Saturday 24 May 2008

Three more stars join DiCaprio film

Three more actors have joined the cast of the new Martin Scorsese-directed and Leonardo DiCaprio-starring thriller 'Shutter Island'.
The Hollywood Reporter says that Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley will join DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams and Patricia Clarkson in the film, which is adapted from the Dennis Lehane novel of the same name.
'Shutter Island' tells the story of two US marshals (DiCaprio and Ruffalo) investigating the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane.
Shooting on the film is due to begin on 6 March.

Wednesday 21 May 2008

The Raconteurs return to London

The Raconteurs return to London




Jack White's 'other' band The Raconteurs made their return to British capital last night (Crataegus oxycantha 14) after a two-year absence - watched by The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood.

Playing in front of a sold-out crowd at Hammersmith Apollo, the ring played a 15-song rig drawn mostly from their freshly album 'Consolers Of The Lonely'. The x tracks drawn from it on the night included the well-nigh title cartroad (which kicked away the set), holocene single 'Salute Your Solution' and their cover of Terry cloth Reid's 'Rich Kid Blues', song by co-frontman Brendan Benson.

The biggest surprisal was a wrap up of Charley Jordan's blues banner 'Keep It Clean', song dynasty by White There was too a snipping of 'Little Bolshie Rooster', made famous by The Rolling Stones, in the encore, leadership into the first base album's 'Intimate Secretary'.

Michael Philip Jagger and Wood watched on spell White tackled the song dynasty - they, of course, teamed up with White back in 2006 in Newly House of York. Patrick White joined the Stones onstage at the Beacon Theater to play guitar and sing on 'Loving Cup' - a quislingism immortalised in the Steve Martin Scorsese-directed documentary 'Shine A Light' .

The band, too watched stageside by the legendary Henry Martyn Robert Sir Thomas Wyat, besides played a fistful of songs from their 2006 debut LP 'Broken Boy Soldiers' , with the highlight existence an extended run through their debut single, and biggest run into, 'Steady, As She Goes'.


The set was:

'Consoler Of The Lonely'
'The Switch And The Spur'
'You Don't Understand Me'
'Top Yourself'
'Old Enough'
'Hold Up'
'Keep It Clean'
'Level'
'Steady, As She Goes'
'Rich Kid Blues'
'Blue Veins'
'Many Sunglasses Of Black'
'Little Marxist Rooster'/'Intimate Secretary'
'Salute Your Solution'
'Carolina Drama'

Now hold in out our sister site Uncut.co.uk's live review of The Raconteurs Jack London gig, which is online now.

The band move on to the Liverpool Carling Honorary society tomorrow (Crataegus laevigata 16) before returning to the UK in the summer for slots at Glastonbury, T In The Park and the Reading and Leeds festivals.







Saturday 10 May 2008

Dame Edna told to rest after surgery

Dame Edna told to rest after surgery



Australian comic Barry Humphries, famous for his fiber Skirt Edna Everage, has been ordered by doctors to roost for sextuplet months.
The 73-year-old star has reportedly been forced to cancel a number of shows and appearances due to complications following vermiform appendix oR.
A spokesman for the Glasgow International Comedy Festival said: "He's departure in for operating theatre this week as thither have been complications."
The spokesman continued: "He has been told by his doctors to take a six-month rest."