Music
Glastonbury: Beyond The Music & Mud
As part of Music Week, Community Channel looks beyond the music and the mud of Glastonbury festival with two home grown documentaries about the huge volunteer effort that goes on behind the scenes at the largest music and performing arts festival in the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nina Stemme To Release Richard Strauss Album
Nina Stemme, Isolde to Plácido Domingo’s Tristan in EMI’s multi-award-winning Tristan und Isolde recording of 2005, launches her exclusive contract with EMI Classics with a Richard Strauss programme with a twist. Her collaborators are once again the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and its music director, Antonio Pappano.
Lose Your Phone, Not Your Mobile Life
You'll never need to worry again about losing your mobile or having it stolen thanks to a new service called Mobyko. Mobyko is the simple and free way to safely store everything on your mobile phone online and access it from anywhere in the world 24/7.
Tracey Thorn Releases First Single In 5 Years
If there is a timeless cross-generational voice in modern English pop, folk and electronica, it is that of Tracey Thorn (of Everything But The Girl). After twenty years of recording and touring she walked away to raise her family and didn’t sing a note for five years.
Coldplay ‘The Singles 1999 – 2006’
For the first time, all 14 of Coldplay's singles are to be collected together in a box set. Each single will be pressed on heavyweight 7-inch vinyl and sleeved in its original artwork. The box set will contain five singles which have never previously appeared on 7-inch vinyl.
K-os Releases New Album: Atlantis – Hymns For Disco
K-os makes music for himself, first and foremost. This is at the musical heart of his third album, ATLANTIS – Hymns for Disco. Here, k-os challenged himself by creating a sonic landscape that shows no boundaries and crosses many musical styles, sounds and generations. And while it was certainly not his intention, he had no choice but to make his most personal and revealing album yet.
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