Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds performed one of the solid shows earlier this year at Toronto’s Sony Centre and here’s a stunning exclusive gig in South East London exclusively for Absolute Radio, in May. The full set includes the tracks ‘Do the Damage’, ‘Everybody’s on the Run’, ‘In the Heat of the Moment’, ‘Lock All the Doors’, ‘Riverman’, ‘You Know We Can’t Go Back’, ‘Ballad of the Mighty I’, ‘The Dying of the Light’, ‘Dream On’, ‘The Mexican, ‘If I Had a Gun…’, ‘AKA… What a Life!’, plus Oasis Classic ‘The Masterplan’.
What Your Tears Look Like Under A Microscope
We all need to cry sometimes, scientifically tears are divided into three different types based on their origin. Basal tears, reflex tears or emotional tears. We are all familiar with these ways of crying, but how do they look microscopically? Is there any difference? Science says that every tear has a different viscosity and composition. All tears contain a variety of biological substances including oils, antibodies and enzymes suspended in salt water.
The project “Imaginarium Of Tears” is a series of micrographs, that shows the hidden beauty behind a tear. Tears are often seen as a weakness and therefore not always accepted in our daily life. However, a tear can also be a beautiful thing. By capturing these tears I want to show you, that your “weakness” can also result in something very beautiful.
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Via Boing Boing, Maurice Mikkers and Medium
This T-shirt from the Kids in the Hall’s recent tour is awesome
T-shirt from the Kids in the Hall’s recent tour that shows 5 KITH characters as Minecraft avatars.
The Death Metal Version Of “You’re the One That I Want” You Never Knew You Needed To Hear
“You’re the One That I Want”, written by John Farrar for the 1978 film version of the musical Grease, is one of the best-selling singles of all time, having sold over 6 million copies among the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France alone. It’s sung by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, it is still the fifth best-selling single of all time in the U.K., where it has sold 2 million copies.
This is not that version. BRING ON THE DEATH METAL!
Music Canada Announces Canadian Songwriter Challenge 2015
MusicOntario is revving up to launch the Canadian Songwriter Challenge, in partnership with the Bell Media National Songwriting Initiative. This event will be hosted by Canada’s Music Incubator at Coalition Music Studios, and will take place between August 4-7, 2015. The Challenge will facilitate collaboration sessions between 5 emerging songwriters and 5 established songwriting professionals in order to co-write and demo a song in one day. Each demo will be assessed by our panel of industry experts, and each participant will receive one-on-one business and creative mentorship in relation to their own current projects.
Accepted participants will be assigned a mentor based on their application, and a day between August 4-7 will be assigned to you. All co-writing, recording, and mentoring sessions will take place at Coalition Music Studios in Toronto, 1731 Lawrence Ave East.
The Canadian Songwriter Challenge is MusicOntario’s first songwriting development initiative in a multi-year partnership with the Canadian Council of Music Industry Associations (CCMIA) and Bell Media. The CCMIA will be holding similar events in partnership with other Music Industry Associations across Canada this year.
Applications open July 7, 2015 and the deadline for submissions is at 5PM EST on July 20, 2015. Applications can be found by clicking the link here: http://fluidsurveys.com/s/canadian-songwriter-challenge-2015/
Test Footage Of Nicolas Cage As Superman
Check out this test footage showing Nicholas Cage trying out a shiny, skin-tight Superman costume in preparation for the role of the superhero in late 1990s film-that-was-never-made “Superman Lives.”
https://youtu.be/zEXyNl8OaV0
What Forrest Gump Really Said In His Vietnam Protest Speech
Remember that scene from Forrest Gump when he was in Washington, D.C., he meets activist Abbie Hoffman, who invites him to take the stage and share his experiences in Vietnam with the thousands of anti-war protesters? But just as Forrest begins speaking, his microphone is unplugged, leaving everyone to wonder what it was that Forrest said.
According to Tom Hanks, this was Forrest’s speech:
“Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
https://youtu.be/NcOTZeZ3_40
The Final Word From Paul McCartney on Lennon-McCartney Songwriting Credits
Paul McCartney: I always looked at life from a point of view of the public. I think I’ve got a good sense of that. The Beatles split up and we were sort of all equal. George did his record, John did his, I did mine, Ringo did his. It was as we were during the Beatles’ times. We were equal. When John got shot, aside from the pure horror of it, the lingering thing was, OK, well now John’s a martyr. A JFK. So what happened was, I started to get frustrated because people started to say, “Well, he was The Beatles.” And me, George and Ringo would go, “Er, hang on. It’s only a year ago we were all equal-ish.” Yeah, John was the witty one, sure. John did a lot of great work, yeah. And post-Beatles he did more great work, but he also did a lot of not-great work. Now the fact that he’s now martyred has elevated him to a James Dean, and beyond. So whilst I didn’t mind that – I agreed with it – I understood that now there was going to be revisionism. It was going to be: John was the one. That was basically the thing. And when I would talk to mates they’d say, “Don’t worry. People know [the truth]. It’s OK, they know what you did.” But then strange things would happen. Like Yoko would appear in the press, and I’d read it, and it said [comedy Yoko accent], “Paul did nothing! All he did was book the studio…” Like, “Fuck you, darling! Hang on! All I did was book the fucking studio?” Well, OK, now people know that’s not true. But that was just part of it. There was a lot of revisionism: John did this, John did that. I mean, if you just pull out all his great stuff and then stack it up against my not-so-great stuff, it’s an easy case to make.
What happened, when we were kids we were looking for what to call our songs. We had a meeting with Brian Epstein, John and me. I arrived late. John and Brian had been talking. “We were thinking we ought to call the songs, Lennon and McCartney.” I said, “That’s OK, but what about McCartney and Lennon? If I write it, what about that? It sounds good, too.” They said, “OK, what we’ll do is we’ll alternate it: Lennon and McCartney, McCartney and Lennon.” Well, that didn’t happen. And I didn’t mind. It’s a good logo, like Rogers and Hammerstein. Hammerstein and Rogers doesn’t work. So I thought, “OK”. But what happened was the Anthology came out [in 1996, with Epstein and Lennon now long dead]. And I said, “OK, what they’re now saying is, ‘Song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.’” I said, if you’re doing that, it’s not Lennon and McCartney, it’s not the logo any more. So, in particular cases like ‘Yesterday’, which John actually had nothing to do with, none of the other Beatles had anything to do with – I wrote it on my own, sang it on my own, they’re not on the record, nobody is even involved with it, and they didn’t mind that and I didn’t mind, nobody minded, but that’s very much mine – so I said, “Could we have ‘By Paul McCartney and John Lennon’, wouldn’t that be a good idea? And then on ‘Strawberry Fields’ we’ll have, ‘By John Lennon and Paul McCartney’. ‘Nowhere Man’, ‘John Lennon and Paul McCartney’. ‘Penny Lane’, ‘Paul McCartney and John Lennon’. Seeing as we’re breaking it up, can we do that?” And at first Yoko said yeah. And then she rang back a few days later and she had this guy Sam Havadtoy who she was living with – she was co-Havadtoying – and she said she’d decided it wasn’t a good idea and no, no, no, no. And it became a bit of an issue for me. Particularly on that particular song, because the original artwork had ‘Yesterday’ by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and a photo of John above it. And I went, “Argh! Come on, lads!” Anyway they wouldn’t do it.
Well, what happened was there was a backlash from people who didn’t see where I was coming from. “Dancing on a dead man’s grave” was one of the phrases that came up. “What a bighead!” “Why does he want his name in front of John’s?” But it was nothing to do with bighead. It’s just to do with identifying who wrote what. John did a really good Playboy interview where he did that: “This is mine, this is Paul’s.” So I thought, “Just use that! John said it!” I thought that was perfectly reasonable and I still do, by the way. But I don’t think it’s achievable for some reason. The arguments I used was these days I’ll get a cinema ticket and I will go to a film called “Miss Congeni-”. The “-ality” is missed off. What starts to happen is, “A song by John Lennon and-”. You know how on your iPad there’s never enough room? So it’s kind of important who comes first. Late at night I was in a hotel room looking online and I happened to see this music book, which has got all the songs in it, and it was ‘Hey Jude’ by John Lennon and…” and the space ran out. There’s a poetry book, Blackbird by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.” No! He didn’t write those lyrics! So, at the risk of seeming like… I tell you what, if John was here he would definitely say that’s OK. Because he didn’t give a damn. It wasn’t anything that worried him. But I’ve given up on it. Suffice to say. In case it seems like I’m trying to do something to John.
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14-year-old pool prodigy blows your mind with his trick shots
Matthew “The Stinger” Webber is a wizard at the billiards table.
The 14-year-old pool prodigy has learned 200 trick shots on his own without any formal instruction, and these are the kind of trick shots that are difficult to create in your mind, let alone attempt executing them perfectly.
https://youtu.be/kEr44uNgJRA
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You Could Be In The Next Sessions X With Award-Winning Producer Gavin Brown
Sessions X, the online music series announces “One Shot” auditions for their second season. If you think you have the talent and the drive, they want to hear from you.
They’re looking for a new artist/band to participate in Sessions X upcoming season. Sessions X is based on the format of one take, live off the floor – giving fans your best performance. They’re using that same format to audition undiscovered talent. “One Shot” culminates with each of the 10 finalists giving their best live performance of an original song in one take.
Judging the acts and choosing the winner will be the responsibility of our music industry experts: Laurie Lee Boutet – A&R, Universal Music, Jeremy Taggart – drummer, formerly of Our Lady of Peace and Drew Khan – Music Programmer and DJ, SiriusXM.
The winning artist/band will receive a two song recording session at Noble Street Studios with award winning producer Gavin Brown. Lightbox Video will film these sessions and your performance will be included in our upcoming second season.
Last summer Gavin Brown teamed up with eighteen artists across various musical genres to craft their best in a live set of one-take studio performances. Sessions X is the result of those collaborations. The online web series features each artist’s performances, accompanied by an interview and behind the scenes coverage of the session. Visitors to Sessions X can watch a favourite artists entire set or cruise around and explore new artists.
For full audition details, rules and regulations on how to enter visit here. They’ll choose 10 artist/bands to perform their song in a live one-take audition and from that, one will be chosen as the winner.
Deadline for entries is midnight July 13, 2015. All genres are welcome, there is no entry fee and participants must be over 18 years of age.