No it is not a cover of the Amy Winehouse song, but the excellent latest release from R&B girl of the moment Rihanna.
This is easily my favourite from the album Good Girl Gone Bad and in my opinion the strongest of her incredible string of hit singles, the sixth to be taken from what is clearly a collection of hits.
It is no surprise to see that Justin Timberlake was involved on the songwriting of Rehab, it is a catchy track reminding me of the early TLC and Destiny’s Child songs, Scrubs in particular comes to mind.
Bollocks to Poverty - Ready to Air Guitar Rock at the Reading Festival
On Thursday 21 August, charity ActionAid will be attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the ‘largest air guitar ensemble’ and where better to gather together hundreds of wannabe rockers than Reading Festival?
The charity is inviting all festival goers to their Bollocks to Poverty tent, a regular feature at Reading, to take part in the record breaking attempt on the first evening of the festival.
Leading the crowd will be ‘expert’ air guitarist and UK Air Guitar Championships regular, Dave ‘Wildman’ Pickles. A representative from Guinness World Records will also be on hand to check entrants abide by the stringent rules. All air guitars must be played correctly and consistently in order to qualify.
ActionAid feel’s confident Reading fans will enter into the true spirit of air guitar and together, they can thrash this record.
The most important part of the attempt, the tune itself, is still being kept top secret as ActionAid representatives trawl their Iron Maiden, Motorhead and Guns N Roses collections, debating whether to keep it classic or surprise the crowd with something a bit more inventive.
The same weekend as the record-breaking attempt, hundreds more nimble fingered rock-lovers will be descending on the unsuspecting city of Oulu in Finland for the World Air Guitar Championships (including the winner of the UK Air Guitar Championships, decided on 8 August).
To get people in the mood Bollocks to Poverty are also running an online competition to win a pair of tickets to Reading festival. All entrants have to do is create their own air guitar video and upload it to www.myspace.com/bollockstopoverty and the best one wins. Please see the site for more information.
Once considered only the pastime of wannabe 80’s rockers and long-haired Bohemian Rhapsody fans, it seems that air guitar is definitely back in style. So limber up your fingers and get ready to strum your stuff for charity………
For more details on Bollocks to Poverty please visit www.actionaid.org.uk/bollocks
Keane are giving away a track from their up coming third album, as a freebie taster for one week only. The track called Spiralling is available from today at the Keane music website.
Frontman Tom Chaplin said the track, recorded in Berlin, is “a train of thought about human endeavour, built on an outrageous groove”.
Keane have reported that they ‘have ignored the rules of good taste’ in the making of their third album, with recording taking place in various studio’s around the world.
The album Perfect Symmetry will be released in October this year.
The new single sounds like early Duran Duran, with hooks from Keanes Somewhere Only We Know. And that is the problem with Keane, they have never come close to producing another track that comes near to Somewhere, and sadly never look like doing so.
The Kills have just announced a full UK headline tour for November, calling at Oran Moran in Glasgow, the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham and the Astoria in London.
The Kills are currently taking their high energy live show to the USA and Japan where they will perform at Lollapolooza and Summersonic festivals amongst others, before returning to the UK for Reading and Leeds.
September will see them heading out on a full US tour with the Raconteurs.
The Kills forthcoming UK and Irish dates:
Fri 22nd August: Leeds Festival
Sun 24th August: Reading Festival
Sat 30th August: Ire, Electric Picnic
Tue 4th November: Glasgow - Oran Mor
Wed 5th November: Newcastle - The Other Rooms
Thu 6th November: Middlesborough - Arena
Sat 8th November: Sheffield - The Leadmill
Sun 9th November: Stoke-On-Trent - The Sugarmill
Mon 10th November: Nottingham - Rescue Rooms
Sun 16th November: Coventry - Kasbah
Mon 17th November: Norwich - The Waterfront
Wed 19th November: Cambridge - The Junction
Thu 20th November: London - Astoria Theatre
Fri 21st November: Brighton - Concorde2
Below is an official compilation being used to remind viewers of some of Noel & Liam Gallagher’s finest moments so far. The compilation features classic Oasis footage and videos, plus a taster of the new single ‘Shock Of The Lightning’ whish is due to be released on 29th September.
The new album, ‘Dig Out Your Soul’, will be released on 6th October 6th.
