Iggy Pop truck stolen after show
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1stAngel | August 5, 2008
A truck full of instruments and stage gear belonging to singer Iggy Pop and band The Stooges has been stolen after they played at a festival in Montreal.
Their road manager told the Detroit Free Press newspaper the stolen gear was worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The veteran rocker and his band are playing in North America ahead of a European tour later this month.
The star, 61, known for his wild stage antics, will play dates including London’s Get Loaded in the Park.
‘Priceless’ instruments
The band’s road manager Eric Fischer told the Detroit Free Press some "priceless" vintage instruments were among those stolen.
They include bassist Mike Watt’s Gibson instrument, which he first used in US punk band Minutemen in the early 1980s.
We’re all just gutted
Road manager Eric Fischer
"That bass would go in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame some day if we could find it," Mr Fischer told the paper.
"We’re all just gutted."
Mr Fischer said the truck had been taken from the road outside the hotel the band were staying at after their performance on Sunday night.
He told the paper that the band’s scheduled Wednesday night performance in Toronto would go ahead as planned using rented and donated equipment.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Iggy Pop truck stolen after show.
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Morgan Freeman in ‘good spirits’
By 1stAngel | August 5, 2008
Morgan Freeman in ‘good spirits’
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman is in ‘good spirits’ after being injured in a serious car accident near his Mississippi home.
Mr Freeman’s spokeswoman says he has a broken arm, broken elbow and minor shoulder damage.
She said the 71-year-old Dark Knight star is expected to undergo surgery and to make a good recovery.
The accident happened shortly before midnight on Sunday outside Charleston in the Mississippi Delta.
Mr Freeman’s car ran off the side of the road and overturned several times, landing upright in a ditch.
Mr Freeman - who had been driving the car - and a female passenger were airlifted to Memphis’s Regional Medical Center, about 90 miles (145km) north of where the accident occurred in Tallahatchie County.
‘He is having a little bit of surgery this afternoon or tomorrow to help correct the damage," his spokeswoman Donna Lee said. "He says he’ll be OK and is looking forward to a full recovery’; she added.
Earlier a spokesman at the hospital said the actor was in a ’serious’ condition.
Neither Lee nor the hospital had information about the condition of the woman, Demaris Meter of Memphis.
Both passengers had been wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident, said Mississippi Highway Patrol Sergeant Ben Williams.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Morgan Freeman in ‘good spirits’.
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Panda Shock
By 1stAngel | August 3, 2008
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Pick of the Day - Horse - Rooney In The Sunflowers by Melissa Old
By 1stAngel | August 3, 2008
Today’s featured art is Horse - Rooney In The Sunflowers by Melissa Old
As summer has finally arrived in England, this image of a grey caught my eye. Beautiful horse!!
Prices for Horse - Rooney In The Sunflowers begin at $16.98, subject to change.
New art featured regularly, courtesy of the artists at Imagekind.
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A month without plastic
By 1stAngel | August 1, 2008
Could YOU do it??
By Christine Jeavans
BBC News
I am giving up plastic for the whole of August.
By this I mean not buying or accepting anything which contains plastic or is packaged in plastic.
So, no take-away coffees, bottles of water or pre-packed sandwiches.
I’ll be forsaking punnets of strawberries and packs of chicken, supermarket milk and bottled cleaning products, and switching to reusable nappies for my toddler.
No longer will my other half and I be able to slump in front of the telly of an evening with the latest DVD, a takeaway curry and a bottle of wine (the cork could be plastic).
Plums in punnets
It’s no to any fruit packaged like this
I am, if you like, donning a polyester-free hairshirt - with the aim of seeing how possible it is to live without new plastic.
I will, however, be keeping the plastic I already own. But even so, it’s going to be very difficult.
Durable, versatile, lightweight, hygienic, cheap and strong: synthetic plastic is arguably one of the most useful inventions of the last century.
It is essential in medical equipment, technology and thousands of devices which have increased our standard of living.
But those very same attributes of durability and cheapness make plastic one of the most pervasive forms of waste on the planet.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | A month without plastic.
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Humorous Beatles tape to be sold
By 1stAngel | August 1, 2008
A tape of a Beatles recording session in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney are heard cracking jokes and breaking into giggles, is to be auctioned off.
The 30-minute tape, thought to have been recorded in 1964, is expected to fetch between £8,000 and £12,000 when it goes under the hammer on Tuesday.
It includes a recording of the band’s attempt to record I’ll Follow The Sun.
The tape was found during an attic clearance by the son of a man who had worked in the music industry.
The reel-to-reel recording contains songs composed by John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney as well as versions of other artists’ tracks, according to auction house Cameo.
‘Funnier and funnier’
During the recording of I’ll Follow The Sun Lennon says: "I’m not looking at you," to which McCartney replies: "You were".
Lennon then says: "It’s just going to get funnier and funnier as the evening goes on."
McCartney adds: "Let’s just try this once more and if it’s the last one that’s hard lines."
The band managed to complete a recording of the song without interruption later in the tape.
The man who found the recording wished to remain anonymous, but the auction house have revealed that it was discovered in the north of England.
In a recent auction in London last month the drum skin used on the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album sold for £541,250.
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Tracey Emin ’scared’ of critics
By 1stAngel | August 1, 2008
Controversial artist Tracey Emin has admitted she is "scared" that an exhibition looking back at 20 years of her work will be criticised.
The first ever retrospective of Emin’s work is being shown at Edinburgh’s Gallery of Modern Art as part of the city’s Art Festival.
She said she was used to getting "slagged off" but this show was so "immense" she was looking for support.
The exhibit includes famous works such as My Bed from 1998.
The work features an unmade bed with a urine-soaked sheet, littered with cigarette packets and condoms.
‘Quite shocking’
Emin said she had been very emotional about putting together the exhibition.
She said: "To see the different stages of my life through the work, that was quite shocking.
"I got quite emotional and I thought I would be a lot more analytical and distance myself from it.
"Last week with the instalment I got to an emotional grinding halt where it felt a bit too much.
"My whole life was in front of me."
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Tracey Emin ’scared’ of critics.
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