Blue were one of the big pulls at the Capital FM Summertime Ball in London over the weekend. Leona Lewis also entertained fans with a rare gig.
Calvin Harris joked with ITN about getting Michael Jackson in the studio with him to record a track on his new album when the King of Pop comes to the UK. Katy Perry, also on the bill, talked about having beans on toast for breakfast.
Watch the ITN report via DailyMotion below.
Calvin Harris is out with a remix of Katy Perry’s single ‘Waking Up In Vegas’. Listen via the Scottish artist’s YouTube channel below.
VV Brown updated fans on her Twitter account (@VVbrown) earlier today, with a provocative idea for her ‘Travelling Like The Light’ album artwork. The ‘Crying Blood’ singer writes:
Had an acting class for video? Then counted my Polaroid collection, I have bout 3000, Africa express, indie bands, penis’, vaginas’, sunsets..
I’ve decided I’m gonna do a Polaroid diary, this is mad, some of my pics are bloody iconic! My put inside album artwork! Espec 1″s of penis’
Prompting this response from Calvin Harris (@calvinharris):
@VVbrown did you actually just say you’re putting pictures of penises in your album artwork?! Just when I thought I had you figured out…!
The “Burns Rewerk” version of Calvin Harris’ new single ‘I’m Not Alone’ has been posted at Calvin’s YouTube channel. Listen to the track, which will be featured on the single’s Remix CD available next month, below.
Tiesto is out with a remix of Calvin Harris’ new single ‘I’m Not Alone’, which Calvin posted at his YouTube channel. Listen to the track, which will be featured on the single’s Remix CD available next month, below.
Calvin Harris is out with the music video to his new single ‘I’m Not Alone’, the lead release off the Scottish singer songwriter’s upcoming second album on Columbia/EMI. Watch the video, filmed in Oslo, Norway, below.
Calvin Harris updated fans on her blog at MySpace (@calvinharris) on Friday (December 19). The pop singer and producer tells readers:
Well you probably haven’t noticed that it’s almost time for Christmas, which means it must be almost time for the BBC to show Christmas Top Of The Pops (on Christmas day) which I will be on! Me Chrome and Dizzee doing ‘Dance Wiv Me’ of course. I will finally get to realize a long held ambition to pretend to DJ on the show - I thought my chance had perhaps disappeared when the show did, but they resurrected it - so I thank the BBC for that, thanks.
It also gave me an opportunity to road test my Fly Eye MKII Spectacles, once again expertly crafted by NASA, with a number of unique modifications…
Calvin Harris updated fans on his blog at MySpace (@calvinharris) on Friday (November 28) with a progress report on his second album. The Scottish singer/producer tells readers:
It’s been a good studio week this week, the next album is starting to sound like the best thing you’ve never heard, I’m really looking forward to getting some new songs out… at first I was going to have loads of guests but I’ve now decided against that because people do my head in… there will be a couple of names though, but only when it’s really necessary… (like girl vocals an’ sh**)
By the way sea bass is a hell of a fish, I bake mine for 40 minutes, skin comes right off! easy! Sea bass is EASY!
goodbye!
Oh and I have been off the booze for 3 months now, I am a new man, I suggest everybody give up drinking immediately, it’s no good.
Calvin Harris checked in with fans on his blog at MySpace (@calvinharris) on Sunday (November 9), taking a shot at Lemar’s new single ‘If She Knew’ sounding like Ne-Yo, though perhaps to make a point after explaining how he was slated for similar reasons by musical peers. The British singer, songwriter and producer tells readers:
Never thought I’d see Lemar copying Taio Cruz, who himself is copying Ne-Yo. What a situation. I can understand why, when us Brits want to do ‘r&b’ or ‘urban’ or whatever you want to call it, we look to America for inspiration, but I’m left wondering what these songs are actually for?
You can’t dance to it, it’s a sh** song, boring production, what else is there?I like good songs you can’t dance to.
I like sh** songs you can dance to.
I like sh** songs you can’t dance to but sound amazing.
Obviously the aim is to tick all the boxes but sometimes it doesn’t really matter.I remember I was in Berlin last year waiting for soundcheck so to pass the time I picked up a German music magazine to see what the chat was. It had all these music artists reviewing albums that were coming out that week, and my album got slated by Justice AND Goldfrapp, two acts whose production I quite enjoy. I can’t remember what Goldfrapp said, I imagine it was something about the quality of the songs, but Justice said I was sh** because I sounded like ‘everybody else’, which really wounded me, because the reason I enjoy making music is to create songs that sound different to everything else.
I then tried to think of songs that sound like ‘Acceptable in the 80s’ or ‘The Girls’ - I couldn’t, and that’s when I realized that both Justice and Goldfrapp can fu** right off. Which is hopefully what Lemar would say if he read this…
So all that was a bit of a waste of time really eh?
Calvin Harris checked in with fans on his blog at MySpace (@calvinharris) on Thursday (September 18), still recovering after having his tonsils removed. The Scottish singer songwriter and producer writes:
What is wrong with Channel 4?!
Why are they so desperate for us to watch ‘The Family’??? It looks totally sh**. Really really bad. Pointless too.
I’ve never watched so much TV in my life as in the past week. But still, I made sure I avoided that.
I had my tonsils out last Tuesday and since then I’ve been in the most pain I’ve ever been in in my life, easily. I’ve developed what I call ‘The Abraham Lincoln Of Unutterable Pain’ which is a strip of intense pain that runs from ear to ear under my chin, much like Lincoln’s beard. Good, except the pain also encompasses throat, neck and tongue.
It’s not very funny I agree, but sadly I have also lost my power of mirth.
Anyway, the pain has begun to subside a bit, allowing me to write this, absolute pointless time wasting sh**e.