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| One Direction to perform in Singapore Posted: 27 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT The new National Stadium will host the quintet on their tour. ENGLISH–IRISH boy band One Direction will be performing at a concert in Singapore on March 11, 2015. The new National Stadium in Singapore will host one of the band's stops in its On Their Road Again tour. Formed during the boot camp stage of The X Factor reality show in 2010 in Britain, One Direction consists of youngsters Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan. The group's debut single What Makes You Beautiful peaked at No. 1 on the British singles chart in 2011, which almost instantly made the boys world famous. The band is currently on tour promoting its latest album Midnight Memories which features hit singles Best Song Ever and Story Of My Life. Organised by Live Nation Lushington, tickets to One Direction Live in Singapore will go on sale from June 11, 2014. Tickets priced from S$88 (RM227) to S$388 (RM1,000), will be available at www.sportshubtix.sg. Check out www.facebook.com/lushingtonentertainments for more information. |
| Band of Skulls thinks big - new record is more danceable Posted: 26 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT The band was inspired to do so after touring with some big names. Having the word "Skulls" in your name requires that your band rocks to some moderate degree, which British trio Band Of Skulls manages to do. The group, working in the heavy blues/ garage vein, followed its second album, Sweet Sour, by touring with Queens of the Stone Age and Muse and went home thinking big, thus the name of the new album, Himalayan. "We started writing in London and we kind of set out with the intention to write the songs we felt were missing in our live set," says bassist-singer Emma Richardson. "We wanted it to be a faster-paced, more danceable record." Working with producer Nick Launay of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the trio fashioned a record that strikes with the arena-style riffs of its tour mates. "Yeah, there's a few heavy riffs in there, some of the heavier songs we've written," she says. "There's also some soulful, beautiful moments in there as well, and some kind of dancey pop songs, too. So it's a mixture like the last two." Band Of Skulls formed in the mid-2000s with art student Richardson meeting singer-guitarist Russell Mardsen at the Winchester School of Art joining him and his longtime friend, drummer Matt Hayward. A big part of the band's influences, she says, came from "what our mums, dads listened to around the house. My dad played drums in a blues band and Russ' dad, he liked more of the punk side of things, like Magazine, Television, Sex Pistols. We had a lot of different influences from early on." She joined with little experience on bass, when the band was still called Fleeing New York. "They invited me to a rehearsal," she says. "I listened to them play for a day and it felt easy and natural. They had an unspoken connection." Their break came early with a single, I Know What I Am, that drew comparisons to The Kills and Duke Spirit. "We were recording our first record and we got a call that iTunes wanted to use one of our tracks for their single of the week and we finished the record and before we knew it, it was available worldwide, which was a massive deal for us." Since then, Band of Skulls has had a lot of success with soundtrack and video game licensing, the biggest of which was placement on the chart-topping The Twilight Saga: New Moon album. "I suppose it gave us recognition with the people who may not have heard us before," she says. "We didn't really know what it was all about, the Twilight phenomenon. Strange thing, isn't it?" – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
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