In Search of the Golden Apple (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
'I thought that I was over you, but it’s true, so true. I love you even more than I did before. But darling, what can I do? For you don’t love me and I’ll always be crying over you.' - lyrics of Crying by Roy Orbison Those are very true words. I love him, but he doesn’t love me. I want the best for him, yet want him to be with me, which would probably be the worst fate. I loved...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Whatsonstage.com Television channel is a rapidly expanding archive of theatre-related video content. As well as our exclusive first night reports, we regularly add show trailers, event promos, interviews, video diaries and behind-the-scenes f...
local Cut (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Formed: 2007 in San Francisco Members: Christopher Owens and Chet “JR” White. Latest release: Girls’ debut, Album, came out this fall on True Panther records. Why you care: Girls’ back story is almost too good to be true: Frontman and songwriter Christopher Owens grew up as a member of the Children of God cult in Florida (no, really) [...] Related posts: Primer: The Avengers...
Local Nights Out (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
It’s back – we have ticket availability for the musical Dreamboats and Petticoats at the Playhouse Theatre in London – selling until 6th January 2010 – so get your tickets now for an evening of songs from Roy Orbison, The Shadows, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury, Chuck Berry and many more. Featuring the hit songs Lets Dance, [...]
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Supergroups are never as mind-blowingly awesome as you think they’ll be. The Traveling Wilburys, for example, seemed like a good idea, what with the combination of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison. But the music was largely terrible . Same basically goes for the Highwaymen, with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings: great on paper, disappointing...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Filed under: Video , Movies Sometimes it's easy to think that rock and roll sprouted overnight, that people like Elvis started strumming on a guitar and poof! But like all forms of music, rock came via progression made possible by a variety of people, places and scenes. So then, where did it come from? Cue ' One for the Money: The Birth of Rock and Roll .' Culled from old musical footage and interviews...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Rock ‘n’ roll compilation musical Dreamboats and Petticoats, which recently finished an extended season at the Savoy Theatre (See News::E8831245075146, 15 Jun 2009), will reopen in the new year in a new West End home, the Playhouse Theatr...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
All this reminiscing around the career of the mighty ELO got me musing about something. Is Jeff Lynne basically the single luckiest/most fulfilled bloke in the entire history of rock music? Let's look at the evidence... Here's Jeff, a member of an obscure Brummy beat combo who's grown up being heavily influenced by a range of artists, each of which have blended to form a part of his musical DNA. There's...
Radio Clash Podcast (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Checking my email after Africa and this note from Skyve Reuter, the Belgian dj and producer dropped in the inbox: Hi blog friends, I just released a free bootleg album called ‘Bootbox’, including 13 mashups of banging party tunes and two dj-friendly edits of tracks by Roy Orbison and MGMT. Several tracks were already picked up by [...]
Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
I fully admit to being a complete TV junkie, something which at times even rivals my music junkie status (mostly while LOST is on). So I’m introducing “Television Rules The Nation” (”Kicking Television” was taken), a semi-weekly post about what I’m currently watching. Here it goes. First and foremost, we have to talk about that Mad Men finale. [...]
World Hum (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news Bob Ecker has a modest proposal for the airline industry Rick Steves on the delights of the former Eastern Bloc
The Gamesblog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Impressions of Batman Arkham Asylum on PC and Avatar on Xbox 360. As anyone who has been to the cinema in the last few months will tell you 3D is everywhere. In fact it's getting difficult to see an animated film that isn't in 3D. Recent examples included Up and Ice Age 3. Whether 3D adds anything to those films is debatable – Up especially, has no need for it – but you can expect the...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Easily among our top 500 favorite things about last night's awesome Mad Men finale was — spoiler! — the use of Roy Orbison's "Shahdaroba" over the episode's final images. Written by Cindy Walker and recorded by Orbison in 1963, the spooky track (see the lyrics here ) served as both the perfect sendoff for Betty ("When a dream dies/ And the heart cries ... ") and a harbinger...
The Southport Drinker (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Simon Cowell was going on about the film Gumbo on tonight’s X Factor, featuring the Roy Orbison song Crying. It’s not Gumbo, it’s Gummo, an ace punk film featuring loads of drinking and bizarre characters. It’s a genuinely disgusting film featuring cat mutilation and other disturbing scenes but it’s got that X Factor that used to [...]
X Factor - Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Lights, camera... Action! It's the Movie Special. But what on earth is everyone's favourite Bond villain Simon Scowl up to? Apart from a few deluded mothers (and Steve Brookstein), everyone loves Simon, of course. But his behaviour on this series...
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