THE 405 NEWS ROUNDUP (10/04/09)
April 10, 2009,
Written by The 405
Hi and welcome to another news roundup bringing you the latest in entertainment, music and art. In today's roundup we have news on Calvin Harris, the Hop Far festival, a new spin off from Spiderman and the Apprentice.
CALVIN HARRIS TURNED DOWN LADY GAGA WHEN UNKNOWN
When the singer/songwriter was asked to work with Lady Gaga last year, he turned her down as he did not like her name and the her music. He says that he does not regret the decision now. There is a rumor that he is going to be working with Katy Perry in the future. Watch this space!
DOVES, EDITORS AND PIGEON DETECTIVES CONFIRMED FOR 'HOP FAR' FESTIVAL
This festival is to take on July 4 -5 and will also feature appearances from the Super Furry animals and the Mystery Jets.
So far the line up is as follows:-
Saturday July 4
The Pigeon Detectives
Echo And The Bunnymen
Florence And The Machine
Noah And The Whale
Howling Bells
Etienne De Crecy
Dr Lektroluv
D.I.M
Jape
The Twilight Sad
Let’s Wrestle
The Good The Bad
Sunday July 5
Paul Weller
Editors
Doves
Super Furry Animals
Mystery Jets
Ladyhawke
The Rifles
That Petrol Emotion
2ManyDJs
Scratch Perverts
Alex Gopher
Burn The Negative
R.S.A.G.
65 Days Of Static
Dananananaykroyd
Fight Like Apes
Tickets for the entire weekend will cot £125 while a ticket for just a day will cost £65.
MOVIE ABOUT VENOM: SPIDER - MAN BAD GUY
Sony are responsible for planning the above idea and have got Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film's writers and executive producers to thank for it. At the moment, we do not know what the film is going to be about but the two writers have said that there is a lot of current material to work from.
APPRENTICE: RATINGS UP THIS WEEK DUE TO NO FOOTBALL
It had 1.2 million more viewers than last week. The follow up to the show on BBC 2 also had 2.8 million viewers this week. Last week more people were interested in watching England playing Ukraine. Ratings should go up next week as their bath products do not sell very well. Again time to tune in to something you can laugh at rather than learn from. The show has been going downhill every year, unfortunately.
Chris - 15/03/10
You have the wrong Jamie T song up, this is unfair on poor Jamie... However I think Delphic kick ass too. [view article]
duncan - 15/03/10
is this really a debate? [view article]
fokkawolfe - 15/03/10
love this band! Blogged about them as well: http://fokkawolfe.blogspot.com/2010/03/tanlines-settings-ep-and-real-life.html [view article]
Rich - 15/03/10
She and Him WTF? (did you see what i did there?) "Well all right, it's okay. We all get the slips sometimes, every day." Wow, clearly Deschanel is the next Morrissey. I really like the new Laura Marling though. [view article]
duncan - 15/03/10
Well I find them boring. What's the appeal? Is it the 'they toured with Los Campesinos! so therefore they're good' argument? As for the 'surely due to hit the big time' comment, I'm pretty sure I heard that at this exact time last year about that album. When is this hitting the 'big time' going to happen exactly? [view article]