Christina Aguilera to spend New Year's Eve celebrating her 30th birthday

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Alanis Morissette becomes mum

Alanis Morissette has given birth to her first child.

Her son, born on Christmas Day, has been given the oh-so Hollywood name of Ever Imre Morissette-Treadway.

Alanis married Mario Souleye Treadway in Los Angeles in May this year. She announced her pregnancy in August via Twitter.

In two Twitter posts since the birth Alanis has said yesterday 'Moved beyond words and so grateful' and today 'so in love with my new nuclear family'.

Alanis isn't the only celebrity to become a parent on Christmas. As reported yesterday in Undercover, Elton John and his partner David Furnish also become dad's via a surrogate birth on Christmas Day as well.

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T in the Park 2011 Headliners

With 2011 fast approaching, Music News takes a look at T in the Park 2011 and who may be appearing this year.

With the reformed Blink 182 already performing next year as well as the returning Foo Fighters, rumours are spreading like wildfire as to the who the third headliner will be for the three day bash.

Already rumoured are The Black Eyed Peas, who performed on the second stage on the Friday of 2010 and are promoting their new album The Beginning. Another rumour is Biffy Clyro who have had a monumental year, hitting the top 10 largely due to promotion from the X Factor with Many of Horror. The band received the biggest crowd at last year's bash with around 70,000 in attendance to watch their Scottish heroes. They are also set to play a headline set at this year's Sonisphere festival too.

Other names that have been in the press include The Libertines, Linkin Park, Coldplay and The Gorillaz.

However the most likely bet is Sheffield's finest, the reformed Pulp. Glastonbury and T in the Park have a history of sharing headliners in the past (Muse, Blur, The Verve) and it wouldn't be a surprise to see Jarvis Cocker and Co. taking to the stage of both this summer.

Got your own view on this story? Use the comment box below to post your own thoughts.

Tom Crowther

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Merry Christmas to all our readers!

Music-News.com wishes all our readers a very Merry Christmas!

We'll still be updating the site throughout the Christmas and New Year period with a limited service so do check back if you can.

We hope you enjoy the break and have a wonderful Christmas.

Many thanks

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TIRED PONY ANNOUNCE DEBUT US SHOW

Following their debut show in the UK last month in London, Gary's side poject Tired Pony are delighted to announce their debut US show will take place at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City on October 1st.

This show will be the first time fans in the states can hear songs from the band’s debut – The Place We Ran From (released September 28th in the US) – performed live.

EXCLUSIVE OFFER: An exclusive 24 hour pre-sale for tickets will begin on August 5th via the Tired Pony mailing list. To sign up for the Tired Pony Mailing List and access this exclusive pre-sale head towww.tiredpony.comNOW. (The pre-sale code will be sent to you at 9:00am EST Thursday morning).

General public tickets for this show will go on-sale on August 6th at noon EST.

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TIRED PONY ANNOUNCE LA SHOW& PRE SALE - EXTRA NEW YORK TICKETS

Following the huge demand for tickets for Tired Pony's debut US show in New York on October 1st, the band have not only decided to move the show to a larger venue, but also add a second date in LA for the band's west coast fans.

The second show will take place on October 4th at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, with tickets going on sale on Saturday 10am (PDT) viaticketmaster.com. 

Tired Pony mailing list member can access an exclusive pre-sale from 10am (PDT) on Friday via their Mailing List, which you can sign up for by clickinghere.

Once you've signed up to TP mailing list, we will email you the password along with a link early on Friday morning; so make sure you keep an eye on your inbox.

The New York show has also been upgraded from the Gramercy Theatre to the Irving Plaza, all tickets are still valid for the show, with an additional set of tickets becoming available on Friday at 10pm EST vialivenation.com. 

'The Place We Ran From' the debut album by Tired Pony will be released in the US on September 28th.

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SNOW PATROL ANNOUNCED FOR ROCK IN RIO 2011

Snow Patrol have just confirmed they will play at the legendary Rock in Rio Festival, that next year returns to it's spiritual home of Brazil for the first time in 10 years.

The band will perform just ahead of headliners The Red Hot Chili Peppers on September 24th, with many more eclectic artists set to be announced over the coming months.

Tickets for the festival go on sale on Friday 19th November 2010 only at the Rock In Rio official website,www.rockinrio.com.br. Other points of sale will be available only after July, 1, 2011.

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SNOW PATROL RETURN TO LIVE STAGE

Snow Patrol return to the live stage this month, when they take to the road alongside U2 on their 360 tour.

The Patrol support Bono and co five times over the next few weeks in Greece, Turkey, Russia and two shows in Denmark, alongside headline sets at both Pukkelpop and Lowlands on the 20th and 21st August respectively.

For full details of the U2 tour, as well as ticket details, head towww.u2.com. You can also find details on the summer festivals atwww.pukkelpop.beandwww.lowlands.nl

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TIRED PONY - GET ON THE ROAD VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

Gary Lightbody's side project Tired Pony will release new single 'Get On The Road' on September 26th in the UK, it will be the second track to be taken from the album 'The Place We Ran From' which is out now in the UK and available on September 28th in North America.

The release, which will be download only, will feature non-album track 'Silver Atoms', as well as the 'Get On The Road' video all in an exclusive iTunes bundle.

Check out the video for the single, which was filmed at (to-date) the band's only live show at The Forum in London in July and features the gorgeous vocals of Lisa Hannigan duetting alongside Gary, via the link below. 

To celebrate the exclusive, Tired Pony are also giving away a free download of non-album track 'I Finally Love This Town' via their facebook atwww.facebook.com/tiredpony/

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SNOW PATROL PLAY THEIR FINAL SHOW OF THE SUMMER

The Patrol will take to the stage in a few hours at the Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey for their final support slot with U2 on the 360° tour.

Following a summer that has seen SP play two huge headline shows in Scotland and Northern Ireland, supporting U2 on several dates of their European tour and playing headline slots at Pukkelpop and Lowlands Festival, the band will now take a few weeks off before heading into the studio to begin recording their eagerly awaited sixth album.

During the summer shows, the band have continued their support ofAmnesty International, who the guys have all been linked with over the last few years. Gary has worn the Demand Dignity campaign t-shirt (see above) on stage several times over the summer, and you can find out how you can get involved atartforamnesty.org.

Photo Credit:Uggi Kaldan

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GARY FEATURES ON NEW RAY DAVIES ALBUM

Not content with his work with Tired Pony and forthcoming studio sessions for Snow Patrol’s sixth album, Gary Lightbody has also recently been recording with Ray Davies for his new album.

The Kink’s front man releases ‘See My Friends’, an album of classic Kinks songs turned into unique collaborations featuring amongst others Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Mumford and Sons, as well as SP’s front man duetting with Ray on ‘Tired of Waiting’.

The album will be released on November 1st in the UK and you can check out the full track listings for the album, which also features performances from Billy Corgan, Black Francis and Jon Bon Jovi atwww.seemyfriends.co.uk.

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BELLAHOUSTON PARK 2010 - GUINNESS STAGE IN PROFILE

Following the huge success of the stage in Bangor, the Guinness stage heads to Bellahouston Park in Glasgow this Saturday to showcase three of the best new bands in Scotland. 

The stage times for all of the artists across both stages, have been crafted so as not to overlap each other and therefore allows you to check out all the bands on the bill.

Once again we hand over to Gary to profile the bands chosen to support SP in Glasgow:

Aerials Up

Onstage Saturday 12th June @ 8:15pm

Kemy is one of the best young songwriters in Scotland and has a way ith a chorus i am very covetous of.

http://www.myspace.com/aerialsup

The Boy Who Trapped The Sun

Onstage Saturday 12th June @ 6:45pm

Colin Macleod is blessed with a beautiful voice and a host of stunning songs. I have yet to see him live so i'm really looking forward to it.

http://www.myspace.com/theboywhotrappedthesun

The Moth and the Mirror

Onstage Saturday 12th June @ 5:30pm

I've known Stacey for years and she was also in the reindeer section. Amazing songs of darkened hope.

http://www.myspace.com/themothandthemirror

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BELLAHOUSTON PARK 2010 - STAGE TIMES + FINAL FEW TICKETS AVAILABLE!

Snow Patrol’s second huge show in a week is just a day away and if the World Cup wasn’t getting us Eskimos excited enough, then the prospect of seeing a truly great line-up of live music in the Glasgow sun (touch wood) sure is.

We’ve been profiling all the hand picked support acts on the Bellahouston bill this week on SP.com and if you’ve missed any you can check them out below. We’ve also just added the full set of stage times for both the Main Stage and the Guinness stage.

A limited amount of tickets for the show are still available and can be purchased viaticketmaster.co.uk. The SP Bellahouston official t-shirt is also available now at via thestore.

Main Stage

Snow Patrol– 8:45pm

Editors– 7:15pm - VIEW PROFILE

Band of Horses - 6:00pm–VIEW PROFILE

Frightened Rabbit - 5:00pm–VIEW PROFILE

Guinness Stage

Aerials Up– 8:15pm - VIEW PROFILE

The Boy Who Trapped The Sun– 6:45pm – VIEW PROFILE

The Moth and The Mirrror– 5:30pm – VIEW PROFILE

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BELLAHOUSTON PARK 2010 - THE AFTERMATH

Yesterday 25,000 fans packed into Bellahouston Park on the south-side of Glasgow and saw yet another stunning performance from the Patrol.

With a sunny day overhead, the band performed a hit filled set with recent single 'Just Say Yes', the reworked version of 'Run' and the anthemic 'Chasing Cars' all receiving an amazing response.

New track 'Big Broken', was once again aired following it's debut last week at Ward Park, as well a rare outing for 'Dark Roman Wine' kicking off the band's encore infront of a buoyant Glasgow crowd.

You can now buy the official Bellahouston t-shirt's that were available at the show via the store.

The full set list was 

Open Your Eyes

Take Back the City

Chocolate

Hands Open

Crack the Shutters

You Could Be Happy

Make This Go On Forever

What if This Storm Ends?

Shut Your Eyes

Spitting Games

Run

Big Broken

Set The Fire

Planets

Chasing Cars

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Dark Roman Wine

Rocket

Just Say Yes

You're All I Have

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BEAT FOR PEACE SUDAN365

Following the success of the‘Beat for Peace’ video that was released early this year, the Sudan365 Campaign have released a second video which will be presented to all the world leaders on Friday 24th September at the UN in New York. 

Featuring various drummers and artists from all over the world including Radiohead sticksman Phil Selway, Coldplay’s Will Champion, Pink Floyd’s Nick Masson and Snow Patrol’s Jonny Quinn, the campaign is calling on world leaders to prevent a return to war in Sudan ahead of a landmark referendum in January 2011.

You can watch footage of the video below and find out more about the Campaign and how you can help atSudan365.org

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TIRED PONY RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM IN US

Tired Pony’s album ‘The Place We Ran From’ is available in stores and to download in the US now fromAmazonandiTunes.

You can catch the collective this Thursday on the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS, clickherefor details. The band will then celebrate the release of the album at their debut US show in New York on October 1st at Irving Plaza. 

On the morning of the New York show the band will also be performing live on WRXP, you can listen online from around 9:40am (EST) via www.1019rxp.com  

If you're on the west coast, you can catch Tired Pony in LA at the El Rey Theatre on October 4th. A limited amount of tickets for both shows are available NOW viaticketmaster.com

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BLOG UPDATE - 15/10/10

Howdy folks,

 

It’s been too long. I know. Not had much to say last while. Hope I have more in the months to come as we make the album of our lives. I’ll post when I have something to say. Or I have nonsense to say. Or both. With me one does not rule out the other.

 

So we have reached the end of a tour begun in October of 2008. Brazil is nowhere near where it began but it is where it all comes to a halt two years to the month later. Tomorrow night we play the Natura Nos Festival in Sao Paulo. Our first Brazilian show ever. We have a lot of mates who have played here before and say the crowds here are as good as anywhere in the world so we’re very excited to find out if that is true. Everyone has been so lovely to us out here already so I’m sure it’ll be a blast. 

 

We were taken out last night to an amazing Brazilian barbeque place (although out here I guess they’re just called barbeque places). It was my first experience of such a thing. The meat comes around (different cuts of beef, pork, chicken, human) on skewers and you have a little beer mat that has one green side (for ‘go’) and a red side (also for ‘go’, kidding, it’s for ‘please stopbringing me meat for the love of god’) so whilst your beer mat is turned to green they just keep bringing various skewers of awesomeness until you either die or have the good sense to turn your fucking beer mat over stupid! It’s a brand new way to eat for me. Not unlike tapas I suppose but withtapas you decide what you want (invariably ordering too much never mind for your stomach but often for your table too) but with what happened last night meat just kept coming and the only thing I remember doing that was anything like a signal to the staff was taking my seat in the first place. 

 

The other bit of wondrousness that was new(ish) to me was the Brazilian classic drink the Caiprinhia. I say‘ish’ because I’ve had them in the UK. A very good one is too be had (if James is working) at the Stravagin bar on Gibson Street in the west end of Glasgow but the ones last night were made at our table. I’m pretty sure they do it like that so you can see what goes into it and aren’t stupid enough to order more than, say, one! Basically it (for the uninitiated) consists of sugar and limes crushed together in a pestle and mortar which teases about two centimetres of sweet and sour juice from the lime. The rest of the glass is filled, to the brim, with Cachaca. Cachaca is made from sugar cane and is about 38% alcohol, a few % less than Vodka. So the drink is pretty much a 250ml glass of pure spirits and enough sugar to root your teeth out where you stand. I’ll not say how many were drank but not a soul this morning could remember anything. Anything at all! In the decade and a half of this band’s life there has never been a next day total amnesia like the one shared this morning. There were bruises, cuts, half remembered cab rides to god knows where and Jonny’s face looks like it was pawed by an angry bear. And who’s to say it wasn’t? Thank you Brazil. Thanks for inviting us to your party. Then destroying us. We’re all still laughing mind you. It’ll take more than startled bears and forget-me-nows to ebb at our good spirits (oh I said spirits) but the soundcheck was a tough paper-round. A tough paper-round indeed. Last show of the tour tomorrow though sono doubt it won’t be the last Caiprinha we have in our lives. Or in fact our week. Back to LA on Monday though for clean living by the sea, the reconnection with our marbles and the formation of what I hope to be our masterpiece.

 

Yes we are to record our sixth album in LA (yes sixth as Up To Now does not count, don’t you hate Best Ofs if only for making the discography untidy) in the next few months and it is our intention to have it out midway through 2011. It will not come out until it’s perfect though so there is no date set in stone. It’ll happen when it happens. 

 

Thank you everyone for the 100 Millions Suns tour. Our crew who worked on it, the bands who toured with us and us with them and to every one of you that came to see us play, it’s truly a heartbreaking waste of time without you. Believe us, we toured from 1995 – 2003 (although thank you to the 20 people a night that used to come see us). 

 

A tour ends and an album begins…

 

GaryL.xx

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THE WHISKEY SONG - FEATURING NATHAN CONNOLLY

The Whiskey Song is the new single from Ricky Warwick produced by Chris McCormack of 3 Colours Red and featuring Nathan Connolly of Snow Patrol on guitar.

Ricky -"I’ve always felt that Belfast almost thrived on adversity, the more the city endured the stronger it became. When I was growing up, the pubs around the shipyard in the east of the town were always filled with hard working, hard drinking artisans who sought solace in a pint and a whiskey chaser at the end of a hard day’s graft."

 

"The heavy industry that surrounded the River Lagan was powered by men who took their strength from the ginger lady, whiskey, feckin whiskey, and the honest toil of a long suffering people. Belfast has survived and prospered almost in spite of itself."

 

"The Whiskey Song is a never say die song, sang with a never say die raw Belfast gusto."

You can download the track now atiTunes

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