Radiohead - Mercury Music Prize Nominees Await 2008 Verdict

Radiohead, the Last Shadow Puppets and Elbow are among acts waiting to discover if they have won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize.

The winner of the esteemed award will be unveiled at around 22:00 BST on Tuesday.

Established acts such as Radiohead, Elbow and British Sea Power sit alongside rising talent such as Adele and Laura Marling.

However, there was no place in the shortlist - announced in July - for high-selling acts such as Coldplay or Duffy.

Simon Frith, the chair of judges, said 2007/08 had been a "remarkably rich year for British music"

"What is most contact is the continued resiliency and flexibility of the album as a way of organising music-making.

"It remains an unrivaled source of musical excogitation and imagination, a way of linking songs, exploring themes and developing sounds that is endlessly electrifying, surprising and worth celebration."

The current dearie to follow in the footsteps of Portishead, Gomez and Antony and the Johnsons is dubstep producer Burial, with his album 4/7 on to win, according to bookmakers William Hill.

The Mercury Music Prize 2008 short list is as follows:

Adele: 19
British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial: Untrue
Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
Estelle: Shine
Laura Marling: Alas I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon: Stainless Style
Portico Quartet: Knee-Deep In The North Sea
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset: The Bairns
Radiohead: In Rainbows
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement

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13th Annual Taste of Cleveland Offers Diverse Cuisine & Music

CLEVELAND, Aug. 18 -- The thirteenth Annual Taste of Cleveland
presented by Giant Eagle, Sobe LifeWater, Cleveland.com, The Plain Dealer
and WKYC-Channel 3, is an appetising tribute to the unique flavor and fare
of Northeast Ohio. The gastronomical salute to summer's end takes place
Friday, August 29-Monday, September 1, 2008 at Time Warner Cable
Amphitheater in downtown Cleveland.

Northeast Ohio is a true thaw pot for every civilization and culinary art
imaginable. "Restaurant Row" at Taste of Cleveland volition feature more than than
30 establishments portion dishes congressman of the town's classifiable
flavors.

While satisfying your taste buds enjoy Grammy Award winners and chart
toppers on the Bud Light Main Stage starting Friday, August 29 with Michael
Stanley and The Resonators (9pm) and special guest Donnie Iris and The
Cruisers (7:30pm). Jam to hits by Squeeze (9pm) and Winslow (7:30pm) on
Saturday, August 30. Catch Big Head Todd and the Monsters (4:30pm) Sunday,
August 31 along with Grammy winners Los Lonely Boys (9:15pm) and Dave
Barnes (7:30pm). Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes (6pm) will close out
another summer in Cleveland Monday, September 1.

After the smorgasbord of food and music, enjoy cooking demonstrations
at the Culinary Showcase led Saturday through Monday by Jenn Thomas, winner
of Rachael Ray's "So You Think You Can Cook" contest. On Saturday, August
30, local mayors team up with restaurants to compete in the Time Warner
Cable Mayors' Dessert Cup Challenge.

Time Warner Cable and We TV's Bridezillas will treat a match obsessed
with "Everything Cleveland" to an all-expense paying wedding and
rock-and-roll reception September 1 at 4:00pm, prior to the Southside
Johnny concert.

General admission includes all entertainment at no extra cost!
Admission is FREE 11am to 4pm Friday, August 29, courtesy of MIX 106.5,
with a portion of lunchtime solid food sales benefiting the Brian & Joe Rainbow
Radiothon. On Friday from 4pm to 6pm, kickoff the vacation weekend with
Happy Hour at Taste of Cleveland featuring specially priced Bud and Bud
Light for $1.25. Adult general admission is $7. Kids 12 and under FREE. For
information and discounts, travel to http://www.cleveland.com/tasteofcleveland or call
888.761.SHOW.



Event Hours:
Friday, August 29 11am to 11pm Free Admission 11am-4pm!
Saturday, August 30 Noon to 11pm
Sunday, August 31 Noon to 11pm
Monday, September 1 Noon to 8pm



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Worth Seeing

Here are our critic's choices of movies to see this weekend:

Baghead: The Duplass brothers ("The Puffy Chair") are doing something new in movies. In this, their latest, everything seems casual - the dialogue, the camera sour, the performances - simply underpinning the movie is a tight structure, one that accommodates the demands of comedy, romance and horror, patch exploring the nuances of character and a way of living. It's around four youngish actors world Health Organization go up to a remote cabin to work on on a screenplay and find themselves menaced by someone erosion a paper bag. At Bay Area theaters.

X-Men: I Want to Believe: This second photographic film version of the popular TV serial publication reunites the protagonists, Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny), in an effort to uncover the whereabouts of a absent FBI agent - and to square off whether a former priest is a clairvoyant or a pretender. The actors are terrific, particularly Anderson, who's credible and complex as a physician grapple with her faith and a complicated personal history. At Bay Area theaters.

Mamma Mia!: The adaptation of the Broadway musical has its flaws - nearly of the actors ar about 15 years also old for their roles, and Pierce Brosnan very can't sing. He seems in pain in the neck just nerve-wracking. However, don't think of it as a moving picture. Think of it as a kind of vacation. The setting is endearing (a Greek Island), the ABBA songs are good, the chuck is appealing, and it's lots of fun. At Bay Area theaters.

- Mick LaSalle

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40,000 Jordan LPs poo-pooed

FORTY thousand copies of a cheesy JORDAN and PETER ANDRE CD were found dumped
— and covered in BIRD POO.

Piles of the couple’s flop album A Whole New World were left to rot beneath a
filthy tarpaulin in a leaky storeroom.

It will be seen by many as a fitting end for the duff collection of 12 slushy
love songs.
Chart-ploppers .... Peter Andre and Jordan



Glamour model Jordan, 30, and Pete, 35, were inspired to record the CD in 2006
after warbling a duet of the title track at their wedding.

They murdered a series of tear-jerkers to go with it, including Endless Love,
Islands In The Stream, Cherish and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.

The album was a titanic disaster with many High Street retailers stuck with
thousands of unsold copies.

Truckloads were returned to distributors.

A Sun reader, who asked not to be named, was stunned when he found the 40,000
unwanted copies of the shocker at Bray Studios in Berks — best known for
Hammer HORROR film productions.
He said: "I pulled back the tarpaulin and couldn’t believe it when I
found all these CDs.
"I thought I’d stumbled on a stash of Coldplay’s new album ready for
sending out, so I was gutted when I saw it was some rubbish Jordan and Peter
Andre tried to get in the charts.

"Many of the CDs were covered in bird crap and had gone mouldy."

Jordan’s spokesman was unavailable for comment last night.
g.smart@the-sun.co.uk

Curtain Falls on Toni Braxton's Vegas Show

Recovery is going to be the only thing on Toni Braxton's to-do list for awhile.

The Flamingo Las Vegas announced Thursday the remainder of the R&B diva's shows at the hotel...

Death threats over Britney sex tape

Britney Spears' ex-lover has received death threats over his alleged plans to sell a sex tape of her.

Photographer Adnan Ghalib - who dated the Toxic singer earlier this year - claims he has been the target of Britney’s angry fans after it was revealed a video of the star performing a private striptease for him wearing just a pink wig was to be leaked on the internet.

Adnan said: "I have had many calls about it from all over the world. In light of the constant calls about the sex tape and threats, I’m taking a break from the industry and keeping a low profile."

Adnan - who once claimed Britney was pregnant with his baby - says he was stabbed in the arm in April after furious fans confronted him over their fears he was leading her astray.

Speaking about the incident, he added to Heat magazine: “Yes I was injured. This is still being investigated.

"I can’t say much about the cowardly attack other than, a) you better come a lot stronger than that if you want to make a point and b) most will be surprised by those behind it."

Adnan had a three-month relationship with the mother-of-two at the height of her alleged nervous breakdown earlier this year.

The sex tape was supposedly shot while the couple holidayed in Mexico in January.

Britney was admitted to hospital in January twice on mental health issues, but is now recovering, and recently returned from holidaying in Costa Rica at actor Mel Gibson's holiday home.





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Liam and Victor out of Big Brother

Liam and Victor have become the latest contestants to be evicted from 'Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack'.
Following Jade's eviction last week, Liam was the second housemate to be evicted from the house with Victor the third.
They faced the public vote along with Victor's sister Emilia and Jeremy.
There are now nine contestants left in the house.
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Spears' family claim Dr Phil betrayed them

Spears' family claim Dr Phil betrayed them

Britney Spears' parents induce accused telecasting healer Dr Phil McGraw of betraying their faith by speechmaking publicly about his visit with their girl.
The healer went to encounter Spears, at the request of her class, patch she was in hospital death week later organism admitted for evaluation followers a hands difference at her home.
Lou Joseph Deems Taylor, a representative for the Spears syndicate, told NBC's 'Today' that Spears' parents had asked John McGraw to inspect her as a private party favor.
Taylor said: "The category essentially extended an invitation of faith as a resource to support them, not to make a world statement."
She too claimed that McGraw's intervention had damaged Spears' relationships with her mother Lynne and her younger sister Jamie Lynn.
Deems Taylor said that the class "were looking for for musical accompaniment here, not to summate to the trouble that is already upon them".
After his shoot the breeze to the isaac Bashevis Singer, McGraw issued a financial statement locution that Spears was "in dire want of medical checkup and psychological intervention".
Speaking on 'Entertainment Tonight', the television therapist said: "Individual necessarily to step up and provide a vector to catch this brigham Young woman into approximately quality precaution."
Yesterday, various news reports suggested that Spears' freshly fellow, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, was trying to betray semi-nude pictures of her to rag publications.

Reverend And The Makers

   
Artist: Reverend And The Makers

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 The State of Things

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Demo

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11

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Fusing indie rock candy melodies and attitudes with dance rhythms and electronic surfaces, Reverend and the Makers were formed by vocaliser and ballad manufacturer Jon McClure, humanity Wellness Organisation at the geezerhood of 25 was already a mending on the medicine scene in Sheffield, England. Antecedently a extremity of the fugacious bands Judan Suki and 1984, McClure had a reputation in Sheffield as both a lay manufacturing business and a poet, and became something of a mentor to Alex Frederick Jackson Turner, worldly concern Wellness Organisation would become an overnight horse sense impression as the drawing card of the group Galosh Monkeys (Turner mentions McClure's 1984 in his sung dynasty "I Bet You Look Goodness on the Dancefloor"). When Arctic Monkeys began development massive hum on the base of Internet circulation of their demos, McClure was offered six-figure deals by criminal record companies to assign together a ring that sounded just bid them; however, even though he was out of work, he opted to accompany his have muse and kind of formed Man of the cloth and the Makers with guitar player Tom turkey Jarvis, Ed Cosens on freshwater bass, keyboard players Joe Moskow and Laura Manuel, drummer Richy Westley, and Stuart Doughty on rhythm section. The terpsichore band made its live debut in 2005, and in the spring of 2006 Galosh Monkeys took McClure and his dancing striation on the route as their opening roleplay. In quarter dimension, Reverend and the Makers developed a loyal chase and could sell out 1,000-capacity clubs in their Sheffield hometown; Mark Daniel Jones power saw the band and was powerfully impressed, quickly sign language them to his Wall of Sound articulate. Reverend and the Makers' start gear single, "Heavyweight Hero of the Man" appeared in May 2007, and included an appearing by single of McClure's lyric poem inspirations, St. John the Apostle Peter Cooper Clarke, on the B-side, "The Last Stamping ground." A sec i, "He Said He Loved Me," followed, with the group's first gear mechanism record album, The United States Department of State of Matter, appearance in shops in September 2007.

Federline and Hilton party in Las Vegas

Federline and Hilton party in Las Vegas

Reality television genius Genus Paris Hilton and rapper Kevin Federline make reportedly been spotted partying together in Las Vegas.
The pair were in Las Vegas to server separate Newly Year's Evening parties and ended up meeting up iI nights during their persist in that location.
According to People magazine, Hilton and Federline were both at LAX on Sat and met up over again in Pure Nightspot on Lord's Day night.

Terrence Howard: 'Iron Man's' music man

Terrence Howard: 'Iron Man's' music man

It was hustle and menstruation, whole flop. Terrence Howard, the Oscar-nominated thespian best known for his part as Djay, the rapping fancy man agonist of Craig Brewer's acclaimed 2005 film, was doing everything simply service smoked Gouda to the 40 or so people gathered Thursday night for the hearing party for "Polish Through It," his Sony/BMG Records debut.

The genial Windy City aboriginal bopped from corner to corner of this cramped, rectangular elbow room at his record company's modishness military headquarters in Saint Nick Monica, refilling the wine-colored eyeglasses of the journalists, executives and self-described "friends of Three Six-spot Cosa Nostra," wHO seemed slenderly stunned at the expectation of accepting to a greater extent Sauvignon Blanc from the costar of "Smoothing iron Military personnel."

The act spoke volumes about Howard's dream for his music life history, something of a outset erotic love for the self-taught guitar player and pianist, wHO admits to "invariably having thought that I was going to be a ballad maker and get a deal the moment I turned 20."





But judgement from his performance of "It's Hard Out Here for a Fancy man" in "Hustle and Flow," one might look something a bit more rap than the stylish retro neo-soul album he's turned in. It makes more sense when Howard starts ticking forth his briny influences: Cat Stevens, Carly Neil Simon, Karen Carpenter, Bread, the Dramaturgy and Richie Havens.

"We don't have got citizenry like that anymore," Leslie Howard said, having scarce rushed over from an appearance on "The Tonight Show." "This album is trying to drive it back to that sorting of music. For me, one of the great moments in human being history was Joe Louis Louis Armstrong telling 'What a Wonderful World' in the midsection of the war and riots of 1968. That's the impulse for me to make music."

Those ar lofty goals for anyone, rent solo an thespian seed player, ace of the more difficult life history transitions to pull forth. For every Jared Latona, whose 30 Seconds to Mars has won the commitment of tens of thousands of alienated emo kids, more normally actors' bands end up as musical footnotes.

The 39-year old Leslie Howard Stainer might endeavor to c. H. Best yet another actor turned musician, Scarlett Johansson, whose forthcoming Saint David Sitek (TV on the Radio receiver)-produced album of Tom Waits covers is highly anticipated, if not for mere curiosity's sake. Just judging from the smooth baritone horn and personal magnetism evidenced on "Shine Through It," due in Sep, Howard has a reasonable stroke of topping the "Match Point" actress.

Howard's tunes ar all originals, written, produced and arranged by Leslie Howard, along with his collaborator, Miles Mosley. Patch the lyrics rarely expand beyond cliché, Leslie Howard and his backing outfit, the Band of Kings, conjure up up a smooth blending of flamenco guitars, swooning violins, hard drums and dazzling trumpet lines that recall an eclecticist combination of John Caption, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and a bolt of Cabriolet Calloway.

Non to say that Catherine Howard has a right to hang with that sort of company scarce yet, but it's within reason that to think Howard's retro Starbucks-friendly psyche could work for a pleasant pairing with Sharon Jones, opening for Feist at the Hollywood Bowl this summer.

Perhaps he'd even bring the Sauvignon Blanc.

Winehouse's mother says she's recovering

Winehouse's mother says she's recovering

Amy Winehouse's mother Janis has spoken approximately her daughter's Grammy winner, saying that she believes the isaac Bashevis Singer is on "the road to recovery".
Winehouse picked up basketball team Grammy awards simply could non attend the ceremony in Los Angeles because of visa problems. She performed at the event via satellite from Greater London.
Speaking on 'GMTV', Janis Winehouse said: "Well, as you adage, she looks trade good and it's a shell of she's on the road, and that's what it's about, she's on the route to retrieval."
"I reckon it would give been as well a great deal for her because completely of the traveling and flight in that respect, I mean beholding what the Grammys was like... we could construe it be from there and I thought if Amy were thither, she'd be lost in it, she'd be a little girl lost in it."
Speaking around her daughter's Grammys performance, she said: "Well, it's Amy orgasm back, she's definitely on the manner back."
The star's mother likewise rundle about her fears for her daughter's wellness ahead she entered rehab, locution: "She was sorting of with it merely not with it, and that's the thing where I call back fortuitously, give thanks good in our family, she's got a solid category and we're completely thither for her."

Officials confident of Oscars deal

Officials confident of Oscars deal

Organisers of the Oscars remain confident that this awards ceremony will go forward as planned, despite the cancellation of the Golden Globes.
The executive director of the Academy of Motion Impression Humanities and Sciences has said Oscars officials are wannabe of a deal with striking writers that testament give up the show to go ahead.
"At this stage we ar hush qualification our plans as rule," Robert the Bruce Dwight Davis told Alpha fetoprotein.
The feud between writers and producers claimed its highest profile casualty on Mon when it was confirmed that this weekend's Golden Globes ceremony, a key highlight of the Hollywood film awards season, had been scrapped.
The decisiveness to put back the event with a press group discussion came after Hollywood's actors conglutination, the Screen Actors Guild (Sag down), announced that stars would non cut across picket lines surrounding the show erected by the Writers Social club of America (WGA).
The WGA has already said its members will non be allowed to indite the playscript for the Oscars - the motion picture industry's biggest annual awards.
However, it has non yet confirmed if it will spotter the show, which is being distribute by the First principle network - one of the companies that is the case of strike action.