Jackass - Steve-o Hit With Assault Lawsuit

JACKASS star STEVE-O is facing more legal troubles - a security guard is suing him over an alleged assault at the launch of PARIS HILTON's clothing line.

Doorman Roland Cano was hired to work at the Kitson store in Los Angeles in August 2007 to provide extra security while Hilton unveiled her fashion range.

Cano has accused Steve-O - real name Stephen Glover - of attacking him when he was denied access to the event.

Glover was reportedly filming reality show Dr. Steve-O at the time and Cano has also named TV network NBC and the star's bodyguard in the suit, which was filed at L.A. County Superior Court on Tuesday (01Jul08).

Cano alleges in the papers that Glover "without provocation, violently punched (his) head repeatedly" and is suing the stuntman for unspecified damages, according to TMZ.com.

Glover will soon be forced to enter rehab after entering a guilty plea to felony drug charges relating to an incident in March (08) in which he allegedly vandalised a neighbour's property.

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Philharmonia/Maazel, Royal Festival Hall, London

Lorin Maazel's three Philharmonia Brahms concerts, the four symphonies followed by the Haydn Variations and the German Requiem, were billed as "Brahms: the Romantic", but in the hall they came across more as Brahms the classicist. Three back-to-back Brahms concerts makes one realise yet again that no composer is as self-disciplined. None makes more out of such small motifs - the opening movement of the fourth symphony is the greatest triumph of this approach - and none is as unsparingly attentive to the forward-looking use of older musical forms, as the fourth's closing movement (expertly navigated by Maazel) proves.

On the basis of his showman reputation, Maazel might not seem an obvious choice in this repertoire. But his controlled and controlling way of making music actually suits Brahms well. As Maazel wrote in the programme essay, Brahms works best when conductors avoid rhetorical flourishes and decline to pump up the phrases or dawdle sentimentally. Disciplined drive is the key to Brahms, and that is what Maazel and the Philharmonia delivered.

That approach worked most successfully in the first and fourth symphonies, less happily in the more expansive second. Yet the performances were never less than interesting. The Philharmonia players responded to Maazel's concentrated approach with some superbly disciplined playing, particularly in the lower strings and the woodwind.

Maazel's strict direction was a virtue in the requiem, too, preventing this great work from billowing aimlessly, as it sometimes can. Both the outstanding Simon Keenlyside and, after a faltering start, Heidi Grant Murphy sang their difficult solos with the combination of seriousness and eloquence that is the hallmark of Brahms.


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Fresh and Baron

   
Artist: Fresh and Baron

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 Fresh and Baron-BBK006P

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2

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Chat To Infadels At 4pm Today (July 2nd) On Gigwise

We're excited to announce that this week's Tuborg Webchat Wednesday will star Gigwise favourites Infadels.



The band, who recently released their second album 'Universe In Reverse', will be online with us from 4pm today (July 2nd).



To take part in the webchat just go to http://chat.gigwise.com with all your pressing questions and log in.



See you in there!

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AnneEx Card -- Don't Go to the Drugstore With It

The charity of Anne Hathaway's ex -- and current subject of a federal indictment -- Raffaello Follieri is making bogus claims -- shocker, we know.

The Follieri Foundation's website claims that it hands out discount drug cards for free to whomever needs them. We asked a bunch of Manhattan drugstores if they knew about the Follieri cards -- total silence. And get this -- the company that partners with Follieri in the card project doesn't exist anymore.

Calls to the Follieri Group yielded a busy signal despite repeated attempts. The New York Attorney General's office wouldn't comment on its ongoing investigation of the Zach Braff-alike, who's waiting to make his $21 mil bail.





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Simpson�s shirt upsets Anderson

Pamela Anderson has branded Jessica Simpson a �b---h and w---e,� femalefirst.co.uk reports. The former Baywatch babe is furious the With You singer wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan, Real Girls Eat Meat.

Anderson � an active campaigner for animal rights group PETA � said: �I think she is a b---h and a w---e. Actually, I don�t know if she was talking about food or men.�

The 40-year-old actress says she is proud to be a vegetarian, insisting it is a good lifestyle choice for everybody.

She told an Australian radio show: �I think it�s healthy, good for your body and good for the environment.�

Simpson was recently blasted by PETA for wearing the T-shirt.

The blond beauty � who famously questioned why tuna was nicknamed �chicken of the sea� on her reality TV show Newlyweds � came under fire from the animal rights group, which urged her to ditch meat to increase her brain power.

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Slut

   
Artist: Slut

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Nothing Will Go Wrong

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 Lookbook

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 15


   
 All We Need Is Silence

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Boyz II Men

Dirty Pretty Things, Romance At Short Notice

The good news first: the second offering from this band since Messrs Barat and Doherty parted company and began their quest to find the worst band names in the world is a crisp, polished collection of tuneful japery and pithy urban commentary. So what makes this vaguely disappointing overall?

The album is brim with dazzling time signature jiggery pokery, like the fairground whooze of opener, Buzzards And Crows as well as the semi-literary allusions to old Albion on Tired Of England; though Barat's vision has on very London-centric goggles, borrowing from Samuel Johnson's old adage. His wordiness is witty and spry, but sometimes one can't help feeling that he's overcompensating for a certain missing lyricist. Not only that, but the spray of words on tracks like Truth begins smacks too much of Alex Turner's more verbose moments. You can't help but be disappointed by a band who seem to be eclipsed by their peers. Best Face tries to weld a Battles/Vampire Weekend post/math rock to Barat's Clash-like punk rush, but while it's impressively played it falls short of a seamless whole.



On this note it's interesting to note how this album exhibits a studied competence that betrays how far they've come as a unit. Far from shambolic (or stymied by alcohol-fuelled bone breakages), at the heart of Romance At Short Notice is a cheerily efficient pop heart. Like their debut, every track sports ragged, squally tops and tails, but when things get going the chaos is revealed as being actually very together. Only on Chinese Dogs and the stubbornly dissonant Faultlines does it seem that the music matches the usual tales of dissolution and disillusion. Carl's ragged roar on Hippy's Son is also suitably bile-spewing.

Yet, a little too often the jauntiness puts you in mind of those jolly fillers that Oasis used to stick on their albums to make up the numbers. Plastic Hearts 'La-la-la's will sound great at that sweaty gig, but grate in studio-bound form. Maybe Carl and P***'s chapter in Britpop has truly passed. But it would be a shame to see a band as lithe and keen as DPT sound here wilt into obscurity. Romance At Short Notice shows them just beginning to really find a voice.


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