Glastonbury retains registration system

Music lovers hoping for a ticket to this year's Glastonbury Festival will have to register their interest next month, organiser Michael Eavis has confirmed.
As part of the battle against touts, anyone wanting a ticket to the world's biggest music and performing arts festival must register by the end of February.
Eavis said: "I want to keep up the momentum we gathered last year by stopping ticket touting altogether.
"Thank you for being so supportive of our registration process, which is, after all, quite tedious. I appreciate it so much."
The 2008 registration process is similar to last year's system, which involved supplying contact details and a standard passport photo.
Everyone, including children aged 13 and over, who wants to buy tickets will need to register first to be eligible to go through the sales procedure on 6 April.
Music lovers can either sign up online - via www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk - or by completing a registration form which is available from any branch of camping store chain Millets.
Glastonbury Festival 2008 takes place at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England over the weekend of 27-29 June.

Carly Simon stays silent about who was so vain

Carly Simon stays silent about who was so vain

Fresh York (Reuters) - Now that the identity element of "Trench Throat", the mystery rootage in the Watergate scandal showcase, has been revealed, there is very only i lingering mystery from the seventies.


World Health Organization was ballad maker Carly Simon vocalizing around in her 1973 song "You're So Vain"?


"I get told people," Simon, wHO has just now released a fresh album "This Kind of Love," said in an interview.


She may have told a few friends, merely millions of people still conjecture about the someone world Health Organization "walked into the party like you were walk onto a racing yacht."


The piece whose sawhorse won at Saratoga, and world Health Organization flew a Lear jet up to Nova Scotia to go through the total eclipse of the sun.


Simon's fans want to know if it was Mickey Michael Philip Jagger, Warren Beatty, Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, or perhaps another man she was close to.


Simon, 62, said she has never been interviewed without existence asked to name the whodunit individual with the big self-importance.


"Everyone always asks me. I don't know why people are so interested," she said. "Tell me, you must know." 





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JAMES MCMURTRY

JAMES MCMURTRY

Just Us Kids (Lightning Retinal rod): B-

Nothing on McMurtry’s freshly CD touches the cogency and index of his 2005 objection song “We Can’t Make It Here.” The statute title track spans 50 sad years in settlement life, only like a lot of others, the call is long on aspiration and short on discipline. “Cheney’s Toy” seems a strong political bombast, yet world Health Organization is it around? George W. Bush? A soldier? The dead? Tale vocabulary bathroom change for no good reason. At his topper, McMurtry’s political sympathies privy be a restorative: “Divinity Bless America” and “Ruins of the Realm” get peck of fine, angry bite. Just his voice is express, and his dead end characters just race from doomed to stoned to dead. Body fluid, free grace or light is never evident on this long, wordy tramp pull down a depressing, turd road. Download: “Ruins of the Region. ” (Appearance tonight at Reb D’s, Somerville.)







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Infected Mushroom and Berry Sakharof

   
Artist: Infected Mushroom and Berry Sakharof

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Kooks reveal name of new album

Kooks reveal name of new album

The Kooks have announced details of their newly album, which will be released next year.
The record album, the follow-up to their bestselling debut 'Inside Out', is called 'Konk', and is named afterwards Ray Davies' studio in North London.
'Konk' will be released on 14 April.
Among the tracks which will feature on the album are: 'Disappear', 'Lonely Cat', 'Sway', 'Stormy Weather', 'See the Sun', 'Shine On', 'Do You Wanna (Make Honey to Me)'.




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WBCN's Rock 'n' Roll Rumble is still kicking

WBCN's Rock 'n' Roll Rumble is still kicking

Rock doesn’t care midsection age recollect whole that “I leslie Townes Hope I pall earlier I get old” and “It’s better to burn out than languish away” stuff?

Yet here we are, hundreds of bands and 30 years by and by, and WBCN [internet site]’s Stone ’n’ Roll Rumble is still kicking: The 2008 Grumble volition offer four bands on sextet nights commencement Dominicus at Harpers Ferry. It concludes with the Apr 25 finals, featuring a operation by the number one Grumbling champs, the Neighborhoods.

The storied battle of the bands has helped launch a pick out few of Boston’s topper: ’Til Tues, the Dresden Dolls and, um, well, that’s about it. More oft, it’s bestowed the kiss of obscurity on forgotten others - Slaughter Domicile ne'er rattling set the charts ablaze did it?

Simply the Rumble was never meant to be about devising careers, said ’BCN general handler Tony Bernardini.

“On that point was a period of time when we got caught up in trying to progress to it bigger and bigger every year. We had to mean or so the intention of this thing. It’s not to sustain bigger, non to crown the next big thing out of Boston, but to give unknown bands a phase,” he said.

Careen institutions, especially middle-aged ones, often assume a lacing for beingness irrelevant and out of touch (read: the ultra-lame John Rock and Pluck Hall of Celebrity). The Rumbling is no different. Often the best bands don’t come through - or yet score it into the




Dry Kill Logic

'Idol' fans give Michael Johns the boot

'Idol' fans give Michael Johns the boot

Michael Johns' dreams ended Thursday (4/10) when "American English God [ tickets ]" fans, 31 trillion of whom voted, gave him the ax from the designate. The Australian-born heartthrob, 29, american ginseng Aerosmith's "Dream On" Tues (4/8) to a mixed reception from the trey book of Judges, Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Paul Simon Cowell.Michael Joe Jackson called it "pitchy" and a poor strain option, piece Abdul told Jasper Johns, "You sound as goodness as you look." Cowell, an outspoken fan of Johns, said it was a "rattling commodity functioning." However, "I don't like it when you do an impersonation of a rock candy ace. It was a little wanna be-ish." The cast off belike was a shocker to many "American English Graven image" fans and to Johns, wHO had never appeared in the bottom three before. He was joined by Syesha Mercado and Carly Smithson--not Kristy Lee side Cook, world Health Organization was a weekly underside eater until Th. "I'm in spades surprised," Johns said. "I enjoyed tattle that song. If there's a song to go out on, that's not a badly 1."Paul Simon Cowell told Jasper Johns, "I'm departure to miss you. You're a rattling, very good singer and a very, very nice cat."Mercado took on another tiger, as Jackson called it, this hebdomad when she panax quinquefolius Fantasia's crowning song "I Believe." The tattooed Smithson offered her rendering of "The Show up Moldiness Go On" by Queen. No one was peculiarly polishing demur for the diminutive David Archuleta, wHO played forte-piano and sang Robbie Williams' oversea hit "Angels," and dread-locked Jason Fidel Castro Ruz, wHO served up a Hawaiian-flavored "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."Thomas J. Jackson told Archuleta that his forbear in "Angels" was "the hottest of entirely time of year," and Cowell called the teen's performance "the best song choice of the night."The usually strong St. David Misrepresent underwhelmed with Our Madam Peace's strike "Inexperienced person."The results show was moved to Thursday because "Idol Gives Back" aired on Wednesday (4/9), reportedly bringing up $60 meg, according to server Ryan Seacrest.





Kelly Clarkson