'Gold-digger' Mills breaks charity promise

Heather Mills�- the ex of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney -�has failed to hand over a multi-million pound sign charity donation, it has been claimed.

The former model vowed to give "a large majority" of her �24.3 million divorce payment from McCartney to the Adopt-A-Minefield organisation, of which she is a patron.

But charity sources title they haven't received anything.

A source aforementioned: "They get waited in vain for their millions. She's had plenty of time, only sadly it's yet some other untruth by the queen of lies."

Mills made the donation wassail in 2006 during divorce proceedings from the former Beatles star.

She also added in an interview last year: "Around 80 percentage of my money goes to charity."

Meanwhile, Mills's former publicist has branded her a "pathological liar".

Michele Elyzabeth says she was duped into spreading false stories about McCartney and claims Mills bugged his conversations with his daughter Stella.

Michele, who quit after running for Mills for quadruplet years, told Britain's News of the World newspaper: "She is a calculative pathological liar and the biggest b***h on the planet.

"At one stage we were so close I viewed her as the daughter I never had. Today I think of her as the beldam I wish I never met.

"I was foolish and saw her simply as the devoted humanitarian, charity campaigner and protective female parent she wanted the earth to see.

"Now I need the public to know who the real Heather Mills is."

The publicist besides alleged that Mills only married McCartney for his money.

She added: "I have asked myself many times what was Heather's motivation, but it all points to one thing - money.

"She is a gold panner. I'm certain her marriage to Paul was all about the money. She lied to me around Paul gift her money and experienced how she dodges bills - including my have fees."

Mills and McCartney split up in 2006 after four years of marriage. Their split up was finalised earlier this year.

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Song lyrics wear well on clothing

LOS ANGELES � Online music thieves can't interfere with the hundreds of songwriters Hanna Schmieder has on her payroll.

Her company, Lyric Culture, prints illustrious song lyrics on high-end jeans and T-shirts � and pays artists for the privilege.

"My goal is to write the music business," says Schmieder, herself a singer-songwriter. "This is about generating new taxation streams for musicians. ... The record companies take a piece of the term of enlistment and the merchandise, but they can't take a piece of this."

Legendary and lesser-known songwriters earn be royalties for each lyric-covered item Schmieder's company sells. John Lennon and Paul McCartney cause money for every "Let It Be" or "Can't Buy Me Love" T-shirt sold; and when person buys the groovy red-and-pink top divine by Gloria Gaynor's disco music anthem "I Will Survive," writers Frederick Perren and Dino Fekaris get paid.

Schmieder made deals with all the major music-publishing houses, licensing rights to hits by the Beatles, Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin and countless other artists. Schmieder selects T-shirt-worthy tracks, then Lyric Culture's creative squad interprets each song with original, hand-drawn designs. The famous lyrics are unconnected inside and outside each pricey piece.

"I can't believe I'm entrusted with the legacy of the near famous words in the world," says the willowy blonde Schmieder, dressed teetotum to toe in her designs.

Lyric Culture jeans, scarves, T-shirts, belt buckles and leather jackets sell for $75 to $625 at boutiques and specialty stores. Lyrix, the company's younker collection � which features T-shirts and hoodies with designs inspired by Miley Cyrus and "American Idol" � sells items for $23 to $55 at Macy's and other department stores. Artist royalties range from 50 cents to $20 per item.

Schmieder, 31, accidentally created her company two years ago during a dreamy moment in the recording studio. She was piece of writing songs on her jeans in plain old permanent pen when entrepreneurial stirring struck.

Songwriter and producer Antonina Armato � who has penned tunes for Miley Cyrus, Vanessa Hudgens and the Jonas Brothers � loved the Lyric Culture concept earlier Schmieder approached her around licensing her songs. Schmieder's company "supports the dreams and the aspirations and the artistic creation," Armato says. "It's almost like she's giving a scholarship to these people who ar being creative."

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Kammerflimmer Kollektief

   
Artist: Kammerflimmer Kollektief

   Genre(s): 
Experimental
   

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Discography:


   
 Absencen

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11

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Originally starting prohibited as a one-person sleeping room recording project of ambient noises and electronica for Thomas Weber, Kammerflimmer Kollektief would finally expand into a six-piece collective by 1999. Along with Christopher Brunner, Dietrich Foth, Johannes Frisch, Anne Vortisch, and Heike Wendelin, the set would play end-to-end their native of Karlsruhe, Germany, in front sign speech a speak with Payola Records in the year of their formation. This resulted in their 1999 debut full-length, Maander, and Incommunicado the next year; a statistical distribution carry on with Temporary Residence Limited landed their releases in the United States in front their tierce record book album, Delirium, came out in 2001.





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This week's edition features news, tour and ticketing info about Madonna [ tickets ], Stone Temple Pilots [ tickets ], Hootie & The Blowfish, Santana, Blake Shelton, Tom Waits, Spoon [ tickets ], Modest Mouse, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Elton John, Tina Turner [ tickets ], Stevie Wonder [ tickets ], Def Leppard [ tickets ], Carrie Underwood, NOFX [ tickets ], Celine Dion, Kenny Chesney, Josh Groban, Vegoose, Nine Inch Nails, The Police [ tickets ], Neil Diamond [ tickets ] and Madonna.

Today's SIFF lineup

Low-tech space opera, played for laughs, has been a science-fiction staple at least since "Dark Star" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" developed cult followings. A silly, sepia-toned Italian variation, "Apollo 54" (playing tonight and Sunday at the Harvard Exit), is the first feature-length creation of a gang of merry pranksters called The 54 Group. It follows long-haired scientist Bobby Joe and his dimmer co-pilot, Jim Bob, as they test the limits of space and time. Bobby Joe is fond of making pretentious announcements that explain each new twist in their adventure, while Jim Bob just wants to find a way back home. But making lunch is frankly more their speed. Slurping spaghetti and gorging themselves on subway sandwiches, they do battle with a space dragon that looks a lot like a roasted chicken once they're finished with it. Soon they're fighting over who gets to "analyze" it by taste-testing.

John Hartl,

Special to The Seattle Times

Today's schedule

Benaroya Hall

7:30 p.m. — "Alexander Nevsky"

Egyptian

3:30 p.m. — "The Secret of the Grain"

7 p.m. — "Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Tennis Shoes"

9:30 p.m. — "Visioneers"

Harvard Exit

4:30 p.m. — "Fields of Fuel"

7 p.m. — "The Bluetooth Virgin"

9:30 p.m. — "Apollo 54"

Pacific Place Cinema

4:30 p.m. — "Postcards From Leningrad"

7 p.m. — "Frozen River"

9:30 p.m. — "Leroy"

SIFF Cinema

4:30 p.m. — "Theater of War"

7 p.m. — "Love and Other Crimes"

9:30 p.m. — "Fairytale of Kathmandu"

Uptown

4:15 p.m. — "Lady Jane"

7 p.m. — "Summer Heat"

9:30 p.m. — "Perfect Match ... "

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Corrie's David just 'wants to be loved'

'Coronation Street' actor Jack P Shepherd has claimed that his character David Platt is misunderstood and "just wants to be loved".
According to the show's official website, the actor told InsideSoap Yearbook: "David can do some malicious things but I think he just wants to be loved. He craves a bit of affection."
"He's never had much attention from his mum, Gail. She was always running around after David's brother, Nick, and Sarah and then she moved on to caring about Bethany, so David just feels like he was pushed to one side," he said.
"He's found that by being bad he gets lots of attention. That's the only time Gail really notices him."
Shepherd said: "David could go down a really dark path, but there are different sides to him. David is an emotional character and he can do comedy - he's quite a comedian sometimes."
"I think he does have different dimensions to his character, which makes him so much fun to watch. But probably his main strength is being a nasty, evil, twisted little git."

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Goody denies nightclub fight story

'Big Brother' star Jade Goody has denied reports that she was involved in a fight with a woman in a nightclub.
The Mirror claimed that Goody was in a row at The Players Lounge nightclub in Essex and was photographed fighting with a blonde woman.
An onlooker told the newspaper: "Jade went for the girl and they pulled each other's hair and then they had their hands round each other's necks."
Goody however denied being in a row and said: "I was provoked by some stranger. She tried to put a glass in my face.
"The bouncers in the club were really good and they sorted it all out very quickly. I couldn't get anywhere near her.
"I haven't got much to say about it. She didn't get her hands on me and I didn't get my hands on her."
The onlooker added: "Jade went for the other girl... then the guards stepped in and she let rip at one of them, screaming and shouting right in his face. She had got into a real ruck with some girl in the club."

Apple clashes with music industry over pricing for mobile downloads

Another day, another tussle between Apple and the music labels for which it has generated so much money. This time the apparent wrangle is over the delivery of music to mobile platforms - that is, downloading songs to phones.

Apple's iPhone - a smash success in North America - can't as yet be updated with music unless it's connected to a computer or is within a Wi-Fi hotspot. However, this summer a new iPhone is expected to be announced with 3G capabilities that would allow high-speed downloads over a mobile phone network. "They want a big launch in June," one label executive told the New York Times. And so this week Apple finds itself back to the bargaining table, negotiating terms for a new means of distribution.

On the surface, these would seem like straightforward negotiations. Apple has new technology that would allow it to sell more songs - including ringtones - to millions of customers and record labels could certainly use this revenue. There is, however, a hurdle in the way of Apple's sprint to the profiteers' finish line: variable pricing.

For years, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has insisted that the only way to make online music sales work is to have strictly consistent pricing. Every song in the iTunes Music Store sells for 79p. There are discounts for full-album purchases and the occasional free track, but otherwise things are dead simple - and this model seems to have borne fruit: iTunes is the number one music seller in the world.

But labels hate this approach to consistency in pricing. They want to be able to sell hits by Leona Lewis for more money and back-catalogue sleepers for less. Apple has been adamant in its opposition; at similar talks with TV networks, Apple let NBC walk away from the table rather than accept the network's demands for variable pricing for TV show downloads.

Things have changed, however. Apple has come to record labels, hat in hand, for mobile delivery licensing deals. And according to Wired and the New York Times, the labels are making a renewed play for variable pricing. A chink already appeared in Apple's armour this spring, when it announced a two-tier pricing plan to download HBO TV shows.

Though negotiations continue, record labels may at last have Apple where they want them. And while it will be nice to be able to buy an Amy Winehouse ringtone no matter where we find ourselves, we're not sure whether it's worth the frustration of discovering that the new REM album is selling at an inflated premium.

A note to labels: sometimes dead simple is just right.


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REM - Accelerate

Aside from getting back together, the greatest threat to any band's legacy is not knowing when to call it a day. While REM had much distance to travel before entering that latter realm of self-delusion, the evidence to suggest that their best work was behind them was stacking up.
No must-have album in the past decade; crowds still coming in their droves but happiest when hearing the older material; and along with that ever-expanding status as a 'night-out' band an ever-diminishing appeal to younger listeners.
If you were 16 in 1988 'Green' and its predecessor 'Document' were almost regulation issue. Neither has jumped the generations to that age group today - and nothing from Stipe, Buck and Mills in the past 10 years has taken their place.
So 'Accelerate' is one of those real 'something to prove' albums, a category which, even the diehards would admit, is one which REM have been filed under too often of late.
The difference however between this and its predecessors is the amount of times it reminds you of why you like the band and for the younger uninitiated, the amount of times they'll be curious about what has gone before. Whether they find the time for these 34 minutes is a moot point, but unlike REM's other recent records they'll be missing out if they don't.
In opener 'Living Well is the Best Revenge', REM find a way back to that life-affirming urgency of 20 years ago and while nothing else here is quite as magical, 'Accelerate' offers many reasons to be optimistic about the future. The title track, 'Hollow Man' and 'Horse to Water' also showcase Peter Buck as a returned-to-form purveyor of fast, catchy riffs; 'Houston' and 'The Day is Done' are reasons for an all-acoustic album; 'Man-Sized Wreath' and 'Supernatural Superserious' are summer singles-in-waiting, while the swirling 'Mr Richards' has all the makings of a live favourite.
There are only two duffers. 'Sing of the Submarine' sees Stipe digging through his old lyric books and referencing songs of old and is too dreary. It is however more deserving of a place on the album than 'I'm Gonna DJ', a throwaway closer which some will rank in the same exalted company as 'Shiny Happy People'. It throws up great mental images of Stipe at his most onstage irritating and his cohorts high kicking their way through the chorus. Stop listening after 'Horse to Water' and you've a fitting finale.
While 'Accelerate' won't stop Stipe gazing off into the middle distance on an episode of 'Classic Albums', it's far more effective than many expected it to be and has recharged the batteries of those making the songs and those on the receiving end.
Harry Guerin

Gnarls Barkley, TV On The Radio team up for new tour

Gnarls Barkley, TV On The Radio and Ladytron are among the bands participating in the new Outernational Music Tour, curated by Thievery Corporation.

Also on the bill for the summer US tour that will travel to both coasts are Bebel Gilberto, Seu Jorge, Los Amigos Invisibles, and the curators themselves, Thievery Corporation.

The band have asked their friends and like-minded musicians to join the tour, as well as representatives from the UN World Food Program, who will work to raise awareness among concert-goers about the organisation's fight against global hunger.

The tour dates are:

San Francisco CA, Greek Theatre -- Bebel Gilberto, Los Amigos Invisibles and Federico Aubele (June 20)

Las Vegas NV Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino -- Gnarls Barkley and Bebel Gilberto (21)

Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl -- Bebel Gilberto, Los Amigos Invisibles and Federico Aubele (22)

Austin TX Stubb's BBQ -- Ocote Soul Sounds (24)

New York, NY SummerStage -- Bebel Gilberto, Turntables on the Hudson and Federico Aubele (26)

Washington DC Merriweather Pavilion -- TV on the Radio, Ladytron, Turntables on the Hudson and Federico Aubele (28)

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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