KEIRA KNIGHTLEY - KNIGHTLEY TERRIFIED OF SINGING SCENES
Actress KEIRA KNIGHTLEY was left traumatised after having to show off her vocal talents in new film THE EDGE OF LOVE.
The star, 23, was terrified of singing in front of an audience - and has vowed never to sing in public again.
She says, "I did some lessons with a voice coach because I can't sing.
There were 100 extras and John (Maybury, the director) was like, 'Now
you're going to sing...'
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Karaoke-style Rock Band descends upon Posh Tuesday
How scary is this? Singers, guitarists, bassists, and drummers of all skill levels are invited out for Rock Band, a new event taking place at Posh, 408 Euclid Avenue, from 7 p.m.-midnight Tuesday.
Rock Band is described as amped-up karaoke, and one doesn’t need to know how to play to play. All that’s asked is you stay on beat.
Rock Band is scheduled to take place the second Tuesday of the month during the summer.
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Georgia Boosts Incentives for Entertainment Industry
ATLANTA (May 12, 2008) – Governor Sonny Perdue today signed into law the 2008 Entertainment Industry Investment Act (HB 1100), new legislation designed to encourage entertainment industry productions in Georgia. The signing ceremony took place at the studios of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), where the Governor was joined by Phil Kent, chairman and CEO of TBS, Inc., and over 100 attendees including legislators, industry leaders and members of the entertainment industry.
"We know that our excellent talent base and outstanding locations make Georgia a very desirable place to film," said Governor Sonny Perdue. "This legislation puts in place the economic cornerstone that will encourage producers to convert that desire into action."
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Johner carves out career in Sask.
Don't try to convince Brad Johner that living in Saskatchewan is a detriment to a music career.
Johner, named Male Vocalist-of-the-Year at the 2007 Canadian Country Music Awards in Regina in September, believes talent and determination supercede location when it comes to success in the music business.
"I think the proof is in the pudding that you can be based in Saskatchewan and be successful," Johner said in a recent telephone interview from his Saskatoon home. "I don't see a bigger music scene in Calgary than I do in Saskatchewan. We have a good music scene here and a lot of my work is travelling right across the country. Being based here means I'm only a plane ride away to where my next show is.
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Sinatra 10 years later: To young stars, Ol' Blue Eyes is an 'all-timer'
Now, 10 years after Sinatra's death (on May 14, 1998) at 82, the charts are littered with artists who hadn't yet launched careers by the time Ol' Blue Eyes shuffled off his mortal coil. To these performers, most of them in their 20s and early 30s, Sinatra is surely a relic of an ancient era: a booze-swilling, pinkie-ring-wearing crooner who just happened to cover many of the great American songbook's greatest songs before Rod Stewart got his chance to have at them.
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8 adventures you can have with Mom
1. Instead of having the usual Mother’s Day lunch or dinner, pretend it’s your Mom’s birthday, too. TGI Friday’s treats birthday honorees to a cake and hearty singing by the resto staff. Get one of the Ribs Ribs Ribs Menu on May 11 and get a special purse hanger for Mom.
2. Take your Mom out dancing! Groove to retro music she sure remembers as the band Amadeus plays ’70s and ’80s music every Friday at Chef & Brewer Café and Restaurant, located at AIC Gold Tower, Emerald Ave., Ortigas Center.
3. Stretch those muscles and bundle up. You don’t need to go far for ice skating. The Ice Skating Rink at Megamall is the perfect getaway from this summer heat, and it’s a fun workout for Mom........
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Digimarc providing support for music industry
Digimarc Corp. on Monday announced a new agreement to license its patents to Media Sciences International, a global provider of digital watermarking solutions and services to the music industry.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based MSI supports major music labels worldwide, with forensic tracking services for the secure distribution and tracking of promotional content.
Beaverton-based Digimarc (NASDAQ: DRMC) is a supplier of secure identity and media management solutions.
Under the agreement, MSI will provide a broad range of digital watermarking solutions to the music industry enabling the adoption of digital rights management models.
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Pop Talk Goes to PDX Fest: Wrap-up and Overview
It's become fairly commonplace to brag about Portland's thriving independent film community: that is, the (mainly) young people who make digital shorts, assemble multimedia presentations of soundscape and projected image, or scrape together grants and favors from friends to create no-budget features. But the national articles trumpeting Portland as a great indie film town, and the municipal back-patting over our booming creative class are so familiar they can start to sound like background noise, a low-level buzz of complacency.
That's why the city should be grateful for the Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival, an utterly necessary and eclectically entertaining event that brings together out-of-town and homegrown talent. From Wednesday through Sunday, this band of individuals formed a temporary community devoted to rule-breaking and expectation-shaking cinema. Like some alterna-world Rose Festival, the PDX Fest -- as it's known for short -- blooms with upstart visions, muckraking manifestos and renegade poetry. This year's PDX Fest concluded its five-day run on Sunday, and -- at the risk of making the fest sound like a heaping helping of oat bran -- Portland was the better for it.
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Australian Music Industry Rallies Stars To Decry Downloading
Now that the ignorance, the lawsuits, the intimidation and the prophecies of doom have failed to elicit a life-raft for the ailing music industry, the Australian contingent has gathered together it's best and brightest to plead and reason with the general public.
A documentary, entitled "In Tune" has been produced by the Australian music industry and features bands such as Silverchair, Powderfinger, The Veronicas, Operator Please, Evermore, Phrase, The Dawn Collective, Human Nature and Weapon X. Bands such as The Vines, Jet and Wolfmother were somewhat noticeable in their absence.
The main theme of the documentary seemed to be about saying that it is the artists which lose out from illegal downloading, and that the industry is trying it's best to adapt, but it needs people to realise the harmful effects of not paying for music.
Tim, from Operator Please declares, "The label pay costs to start with, when you start selling albums, you have to pay them back." Raise your jaws people, it may well be true. Great pains were taken across the board to attempt to dispel the myth that all artists were living the rockstar lifestyle, going to parties and trashing hotel rooms. They just want to do what they love and prepare for their old age said some of the artists interviewed.
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Safe music downloads drive launched
A charity's campaign to promote safe and legal music downloading among young people has been launched, with UK music industry and Government support.
UK record labels body the BPI (formerly known as British Phonographic Industry) backed the initiative by children's internet charity Childnet, which provides guidance to parents and teachers.
Childnet's new pocket-sized guide, Young People, Music And The Internet, carries information on the basics of copyright and the jargon that surrounds digital music.
The guide will be distributed nationwide to parents and teachers via more than 5,500 schools, 2,300 libraries and 125 UK music retailers including Zavvi.
It will also be supported by a viral online campaign.
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