Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson doesn't want Mark Ronson to use brass instruments on the band's new album, The Sun reports.
Producer Ronson, famed for using trumpets, is producing the Leeds group's follow-up to 2007's Yours Truly, Angry Mob.
Wilson said: "There aren't any trumpets on [the album] - although I'm sure he might slip some on without us noticing before the end.
"If it's full of trumpets people will just say, 'It's Mark doing his trumpet thing again.' But he's brilliant to work with."
Wilson also revealed that Lily Allen has recorded backing vocals on one of their new songs.
"We wanted some backing vocals so Lily came in and did it," he said. "If you need a female backing singer then who better than Lily Allen?"
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Dragon Ash
Artist: Dragon Ash
Genre(s):
Pop: Japan
Other
Discography:
The Best Of Dragon Ash With Changes Vol.2
Year: 2007
Tracks: 17
The Best of Dragon Ash with Changes Vol.1
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
UNION
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Crush The Window
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
HARVEST REMIXES
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Morrow
Year: 2003
Tracks: 1
HARVEST
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Life Goes On
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Fantasista
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Lily's E.P.
Year: 2001
Tracks: 4
Lily of da valley
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Summer Tribe
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Deep Impact
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Viva La Revolution
Year: 1999
Tracks: 22
Under Age's Song
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Let yourself go, Let myself go
Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
I Love Hip Hop
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Hi Wa Mata Nobori Kurikaesu
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Grateful Days
Year: 1999
Tracks: 4
Buzz Songs
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
The Day Of Dragged On
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Rainy Day And Day
Year: 1997
Tracks: 2
Public Garden
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
Mustang!
Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
INDEPENDIENTE
Year:
Tracks: 14
Dragon Ash started out from small punk rock beginnings to get one of the brightest groups in the ontogeny New Japanese Rock movement in the late '90s, blending crop up sensibilities with a hard-edged heavy, producing albums and singles that play like a tour of Western stone of the '90s. Lead isaac Bashevis Singer and guitarist Kenji Furuya, word of actor Ikko Furuya, met drummer Makoto Sakurai when they were jr high gear students in a Tokyo suburbia, and the two started playing together. Though temporarily sidetracked into following in his father's footsteps, Furuya gave up the few acting gigs that he was getting on TV dramas to boil down on music in highschool school. In 1996, knowledgeable what they wanted only needing some sort of mentor, they took on basso player Ikuzo Baba, ten old age their senior. Furuya and Sakurai had the talent and drive -- Baba brought see and a wealth of melodious cognition. Dragon Ash was born. The mathematical group debuted in 1997 with two EPs at the beginning of the year, The Day Dragged On and Public Garden, which showed their raw, hood hardcore style, influenced by another rock trio, Nirvana. By the ending of the year and time of their release, Mustang!, the chemical group had progressed from their simple punk roots to a portmanteau of pop, blue funk, hardcore, rap, and metallic element. Through 1998 their popularity increased, and by the time of Buzz Songs, their sound had coagulated to rock/rap, helped with the mixture skills of DJ Bots, wHO once in a while appeared on some songs. Two singles -- "Allow Yourself Go, Let Myself Go" and "Grateful Days," the latter featuring hard-core knocker Zeebra and soulstress ACO -- sold so considerably that they chapped the Japanese Oricon charts, normally reserved for crop up music, and went to number one. Now Dragon Ash had suit a four-piece, with DJ Bots indispensable to the combine. Their third album, 1999's Viva voce la Revolution, non only signified the arrival of the isthmus as a major grouping in Japan, merely was nonpareil of the first volleys in the New Japanese Rock movement. In 2000, Dragon Ash undertook the Total Music Communication Tour, touring Japan with a lineup that included other rising rock acts of the Apostles, such as Missile Girl Scout, Penpals, and Skebou Kings. Meanwhile, Furuya and DJ Bots formed a couple of sorts, writing and producing songs for acts such as Sugar Soul below the key Steady & Co. Likewise, Baba and Sakurai sidelined as a remixing unit called Motor Headphone, popping up on diverse compilations. If anyone had whatever doubts that the group was softening around the edges, 2001's Lily of da Valley was as hard, funky, and uncompromising as their earliest sour.
Brian Setzer And The Tomcats
Monday 16 June 2008
Bacon painting sets postwar auction record
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Francis Bacon's "Triptych, 1976" sold for $86 million at Sotheby's contemporary sale on Wednesday, setting a record for postwar art and contributing to the auction house's best result in its nearly 300-year history.
With a $362 million total including commission, the auction house eclipsed even its best Impressionist and modern art showings, marking yet another milestone for the seemingly unstoppable contemporary and postwar art market.
It was second consecutive night of landmark records in the hot market, after Lucian Freud's "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" established a new mark for a living artist when it sold for $33.64 million at rival Christie's on Tuesday.
Sotheby's had estimated Bacon's monumental three-canvas painting would sell for about $70 million, making it the top priced work of the annual spring sales, but two determined telephone bidders drove the price up to
$86,281,000.
The sale, at which 87 percent of the 83 lots on offer found buyers, exceeded its high presale estimate of $357 million and was likely to quiet naysayers who predicted the spring sales would spell the beginning of a market correction. Some auction officials had privately expressed concern that unstable financial markets might tamp down spending on fine art.
"You could really see global ... bidding," said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's head of contemporary art, who also served as auctioneer. Officials were uncharacteristically evasive about the geographic makeup of the buyers, saying only that it was "global, all over the place."
The previous record for a work by the Irish-born Bacon, who died in 1992, was $52.68 million, set last year. The triptych that set the record on Wednesday, executed in 1976, had remained in the same European collection since its purchase in 1977 from a London gallery.
With a $362 million total including commission, the auction house eclipsed even its best Impressionist and modern art showings, marking yet another milestone for the seemingly unstoppable contemporary and postwar art market.
It was second consecutive night of landmark records in the hot market, after Lucian Freud's "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" established a new mark for a living artist when it sold for $33.64 million at rival Christie's on Tuesday.
Sotheby's had estimated Bacon's monumental three-canvas painting would sell for about $70 million, making it the top priced work of the annual spring sales, but two determined telephone bidders drove the price up to
$86,281,000.
The sale, at which 87 percent of the 83 lots on offer found buyers, exceeded its high presale estimate of $357 million and was likely to quiet naysayers who predicted the spring sales would spell the beginning of a market correction. Some auction officials had privately expressed concern that unstable financial markets might tamp down spending on fine art.
"You could really see global ... bidding," said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's head of contemporary art, who also served as auctioneer. Officials were uncharacteristically evasive about the geographic makeup of the buyers, saying only that it was "global, all over the place."
The previous record for a work by the Irish-born Bacon, who died in 1992, was $52.68 million, set last year. The triptych that set the record on Wednesday, executed in 1976, had remained in the same European collection since its purchase in 1977 from a London gallery.
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Lily Allen pregnancy now confirmed
British pop star Lily Allen is pregnant with her first child.
The singer reportedly found out she was expecting Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons' child last month, but only recently revealed the news to family members, including her actor father Keith.
In a statement released today, a spokesperson said: "I am pleased to confirm that Lily Allen and her boyfriend Ed Simons are expecting their first child. However, as the pregnancy is at a very, very early stage, the couple ask that you respect their privacy, as the health of Lily and their child is their paramount concern."
The statement continued: "As the pregnancy is at such an early stage the couple will be making no further comment but they are obviously both thrilled by the news. Lily's new album will be released as planned next year."
A source told the British newspaper the Sun: "Lily is thrilled to be pregnant and can't wait to become a mum. She's a real family person.
"Ed's very happy. He is really looking after her."
The 22-year-old has been dating Simons, 37, since September.
The singer reportedly found out she was expecting Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons' child last month, but only recently revealed the news to family members, including her actor father Keith.
In a statement released today, a spokesperson said: "I am pleased to confirm that Lily Allen and her boyfriend Ed Simons are expecting their first child. However, as the pregnancy is at a very, very early stage, the couple ask that you respect their privacy, as the health of Lily and their child is their paramount concern."
The statement continued: "As the pregnancy is at such an early stage the couple will be making no further comment but they are obviously both thrilled by the news. Lily's new album will be released as planned next year."
A source told the British newspaper the Sun: "Lily is thrilled to be pregnant and can't wait to become a mum. She's a real family person.
"Ed's very happy. He is really looking after her."
The 22-year-old has been dating Simons, 37, since September.
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