South London artist Misty Miller has been writing her own songs since she was eight, drawing inspiration from the likes of Patti Smith, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed. At the age of fifteen, in 2011, she recorded her first album, which then went on to sell 60,000 copies.
Now, signed to Sony label Relentless, she’s set to continue that success with the Girlfriend EP, a collection of songs embracing her gritty, 70s rock inspired sound. It’s out February 25th.
Eastbourne post-hardcore kings City Of Ashes have at last released the gritty and edgy video for their track falling star, taken off their brand spanking new EP.
Unveiled last week There Was A Hand In The Darkness is the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s When Black Fuels Blood and their first effort as a four piece with new guitarist, James MacDonald.
The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced today by a supposedly drunk Seth MacFarlane. Making jokes about Hitler and cast members banging their directors, the Family Guy star seemed reminiscent of Ricky Gervais and his infamous Golden Globes performances.
As usual, but in a lesser way than at the Golden Globes, many films missed out on deserved nominations, but some of the past year’s finest pictures were suitably rewarded.
To the surprise of no one US favourite Lincoln led the way in nominations, scooping twelve nods, combined with many more at the BAFTAS and Golden Globes. Life Of Pi trailed just behind with twelve.
As with the BAFTAS and Golden Globes The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was badly snubbed, picking up just three nominations in visual effects, production design and makeup and hairstyling.
The nominations are:
Best Picture
Argo
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Amour
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight
Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin – Argo
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams – The Master
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Jackie Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook
Animated Feature Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Directing
Amour – Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi – Ang Lee
Lincoln – Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
Writing – Original Screenplay
Amour – Michael Haneke
Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino
Flight – John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal
Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Argo – Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi – David Magee
Lincoln – Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
Music – Original Song
Before My Time from Chasing Ice, music and lyrics by J. Ralph
Everybody Needs a Best Friend from Ted, music by Walter Murphy, lyrics by Seth MacFarlane
Pi’s Lullaby from Life of Pi, music by Mychael Danna, lyrics by Bombay Jayashri
Skyfall from Skyfall, music and lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Suddenly from Les Miserables, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
The nominations for the 2013 EE British Academy Film Awards were unveiled this morning by Alice Eve and Jeremy Irvine at BAFTA HQ in Piccadilly, London.
With the selections not particularly surprising a number of films did better than others. Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln predictably led the way with ten nods, leaving Les Miserables, Life Of Pi, Skyfall and Argo yapping at its heels.
Perhaps surprising though was the success of Keira Knightley’s cooly received Anna Karenina. Despite its missable reception it managed to scoop six nominations.
A real shame, and a bit of a mistake we feel, was the lack of attention given to the The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Despite topping the UK box office for the fourth weekend in a row, Peter Jackson’s first of three installments only managed three nods.
The ceremony itself will be hosted by Stephen Fry at London’s Royal Opera House on Sunday February 10th.
Best Film
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) – The Imposter
David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) – McCullin
Dexter Fletcher (director/writer), Danny King (writer) – Wild Bill
James Bobin (director) – The Muppets
Tina Gharavi (director/writer) – I Am Nasrine
Film Not in the English Language
Amour
Headhunters
The Hunt
Rust and Bone
Untouchable
Documentary
The Imposter
Marley
McCullin
Searching for Sugarman
West of Memphis
Animated Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
Paranorman
Director
Michael Haneke – Amour
Ben Affleck – Argo
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Original Screenplay
Amour
Django Unchained
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Adapted Screenplay
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Leading Actor
Ben Affleck – Argo
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Leading Actress
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Mirren – Hitchcock
Emmanuel Riva – Amour
Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin – Argo
Javier Bardem – Skyfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Supporting Actress
Amy Adams – The Master
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Original Music
Dario Marianelli – Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat – Argo
Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
John Williams – Lincoln
Thomas Newman – Skyfall
Cinematography
Seamus McGarvey – Anna Karenina
Danny Cohen – Les Misérables
Claudio Miranda – Life of Pi
Janusz Kaminski – Lincoln
Roger Deakins – Skyfall
Editing
William Goldenberg – Argo
Fred Raskin – Django Unchained
Tim Squyres – Life of Pi
Stuart Baird – Skyfall
Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg – Zero Dark Thirty
Production Design
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer – Anna Karenina
Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson – Les Misérables
David Gropman, Anna Pinnock – Life of Pi
Rick Carter, Jim Erickson – Lincoln
Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock – Skyfall
Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran – Anna Karenina
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor – Great Expectations
Paco Delgado – Les Misérables
Joanna Johnston – Lincoln
Colleen Atwood – Snow White and the Huntsman
Make Up & Hair
Ivana Primorac – Anna Karenina
Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger – Hitchcock
Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Lisa Westcott – Les Misérables
Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou – Lincoln
Sound
Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman – Django Unchained
Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst – Les Misérables
Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill – Life of Pi
Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers – Skyfall
Special Visual Effects
Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley – The Dark Knight Rises
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer – Life of Pi
Nominees TBC – The Avengers
Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth – Prometheus
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones has commented on the controversy surrounding the high ticket prices for the upcoming shows in London and New Jersey that has left fans vexed.
With tickets for the November 25th and 29th shows at the 02 Arena ranging from £90 to a deluxe VIP package at £950, many fans have been left disappointed that they can’t afford a ticket to see the old rock gods themselves.
You’d think the band would be sympathetic about that, and annoyed too that their real fans won’t be able to come along to support them, but apparently not because, according to Jagger, the shows are “expensive to put on”.
Really? No shit. But are they that expensive? We doubt it.
“But most of the tickets go for a higher price than we’ve sold them for, so you can see the market is there. We don’t participate in the profit. If a ticket costs 250 quid. let’s imagine, and goes for 1,000 quid, I just want to point out that we don’t get that difference.”
The Rolling Stones are set to continue in 2013 but, we expect, they’ll probably have a few less fans when that time comes.
South London artist Misty Miller has been writing her own songs since she was eight, drawing inspiration from the likes of Patti Smith, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed. At the age of fifteen, in 2011, she recorded her first album, which then went on to sell 60,000 copies.
