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AMERICAN singer and actress Miley Cyrus became the first person to simultaneously notch up a number one single and a number one album in the British music chart this year, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.

Her latest track, Wrecking Ball, went straight into the top slot in the single charts, while her fourth album, Bangerz, did the same in the albums chart. The result was the best yet in Britain for the 20-year-old singer, the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, who scored her first number one hit in the British singles chart in August with We Can't Stop.

Her success pushed last week's number one single, Counting Stars, by US rock band OneRepublic, into third place, while American rapper Eminem secured the second slot with his new single Berzerk.

In the albums charts, last week's number one album, Days Are Gone, from Californian sister-act Haim, fell to fifth place, while Brand New Machine, an album by Chase & Status, went straight in at number two. – Reuters

Thai sex show owner arrested after Rihanna visit

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THAI authorities said Monday they had arrested the owner of a sex show visited by pop icon Rihanna (pic) – the latest crackdown inadvertently triggered by the singer's tweets.

The bar owner on the island of Phuket has been charged in connection with the lewd performance, local district chief Veera Kerdsirimongkol told AFP.

"It was the result of the visit by Rihanna. The authorities will be more strict towards inappropriate shows or wildlife attractions," he said.

Thai tourist officials were left red-faced after Rihanna's tweets underscored the kingdom's seedier side.

"Either I was ***** wasted lastnight, or I saw a Thai woman pull a live bird,2 turtles,razors,shoot darts and ping pong, all out of her *****," she wrote in a message on September 20 to her more than 32 million followers on Twitter.

Last month two men were arrested for possessing a protected slow loris after Rihanna posted a picture of herself with the primate on a night out in Phuket during her Diamonds world tour.

Use of the slow loris and other protected species for tourist snaps – while common in Thai tourist resorts – is officially illegal.

According to wildlife protection campaigners, mother lorises are often killed while the young are stolen. The primates' teeth are also removed due to their toxic bite.

Foreign diplomats have urged Thailand to crack down on scams and crimes against tourists in Phuket.

Local tourist police volunteers warn against venturing into strip clubs offering "ping-pong shows" due to the risk of overpriced drinks and threats of violence against people who refuse to pay. – AFP

The heat is on for Bring Me The Horizon

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Bring Me The Horizon has been described as the 'new Metallica'. But after years of making enemies of just about everyone, the band is playing the cautious card.

OLI Sykes, at 26 years old, is so slender his shoulders seem to collapse in on his chest. His legs are like drinking straws, his arms so tattooed I can't see where his T-shirt ends and his skin begins. As stage time approaches he is sitting in a tent on a farm in the suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa, writing a comic book series on his MacBook.

In a few minutes, after a couple of vocal exercises, he will walk the 30 yards from the tent, climb some widely spaced steps to the stage of RAMfest, and find himself the focus of several thousand young South Africans' attention.

He will spend the next 50 minutes in perpetual motion, demonstrating why the people at the Sony imprint RCA keep describing his band Bring Me The Horizon as their "new Metallica".

Sykes takes his performance seriously – in fact, he seems extraordinarily driven in all areas of his life (he also has a successful clothing company). He whips the crowd into walls of death and circle pits, bellowing encouragement. He dares them to try to reach the stage. He throws himself around the stage, jumps into the photographers' pit, climbs the monitors, all the time keeping up his barbaric yawl. Later, the band's recently added keyboard player, Jordan Fish, will say that after every show he wonders where Sykes – so quietly spoken – finds the energy.

Outside metal circles, Bring Me The Horizon means little.

Inside, though, they're a big noise, a band getting bigger and bigger, dividing opinions as they go. In the seven years since the release of their debut album, they've shifted styles from metalcore — a genre that matches the speed of hardcore with the pummelling aggression of metal — to the sound of their fourth album Sempiternal, on which the tempos are slower and the vocals carry melodies and washes of electronic bathe the guitar riffs.

It sounds not unlike Linkin Park, though it's highly possible students of metal will dismiss that as wildly inaccurate.

"It's important not to overhype — that's crucial," says RCA's MD, Colin Barlow, shortly after saying that the signing "is a landmark deal — it's as important as when Sony signed AC/DC or when Metallica was signed to a major", and that the band will be headlining the Download festival within two years.

The band, though, is being more cautious than the label — even to the label's faces. So when the name Metallica was invoked as the deal was signed, Sykes had his reply ready.

"I said: 'You're gonna be disappointed, mate'."

"We're never gonna sell out arenas. If you get that in your hopes, you're only gonna be let down," adds guitarist Lee Malia.

The band formed at college in Sheffield, north England, in 2004, just kids who wanted to make noise. In their early days, Bring Me The Horizon embraced the rock'n'roll lifestyle to a fault.

"We were just kids," says Sykes, "and all of a sudden people were putting booze down and giving us buyouts. We went mental. We played every night out-of-our-minds drunk. But soon we realised you can't trust everyone. We quickly found out you've got to watch what you say and watch what you do, and we found out the hard way."

What does he mean? "Well, you know I got arrested, right?"

In April 2007, Sykes was arrested after a female fan complained he had urinated on her after she refused his advances on a tour bus. It was then alleged that an unidentified member of the band's party threw a bottle at her, hitting her in the face. The case was dropped, but the band became despised.

"When we started the band, I didn't imagine so many people could hate us, or that we could be a band that would make so many people angry," says Sykes.

"At first it upset us, but we've come to realise it's how the world works."

It changed their relationship with fans, too, making them wary of interaction. And that has created its own problems with people filling the void on social media and impersonating them.

Malia had a strange meeting with a teenage girl who insisted he had been corresponding with her on a social network and had demanded she turn up to meet him. Sykes had to talk another fan out of killing himself, after it turned out a gay man who had agreed to marry the fan was not in fact Sykes. And in Oct 2011, a 20-year-old man called David Russell was jailed for 17-and-a-half years for kidnap and attempted murder after pretending to be Sykes on Facebook, then luring an American fan over to Britain, where he repeatedly stabbed her, hit her in the face with a log and headbutted her.

Sykes is horrified someone would do that. He's also disturbed the fan was willing to fly over in the first place.

"Even if you were talking to someone who wasn't famous, you wouldn't buy a ticket to a different country across the ocean to meet someone you haven't even seen or spoken to over the phone. If you think you're talking to a famous person, and you have no hard proof that you are — you're not. "

After the show at RAMfest, the band is back in their bus within half an hour, back at the hotel another half hour later. There is no sign of debauchery — everyone drifts off to their rooms, and the next morning band and crew kill time beside the pool. All except Sykes, who never stops working. At 1.30am, a little over three hours after coming off stage, he's e-mailing the other band members proposed designs for merchandise.

The next day he spends in his room, cracking on with the graphic novel. That Metallica comparison? Not so far-fetched, perhaps. — Guardian News & Media

> Bring Me The Horizon alongside British post hardcore band Enter Shikari, Japanese metalcore outfit Crossfaith and Malaysia's very own Massacre Conspiracy play the Rockaway Showcase at KL Live on Oct 17. Tickets are available at www.airasiaredtix.com. For more info, go to www.rockawayfest.com.

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Selasa, 15 Oktober 2013

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