Signs of Betrayal & other: 2008

Friday, 5 September 2008

Download Govt Mule mp3

Artist: Govt Mule: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Rock

Discography:

Deja Voodoo

Year: 2004

Tracks: 12

The leadership of Gov't Mule, Warren Haynes and Allen Woody, should be well known to Allman Brothers fans for their stint in Southern rock's most celebrated native sons. In 1989 Haynes became the secondment replacement for Duane Allman, providing a good foil for Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts on guitar and vocals; Woody filled out the Allman healthy on bass part. Five age after their debut, the twain joined drummer Matt Abts in the side externalize Gov't Mule, a band in which the Allman Brothers' influence is ostensible simply complicated with the psychedelic, bluesy advocate trio feel of Cream.

Gov't Mule debuted in 1995 with a self-titled album on Capricorn Records, followed by the astral concert particular date Live at Roseland Ballroom. The studio followup, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, appeared in other 1998; another concert set, Alive...with a Little Help from Our Friends, followed a year after, with the nail show afterwards approach into court as a four-disc limited edition set. A fresh studio exploit, Life Before Insanity, appeared in other 2000. A vital member of the band was lost, however, on August 26, 2000, when Woody was ground dead in a hotel room in New York City. The band had been preparing to record their future album, and after a time, Gov't Mule in conclusion distinct to carry on with the visualize, this clip with edgar Albert Guest bassists ranging from Flea to Bootsy Collins. The two-volume Deep End series for ATO Records resulted. Phish bassist Mike Gordon too got mired in the project, filming the recording of the albums for a plotted documentary. In mid-September 2001, the grouping strike the route for a six-week go in concomitant of Rich End, Vol. 1; Oteil Burbridge filled in as bassist for most of the dates.

The second volume of Live...with a Little Help from Our Friends appeared in 2002 and the Deepest End: Live in Concert CD and DVD in 2003. One year afterward power saw the release of DÃ©jÃ Voodoo, Gov't Mule's kickoff studio feat since Woody's death. It featured his official transposition, bassist Andy Hess, as well as new keyboardist Danny Louis. The like lineup released High & Mighty in 2006. The two-volume Benefit Concert series followed in 2007.

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Home & Away star in serious accident

It has emerged that 'Home & Away' star Todd Lasance was involved in a serious automobile accident concluding weekend.

According to the Melbourne Herald Sun, the 23-year-old actor, world Health Organization plays trouble maker Aden Jefferies in the soap, suffered head injuries when his Toyota Supra collided with a Honda Civic last-place Sunday.

The actor and his 21-year-old female passenger reportedly had to be freed from the car later the break apart, as was the 80-year-old driver of the early car.

Lasance was treated at a hospital in Sydney and later released.

Inspector Bob Bell told Confidential: "The driver of the Toyota suffered bruising and irritation to his chest and minor cuts to his hand, while the rider was reportedly in a serious condition."

A spokesperson for Australia's Seven network aforementioned: "Todd is fine and back at work on the 'Home and Away' set this week."

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Thursday, 7 August 2008

Schnappi

Artist: Schnappi

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Schnappi Und Seine Freunde

Year: 2005
Tracks: 18

Ein Lama In Yokohama

Year: 2005
Tracks: 6

Das Kleine Krokodil

Year: 2005
Tracks: 8

Monday, 30 June 2008

They call me Mr Tibbs - Stampede performer

A builder from Lower Hutt has his wife to thank for becoming the first New Zealander to play guitar and yodel at the world's largest rodeo festival.

Roger Tibbs has been invited to next month's Calgary Stampede, the biggest outdoor event in Canada and the world's largest rodeo event.

More than 1.2 million people attended the stampede last year and more than a million are expected this year, many of them to see acts like American singer-songwriter James Taylor, British/Kiwi pop singer Natasha Bedingfield and American country duo The Judds.

Mr Tibbs has performed for audiences of 2500 in Australia, where he became the only New Zealand man to win a Tamworth Gold Guitar award, but up to 10,000 could see him play in Calgary.

Mr Tibbs, 49, and wife Denise were already going to Canada for the stampede in July, but Mrs Tibbs secretly e-mailed the organisers to see if they would be interested in having her renowned guitarist and yodeller husband play.

"I knew we were going up there so I thought, I'll be cheeky and send an e-mail. I didn't tell Rog at that time because I thought if I didn't get a reply, it wouldn't hurt him," she said.

But when she got an interested response, she told him what she had done and they sent off some of his recordings for consideration.

"In May, I opened up my e-mails and it was from the coordinator of the stampede, asking me if we'd like to be part of it. Then I was just leaping up like a lunatic."

Mr Tibbs will play a half-hour set of Canadian covers, "just to be in vogue up there, plus a couple of yodelling songs which is what I do".

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Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Eurovision contest voting is no laughing matter, says Wogan

Showbusiness stars and politicians yesterday joined Sir Terry Wogan's attack on the integrity of the Eurovision song contest after Russia romped home thanks to bloc voting from its near-neighbours. Wogan is threatening not to commentate on the show again and is suggesting that a musical iron curtain may fall on the competition, with western European countries breaking away from their eastern rivals.

Arriving back at Heathrow from Belgrade, where the 53rd contest was staged, Wogan said: "You have various blocs voting. We've got nobody to vote for us.

"I think the British music industry and the BBC really have to look at this and see how they can avoid this yearly debacle. At the very beginning of the year I said Russia would win for political reasons and they did."

He said Russia had "begun to be a bit bearish again" and added: "I think the former countries of the USSR are feeling a little nervous. The voting used to be about the songs. Now it's about national prejudices. We are on our own. We had a very good song, a very good singer. We came joint last. I don't want to be presiding over another debacle." Fellow stars backed Wogan, who has been involved in what some see as an annual cringefest since the 1970s. Bruce Forsyth said: "It's not a song contest any more, it's political. It's all so biased, it's developed into a farce. I've stopped watching it." Asked about Wogan's role in the show, he said: "As long as they don't ask me to do it, I don't care." Pop svengali Simon Cowell said: "If people enjoy it as entertainment, that's great, but it's all a bit empty and meaningless as a competition."

Public relations expert Max Clifford added: "It's like having a World Cup where the results are worked out in political terms and it's got nothing to do with who scores the most goals."

The Liberal Democrat MP Richard Younger-Ross has tabled a Commons motion condemning the voting as "a joke". He said: "It is clear that the voting system is based on countries either supporting their friends or not voting for those they dislike. The BBC is one of the four main funders of the competition, and should withdraw their contribution until a time when there is a fair voting system."

The BBC was not commenting on Wogan's remarks or the calls for it to withdraw its funding yesterday. But it is very unlikely to pull the plug on the contest, after revealing that 9.3 million viewers tuned in on Saturday night - an audience share of just under 50%.

Wogan's wry commentary is a highlight of the BBC's coverage but his irony turned to barely disguised anger as eastern European, Iberian and Nordic neighbours voted for each other. The Russian entry, Dima Bilan, accompanied by a manic fiddle player and an Olympic champion figure skater who pirouetted around the stage, won comfortably.

As it became clear that the British entry, Even If, by former dustman Andy Abraham, was going to finish joint last, Wogan said: "I'm afraid nobody loves the United Kingdom ... is it funny any more?"

Later he suggested it had been common knowledge that Russia was going to win. "The word went out it was Russia's turn," said Wogan.

When Ukraine awarded Russia the maximum 12 points, Wogan commented: "Ukraine want to be absolutely sure that the electricity and the oil flows through." As Latvia did the same he said it knew which side its bread was buttered on. Over the closing titles he said it could be "goodnight western Europe".

Naturally, the Russians were delighted. The prime minister, Vladimir Putin, sent the victor a telegram, calling the win "one more important triumph for all of Russia".

Friends and neighbours

· Russia won thanks largely to loyal voting from former Soviet republics. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia all awarded it the maximum 12 points. Ukraine came second, helped by Russia, which awarded it eight points.

· Others, such as the Nordic countries, also stuck together. Denmark was the most loyal, giving eight points to Sweden, 10 to Norway and 12 to Iceland. Iceland repaid the compliment, awarding Denmark 12 points and Norway 10.

· Andorra faithfully gave Spain 12 points and Portugal 10. Spain gave eight to Portugal.

· The UK picked up only 14 points - eight from Ireland, six from San Marino. The UK gave 12 points to Greece, 10 to Latvia, eight to Turkey - but none to Russia.

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Monday, 23 June 2008

Squeeze

Artist: Squeeze

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Pop
   Indie

Discography:

Essential Squeeze

Year: 2007
Tracks: 20

Big Squeeze - The Very Best Of Squeeze - Disk 2

Year: 2002
Tracks: 19

Sweets from a Stranger

Year: 1998
Tracks: 12

Singles 45's and Under

Year: 1995
Tracks: 12

East Side Story

Year: 1995
Tracks: 14

Frank

Year: 1989
Tracks: 12

Argybargy

Year:
Tracks: 11

As one of the nearly traditional pop bands of the new wafture, Squeeze provided one of the golf links between classic British guitar pop and post-punk. Inspired heavily by the Beatles and the Kinks, Squeeze was the vehicle for the songwriting of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, wHO were hailed as the heirs to Lennon and McCartney's throne during their heyday in the early '80s. Unlike Lennon and McCartney, the partnership 'tween Difford and Tilbrook was a true collaboration, with the former writing the lyrics and the latter providing the music. Squeeze never came close to co-ordinated the popularity of the Beatles, only the reason for that is part of their appealingness. Difford and Tilbrook were wry, insidious songwriters that subscribed to traditional pop songwriting values, merely subverted them with literate lyrics and cagey musical references. While their native Britain warmed to Squeeze immediately, sending singles like "Take Me I'm Yours" and "Up the Junction" into the Top Ten, the striation had a difficult time gaining a footing in the states; they didn't suffer a U.S. Top 40 strike until 1987, closely a 10 later their debut album. Even if the radical never had a score in the U.S., Squeeze reinforced a consecrated following that stayed with them into the recent '90s, and many of their songs -- "Another Nail In My Heart," "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)," "Tempted," "Disgraceful Coffee In Bed" -- became pop classics of the new waving era, as the atomic number 78 status of their compiling Singles 45's and Under indicates.

Chris Difford (b. April 11, 1954; guitar, vocals) and Glenn Tilbrook (b. August 31, 1957; vocals, guitar) formed Squeeze in 1974. Tilbrook answered an advertisement Difford had placed in a store window, and the geminate began writing songs. By the spring of 1974, the duet had recruited pianist Jools Holland (b. Julian Holland, January 24, 1958) and drummer Paul Gunn, and had named themselves Squeeze, after the disowned Velvet Underground album that featured none of the group's original members. Squeeze began playing the palmy gin mill john Rock circuit, although their songs were quirkier and more pop-oriented than many of their peers. By 1976, the striation had added bassist Harry Kakoulli and replaced Gunn with Gilson Lavis (b. June 27, 1951), a quondam tour of duty manager and drummer for Chuck Berry. They had likewise sign-language a contract with Miles Copeland's burgeoning BTM record label and management company. Squeeze had already recorded several tracks for RCA, including two cuts with Muff Winwood, that the label jilted. BTM went insolvent ahead it could release the band's debut individual, "Take Me I'm Yours" in early 1977, just Squeeze was capable to work with John Cale on their debut EP, due to a abbreviate Copeland had arranged with Cale.

Squeeze released their debut EP, Packet of Three, on Deptford Fun City Records, in the summer of 1977 and before long arranged an international get with A&M Records, becoming the label's low new waving act since their calamitous signing of the Sex Pistols. The striation entered the studio with producer Cale later that year to act upon on their debut album, provisionally titled Gay Guys by the group's producer. Cale had the group contrive extinct most of their standard material, forcing them to write newfangled material; consequently, the record wasn't necessarily a good representation of the band's early healthy. By the time the album was released in the spring of 1978, the group and A&M had deserted the record's working title, and it was released as Squeeze. In America, the set and album had to change their identify to UK Squeeze, in order to forefend muddiness with an American set called Tight Squeeze; by the end of the class, they had reverted back to Squeeze in the U.S.. Preceded by the hit single "Take aim Me I'm Yours," the album became a soften success, just the group's on-key British breakthrough arrived in 1979, when they released their second album, Cool for Cats. More representative of the band's good than their debut, Cool for Cats generated two numeral deuce singles in the title track and "Up the Junction." Later in 1978, the EP 6 Squeeze Songs Crammed Into One Ten-Inch Record EP was released. Squeeze well-tried for a seasonal worker reach that year with "Christmastime Day," just the single failed to chart. Kakoulli was fired from the band after the firing of Cool for Cats and was replaced by John Bentley.

Released in the outflow of 1980, Argybargy received the strongest reviews of any Squeeze album to date, and produced mince U.K. hits with "Another Nail In My Heart" and "Pull Mussels (From the Shell)." Both songs, asset "If I Didn't Love You," became hits on college radiocommunication and new wave clubs in America, increasing the band's profile well; it was the first-class honours degree Squeeze album to chart in America, stretch numeral 71. Jools Holland, whose fascination with boogie piano was starting time to sit uncomfortably with Difford and Tilbrook's more and more sophisticated compositions, left the lot in late 1980 to kind the Millionaires; he was replaced by Paul Carrack, at one time of the gin mill rock lot Ace. Following Argybargy, critics in both the U.K. and U.S. were vocation Difford and Tillbrook "the new Lennon and McCartney," and in order to consolidate their growing reputation, Squeeze made an attack at their own Sgt. Pepper with 1981's East Side Story. Initially, the album was to be produced by Dave Edmunds, just the group scrapped those sessions to mold with Elvis Costello and Roger Bechirian. Upon its summer press release, East Side Story was hailed with excellent reviews, only it didn't become a brobdingnagian stumble as expected. Nevertheless, it establish an audience, peaking at numeral 19 in the U.K. and number 44 on the U.S. charts. The soulful, Carrack-sung "Tempted" failed to reach the U.K. Top 40, just it did become the group's first base charting U.S. individual, arrival the Top 50. The country-tinged "Tagged With Love" became the group's third, and last, British Top Ten hit that descend. Carrack left at the end of 1981 to join Carlene Carter's funding band; he was replaced with Don Snow, a classically trained pianist wHO once played with the Sinceros.

Ever since the press release of their debut, Squeeze had been touring and recording without break, and signs of fatigue were patent on Sweets From a Stranger. Though it was the group's highest-charting U.S. album, arrival figure 32 shortly afterwards its springtime button, Sweets From a Stranger was scratchy. In the U,K,, it was a considerable disappointment, reaching issue 37, with its individual "Sinister Coffee in Bed" stall at phone number 51. Nevertheless, the band had earned a considerable fan base, and were able to play Madison Square Garden that summer. Tired of touring and its thwarting commercial fortunes, Difford and Tilbrook distinct to disband Squeeze late in 1982, cathartic the digest Singles -- 45's and Under, shortly after its proclamation. Ironically, Singles peaked at figure threesome on the British charts; it would afterwards go platinum in the U.S..

Though they had disbanded Squeeze, Difford and Tilbrook had no design of end their coaction -- they only wanted to go after other projects. In particular, they saw themselves as songwriters in the classical tradition of Tin Pan Alley or the Brill Building, and began writing for Helen Shapiro, Paul Young, Billy Bremner and Jools Holland. They as well worked on Labelled With Love, a musical based on their songs, which played briefly in Deptford, England early in 1983. The duo released an eponymous record album in the summer of 1984, showcasing a sophisticated new reasoned, as well as long, flow haircuts and coats. The record was a moderate success, only the couple already were cerebration of re-forming Squeeze. Early in 1985, the band reunited to play a charity gig, which prompted Difford, Tilbrook, Holland, and Lavis (world Health Organization had been driving a cab) to permanently reform, adding bassist Keith Wilkinson. Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti was released in the fall of 1985 to positive reviews and fairly successful sales. During 1986, Andy Metcalfe, a member of Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, linked the dance band as a second keyboardist. Babylon and On followed in the fall of 1987, and the album became a surprise run into, stretch bit 14 in the U.K. and generating their biggest American hits -- "Hourglass," which reached phone number 15 on the speciality of MTV's heavy rotation of the song's inventive video, and the Top 40 "853-5937." After completing an external circuit, which featured another concert at Madison Square Garden and a headlining spotlight at the Reading Festival, Metcalfe left the dance band; he was non replaced.

Babylon and On crataegus oxycantha throw been a hit, only Squeeze's renewed success wasn't lasting. The group's following album, Frank, was released in the fall of 1989 and it wasn't given very much a promotional press by A&M. Consequently, it flopped in both the U.S. and the U.K.. During the load-bearing go for Frank, A&M dropped Squeeze, going away the dance band in the cold. Following the tour, Holland left the dance band to concentrate on his calling as a recording creative person, as intimately as a boob tube host for the BBC. Squeeze released a live album, A Round and a Bout, on I.R.S. in the spring of 1990. Early in 1991, the band gestural with Reprise Records and began recording a new record album, hiring Steve Nieve, Bruce Hornsby and Matt Irving as session keyboardists. The resulting album, Play, was released in the fall of 1991 to small attention, part because it received no support from the label. During the Play go, the band hired Don Snow and Carol Isaacs as keyboardists. Over the course of 1992, Difford & Tilbrook began to play the occasional acoustic concert, as Squeeze revamped its touring batting order over again, hiring Steve Nieve as their touring keyboardist. Longtime drummer Gilson Lavis left wing the band afterward that yr to play in Jools Holland's big band; he was replaced by Pete Thomas wHO, care Nieve, was a member of the Attractions.

Squeeze resigned from A&M Records in early 1993 and recorded their new record album, Some Fantastic Place, with Thomas on drums and Paul Carrack on keyboards. Released in the September of 1993, the record album became a chair British rack up, debuting at telephone number 26; it was ignored in the U.S.. During 1994, Thomas left wing the band to join the reunited Attractions; by the end of the year, the grouping had replaced him with Andy Newmark. Prior to the transcription of 1995's Ridiculous, Kevin Wilkinson -- no relation to bassist Keith Wilkinson -- became the group's drummer. Released in the U.K. in the fall of 1995, Ridiculous became a mince hit, generating the hits "This Summer" and "Electric Trains." The record album was released in America in the give of 1996 on I.R.S. Records. Under the identify John Savannah, Don Snow contributed keyboards on Nonsensical and the album's supporting circuit.

During 1996, Squeeze released deuce compilations, the single-disc Piccadilly Collection in the U.S. and the double-disc Surfeit Moderation in the U.K.. The following year, A&M U.K. issued the box set Six of One..., which contained remastered versions of their number one six albums, plus deuce fillip tracks on each platter. A second box, covering the second six-spot albums, was scheduled for release in 1998, just it was canceled after the label folded. By that time, Squeeze had finished their contractual indebtedness for new studio apartment albums with the pronounce. They signed with main Quixotic Records, releasing a unexampled album, Antoine Domino, in November of 1998. Domino was recorded with a new lineup, featuring Difford and Tilbrook, plus Jools Holland's brother Chris Holland on keyboards, bassist Hilaire Penda and drummer Ashley Soan, a former fellow member of Del Amitri.

Aion

Artist: Aion

   Genre(s):
Metal: Alternative
   Metal
   Metal: Gothic

Discography:

One Of 5

Year: 2004
Tracks: 9

Reconciliation

Year: 2000
Tracks: 25

Midian

Year: 1997
Tracks: 9

Sunday, 22 June 2008

Leon Switch

Artist: Leon Switch

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

Tell Me

Year: 2006
Tracks: 2

UKR2010

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

bergenPAC Sees Major Leap in Fundraising, Nears Goal of Reaching $1 Million by June 30

Performing Arts Center Needs $316,000 to Secure Matching Grant, Calls Upon
Supporters to Help Push Fundraising Drive 'Over the Top'

ENGLEWOOD, N.J., June 19 -- Through a tremendous
outpouring of support from its patrons and the local community, bergenPAC
announced today that it has raised $700,000 as part of a Capital Endowment
Campaign to ensure its long-term financial stability. As it nears its goal
of securing $1 million by June 30, the performing arts center has called
upon its friends and supporters to help push its fundraising campaign "over
the top."

"Backed by the incredible support of our friends and patrons, we've
seen a huge leap in fundraising. We're now in striking distance of our goal
and the next week will be crucial as we work to preserve the long-term
future of bergenPAC," said Frank Huttle III, bergenPAC Chairman of the
Board.

To complete phase two of its three-year growth plan, bergenPAC needs to
raise $1 million by June 30, which will trigger a matching grant from The
Russell Berrie Foundation -- which doubles the value of every gift to the
endowment before June 1. The success of the Capital Endowment Campaign
would set a strong financial foundation that would ensure bergenPAC's
long-term stability and support its mission of bringing cultural enrichment
to Bergen County and making art education and live performing arts
accessible to the entire community.

Bolstered by the support of the performing art center's friends and
patrons, bergenPAC's Capital Endowment Campaign has raised $700,000 over
the course of several weeks:

Goal: 1,000,000

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080619/NYTH096 )

Added Huttle, "Despite a soft economy, we're now very close to
completing phase two of our growth plan. We're calling upon the support of
the community to help us close the gap to create this endowment that
ensures bergenPAC will continue to be a thriving center of the arts for
years to come."

About bergenPAC:

Known as The John Harms Center for 27 years, this cultural hub in
Englewood, has been reborn as the Bergen Performing Arts Center or
bergenPAC. This 1,367-seat theater is a landmark, and in its fourth season
as bergenPAC it remains one of the finest acoustic halls in the United
States. The legendary Tony Bennett and Canadian crooner k.d. lang recorded
their 2003 Grammy award-winning CD live on bergenPAC's own stage through a
broadband fiber-optic connection with Bennett Studios. bergenPAC is the
home of a media production system that is unparalleled, upholding its
reputation as a venue for outstanding music, dance, and theater. As a
non-profit corporation, bergenPAC has thrived thanks to the aid and
generosity of sponsors, donors and patrons.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Artist: Karlheinz Stockhausen

   Genre(s):
Avantgarde

Discography:

Engel Prozessionen (Live)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 2

Elektronische Musik 1952-1960

Year: 2001
Tracks: 29

Mantra

Year: 1995
Tracks: 25

Helikopter-Streichquartett

Year: 1993
Tracks: 1

Michaels Reise

Year: 1992
Tracks: 1

Aus den sieben Tagen

Year: 1988
Tracks: 2

Tierkreis - Oberlippentanz

Year: 1983
Tracks: 2

Inori-Formel

Year: 1979
Tracks: 4

London Sinfonietta

Year: 1974
Tracks: 2

Stimmung

Year: 1969
Tracks: 2

Spiral

Year: 1968
Tracks: 4

Mikrophonie I and II, Telemusik

Year: 1966
Tracks: 99

Zyklus-Refrain-Kontakte

Year: 1960
Tracks: 3

Zeitmasse, Op. 5

Year: 1956
Tracks: 1

Kreuzspiel

Year: 1951
Tracks: 1

Kontra-Punkte op.1

Year:
Tracks: 1

Ghost writing for a friend

Former Go-Between Robert Forster tells Russell Baillie about how his late bandmate helped inspire a new album
It was going to be their 10th album together, their fourth since reforming the musical partnership which had driven indie band the Go-Betweens from Brisbane to international acclaim through the 80s, only to founder when they thought their dash was done.But the new album by Go-Betweens Robert Forster and Grant McLennan is not a Go-Betweens record.McLennan died of a heart attack on May 6, 2006. He was 48. When he died he and Forster were two months and eight songs into the new album.Instead, the result is a new Forster solo album titled The Evangelist.But if you know the Go-Betweens' folky, literate, gentle music - and the differing trademarks of the band's two songwriters - it's disconcerting, poignant listening. Especially when Forster's erudite voice sings airy melodies that are identifiably McLennan's - and especially when he sings lyrics identifiably about McLennan.On the upbeat It Ain't Easy, Forster eulogises his musical partner: "I write these words to his tune he wrote on a full moon. And a river ran, and a train ran, and a dream ran through everything that he did."

That song was one of three on the album - with Let Your Light in Babe and Demon Days ("one of the best four or five he'd ever written") - that McLennan had originated and Forster says he completed after his passing.He had occasionally written lyrics to his partner's melodies before.But this time It Ain't Easy became the song that punctuates the end of the Go-Betweens. He thinks McLennan would be pleased with the results."Obviously in there, there are things which would amuse him that was also part of our friendship, and on the likes of It Ain't Easy to put in a portrait of him and enshrine him in a way in a pop song, he would find amusing and good."Let Your Light In Babe he would find good and humorous, and Demon Days is hard - it's a song of great earnestness and I can only hope he liked what I did there."On It Ain't Easy, Go-Betweens trainspotters might recall that locomotives were forever steaming through McLennan's songs. There was a good reason for that, says Forster."Where he died he was living beside a train track. I remember when we played guitar in front of his little shack that he had, trains would go by while we were outside playing guitar. So it's quite real."And while recording the album in London with Mark Wallis, who produced the Go-Betweens 80s swansong classic 16 Lovers Lane, Forster set up a space for his absent friend in the studio."Grant's ghost was there, but there weren't too many sad moments," Forster wrote in a piece for Britain's Sunday Times. "His amp was set up and a guitar of his stood on a stand. We all had to work a bit faster because Grant's turn to sing or play never came around."

Madonna - Ting Tings End Madonnas Chart Reign

The Ting Tings have taken the top spot in the singles chart, ending Madonna's four weeks at the top.

Their track That's Not My Name also denied Rihanna another number one, with Take A Bow coming in at number two. Madonna's 4 Minutes slipped two places to three.

Will I Am's Heartbreaker and Wearing My Rolex by Wiley completed the top five in the singles charts.

In the album chart it was Neil Diamond who returned to the top with Home Before Dark, straight in at number one.

Last week's top album, Jumping All Over The World from Scooter, was down a couple of places to number three with In Silico by Pendulum straight in at two.

Ol' Blue Eyes made a return to the top ten with Nothing But The Best at ten, while Jay Sean was new at six with My Own Way.

Flight of the Conchords, the BBC3 New Zealand comedy duo, did not repeat their US success on this side of the Atlantic. Their self-titled album was a new entry at number 33.

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