On Britney Spear’s website they have released the tracklist of her new album, called ‘Circus’. It includes the hit single ‘Womanizer’. (more…)

There are fears for the mental state of singing superstar Amy Winehouse after she reportedly lost the plot at a recent recording session for her up and coming third album, ‘Back to Black’ (dubbed ‘Back to Blake’ by many in the media).  (more…)

Another week and another Red Bull Bedroom Jam, this time the live feed heads down to London, for the interestingly titled ‘Why Whiskey Why?’ (more…)

Red Funnel, the Isle of Wight specialist, has announced that tickets to the 2009 Isle of Wight Festival are now on sale!

Taking place over three days from 12 – 14 June 2009 (more…)

Honey Ryder have today been announced as special guests for the forthcoming Will Young Winter Tour. After a series of arena dates, city halls to the Royal Albert Hall in October this is the one of the key tours running into the Christmas period.

This will be the perfect showcase for the band to play their forthcoming single ‘Fly Away’ out 10th November (Digital available from 1st December) and their debut album ‘Rising Up’ out on the 17th November. The single has been garnering major support from The Box and 4 Music, as well as national radio support from the likes of Radio 2 and 5 Live

The band will be performing as special guests to Will on the following UK dates:

Sunday 16/11/08 Newcastle City Hall Newcastle
Monday 17/11/08 Harrogate International Centre
Tuesday 18/11/08 Philharmonic Hall Liverpool
Thursday 20/11/08 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Friday 21/11/08 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Sunday 23/11/08 Manchester Apollo Manchester
Monday 24/11/08 Manchester Apollo Manchester
Tuesday 25/11/08 Sheffield City Hall Sheffield
Thursday 27/11/08 New Theatre Oxford Oxford
Friday 28/11/08 Nottingham Royal Centre Nottingham
Sunday 30/11/08 Portsmouth Guildhall Portsmouth
Monday 1/12/08 Colston Hall Bristol
Wednesday 3/12/08 Ipswich Regent Theatre Ipswich
Thursday 4/12/08 Brighton Dome Brighton
Friday 5/12/08 Cardiff St Davids Hall Cardiff
Sunday 7/12/08 Symphony Hall Birmingham
Monday 8/12/08 Symphony Hall Birmingham
Tuesday 9/12/08 Plymouth Pavilions Plymouth
Thursday 11/12/08 Bournemouth International Centre (BIC)
Friday 12/12/08 Roundhouse London
Saturday 13/12/08 Roundhouse London

The London-based duo, Martyn Shone and Lindsay O’Mahony have worked
on debut album ‘Rising Up’ with London’s Goldust Productions team (Bryan Adams, Natasha Bedingfield). The album has been mixed by Brad Gilderman, (Madonna, Outkast) and Bob Kraushaar (Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Williams).

Tips from Music Week to The News Of The World, The Daily and Sunday Express to The Times, Metro to OK Magazine, have with the chart success of debut single Numb, which entered the UK Official Charts at Number 32, set the stage for the band’s debut long player “Rising Up”.

Previous form: Singer Lindsay worked at MTV with the likes of Chris Evans, Edith Bowman, Russell Brand and Alex Zane whilst guitarist Martyn, juggled a double life as a banker, at Credit Suisse, in the city and a jobbing musician.

With supporters in the shape of Annie Lennox and Will Young, Rising Up is set to be one of the albums of 2008/9 and will be released on CD and Digital formats through Honey Ryder Music Ltd on 17th November 2008.

For more information on the band please visit: www.honeyryder.co.uk

On October 1st 2008 Red Bull energy drink re-launched ‘Red Bull Can Make Music’, a creativity contest that challenges students to make and build a unique piece of music using only a Red Bull can at www.redbullcanmakemusic.com until 13th December 2008. (more…)

‘Puzzle’ the great new single from Das Wanderlust, its came out Monday 6th October . (more…)

Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw are back on BBC Two with an exciting new music and entertainment show.  Every Saturday we’ll have the hottest new bands, celebrity guests and lots of fun and games. And you and your mates could be part of it.

We’re not looking for people to just watch the latest bands. It’s much better than that. You, the audience, will play a key part in the show, joining in with games, competitions and even interviewing our bands and celebrity guests.

If you’re aged 16-19 and, this sounds like your kind of show we want you and your friends to film yourselves and tell us why we should pick you to be our VIP audience. It’s up to you what you say or do to persuade us
- all we ask is that your film is no longer than 5 minutes.

So if you don’t want to miss out then email switchguestlist@monkeykingdom.com for an application form now. And get making those films!

To submit your films please upload them to our YouTube group http://uk.youtube.com/group/switchguestlist or email them to switchguestlist@monkeykingdom.com