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, under the direction of its conductor, Jérémie Rhorer.