Live Entertainment Blog

This year’s OzzFest is scheduled for August 9th and the venue for this festival is Pizza Hut Park in Dallas. Sharon Osburne, Ozzy’s wife is co- producing the fest with AEG Live. It is expected that Metallica, Shadows Fall, Serj Tankian, Ozzy Osbourne and Apocalyptica are going to perform in this live entertainment event. This fest is more important to Osbourne as it is the only live performance for him this summer. Ticket sale for the Ozzfest will start from May 31st. The event will pay tribute to “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, the late Guitarist of Pantera. This one-day festival will also have acts of The Sword, Witchcraft, Devil Driver and Rigor Mortis.

The hard rock band Metallica who are currently working on the follow up of their 2003 album “St. Anger” have released touring dates that spans across Europe during the summer and before that will be performing in the U.S. The group has revealed on their website that they have been approached by radio station KFMA friends to perform at the Pima Country fairgrounds on May 16th and the band members have given the nod for the same and will be seen performing along with the likes of Scars on Broadway, Apocalyptica and Flobots.

The group will then proceed to Europe to perform in the summer festivals there and will also be seen performing on June 13th at the Bonnaroo summer festival, which is the 2nd location in U.S wherein the fans will enjoy the live entertainment provided by the Metallica band. They are also said to be performing at the Reading and Leeds festival during the last week of August.

The British pop star James Blunt is missing his life in the British Army. He feels that life in the British army was much easier than that of his present life as a pop star. James Blunt worked in the Life Guards unit of British Army as an officer and was a part of the peace keeping force of NATO in Kosovo. After his career in army, he embarked on a musical journey with the hit number “You Are Beautiful”. Blunt is not happy about being ridiculed for his posh background in the music industry.

James Blunt said that he was feeling at home with his fellow men in Army as they were never critical about other people and they never cared about his back ground. He also feels that music industry is World’s most judgmental industry. James Blunt is a successor of Danish Royal family, who ruled Denmark during the tenth Century and later started their rule in England.

Linda Perry, the U.S song writer as well as a singer, claims that the Warner Music Company owes her huge amount of money as royalty from the debut album of singer James Blunt. Linda and James met in the year 2003 and she signed him to produce his album under her label called Custard. Linda gave the debut album of James, “Back to Bedlam” to Atlantic, a Warner subsidiary. Linda has filed a suit in Manhattan Federal Court demanding the lost royalties as well as £2.5 million for damages. The debut album of James Blunt was a hit and it sold over 11 million copies around the world.

The album was able to collect more than £50 million just by the sales. In the lawsuit, it is accused that a multinational corporate company is taking advantage of Custard, a small production company after presenting them with a talented artist. A Warner music spokesperson announced that “Custard” has always been and will continue to be compensated in accordance with the terms of its contractual arrangement with Atlantic. Linda Perry, a former singer of the 4 Non Blondes group, has worked with famous singers like Pink and Christina Aguilera and was able to produce many hits for them.

The Posh Spice, one of the five Spice Girls and wife of the famous English soccer international David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, who is eager to be in the limelight all the time, is recently heading the headlines as she spent a whopping 100,000 pounds on a brand new Porsche 911. The new Porsche has her initials on the headrests as well as the wheels. The Posh Spice was seen riding her new Porsche Carerra in Los Angeles and her husband David Beckham also owns a similar car. The VB initials (Victoria Beckham) are clearly visible on the chrome alloy wheels of the car and there are reports that the windscreen of the Porsche also has her initials etched on it.

The Posh Spice, who recently concluded her reunion tour in Canada, by announcing that it was the last show that their fans will see them performing together, has added another car into their garage that is already having many luxury cars like Rolls Royce Phantom, Ferrari F430, Ferrari 575 and a Lamborghini Gallardo. The multifaceted artist, who is a singer, fashion designer and an occasional actress, is also including her signature collection of men’s jeans to her escalating fashion collections. The launch for her new range of men’s jeans is slated sometime in August and will be sold in the retail markets between the price ranges $220 to $285.

The very popular UK pop artist and songwriter, Kate Nash is all set to rock North America in her forth coming tour during the spring season. The Kate Nash tour is in collaboration with the popular British music magazine NME and is set to take off in America on the 15th of April at Atlanta. Kate Nash is to tour from coast to coast across America and finally will land up in Toronto and Vancouver by mid may. She will be performing in Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, Asheville, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Boulder in North America.

The UK pop diva is currently on a tour of Europe and is the proud recipient of the Best British Female Artist at the recently concluded Brit Awards. The singer has created quite a huge fan following all across the globe after her debut album “Made of Bricks” debuted at the 36th position in the Billboard 200 last month. The album speaks of her personal and charming life and the way that she has conceived the concept has been appreciated well both by her critics as well as her fans. The 20 year old star is all set to premiere her next single “Pumpkin Soup” on the 26th of February on MTV’s TRL.

Pop star Madonna, who is famous all over the world, has further fuelled reports thet she has gone under the knife after she was snapped hiding dark bruises around her eyes with a pair of sunglasses. The Hung Up hitmaker has previously refused to comment on whether she had had plastic surgery after she was photographed last month leaving a New York medical building with two black eyes. And now gossip sites are speculating the singer has undergone more cosmetic treatment, after emerging from her London home on Monday (21Jan08) with bruising to her eyes and cheek.
Anyway, no matter what Madonna does, she will be one of the most successful pop stars in the world ever.

Pop superstar Christina Aguilera has given to birth to a boy, according to reports.Christina is  27, reportedly gave birth at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Friday, but her publicist has yet to confirm the news.The name of the baby has not yet been revealed; camp Christina are keeping a tight lid on all the juicy gossip! It is her first child with husband Jordan Bratman.Last month it was revealed that Aguilera had scheduled a Cesarean section for January 10th - to avoid the pain of natural childbirth.A source close to the star said at the time: “Christina has a C-section scheduled for January 10 but she might need to push the date of the delivery up.”