Everything For The Fender Fan,Guitars etc
For a Dylanesque singer-songwriter, Fionn Regan certainly looks the part: the under-nourished sort of slightly-built that arouses maternal instincts even in men, with pipe-cleaner jeans supporting plaid shirt and harmonica-holder.
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Fionn Regan, University of London Union, London (Independent)
Beth Jeans Houghton is turning heads. The 19-year-old is still in her stage costume – an oversized pink swing-jacket over a leopard-print swimming costume, and a big blonde permed wig – as we walk the grounds of a music festival. "People call me Beth No Jeans Houghton", she says, as one guy stops and stares.
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Beth Jeans Houghton - The new Jean Genie (Independent)
“The Thermals @ Chop Suey” courtesy of Seattlest Flickr pool member crickontour DICK DALE : 72 years old and still going strong, Dick Dale continues to ride the wave that made him a star. Arguable inventor of the classic surf sound, Dale was also a collaborator with Leo Fender, pushing guitar amps out of their clean and quiet beginnings up into 11. He is justifiably a legend. A very loud legend ...
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Can't Miss It: Weekend Edition Dec 11-13 (Seattlest)
ActionAid Emma Thompson, Stephen Merchant, Jan Ravens, Shappi Khorsandi, Olly Smith, Lee Mack and Michael Ball became the most skilled of wine buffs and wine bluffers at ActionAid's celebrity fundraising event, Call My Wine Bluff.
Continue here: Celebrity wine-lovers out-smart each other in aid of global poverty (AlertNet)
It's not easy being the child of a rock star. Jethro Cave, son of musician Nick Cave, wants to make that clear. 'I haven't had the easiest life,' he says, his raw Australian voice rising to a passionate falsetto. 'It didn't start off that great, having all this shit with my dad and being in his shadow.'
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Life & Style (Evening Standard)
She's multi-Grammy award winning singer who enjoys people telling her she's attractive and give her a vintage guitar over new clothes anytime.
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'Why Jude Law licked my face for three days': Norah Jones reveals all (Daily Mail)
Where you been?" responds an amused Jeff Tweedy to a punter's call to "play the hits", midway through Wednesday's show at the Forum. "These are the hits!"
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Wilco, Forum, London (Independent)
When you bring together one of the finest Mancunian guitarists of his generation with a band of raucous Wakefield new-wave rockers labouring for the last five years under the tag of the great hope of British guitar band the results are bound to be impressive. What no one can have realised, though, is quite how well the combination works.