Irish stars honoured at British Film Awards & other: August 2008

Thursday 28 August 2008

Neil Diamond shuffles dates due to laryngitis

Suffering from acute laryngitis, Neil Diamond [ ] has rescheduled a geminate of coming concerts after the singer's doctors told him to rest his voice.

Diamond's register in Green Bay, WI--originally scheduled for tomorrow dark (8/27)--has been stirred to Sept. 12, while Friday's (8/29) show in St. Louis has been moved to Sept. 10. for both shows volition be esteemed on the rescheduled dates, and ticket holders ineffectual to adapt the postponements should tangency the unnatural venues for refunds.

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The singer's throat problems seemed to first surface last night in Columbus, OH, where Diamond's "pipes coughed up words to familiar songs in sounds that rear be described only as painful," according to a review in the Columbus Dispatch. The performer, world Health Organization launched the tour in July, currently has dates scheduled through the end of October. The complete schedule is included below.

Diamond is touring in financial backing of his latest Rick Rubin-produced record album, "Home Before Dark," which hit stores in May. His electric current tour, however, touches on songs from throughout his long career.

"I do a bunch of songs from the new album, and a mates from the '12 Songs' album, just I don't do them quite as spare, or as sparse as they are on the album, maybe with the exception of 'Home Before Dark,'" he told LiveDaily recently.

"I've put a little Latin pizzazz into 'Pretty Amazing Grace,' which I care a lot and it's fun to do. The other song is 'Don't Go There.' It's pretty much as we do in the album--they seem to fit very well. The audience responds identical well to them and I like doing them."

"Home After Dark" became Diamond's first-ever No. 1 album in the US in the first place this year, topping the Billboard cc chart with sales of more than 146,000 copies in its first base week. This made Diamond, at eld 67, the oldest performing artist to ever so have a number one record.

[Note: The following tour of duty dates make been provided by artist and/or tour sources, world Health Organization verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may go on before go on sale. Check with official creative person websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]

September 200810 - St. Louis, MO - Scotttrade Center12 - Green Bay, WI - Resch Center14 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre16 - Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place18 - Calgary, AB - Pengrowth Saddledome20 - Vancouver, British Columbia - General Motors Place22 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden Arena24 - Seattle, WA - Key Arena at Seattle Center26 - Sacramento, CA - ARCO Arena28 - San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion at San JoseOctober 20081, 2 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl4 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center7 - San Diego, CA - San Diego Sports Arena10 - Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena12 - San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center14 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center16 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center19 - Oklahoma City, OK - Ford Center21 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center24 - Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum26 - Sunrise, FL - BankAtlantic Center28 - Orlando, FL - Amway Arena30 - Jacksonville, FL - Veterans Memorial Coliseum

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Monday 18 August 2008

Label Done Waiting for Jared Leto's 30 Seconds

It's 30 Seconds to Mars. And close to half that to file a lawsuit.

Jared Leto and his bandmate brother, Shannon, were sued Friday by Virgin Records America for failing to add up through on a five-album deal the eyelinered duo and the now-defunct indie label, Immortal Records, inked with the plaintiff nine-spot years ago.

While Leto exploited a couple of those years to appear in movies like Girl, Interrupted and American Psycho, his band finally got the ball wheeling with its 2002 self-titled debut.

The alt-rockers followed that up with 2005's A Beautiful Lie.

But since their sophomore endeavor, according to the causa filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, 30 Seconds to Mars has remained three albums short of the promised land.

Virgin and parent company Capitol Music Group call that the Letos opted out of their 1999 contract in July by citing a section of the California Labor Code which states that a contract cannot be enforced against an employee beyond seven years "from the commencement of service under it."

In order of magnitude to invoke the loophole, employees involved in "the production of phonorecords" moldiness also give written notice that it won't be providing its services in the future.

And 30 Seconds to Mars may very well have laid it all knocked out in writing, but the labor code also states that, in such a case, an employer is entitled to recover damages for severance of concentrate, which is exactly what Virgin and Capitol ar looking to do, to the tune of more than $30 million.

A repp for the band tells TMZ, still, that it's 30 Seconds to Mars that is getting the short end of the stick�the leash, which as well includes Tomo Milicevic, has sold more than 2 million albums and has not been paid accordingly.

Meanwhile, though the guys haven't been putting out whatsoever new music lately, they sure ar stretching their A Beautiful Lie success as far as it will go.

They issued a deluxe edition of the album in 2006 and rereleased it again final year with a different set of bonus material, hoping to capitalize on the good will picked up on a European club circuit. A short-film music video for the album's title track premiered in January on the band's MySpace site as well.

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