Back in 2001 the quiet, sleep town of Slough was the centre of attention for a new character which would be loved as much as he would be loathed. Ricky Gervais, then a relatively unknown personality in the comedy universe gave birth to David Brent, a manager of paper firm who loosely resembled bosses across the country in the working environment.
The marketing team at the Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas must be pretty miffed. It’s impossible to ignore one of America’s most popular divas is taking up residency there and it’s impossible to ignore it.
About Twenty-four hours, that’s the last time we were reminded of Miley Cyrus twerking at the VMA’s back in the Summer causing controversy for her unruly behaviour which was followed by her explicit video for Wrecking Ball. It’s Friday night in Amsterdam and in a couple of days time Miley will have the chance to redeem herself when she performs at the MTV EMAs.
It’s June 2005 and Bobby Gillespie finds himself defending a comment he made at Glastonbury Festival. Primal Scream replace Kylie Minogue at the twelve hour following reports the singer has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Back in the Summer, on August 20 we staged our first ever concert for disabled awareness at Camden Roundhouse.
It seems like only a months ago Mumford & Sons played a small concert, by their standards, in Camden; probably due to the fact it was actually in September we caught Mumford, Winston, Ben and Ted performing in front of 3,000 people at the iTunes festival.
Capitol Theater, Kaiserstraße - This small music venue in Frankfurt isn’t the mecca for stadium conquering bands. Despite a quick glance at the popular forthcoming attractions (Noel Gallagher is here in a few weeks time) those playing inside this compact hall will struggle to attract worldwide appeal. Except tonight, tonight is different, tonight is special!
Events in 1985 include, Live Aid, British Telecom phasing out their red telephone boxes and the launch of Comic Relief. Back then if you required reference to history your source of information was found down the local library, there was none of this Internet malarkey and looking up dates on Wikipedia hoping the information was reliable.
From an outsider a trail of youngsters camping out for eight nights on the streets of London would call for alarm bells to ring, although for those besotted with tracks about a ringing device, a nod to the late Princess Diana and walking down the aisle to start a relationship with the end of the day it makes perfect sense as you understand the monster pit small capacity could be your exclusive pass to meeting the most famous pop singer in the world.
On Monday evening we were busy staging our own concert in London, so busy in fact we ran a competition last week for somebody to review the event on our behalf.