Dervish in Yeats Festival

DERVISH are headlining this year’s Yeats Festival in Sligo, which runs at the same time as the Yeats International Summer School.

The Sligo band, who are just back from a tour of Latvia and Lithuania with President McAleese, will play their gig for this festival on Sunday, August 5 at 8pm in the Radisson SAS Hotel.

This week, the Sligo Yeats Society announced full details of the Yeats Festival, which runs from July 30 to August 10 this summer.

Highlights include this concert by Dervish, their first public performance in Sligo after coming back from the Eurovision Song Contest.

Currently in the UK, Dervish will perform in all Big Four countries in the following months, as well as The Netherlands, Italy and the United States.

Stella Mew, chief executive officer with the Yeats Society, said: “We are very excited with this year’s festival. “It is wonderful to have Dervish headlining in their home town. Lovely too, to see them sharing the festival brochure with veteran poets of the calibre of Richard Murphy, while on another night the students of the Yeats International Summer School will take the first brave step towards a public reading."

For the full Dervish Summer Tour schedule, click here.


sources:SligoWeekender;esctoday.com

Lordi at Cannes Film Festival

The world famous monster band was promoting the coming horror film at Cannes Film Festival.

On the beach

Over the street

The monsters in the heat

Waiting for Canal + live













On the Red Carpet of Cannes

Dark Floors

Synopsis
"Concerned for her autistic daughter’s health, the father sees a removal from the hospital by force as the only option. An elevator break-down prevents a smooth exit and renders them trapped with others. Yet the incident is only the beginning of a descent into nightmare. As the doors open the hospital appears mysteriously deserted. When mutilated bodies are found, creatures from a dark world start a frightening attack. It soon becomes clear that the survival of the group may rest solely on the little girl."

The feature film will be premiered in Finland February 8th 2008.

source and photos:Solarfilms.com

Lordi's horror dream becomes reality

Mr Lordi's childhood dream is taking shape in Oulu, the capital of northern Finland. Dark floors, the horror movie set in a hospital, is being filmed there and the whole band takes part. The budget, 4 million euros, in a very big one for a Finnish movie.

Mouldy walls and cold light give a right atmosphere for the horror movie Mr Lordi aka Tomi Putaansuu wrote together with his long time friend Pete Riski. The setting has been built into an old industrial hall in the city of Oulu. "We have really big settings and we found here the right space for them" says the producer Markus Selin of Solar Films. "Here in Oulu we also got all the professionals we need and the flight connections are good as well." The main actors in the film are all British, including 13 year old Skye Bennet. The film will be in English.

"Everybody knows by now my childhood dream is to write and act in a horror movie. Not so many know I have the studied the field seriously as well. It is great to be able to create some horror for real for a change!" says Mr Lordi himself. He wanted to set the film in something similar to the horror classic Shining for example. "I can't tell more about the film, as I may reveal too much, except it happens in a hospital" he says.

All Lordi members are involved in the film and it will be released in two versions: one for over 13 year olds, another for over 15 years olds (in Finland, in other countries these age limits may vary).

The Finnish Eurovision Song Contest winner will perform the theme song.

The film, which will be launched in Finland on Friday, 8 February, will be the first feature by Pete Riski, who has directed all the group’s videos.

Meanwhile, Mr Lordi has written and drawn also issue number 2 of the Lordi comic books, available in Finland now.


sources:esctoday.com;solarfilms.com (photo:solarfilms)

Helena, Sarbel, Evridiki to perform in Cyprus Music Awards

The second Cyprus Music Awards will take place tonight, at 21.00, at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia, Cyprus. A host of Eurostars have been nominated for the Aphrodite Awards and they will be performing tonight as well. Helena Paparizou, the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest winner will open the show and she will be followed by Evridiki, Dimitris Korgialas, Sarbel, and Konstantinos Christoforou among other artists.

Helena Paparizou (Greece 2005), Evridiki and Dimitris Korgialas (Cyprus 2007, Sarbel (Greece 2007), Constantinos Christoforou (Cyprus '96, '99, '05) and Tamta (Greek Preselection 2007) will all perform tonight at the 2nd Cyprus Music Awards organised by Galaxy productions in cooperation with IFPI. The show will be hosted by Zeta Makrypoulia - the 2006 Greek commentator and Themis Georgantas of MAD TV.

This year's nominated Eurostars for the Aphrodite awards are:

Best Female Artist of the Year 2007

Helena Paparizou
Evridiki
Marinella
Peggy Zina (Greek preselection 2002)
Hari Alexiou


Best Male Artist of the Year 2007

Michalis Chatziyiannis
Sakis Rouvas


Best Song of the Year 2007 (music/lyrics)

Comme ci, comme ça - Evridiki
Stasou ena lepto - Konstantinos Christoforou
Cheria psila - Michalis Chatziyiannis

Best Greek Album of the year 2007

Yparchei agapi edo - Sakis Rouvas
Fili kai echtri- Michalis Chatziyannis
Yparchei logos-Helena Paparizou

Best Single of the year 2007

Thes na kanoume schesi - Konstantinos Christoforou
Ola i tipota- Michalis Chatziyiannis

Best Newcomer of the year 2007

Tamta (Greek preselection 2007)


Best video clip of the year 2007

Comme ci, comme ça - Evridiki
Everything-Anna Vissi
Yassou Maria - Sarbel
Stasou ena lepto - Konstantinos Christoforou
Cheria Psila- Michalis Chatziyiannis

The event will be broadcasted by SIGMA TV.

For more information click here. (external link in Greek)


source:esctoday.com;cyprus-musicawards.com