The Specials: Tour - Latest Updates

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The Specials are back, as reported here back in March, and things have been progressing towards a nationwide tour at the end of the year.

Although Terry Hall has been struggling to remember the lyrics from over 25 years ago, he is looking forward to getting back on the road with his former band mates. The Specials have turned down big sums of money to play in big arenas in favour of theatre-sized venues. Speaking about the tour, Terry Hall said: "That's the kind of venue where we started. I don't like arena dates, at all. They're just soulless."

Although it looked impossible that The Specials would ever reform, Terry confessed: "I really wasn't up for it at first," he says. "But when we got in the rehearsal room and started playing together again it felt really good. Odd, but really good. Now we can't wait to get back on the road again. We just want to play all our favourite Specials songs again."

"It has taken us three years to get it together enough for all seven of us to be in the same rehearsal room," he laughs. Now the Coventry SKA band are almost ready to bring their two tone tunes back to the British public at a time when the nation seems to be heading for a recession and a new generation discovers life in a Ghost Town.

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Mel B: Ultimo Launch

Mel B recovers from night out for Ultimo launch

Mel B may have been out until gone 4am the night before as the Spice Girls celebrated picking up an award at Glamour Magazine, but she looked far from Scary at 8am as she launched the Ultimo lingerie range at Debenham's in London.

You could forgive Mel B for wanting to get drunk, especially as she celebrated her 33rd birthday - but instead she kept herself busy in London and Liverpool promoting the Ultimo collection. No rest for the best!

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Spice Girls: Glamour Award Pictures

Spice Girls looking glamorous

Spice Girl's Mel B, Emma Bunton and Geri Halliwell glammed up the Glamour Awards ceremony in London and scooped 'Band of the Year' in the process. Mel, Emma and Geri turned up for the dazzling event at Berkeley Square Gardens in London along with a whole host of stars.

Mel B

Emma Bunton

Geri Halliwell

The Enemy: American Tour Dates Announced

The Enemy will continue their busy touring schedule with a string of dates in America at the start of August. The Coventry band will be following in the footsteps of the legendary SKA group The Specials, who also spent time in America during their successful career at the end of the 70's.

As well as playing numerous festivals this summer around the UK and Europe, The Enemy will focus on America for the first time. More news will be posted on The Enemy official website closer to the time.

The dates are:

1 August - Lallapalooza - Chicago
3 August - Great Scott - Allston, Massachusetts
4 August - Parc Jean Drapeau - Montreal, Arkansas
6 August - Trubadour - LA, California
7 August - 330 Ritch Street - San Francisco
11 August - Bowery Ballroom - New York




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Amy Winehouse: Rock in Rio - Portugal

Winehouse on stage at 'Rock in Rio', Portugal

Amy Winehouse made an entertaining return to the stage as she turned up late and kept 90,000 Portuguese fans waiting. Yet they proved forgiving and gave the much publicised singer a warm welcome as she performed an interesting live set at Portugal's 'Rock in Rio' in Lisbon.

No performance ever goes by without something news worthy happening for Amy Winehouse and the worlds media had plenty to choose from - the hair grip declaring her love for Blake, falling over on stage, dropping the microphone and apologising for her croaky voice were just a few of the incidents to capture the press offices around the globe.

Amy Winehouse was still able to pull it off as she sailed through her hits and went on to perform two songs by Coventry SKA band, The Specials (A Message To You Rudy and Wonderin' Now).

Victoria Beckam - Marc Jacobs Pictures

Victoria Beckham proves she has a sense of humour, as these latest pictures for fashion house Marc Jacobs prove. Shot by celebrated fashion photographer Juergen Teller - Posh reveals yet another side to her multi-faceted personality, this time as a teapot!

Posh goes crazy!
Victoria Beckham turns into a teapot!

The Enemy - 30,000 Coventry gig

The Enemy - stars of Coventry's biggest ever open air party.

Coventry band The Enemy, will be playing at the biggest open-air festival Coventry has ever seen. The annual Godiva Festival will be making changes so that up to 30,000 fans will be able to attend the free festival. The Coventry trio were performing in Leeds at the weekend as support for the Kaiser Chiefs and head off to Ibiza this week to launch "Ibiza Rocks"

The main tent is being replaced by a large open stage and will be relocated to a different part of the Memorial Park so that an extra 27,000 visitors can watch The Enemy perform tracks from their number one selling album "We'll Live And Die In These Towns".

Included in this years Godiva Festival line up along side The Enemy will be Exit Calm, an up and coming band that are tipped to be big and are mentored by the Coventry manager who took The Enemy under his wings. Glasvegas will also be taking to the stage during the three day festival, they have also been tipped for the top by music mogul Alan McGee - the man who discovered Oasis. Recently signed to Columbia records, Glasvegas have already won the Radar Award at the NME Awards in March. Their debut album is due out later this summer and is a fusion between "fifties Rock 'n' Roll with a large helping of Jesus and Mary Chain", according to the Coventry Telegraph.

The Ripps will rock Godiva

The cream of Coventry will also be on stage during the eleventh Godiva Festival, The Ripps and Pint Shot Riot are expected to add to the electric atmosphere. Art Brut, The Displacements and Dogfight Revolution have been added to the event which will take place at Coventry's Memorial Park from Friday 4th July until Sunday 6th July 2008.

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Amy Winehouse Attacks Photographers

Amy Winehouse lashes out at photographers

Amy Winehouse finally had enough and lashed back at photographers, as the picture above clearly shows. The paparazzi had been camped outside Amy's Camden apartment all day and tried to follow her every move - which turned out to be a bad idea as she was not in a good mood. The singer had rushed to London's Pentonville Prison but had turned up too late for her appointment to see her husband Blake. The press continued taking pictures as Amy cried in the taxi cab on the way home and even when she ordered a take away from a local Kabab shop.

It all finally got too much for her as photographers camped outside her apartment blocked her entry into the flat. Winehouse lashed out in frustration after a traumatic day, she appears to have grabbed a camera and may have punched a member of the paparazzi as she tried to get back indoors away from the media glare.

Will all the media attention drive Amy Winehouse away from the UK? Only time will tell.

Amy Winehouse pictured constantly

*Pics by: REX

Kaiser Chiefs and The Enemy Rock Leeds

The Kaiser Chiefs performed in front of 35,000 home fans at Elland Road Leeds, and spirits were high prior to the football game the following day. It was the Kaiser Chiefs biggest gig yet and with fantastic support by The Enemy, Kate Nash, Friendly Fires, The Young Knives and Mark Ronson. Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles introduced each of the acts with the crowds already in high spirits following many football chants throughout the course of the day.


Kate Nash

During The Enemy's performance of "You're Not Alone", one excited fan decided to go topless, as captured in the video below!



The Enemy - You're Not Alone

The Enemy on stage

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Rihanna Forces Madonna To 'Take A Bow' In Ireland

Rihanna has forced Madonna to 'Take A Bow' from the #1 spot in Ireland, frog leaping four places to claim pole position above the Ting Tings and Usher in the process. Dustin the Turkey enjoyed a mini revival with his Eurovision entry 'Irelande Douze Points' at #8 but suffered an early exit from the Eurovision Song Contest on Tuesday as Europe failed to get the Irish humour.

Last week Rihanna failed to gain a second #1 in the UK singles chart (Ting Tings went to #1 instead) and in Ireland she was only #5, but today 'Take A Bow' became the highest climber in the Irish Top 10 and the new number one. The single shouldn't be confused with the 1984 Madonna single with the same title that only managed 16th and became the lowest charting Madonna track.

In the album chart the Ting Tings had the highest entry with 'We Started Nothing' at #3 while Bruce Springsteen enjoyed having four albums in the Irish Top 100.