The voice from Tiger Bay is still going strong as she’s proved recently with new album The Performance, which saw a host of artists writing for her including Gary Barlow, Manic Street Preachers and the Pet Shop Boys. Here, Shirley Bassey talks about still having a vocal coach, recording her new album and how she was born to do it: “Even when I had my first job in a factory and I was wrapping up enamelware for export I’d just sing and people would stop working…”
So, we saw them perform it live(ish) on Sunday night’ s X-Factor, all dressed in white looking like they had just walked off the Flying Without Wings music video in possibily the cheesiest X-Factor moment ever. If you thought that was a one-off hammed up performance for the camera, think again: the official music video is far, far worse…
Alice In Chains have had a remarkable career which includes multiple Grammy nominations, selling more than 17 million albums worldwide, topping the Billboard Top 200 album chart with two albums and 11 Billboard Top 10 hit singles. We thought now would be a good time to catch up with one of the original forefathers of early 90s rock, formed in Seattle in the late 80s and forever associated with the grunge genre. We spoke to William DuVall, Comes With the Fall frontman and the newest member of the band having joined in 2005…
Rihanna - Brixton Academy, London - November 16th
The last time Rihanna did a headline show in London she was a global pop star in love with another pop star, Chris Brown. How times change. She’s recently admitted that she found it hard coping with the transformation of “going to bed as Rihanna and waking up as Britney Spears” in relation to her much-publicised domestic violence, but with the release of her fourth album Rated R due next week, she’s getting all the support she deserves with her return to the stage, with both her mentor Jay-Z and rapper Jeezy showing up on stage last night at Brixton’s 02 Academy for her Nokia-sponsored gig…
