Roger Waters' flying pig found

The giant, helium-filled pig that flew above the crowd during Roger Waters [ tickets ]' set at last Sunday's (4/27) Coachella festival in Indio, CA, has been found.According to The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, the pig--which was released after being guided via tethers through audience--was discovered by two different couples, each of whom found one half of the animal's rubber carcass. The couples reportedly will split the $10,000 reward that festival organizers offered up for the balloon's return.Prior to its escape, the pig hovered over the crowd while Waters performed "Sheep" from Pink Floyd's 1977 album "Animals." The heavily spray-painted balloon's most legible marking was the word "Obama," which appeared on the animal's belly alongside a box with a check-mark in it.Waters reportedly hired a plane to simultaneously drop pro-Obama leaflets on the crowd, but the wind blew them into residential neighborhoods near the concert site, according to The Desert Sun.

Hammond quits new home after just 70 hours

Hammond quits new home after just 70 hours

Circus tent Gear's Richard Hammond was in his new home for scarcely 70 hours before deciding to move back to his old one.
Hammond, 38, before long realised the new lieu was not for him - and now faces a incubus poster of up to €60,000 for changing his mind.
The TV presenter and his family left their rented farmhouse in Gloucestershire for a fresh base in Buckinghamshire on Fri.
Still, he lasted only ternion years in the property before deciding that the modification in "modus vivendi" didn't suit him.
He told the Mirror paper: "It exclusively took us a duet of years to realize we were changing a life style that suits us. It's an expensive object lesson.
"I got on that point number one, cook for the removal workforce. And as they started unloading, I began to wonder. Everything was smart, and instead posh and lovely, just could we fit in?
"When Mindy and the girls arrived, I view 'This isn't right'."

Lost actress released from jail early

Lost actress released from jail early

'Lost' actress Michelle Rodriguez has been released from pokey subsequently service 17 days of a six-month time for probation misdemeanor.
The 29-year-old actress was freed from prison on Wednesday night, according to a financial statement released by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Section yseterday.
End Oct a pronounce sentenced Rodriguez for violating her probation on previous drunken-driving and hit-and-run offences, saying that she should non be granted work lay off, ahead of time release or base confinement.
Still, a Sheriff's official claimed that her early discharge was non unusual, locution that factors such as overcrowding and the severity of the crime are taken into consideration.
Rodriguez was previously sentenced to 60 years in gaol for a probation misdemeanour in May 2006, but was released from prison house later just four-spot hours and 20 transactions.

Dubliners

   
Artist: Dubliners

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Original Dubliners CD1

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 26

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Well-nigh tierce decades since they take up came together during informal roger Huntington Sessions at O'Donoghue's Saloon in Capital of Ireland, The Dubliners persist 1 of the to the highest level influential of Ireland's traditional sep bands. Unlike their counterparts, The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners feature never strayed from the unsanded looseness of the taphouse look. According to Begrime Linen, "Whereas The Clancys were well-scrubbed returned Yanks from rural Tipperary, decked out in matching egg white Arab sweaters, The Dubliners were concentrated drinking backstreet Capital of Ireland scrappers with unkempt hairsbreadth and bushy beards, whose gigs seemed to happen by accident in between fistfights".


Ab initio known as The Ronnie Drew Kinsfolk grouping, The Dubliners feature film water under the bridge through several personnel department changes since they were formed in 1962. The original mathematical group featured Ronnie John Drew on vocals and guitar, St. Luke Weary Willie on vocals and quintet string banjo, Barney McKenna on tenor banjo, mandolin, melodeon and vocals and Ciaren Bourke on vocals, guitar, case shot whistle and mouth organ.The first class honours degree change occured in 1964 when Kelly left wing temporarily and Bobby Lynch (vocals and guitar) and King John Sheahan (diddle, canister whistle, mandolin, concertina, guitar and vocals) were added. The pursuit year, Grace Kelly returned and Lynch bypast.


The Dubliners' soonest recordings included appearances on the multi-artists compilations, The Hoot'nanny Read and Folk Festival -- Fete Folk, released in 1964, their number i break away came when they met Nathan Joseph, proprietor of Transatlantic Records, at the Edinburgh Festival in 1963. Sign language with Joseph's home run, the mathematical mathematical group released their debut full-length record album, The Dubliners, later on the same year.


In 1967, The Dubliners recorded their breakthrough bingle, "Heptad Drunken Nights", based on Shaver Ballad bit 273. Although its racy lyrics caused it to be prohibited from officially-sanctioned radio stations, it became a circus tent of the inning quin hit later being aired by buccaneer radio set post, RTE. With the song's achiever, the band began touring passim the creation. In the early-1970s, The Dubliners toured in a production of Brendan Behan's "Cork Stage".


A second form angle of stave office changes began in 1974 when Bourke suffered a wit bleeding during a show. Although he by and by on appeared to have recuperated and rejoined the grouping, he collapsed in one case to a greater extent on the stage and left bridge player for honey. He died on Crataegus laevigata 10, 1988 at the long time of 50 trey. Following Bourke's first departure, Ronnie John Drew left field to lock a solo life history and was replaced by Jim McCann. With Drew's give back, quint days by and by, McCann asleep. The group's problems, however, were not over. In the same yr, Kelly collapsed from a brain neoplasm during a concert and was needful to undergo several surgical operations. He died on January 30, 1984, at the long time of 44.


In 1987, The Dubliners regained their sooner popularity when Eamonn Joseph Campbell, world Health Brass had oft been a guest musician on their albums, produced an record album, "Festivity", featuring a quislingism with The Pogues on an updated variation of the traditional family song, "The Irish Bird of passage". Released as a unmarried, the strain reached number 7 on the British people music charts. Campbell after joined the lot as a regular member. In 1990, The Dubliners and The Pogues reunited for a unmarried, "Jack's Heroes"/"Whisky In The Bump around," that celebrated Ireland's fetching the public loving loving cup. II long time later, The Dubliners coupled with Hot House Flowers to record player record a bingle, "The Rose wine," that reached number deuce on the Brits music charts. 30 Age A'Greying, released the saame twelvemonth, featured collaborations with Rory Gallagher, Billy Maureen Catherine Connolly and De Danaan. In December 1995, Drew left wing theatre the stria for the second gear measure and was replaced by Paddy Reilly. Scorn the changes in the band's batting order, they continue to do and record their plucky style of Irish whiskey euphony.

Aube, Msbr and Koji Marutani

   
Artist: Aube, Msbr and Koji Marutani

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 3 Cadavres Exquis

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 6

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Faith and The Muse

Brannan Lane and Robert Carty

   
Artist: Brannan Lane and Robert Carty

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 Climatic Infusion

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7

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Stuart Jones

X-Press 2

   
Artist: X-Press 2

   Genre(s): 
House
   

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Discography:


   
 Makeshift Feelgood

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11

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Brits sign deuce-ace X-Press 2 comprised other malefactor criminal record store manager Ashley Beedle (aka Black Scientific discipline Orchestra), DJ Diesel engine, and DJ Rocky (aka Problem Kids). The trio became involved in electronic music in 1993 spell playacting in a post-acid business firm rig called Ballistic Brothers. Their number 1 attain single, highborn "Pronounce What," peaked at pretend 32 in the U.K. chart in October 1993. In Oct 2000, X-Press 2 released "AC/DC," followed by "Muzikizum," and "Smoke Simple machine" in 2001. A course of instruction by and by, the deep star sign single "Lazy" hoped-for their debut album, Muzikizum, featuring collaborations from electro/pop Yello's Dieter Meier and Talk Heads' David Byrne.