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SKINDRED interview answered by lead singer, Benji Webbe.
Questions included:
1. what is the best and worst set of reviews you got for your cross over sound?
2. how did you guys react each time you switched over labels?
3. explain how a track called Destroy The Dance Floor came about? i am assuming this was not meant for clubs
4. what country would you say has the strongest fan base? jamaica? (enter sarcasm here)
5. how did your sound come about historically?
1 That’s a strange way to ask a question but here it goes, the worst review that I remember said something like Skindred are Shit and the album is not worth buying or our live show worth seeing…the best I personally saw said something like: Skindred are as important to the evolution of rock music as Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath… but, its just people’s opinions… the way I see it, a lot of jaded journalists who review bands is they are like Eunuchs in a harem! They constantly see it done but are just jealous that they cant do it themselves!
2 This music business is like building a house on the sand for the majority of bands on the planet, so you can never trust anything that people tell you, whether they are blowing smoke up your arse or being genuine. I know every label that dealt with our debut album, Babylon set out with the full intention to do it justice, but for one reason or another that didn’t happen and they had to let us go. Fortunately, we believe in the music more than the business, so in the face of any adversary we just knuckle down and deal with it… with my fist in the air I say “struggle continues my brother”
3 We did write Destroy the Dance Floor for the clubs and for dance clubs especially.
Our music is for people who love music of all styles, it transcends beyond people who listen to one sort of music and is made for people to dance to. That’s our mission to get the whole earth dancing to the same beat…no matter what you call yourself, dread head, metal head, punk head, or techno head! Its all about rocking out at the end of the day!
4 Oh Ya Mon Jamaica Das the reggae metal capitol of the De world…
5 I didn’t like the last question. I’ve been asked the same question for years way too much and I’m sick of answering it! But I did like the other 2…
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Hey Black Sabbath fans? See the movie that started the band name!!!
MARIO BAVA COLLECTION – VOLUME TWO FROM ANCHOR BAY ENTERTAINMENT
OFFERS EIGHT CHILLING MASTERPIECES TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME
DVD premiere of “Erik the Conqueror” and Single-Disc Releases of “Black
Sunday” and “Black Sabbath” Celebrate Bava’s Cinematic Mastery; The
Screaming Continues October 23rd
TORONTO, ON – Released to critical acclaim and commercial success this past
April, Anchor Bay Entertainment’s 5-disc Mario Bava Collection – Volume 1
DVD set a new standard for presenting the films of legendary Italian horror
director Mario Bava in the home video market. Focusing on the early films of
Bava’s career, Volume 1 was just the beginning! On October 23rd, Anchor Bay
Entertainment and International Media Films will release The Mario Bava
Collection — Volume 2, presenting eight Bava classics from his later career
– together for the first time in one collection! As with the first release,
Volume 2 features new transfers and all-new bonus features of such rare Bava
masterpieces as Baron Blood, Kidnapped, Lisa and the Devil (and the
alternate version House of Exorcism), Roy Colt and Winchester Jack, Four
Times That Night, Bay of Blood and 5 Dolls for an August Moon – all
presented in their original international versions!
On the same day, Anchor Bay will also release the North American DVD
premiere of Bava’s Viking epic Erik The Conqueror, as well as single-disc
editions of Black Sunday (aka The Mask of Satan) and Black Sabbath (aka The
Three Faces of Fear). Erik the Conqueror, Black Sabbath and Black Sunday all
carry $14.98 SRPs, with pre-book on September 20th.
The Mario Bava Collection — Volume 2 not only features Bava’s signature
thrillers, but the collection offers fans an unique and fascinating
opportunity to enjoy Bava’s creativity and ingenuity in other film genres
not normally associated with “Il Maestro.”
The films presented in the Mario Bava Collection — Volume 2 include:
Baron Blood
Long after the global successes of Mask of Satan and Three Faces of Fear,
Bava returns to his gothic roots – albeit with a modern day Technicolor
twist – in this atmospheric thriller that pays tribute to the horror
classics of the ’30s and ’40s while delivering the black humor and grisly
shocks of the grindhouse ’70s. Joseph Cotten (The Abominable Dr. Phibes),
Elke Sommer (A Shot in the Dark) and Massimo Girotti star in one of the most
visually haunting films of Bava’s later career, now presented in its uncut
“European Version,” featuring footage not seen in the original American
release.
Bay of Blood (aka Twitch of the Death Nerve)
What begins as a simple giallo about greed and murder at a secluded bayside
estate explodes into an odyssey of carnage that would single-handedly
trigger the ‘body count’ genre of films like the Friday the 13th series.
Claudine Auger (Thunderball), Luigi Pistilli (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
and Laura Betti (Hatchet for the Honeymoon) star – along with nearly a dozen
landmark gore effects – in Bava’s epic of cruelty that remains as reviled as
it is acclaimed. Best known under its alternate title Twitch of the Death
Nerve.
Five Dolls for an August Moon
Bava’s ultra-mod 1970 murder mystery remains one of the most critically
divisive and little-seen films of his career. Yet despite being a
last-minute work-for-hire project, Bava imbues the derivative script with a
sly streak of black humor and a steady stream of eye-popping visuals,
including a va-va-voom performance by giallo goddess Edwige Fenech. Never
released theatrically in America, it has since become a favorite of Bava
fans worldwide. William Berger (Keoma), Ira von Fürstenberg (The Fifth Cord)
and Ely Galleani (Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade) also star in this
stylishly sexy whodunit, now presented in both its original Italian language
and English dubbed versions.
Four Times That Night
For his sole foray into the sex comedy genre, Bava delivers a swinging orgy
of mod design, leering humor and late ’60s erotica. American leading man
Bret Halsey (Return of the Fly) and former Miss Italy Daniela Giordano star
in this Rashomon-inspired tale of a playboy and a virgin’s first date that
may or may not have included rape, nymphomania, lesbianism, and groovy
inflatable furniture. Long unavailable to Bava fans in America, Four Times
That Night is now presented in its original Italian language version.
Kidnapped (aka Rabid Dogs)
Previously available as a separate DVD, Kidnapped (aka Rabid Dogs) has a
history equal in drama and scope to its explosive narrative. The harrowing
story of a botched robbery by three criminals and the aftermath – taking
three hostages during their desperate getaway – Kidnapped was never finished
due to a dispute with the estate of the film’s financier who died during
production. Anchor Bay’s presentation of Rabid Dogs includes both Bava’s
original film – now with newly created opening and end credit sequences – as
well as the version known as Kidnapped featuring footage shot by producer
Alfredo Leone and Mario’s son and longtime assistant Lamberto Bava.
Lisa and the Devil and House of Exorcism
Following the international success of Baron Blood, Bava was given carte
blanche to make the film he’d envisioned his entire career. Elke Sommer,
Telly Savalas (TV’s “Kojak”), Sylva Koscina and Aida Valli (The Third Man)
star in this surreal tale that unfolds as both waking dream and elliptical
nightmare, a lush and disturbing meditation on love, death, identity and the
machinations of evil. Despite a rave premiere at the 1973 Cannes Film
Festival, Bava’s beloved project would remain unsold and unseen until
crudely re-edited years later into a crass grindhouse hit. Now recognized as
Il Maestro’s final masterpiece, Lisa and the Devil has been fully restored
and remastered from the original camera negative recently discovered in a
Rome lab vault. Anchor Bay proudly presents both the original director’s cut
of Lisa and the Devil, as well as the alternate version, released as House
of Exorcism.
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
In perhaps the most atypical film of his career, Bava combines elements of
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid for one
of the first tongue-in-cheek comedies of the ‘Spaghetti Western’ genre.
Brett Halsey (Four Times That Night), Charles Southwood (Fistful of Lead)
and Marilù Tolo (Django, Kill) star in a tale of two good-natured outlaws,
one wily Native American prostitute, and a fortune in gold that triggers the
greed of ruthless gunmen, dyspeptic clergymen, and even a Sergio Leone
look-alike. Teodoro Corrà (Five Dolls for an August Moon) co-stars in this
little-seen charmer blending rousing action and bawdy humor with inventive
visuals that remain undeniably Bava.
The single-disc Bava releases include:
Erik the Conqueror (Gli Invasori)
In this long-unseen classic, Viking hordes invade Britain in an orgy of
violence, vengeance and virgins. Cameron Mitchell (Knives of the Avenger)
stars with Andrea Checchi (Black Sunday), George Ardisson (Hercules in the
Haunted World) and the astonishingly beautiful Kesslar Twins in an epic of
ferocious color and design, bursting with more chained maidens and
swordfights than any other Viking movie of the time. Erik The Conqueror –
also known as Fury of the Vikings and The Invaders – has been fully restored
from original European vault materials and is now presented uncut and
uncensored for the first time in America on DVD.
The Mask of Satan (aka Black Sunday)
Mario Bava’s 1960 directorial debut film The Mask of Satan introduced
audiences to a new type of horror film – lyrical in imagery, terrifying in
impact. Starring British actress Barbara Steele, John Richardson and veteran
character actor Arturo Dominici, The Mask of Satan set a different course
for gothic horror films, pulsing with stunning cinematography and landmark
special effects. Anchor Bay is honored to present Bava’s uncut and
uncensored international version of The Mask of Satan, featuring the
original Italian score and English dubbing.
The Three Faces of Fear (aka Black Sabbath)
Horror icon Boris Karloff is our guide for Bava’s 1963 trilogy of terror,
taking us through three journeys into the supernatural. In “The Telephone,”
a woman is terrorized by incessant phone calls that may or may not foretell
greater danger. In “The Wurdalak,” based on a Leo Tolstoy story, Karloff
stars with Mark Damon as the patriarch of a family of bloodthirsty ghouls.
“The Drop of Water,” adapted from an Anton Chekhov short story, stars
Jacqueline Pierreux as a nurse who avails herself to take a ring off the
finger of a dead medium – only to realize that sometimes the dead can take
it with them!
Bonus materials for The Mario Bava Collection – Volume 2 and the single-disc
DVD releases:
BARON BLOOD
* Uncut European version
* Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
* Audio Commentary by Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas
* Theatrical Trailer
* Radio Spots
BAY OF BLOOD
* English-dubbed version
* Widescreen (1.78:1) presentation, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
* Audio Commentary by Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas
* Theatrical trailer
* Radio Spots
* Poster and still galleries
FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON
* International version in Italian with English subtitles and English-dubbed
* Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT
* International version in Italian with English subtitles
* Widescreen (1.78:1) presentation, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
KIDNAPPED / RABID DOGS
* Two versions: Mario Bava’s original film (Rabid Dogs) and the previously
unreleased alternate version (Kidnapped)
* Widescreen presentation (1.78:1), enhanced for 16×9 televisions
* In Italian with English subtitles
* Featurette: “End of the Road: Making Rabid Dogs and Kidnapped”
* Audio Commentary by Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas
* Mario Bava bio
LISA AND THE DEVIL / HOUSE OF EXORCISM
* Two versions: Mario Bava’s original film (Lisa and the Devil) and the
alternate version (House of Exorcism)
* Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
* Audio Commentary for Lisa and the Devil by Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas
* Audio Commentary for House of Exorcism by Producer/Co-Director Alfredo
Leone
* Theatrical trailers
* Radio Spot
ROY COLT AND WINCHESTER JACK
* In Italian with English subtitles
* Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
The single-disc Mario Bava DVD releases:
ERIK THE CONQUEROR
* International version in Italian with English subtitles and English-dubbed
* Widescreen presentation (2.35:1), enhanced for 16×9 televisions
* Audio Commentary by Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas
* Audio Interview with Actor Cameron Mitchell
* U.S. and German trailers
* Poster and still galleries
* Mario Bava bio
MASK OF SATAN (BLACK SUNDAY)
* International version with English dubbing
* Widescreen presentation (1.66:1), enhanced for 16×9 televisions
* Audio commentary by Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas
* U.S. and International trailers
* TV spot
* Mario Bava & Barbara Steele bios
THE THREE FACES OF FEAR (BLACK SABBATH)
* International version in Italian with English subtitles
* Widescreen (1.77:1) presentation, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
* Featurette: “A Life In Film - An Interview with Mark Damon”
* Audio commentary by Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas
* International & U.S. trailers
* TV spot
* Radio spot
* Poster and stills gallery
* Mario Bava & Boris Karloff bios
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Was Kylie a soft porn star? New CD out expressing her ‘vastness’.
Instead of killing trees, this Kylie album will be a joke. As we all know, Kylie should hang up her shoes with her extravagant boring shows. If you are under 14, don’t read the next sentence. But wasn’t she a soft porn star in the early days? OK you 14 olds, you may continue reading now.
KYLIE RELEASES HER TENTH STUDIO ALBUM “X” ON NOVEMBER 27
The wait is finally over! On November 27, Kylie releases X, her first new studio album in four years. Fans can get taste of the new album when the first single ‘2 Hearts’ goes to radio on Wednesday, October 10 (there is a radio embargo until 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time that day). ‘2 Hearts’ will be available digitally early November in Canada. The Sun in London have already branded the single a “surefire no. 1.”
The album, Kylie’s tenth, features 13 new tracks and was recorded in London, Stockholm and Ibiza. X is Kylie’s first studio album since Body Language in November 2003 and it features the first new Kylie material since the greatest hits compilation Ultimate Kylie in 2004.
For months fans have been referring to the title of the new album as X, so when it came to naming the album it was the obvious choice.
Along with the new album X, Kylie is starring in a brand new documentary White Diamond which she made with long-time creative director William Baker. White Diamond gives fans the unique chance to see Kylie’s triumphant return to the world stage with her 2006 Showgirl Homecoming Tour. The film shows Kylie as never before with intimate close up back stage footage and interviews including Kylie talking about her feelings, worries and aspirations on how she and her team take Showgirl from rehearsals to the road first in Australia and then to the UK.
The film will be premiered at cinemas around the world next month, with a DVD release planned for December. The DVD will feature 2 discs, with Showgirl Homecoming Live (recorded in Melbourne, Australia December 2006) as the second disc.
www.kylie.com
The track listing for X is:
2 Hearts
Like A Drug
In My Arms
Speakerphone
Sensitized
Heart Beat Rock
The One
No More Rain
All I See
Stars
Wow
Nu-di-ty
Cosmic
Kylie co-wrote many of the tracks. Writers and producers are:
2 HEARTS
Written and produced by Kish Mauve
LIKE A DRUG
Written by Mich Hedin Hansen / Jonas Jeberg / Engelina Andrina Larsen / Adam Powers
Produced by Cutfather & Jonas Jeberg
IN MY ARMS
Written by: Kylie Minogue / Adam Wiles, Richard “Biff” Stannard) / Paul Harris / Julian Peake
Produced by Richard Stannard
SPEAKERPHONE
Written by Christian Karlsson / Pontus Winnberg/ Henrik Jonback / Klas Ahlund
Produced by Bloodshy & Avant
SENSITIZED
Written by Guy Chambers / Cathy Dennis / Serge Gainsbourg
Produced by Guy Chambers and Cathy Dennis
HEART BEAT ROCK
Written by Kylie Minogue / Karen Poole / Adam Wiles
Produced by Calvin Harris
THE ONE
Written by Kylie Minogue / Richard “Biff” Stannard / James Wiltshire / Russell Small / John Andersson / Johan Emmoth / Emma Holmgren
Produced by Richard “Biff” Stannard & The Freemasons
NO MORE RAIN
Written by Kylie Minogue / Christian Karlsson / Pontus Winnberg / Jonas Quant / Karen Poole
Produced by Greg Kurstin
ALL I SEE
Written by Jonas Jeberg / Mich Hedin Hansen / Serano
Produced by Cutfather & Jonas Jeberg
STARS
Written by Kylie Minogue / Richard “Biff” Stannard / Paul Harris / Julian Peake
Produced by Richard Stannard
WOW
Written by Kylie Minogue / Karen Poole / Greg Kurstin
Produced by Greg Kurstin
NU-DI-TY
Written by Christian Karlsson / Pontus Winnberg / Karen Poole
Produced by Bloodshy & Avant
COSMIC
Written by Kylie Minogue / Eg White
Produced by Eg White
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Why can’t Jay-Z just get into porn during some music video?
For some, Jay-Z is pure boring. Another shining example below. I am still waiting for him reveal some erotic video porn with his wife. Hey Paris Hilton did it? Why not him? He does clothes, booze, music, etc. Come on Jay-Z or just be plain old boring.
Classic Albums Series Presents The Making of Jay-Z’s “Reasonable Doubt”
The Origins Of Hip-Hop’s Biggest Mogul – October 30 DVD Release
New York (September 25, 2007)—Entreprenuer. Innovator. Businessman. Hip Hop Royalty. But first, Jay-Z was a hustler from the streets of New York City, with hard learned life lessons that he wanted the world to hear. Thus, Reasonable Doubt was born. On October 30 Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the next installment of its Classic Album series, taking a dive into Jay-Z’s historic 1996 debut.
Featuring commentary by Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Irv Gotti and Foxy Brown, Classic Albums: Reasonable Doubt is an in-depth look at the making of Jigga’s first album. Priced at $14.98, is a look at the creation of these legendary tracks, the man behind them and their culture, including footage of Jay performing with the late Brooklyn legend Notorious B.I.G.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Jay-Z was a storyteller from the streets, bringing the accounts of hustle and hard-knock life to the masses. His intricate and ornate tracks, coupled with his smooth, conversational delivery made him an artist like no other. The use of jazz, gospel and soul in his sampling gives his music an intense urban sophistication, iced with creative lyrics that made Jay-Z the Shakespearean MC. Reasonable Doubt is the root of a signature sound that rappers continue to mimic.
Def Jam president, Roc-a-Fella Records founder, music/business/style icon, Jay-Z shows no signs of slowing down. Before The Blueprint, before The Black Album, bouncing back from retirement, there was Reasonable Doubt – the sound of a man not afraid to turn his struggles into art. This is the embodiment of hip-hop – raw, restless and real.
Look for this special to air on VH1 Classic on October 3rd.
Eagle Rock Entertainment develops, acquires and produces music programming for a wide range of notable and high profile artists, which the company distributes on a worldwide basis. Eagle Rock Entertainment, Eagle Vision and Eagle Eye Media are wholly owned divisions of Eagle Rock Group, LTD.
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New Method Man DVD? Will the ladies gyrate to this one?
METHOD MAN DVD - LIVE FROM THE SUNSET STRIP
The excitement and energy Method Man produces on stage is brilliantly captured on “Live from the Sunset Strip,” the first ever live DVD from the infamous Wu-Tang emcee. This full length, high definition concert DVD features all his hits, including “DA ROCKWILDER,” “ICE CREAM,” “WU-TANG CLAN AIN’T NOTHING TA F’ WIT” and many more. It also includes a moving tribute to fallen Wu-Tang member Old Dirty Bastard. With millions of records sold, and hundreds of thousands of concert and movie tickets sold around the world, Method Man has truly established himself as a world class entertainer. This DVD is a must have for all Meth and Wu-Tang Fans!
Bonus Materials:
- Hidden Scene
- Photo Gallery
- Extended Interviews
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