Foals hit by crowd surfing chaos during Reading Festival show

Foals created hysteria in the NME/Radio 1 Stage this evening (August 23) at Reading Festival, as scores of crowd-surfers attempted to invade the stage.


Thousands of fans had packed out the big top tent before the five-piece took the stage.


Then, as the Oxford band played 'Two Steps, Twice', frontman Yannis Phillipakis leapt into the crowd, suggestion pandemonium.


Fans immediately began hurling themselves over the saftey barriers towards the leg.


Security guards struggled to contain the crowd members, as at least 50 fans breached the barriers in the space of a few minutes.


At one point guitarist Jimmy Smith was caught up in the chaos - with stewards attempting to bodyguard him tabu of the pit, subsequently briefly misunderstanding him for a fan.


After the song finished crowd-surfers began arriving at the front at a unfluctuating pace that security could manage for the rest of the set.


It wasn't the first time Foals had been met with madness at the festival. They made an appearance at last year's case, where they packed out the then-named Carling Tent.


"We were here last year - it was fun," the singer/guitarist said nigh the begin of the set. "But now we want to make this even better."


Before the stagecoach invasion endeavour the ring played songs including 'Cassius' and 'The French Open' and bigged-up Mystery Jets, who had played on the same stage earlier.

Foals ended their set with 'Electric Bloom', during which Phillipakis scaled an adenylic acid stack as yet more crowd-surfers cascaded forward.

Foals payed:

'XXXX'

'Olympic Airwaves'

'The French Open'

'Balloons'

'Cassius'

'Heavy Water'

'Two Steps, Twice'

'Hummer'

'Red Sox Pugie'

'Electric Bloom'

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Artist: Roy Eldridge: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Jazz Pop Blues     Discography:      Decidedly    Year: 2002    Tracks: 4      Fiesta in Brass    Year: 1999    Tracks: 21      After You've Gone    Year: 1991    Tracks: 22      Little Jazz Boogie    Year:     Tracks: 1 One of the most exciting trumpeters to come forth during the swing geological era, Roy Eldridge's disputative approach, chancetaking style and strong musicianship were an inspiration (and an influence) to the next musical generation, most notably Dizzy Gillespie. Although he sometimes pushed himself farther than he could go, Eldridge never played a obtuse solo! Roy Eldridge started extinct playing trumpet and drums in fair and circus bands. With the Nighthawk Syncopators he received a bit of attention by playacting a note-for-note recreation of Coleman Hawkins' tenor solo on "The Stampede." Inspired by the dynamic playing of Jabbo Smith (Eldridge would not discover Louis Armstrong for a few old age), Roy played with some territory bands including Zack Whyte and Speed Webb and in New York (where he arrive in 1931) he worked with Elmer Snowden (world Health Organization nicknamed him "Little Jazz"), McKinney's Cotton Pickers and most significantly Teddy Hill (1935). Eldridge's recorded solos with Hill, backing Billie Holiday and with Fletcher Henderson (including his 1936 strike "Christopher Columbus") gained a swell share of attention. In 1937 he appeared with his octet (which included brother Joe on contralto) at the Three Deuces Club in Chicago and recorded some outstanding selections as a loss leader including "Heckler's Hop" and "Wabash Stomp." By 1939 Roy had a bigger grouping playing at the Arcadia Ballroom in New York. With the go down of Bunny Berigan and the increasing predictability of Louis Armstrong, Eldridge was arguably the big top trumepter in jazz during this earned run average. During 1941-42 Eldridge sparked Gene Krupa's Orchestra, recording classical versions of "Rockin' Chair" and "After You've Gone" and interacting with Anita O'Day on "Let Me Off Uptown." The difficulties of traveling with a White band during a racist point smart him as did some of the incidents that occurred during his stay with Artie Shaw (1944-45) only the music during both stints was quite memorable. Eldridge backside be seen in several "soundies" (short promotional photographic film devoted to single songs) of this epoch by the Krupa band, frequently in tie-up with O'Day, including "Let Me Off Uptown" and "Thanks for the Boogie Ride." He is likewise very prominent in the band's appearance in Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire, in an extended performance of "Drum Boogie" mimed by Barbara Stanwyck, pickings a long trumpet solo -- the snip was filmed soon later on Eldridge joined the band in late April of 1941, and "Drum Boogie" was a birdcall that Eldridge co-wrote with Krupa. Eldridge had a transitory big band of his have, toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic and then had a bit of an personal identity crisis when he completed that his playacting was not as modernistic as the beboppers. A successful quell in France during 1950-51 restored his confidence when he completed that beingness original was more than significant than being up-to-date. Eldridge recorded steadily for Norman Granz in the fifties, was one of the stars of JATP (where he battled Charlie Shavers and Dizzy Gillespie) and by 1956 was oft teamed with Coleman Hawkins in a quint; their 1957 visual aspect at Newport was quite memorable. The sixties were tougher as recording opportunities and work became rarer. Eldridge had brief and unhappy stints with Count Basie's Orchestra and Ella Fitzgerald (feeling unneeded in both contexts) simply was prima his have group by the final stage of the tenner. He spent a great deal of the 1970s playing regularly at Ryan's and transcription for Pablo and, although his range had shrunk a bit, Eldridge's private-enterprise spirit was silent very much intact. Only a sober stroke in 1980 was able-bodied to stanch his horn. Roy Eldridge recorded throughout his life history for almost every label.

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Artist: Saint

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Rock: Pop-Rock
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Re Current

   
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 I Dont Want To Live Without You

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Rob Sparx

   
Artist: Rob Sparx

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Drum & Bass
   

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Artist: Marco Scherer

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Trance: Psychedelic
   

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 Live at Metamorphix Pi-Club Berlin 11.02.2006

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The Professionals

   
Artist: The Professionals

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Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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 I Didn't See It Coming

   Year: 1981   
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Rick Springfield Set to Release First Studio Album 'VENUS IN OVERDRIVE' on New Door Records/UMe This Summer

SINGER'S FIRST FULL-LENGTH STUDIO ALBUM OF ORIGINAL MATERIAL SINCE 2003
RICK SPRINGFIELD'S 'VENUS IN OVERDRIVE' AVAILABLE TUESDAY, JULY 29

SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 30 -- Grammy(R) winning
singer/songwriter Rick Springfield will release a new studio album on
Tuesday, July 29. VENUS IN OVERDRIVE is the artist's debut album on New
Door Records/UMe and first full-length new studio work of original material
since 2003's critically acclaimed, SHOCK/DENIAL/ANGER/ACCEPTANCE.

VENUS IN OVERDRIVE was recorded in a record 32 days by Springfield and
Matt Bissonette, Springfield's long time bass player. According to Rick,
"It is an album about love in all its forms, and since Venus is the goddess
of love, it's called VENUS IN OVERDRIVE. There is a lot of personal stuff
in these songs but we have tried to craft them so they still have a
universal voice. We are older, yet still teenagers, we have lost people we
love and still love the people who are on our journey with us, we are angry
at some of the crap in the world yet love our human failings."

More upbeat and fun, than 2003's dark SHOCK/DENIAL/ANGER/ACCEPTANCE,
Rick notes, "I think we should have called this CD 'Son of Working Class
Dog.' It has the same kind of songs (from a slightly older perspective) and
was as exciting to record ... ... writing and recording these songs has
been the most fun I've had in the studio since the early '80s." WORKING
CLASS DOG produced two of Rick's biggest hits, "Jessie's Girl" and "I've
Done Everything For You."

According to Rick, the title track, "Venus in Overdrive" is basically
about his wife Barbara. "She is the most loving person I have ever known
and she has accepted me with all my darkness and bumps and warts and all."

The first single from VENUS IN OVERDRIVE is "What's Victoria's Secret?"
Rick says the title of the song "is one of those titles that was waiting to
be written and we just got there first. Matt came up with it and we wrote
the song while we were doing 5 nights of shows in Milwaukee. I had some
recording gear brought into my hotel room and we wrote it there at the
haunted Pfister hotel, room 804. It's basically about the sexualization of
women and how we as males, want that, but also resist it and mainly need to
connect to women as human beings. It's a dichotomy that most men feel I
think."

Two songs on the record, "Saint Sahara" and "Oblivious," pay tribute to
Sahara Aldridge, a young girl who frequently attended Rick's shows and whom
the entire band came to love and who recently passed away. Rick explains
that "Saint Sahara" "is about who Sahara was and how hard it was to have
her leave. It's also a celebration and recognition of the people she
affected in this world. Her mom said (before she died) that if I were to
write a song about her daughter, could I make it a celebration and not
something maudlin, so it's basically a song celebrating her great sprit.
'Oblivious,' is the soul side of the song, 'Saint Sahara,' what we all felt
and how we dealt with it. It is sometimes so good to be numb to pain but
life can't go on if you stay numb all the time. The song itself is about
the denial of the finality of death, but it's still a love song."

As part of the promotional plan for the new album, Rick will be
returning to "General Hospital" in July as Dr. Noah Drake and his alter ego
rocker Eli Love. The storyline will reunite him with the characters of
Robin, Patrick and Anna as well as allow him to perform the single, "What's
Victoria's Secret?"

Rick Springfield has withstood the test of time far better than most
critics would ever have imagined, performing over 100 concerts each year
around the world. He has written and performed some of the best-crafted
power pop of the past 30 years. Earlier this year, by popular demand from
Oprah's audience, Rick made his first appearance on the "Oprah Winfrey
Show" making one fan's dream come true by meeting him in person and then
watching him perform his classic "Jessie's Girl." He has sold over 19
million records and has had 17 Top 40 hits. He has released 17 albums over
his career including WORKING CLASS DOG (#7 US, platinum), SUCCESS HASN'T
SPOILED ME YET (#2 US, platinum), LIVING IN OZ (#12 US, Platinum), and HARD
TO HOLD (#16 US, Platinum). Rick has also won an American Music Award.




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Young Dro

   
Artist: Young Dro

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Best Thang Smokin'

   Year: 2006   
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The Notwist

   
Artist: The Notwist

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   ROck: Alternative
   

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 Nook

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 Neon Golden

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 Lichter EP

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 4


   
 12

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11

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Oscar nominee Julie Christie weds

'Doctor Zhivago' star Julie Christie has wed her long-term partner in India.
CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reported that the 66-year-old secretly wed journalist Duncan Campbell in a small, private ceremony.
Christie's brother Clive Christie confirmed to the UK's Daily Mail newspaper that the wedding had taken place, but that he did not attend the event two months ago.
The actress once said: "I don't see any reason for getting married unless you're religious, which I'm not."
Commenting on the newly married couple, columnist Neal Sean said: "He's very studious, very educated and she's always been about broadening her mind, her appeal, that sort of stuff."
Christie is among the nominees for this month's Oscars for her return to cinema screens as an Alzheimer's sufferer in the film 'Away from Her'.
She has already won Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe and National Board of Review awards in the US for her performance.
The actress previously won an Oscar for the John Schlesinger film 'Darling', before turning her back on Hollywood in the 1970s.
"Julie Christie is something of a recluse, not just from life itself but basically from the whole sort of Hollywood shebang as it were," said columnist Sean.

Beck and Black Crowes to headline San Diego festival

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Beck and the Black Crowes will headline the annual San Diego Street Scene festival, scheduled for September 19-20.


Also near the top of the bill are Justice, Spoon, TV On The Radio, Cat Power, Hot Chip, Sound Tribe Sector 9 and Michael Franti & Spearhead.


Four stages will be set up in San Diego's East Village, including Tailgate Park near Petco Park stadium. A limited supply of two-day tickets is now on sale for $75.


The Street Scene bill will also feature the National, Atmosphere, Tegan & Sara, New Pornographers, X, Vampire Weekend, the Hives, Spiritualized, Ghostland Observatory, Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club, the Night Marchers, Del the Funky Homosapien, MGMT, Antibalas and the Eagles of Death Metal.


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