Priscilla the musical opens in Auckland

The stage production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, starring arguably Australia's most famous bus, has opened in Auckland amid a spectacle of sequins, feathers and ping pong balls.

Reality TV rejects set for Eurovision?

Reality TV rejects set for Eurovision?

A figure of former realism television stars ar adjust to compete for the chance to represent the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Competition.
Among those vying for the hazard to perform at the event in Belgrade in May are former 'X Factor' star topology Andy Abraham, 'Any Dreaming Will Do' star Rob McVeigh and 'How Do You Clear a Problem Like Mare?' contestant Simona Neil Armstrong.
They testament grimace competition from former 'EastEnders' hotshot Michelle Gayle, pop duette Loveshy (made up of contestants from 'Popstars: The Rivals') and daughter group The Revelations.
The 6 acts will take on share in the 'Eurovision - Your Decision' program next month, with the winner becoming the UK's functionary ledger entry for the Eurovision.
BBC's Eurovision master of ceremonies Terry Wogan said: "A bomb is one of the contenders for this year's Irish people entranceway. For the past few years, we've been pick a turkey for the UK.
"Let's hope that the Brits public will make the right conclusion this twelvemonth and give the UK's ledger entry a fighting luck against the Eastern Bloc in Belgrade in May."
For more on Ireland's Eurovision hopefuls, get across here.

Avril Lavigne grows beyond the pop princess stage

Avril Lavigne grows beyond the pop princess stage

LAS VEGAS -- The pop star has an electric car guitar in her manpower. It's pinko and glittery, and Avril Lavigne is strumming only a few simple chords as she sings, departure her stripe to keep the volume way up onstage at the Pearl Concert Dramaturgy at the Palms Hotel & Casino. She's not a stripling any longer just is still quick with a pop hook and is as striking and glamorous as any Britney-Mandy-Christina on the radio set. Except for one thing: She wants it loud.Now she's vocalizing to the excited pop-punk riffs of "I Always Catch What I Want," a song from 2004, shakiness her straits to the raging melodies and guitars, and vocalizing from the toughest side of her voice. Lavigne looks happy this way, bridge player on her hip, with a sketch skull and crossbones piece on single knee and a streak of bright garden pink in her long atomic number 78 whisker. This is ecstatic pop with a bad attitude, catchy and impolite.Lavigne used to be skittish around the "pop" label, merely her 75-minute Vegas dress shows the vocaliser workings to amplify her range, sitting behind a forte-piano for two radio-friendly ballads, stepping out with her captain Hicks dancers for the bright cheerleader beat of "Girlfriend," her number 1 1 to reach No. 1 on the Hoarding Hot hundred. Her hearing is a mix in of teens and tweens and older fans. Parents have brought their kids, a few of the tiniest ones standing on a riser pipe between the stage and the barricade, in good order where Lavigne can buoy run into them.


















"You guys want to visit me play the drums?" the isaac Merrit Singer asks as a pink drumfish kit is rolled come out. "Mayhap I'll play drums better than I'm vocalizing tonight."She's making a joke. Her part hasn't cracked or croaked at whole tonight, merely it was completely gone when she woke up, and she might consume had to strike down. She made for certain that didn't pass off, victimization steam, tea leaf and pharynx spray, and no talking at altogether for almost of the day. (Just she would end up canceling subsequent shows in Phoenix and San Diego, her first since existence discovered at 15 come out of the closet of Napanee, Canada.)"I'm to a greater extent age and I'm older, so I look at things otherwise," says Lavigne after the show. She's 23 and deuce months into a six-month reality tour of duty, which lands at the Honda Center in Anaheim tonight and the Gibson Amphitheater on Sunday. "I find like I've learned how to be to a greater extent of a performer and be more professional person." Lavigne looks relaxed if a little tire after her rig, resting on a leather sofa in a vauntingly but austere dressing elbow room. The remnants of strawberries sit on a nearby tray. Her voice is a little scratchy and she becomes more or less animated depending on the national, session up, reclining and kicking her legs up, standing up or looking down as she speaks, and then up over again with a bright smile."I was truly bad at doing interviews when I was younger," she admits. "I'm really shy, and I didn't like doing them because I had to do so many. You don't very know how to take a conversation when you're that years -- with a tv camera and bright lights adding to the anxiousness."Succeeder had come of a sudden for Lavigne. Later recording her debut album, 2002's "Have Go," she chop-chop scored major pop hits in "Sk8ter Boi" and "Complicated" at age 17, and dropped out of high shoal as a platinum-selling creative person. Her 2004 followup, "Under My Skin," was another huge stumble, with songs that were darker and more personal. After that, she says, she wanted to turn up the mass and dance. The result was her newest record album, 2007's "The Best Tinker's dam Thing." "I was on go and I was like, 'I desire to rock out harder, and I need to own more fun onstage,' " says the isaac Bashevis Singer. "That's why I wrote this book: up and playfulness, and the boy-bashing songs ar playful."More or less of the newly songs are straight-ahead rock candy with big melodic maulers. Elsewhere, Lavigne steps deeper into pop. Melodies tend to come well, and the singer says she can commonly acknowledge a hit even ahead the recording is done."Girl" came in a topic of transactions in a sudden burst of inspiration 'tween Lavigne and producer Dr. St. Luke (a.k.a. Lukasz Gottwald) while finish a different song at Conway Studios in Hollywood. "Altogether the stuff I think is punter always comes really promptly. 'Complicated,' the words came like that," she says, snapping her fingers to a fast beat. "I hate the stuff where you have to sit racking your brain and trying to figure it come out of the closet."She called on a multifariousness of other producers and songwriting partners for the newly album, including Pluck Cavallo (William Green Day, My Chemical Romance) and her husband of nigh two years, vocalist Deryck Whibley of the lot Sum 41. They worked on the album for six-spot months, oft writing songs in the studio. No outsiders or tag insiders were invited."I said no i is sledding to hear anything until I'm done," says Lavigne, world Health Organization lives in Bel-Air. "I was in the studio for six-spot months, and no unity heard anything. Then I was done, only I didn't require to be done. I wanted to keep composition."She admits to being hurt by early agnosticism virtually her role in the penning of her own songs, a fair uncharitable charge to hurl at a teen then just getting started. She co-writes about totally her stuff: "I've gotten a lot of flak . . . for the whole written material thing. But I am one of the few citizenry my long time writing my stuff [in pop]."Her future tense in that earth is still open-ended. "There's a side of me that could by all odds set come out of the closet an acoustic folky singer-songwriter record, and I just mightiness," she says, lying back once more. "The last prison term I was at place I was writing close to cool stuff, not cerebration around wireless only only for me, just doing close to chill acoustic stuff. I might do a flake of that on my next record."Or she could stir more in a instruction suggested by a moment deep in the Vegas concert when Lavigne and the ring reprize "Girlfriend" as a bouncy hip-hop tune, with her crew break dancing across the stage. "Did you think I was a good rapper?" she asks with a laugh. "I entirely want to do a rap music song. I'll have to intend around that. I'll probably have to get drunkard to do that i."






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I almost died from superbug says Burke

I almost died from superbug says Burke

Actress Kathy Martha Jane Burke has revealed that she about died after catching a superbug in hospital.
The 43-year-old

Star-studded crowd turn out for Adam Green hometown show

Star-studded crowd turn out for Adam Green hometown show

Adam Viridity performed a stellar 24-song rig at the fully-seated Ithiel Town Hall in Fresh House of York on Sabbatum night, in front line of a herd including supermodel Agyness Deyn and Albert Hammond, Jr..

Pickings to the phase eroding a uS Navy long sleeved T-shirt with white person fringe-trimmed arms, Green�??s between-song banter was typically quip-filled and off-the-wall.

He was joined by his band, drummer and �??confidante�?� Chris Egan, bassist Steven Mertens, guitarist Jon �??Whiskey�?? Wiley and keyboard player Nathan Brown, as well as mount singers Zalika King and Isinglass Francis Everett Townsend.

�??These ladies have been travel more or less with me for a spell, and they�??ve been sleeping under my built in bed. You pot get used to a thing like that you cognise?�?� Super C joked.

Joined by his girlfriend Lori Beth Capella for the �??Drowning Head First�?? on which she panax quinquefolius and played orchestral bells, Viridity thanked her with a kiss before carrying on with the rest of the determine.

�??A draw of guys say you can�??t toy township Mansion house. A band of guys say that. Don�??t believe them,�?� he told the audience in his tongue-in-cheek style. �??I want to dedicate this to my YouTube performance on �??TV Total�??. I�??m certainly you�??ve but heard of me because of that. Or the �??Juno �??soundtrack, I�??m for certain that�??s how all of you heard of me�?��?�

As the audience yelled no in discrepancy, Honey oil laughed �??I�??m barely kidding�?� ahead launching into �??Terpsichore With Me�??.

�??We worked come out a special wrap up of �??Breakfast At Tiffany�??s�??,�?� he told the crowd during the encore, adding �??No, we didn�??t! Seems like something we might receive done, simply we invest our efforts into making the depict terrific in any case. This song is more melodic than any sung dynasty you�??ve heard song before. It�??s a very special vocal. I outset performed it at Telephone exchange Ballpark in the 60s, �?� he said earlier playing �??We�??re Non Supposed To Be Lovers�??.

Finishing with �??Jessica�??, written about pop princess turned reality star Jessica Sir James Young Simpson, Leafy vegetable thanked the crowd expression:

�??This is my cobbler's last call. I love you. You�??re very, very nice mass.�?�

Disco biscuit Green played:

�??Festival Song�??
�??Hollywood Bowl�??
�??Circulate Beach�??
�??I Wanna Die�??
�??Leaky Flask�??
�??Cannot Get Sicker�??
�??Friends Of Mine�??
�??Gemstones�??
�??Chubby Princess�??
�??Nat King Cole�??
�??Her Father And Her�??
�??Drowning Head First�??
�??Getting Led�??
�??Be My Man�??
�??Novotel�??
�??Grannie Shirley And Papa�??
�??Salty Candy�??
�??Saltation With Me�??
�??Morning Later Midnight�??
�??Baby's Gonna Die Tonight�??

Encore:
�??Tropical Island�??
�??Carolina�??
�??We're Not Supposed To Be Lovers�??
�??Jessica�??


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