The winners of Stand Up To Cancer's "Up 2 You"competition in which Dave Stewart and Joss Stone asked the world to spread the word about the initiative by covering their hymn "Stand Up To Cancer" and upload a video of it to YouTube. The entries are covering a wide range of musical, visual and social ways expressing the message of the song. Read details of the competition and the prizes in the original announcement here and watch the videos … more
Dave Stewart brought Nadirah X, Ann Marie Calhoun and Judith Hill with him to the Back2Black Festival 2010 in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. Yesterday evening they discussed and performed at a public press panel (read a Portuguese blog entry here) and last night they rocked the stage of the festival.
Click here to see a number of photos of their appearances yesterday.
Here are two videos from their rehearsals for the festival in Rio including a great new version of … more
"Teenage Dream", the second album by mega pop star Katy Perry, has been released today in Germany including the summer hit "California Gurls" (featuring Snoop Dogg). Click the picture on the left for a huge version of the album's cover photo.
The standard edition of "Teenage Dream" comes with 12 tracks, the limited 2 CD edition has 2 more songs (dance hits she recorded with Timbaland and 3OH!3) and 3 remixes.
Of course the album is also available in … more
Nadirah X. In the past months she has been in Zambia as a teacher, trying to build a library for children in a small village against the plans that the international oil company Blackwell Briggs had, they hunted her but with the help of many friends she made it to Scotland Yard with a contract proving their evil plans which lead to the arrestment of Blackwell Briggs's CEO - that was Nadirah X as part of "The Conspiracy For Good". With her … more
After a little confusion about the DVD plans of Shakespears Sister Siobhan Fahey - as reported there were plans for a live DVD of the current tour, then there were plans for a video clip DVD to the latest album "Song From The Red Room" - it's now clear: Both DVDs are coming! As Siobhan Fahey revealed on Facebook, already next month, in September 2010, Shakepears Sister releases:
s.f.t.r.r Videos (DVD)
01 BAD BLOOD (DIRECTOR’S CUT)
02 … more
Annie Lennox and teachers from all over Scotland standing with the 34th African Children's Choir on the steps of the Scottish Parliament (Click to enlarge) - a great photo Annie posted on her website together with some press coverage clippings from her visit at the Festival Of Politics in the past 2 days:
The HeraldMetroCourierThe ScotsmanThe Press And Journal
In addition to the presentation of "SING Campaing - One Year On" (watch here again), … more
As reported here earlier, Annie Lennox presented her SING Campaign this Thursday in Holyrood, Scotland. Coming back to the "Festival Of Politics" after her visit in 2009 (more), the event was named "Annie Lennox and the SING Campaign - One Year On". Annie Lennox joined a panel on Wednesday already at the Scottish parliament (watch it again here).
First Annie explained in 40 minutes with the help of a number of films shot in Africa … more
Bryan Ferry returns with a new studio album called "Olympia" on October 25, 2010, including three songs co-written by Dave Stewart. One is the new single called "You Can Dance" out now, the second one is called "Alphaville" which is also included on "Olympia". Both are based on same-titled tracks for the mid-90s album "Alphaville" which was never released:
"Another world tour followed, likewise another delayed release: an album called Alphaville was … more
In 1975, Jon Roseman produced the video for Queen’s single “Bohemian Rhapsody”. During the 1980s, he produced and directed hundreds of music videos and worked with the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Rod Stewart. His video for the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first played on American MTV in 1981. Here, he recalls his five favourite music videos:
#5 ‘Love is a Stranger’ (1982) by the Eurythmics
"I produced and co-directed 12 Eurythmics’ videos … more
In the second half of his interview Ian Sanders talks to Dave Stewart about putting ideas into action. Dave talks about implementing ideas, ideas spaghetti, relinquishing control, how to get ideas noticed and the lessons he's learnt from his experience in Eurythmics.
For part 1 of the interview and more from the recording click here. and visit iansanders.com.
Buy Daves book The Business Playground about creativity and money here now … more