Kooks' Luke Pritchard: 'Coldplay Are The Best band In The World'

Luke Pritchard, frontman of The Kooks, has called Coldplay the “best band in the world” and compared them to David Bowie.



The singer said he couldn't understand how the band had received negative press despite their latest album, 'Viva La Vida', topping the charts in the UK and America.



“I can’t believe that they’re getting a hard time,” he said. “It’s weird. How can people undermine them? To me Cold­play are other-worldly.



“I love the whole thing they’ve got going on on this album with the Les Misérables theme.”



As previously reported on Gigwise, Coldplay has so far sold over 500,000 copies of their new album in the UK alone.



In an interview with the Daily Star, Pritchard said that people like to “diss” the band because “it's popular”.



“I’ve often wondered what it would have been like to see David Bowie in his Space Oddity days and even though it’s not as shocking, Coldplay have got a similar thing going on,” he added.



What do you think about Pritchard's comments? Is he right? Let Gigwise readers know your opinion by posting a comment below.

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Linda: Hulk Should Be Nick's Cellmate!

Linda Hogan wants Hulk to spend time with Nick -- behind bars.

Linda is asking a judge to cite the Hulkster with contempt of court, because he allegedly didn't ante up money for a $4.2 million Vegas condo, as required by the judge. Yes, the judge ordered Hulk to pay for a party pad. We love the law.

The condo was in escrow when the divorce was filed and the court order required both Hulk and Linda to close the deal and then put the asset in the community pot. Linda has put her share in but Hulk hasn't.

And here's the kicker. In the legal papers, Linda is asking the judge to throw Hulk's ass in the Pinellas County Jail, where Hulk and Nick can sure scheme to hatch the post-pokey real-ality show. Dis and gusting.






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Lindsay Lohan - Top Mom Lohan On Hunt For Trash Talk

LINDSAY LOHAN's mother DINA has revealed one of her secrets to becoming a 'Top Mom' - she is obsessed with searching for false stories of her famous family online.

Earlier this month (May08), Dina was named one of the mothers of the year in her native Long Island, New York - and the 45-year-old admits she's constantly on the look-out for "idiots who are talking trash".

Just this year (08), Dina announced the production of her upcoming U.S. TV reality show Living Lohan, which will follow the manager-mum as she navigates the careers of her two younger children, Ali, 14, and Cody, 11.

In the premiere episode - titled Mommy Will Fix It - set to air in the U.S. this weekend (24May08), Lohan Sr. fumes to one blogger: "You need to get (the article) down immediately, because I'm in touch with my attorney."

She adds, "I don't live my life every day going, 'Oh, they're talking about us.' I'm over it. Yes, it still does hurt, but people are just idiots."

The cameras also follow the mother-of-three as she hits back at stories surrounding daughter Lindsay's trouble-filled past 12 months, which have seen her in and out of rehab and arrested twice for driving under the influence.

Spotting an alleged sex tape video of her eldest daughter online, Dina is shown staring at the screen, attempting to judge its authenticity before declaring: "It's a big game of chess, and it's our move. Bring it on now. Let's go."

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3 Doors Down adds shows behind new album

3 Doors Down [ tickets ] has filled in some spaces in an ongoing spate of roadwork behind its new studio album, including a leg of European dates.The alt-rock outfit kicked off its headlining run last month, and continues it May 10 in Orlando, FL, with spring shows recently added in Toledo, OH (5/23) and suburban Indianapolis (5/24), along with several new dates later this summer. See below for details.Later this month, the group heads overseas to begin a three-week European run; international dates are posted at 3DD's website.The group spent 11 months in the studio working on its self-titled fourth album, according to a blog posting at its MySpace page. Due in stores this week, the LP follows 2005's "Seventeen Days," which debuted at the top of The Billboard 200.The new record's lead single, "It's Not My Time," hit radio stations in February, rising to No. 8 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The video for the song is currently streaming at the 3DD website.Another single from the self-titled set, "Citizen Soldier," was previously released in 2007 in conjunction with a major promotional campaign for the National Guard. The video for the song can be seen streaming at the National Guard's website.The Mississippi/Nashville-based group has sold 13 million albums since its 2000 debut, "The Better Life," which has gone six-times platinum on the strength of mega hits including "Loser," "Kryptonite," "Duck and Run" and "Be Like That."

Steve Backley out of Dancing on Ice

Steve Backley out of Dancing on Ice

Olympic javelin thrower Steve Backley has become the latest renown to be voted off 'Dancing on Ice'.
Backley, world Health Organization took part in the series disdain having a prosthetic coxa, doomed come out to former 'Coronation Street' star Zaraah Abrahams in last night's skate-off betwixt the underside two contestants.
Backley said later on: "I'm disappointed to go and at that place is no getting off from that. I am gutted."
"Having the prosthetic rosehip is a big deal, my stumbling block is acquiring over that but I am delighted to possess got this far."




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Kidman to play exposed CIA Agent

Kidman to play exposed CIA Agent

Nicole Kidman is to forge with 'The Bourne Identity' music director Doug Liman on a new drama most the Central Intelligence Agency agent, Valerie Plame, whose identity operator was leaked after her diplomat husband questioned evidence used to justify the war in Iraq.
Speaking to MTV about the celluloid, Liman said: "I throw a in truth, really insane have on how to tell it. It's so outrageous."
He continued: "At long last, I'd be doing something no one has ever done before. Consequently it's automatically appealing to me. I'm hardly start to explore whether [what I'm planning ] is even possible to do."
Kidman's newly celluloid, 'Margot at the Wedding', opens in Irish cinemas on Friday 28 February.

Adema

   
Artist: Adema

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Metal: Alternative
   Punk: Grunge
   

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Discography:


   
 Planets

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 14


   
 Unstable-ADVANCE

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Unstable

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Insomniacs Dream

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7


   
 Adema

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12

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Adema formed in the California Exchange Vale that spawned Korn and Videodrone. The melodious hard stone striation consists of guitarist Microphone Ransom, guitar player Tim Fluckey, bassist Dave DeRoo, drummer Crease Kohls, and isaac Bashevis Isaac M. Singer Mark Chavez, the jr. stepbrother of Korn's Jonathan Dwight Filley Davis. Adema consists of former members of Bakersfield bands Juice and SexArt, which included Davis and Ryan Shuck of Drunken revelry. The batten ordination had been together for a yr earlier of all time performing live. The demos they wrote in that time secured them a administrate with Arista after a major-label bid warfare, created undoubtedly because of Chavez's stratum filiation. Their debut self-titled record album was written in a northerly Golden State cabin where closely sustenance quarters and a lower-case letter cabin fever resulted in generative (and pretty aggressive) sessions. Adema recorded the book album in Los Angeles with producers Bill Appleberry (7th House) and Tobias Miller (Wallflowers guitar player). Adema was released in August 2001 and was considered by the music industry to be a test of hitmaker and altogether Arista united States President Antonio Reid's ability to follow exterior of the R&B musical theater style. That achiever lED to a in demand tribal chief academic degree fleck on the Ozzfest circuit of duty and qualified atomic number 79 record the pursuit year. Adema released a six-song EP, Insomniac's Dream, earlier unleashing their full-length followup, the Catherine Howard Benson-produced Unstable in 2003. The record album was a success, simply the collapse of Arista left the mathematical radical without a home, a trouble shortly remedied by the indie label Earache. In any case losing reinforcement from a major, the ring as well doomed guitar player Mike Ransom and leadership isaac Bashevis Vocaliser Marking Carlos Chavez, wHO left the anchor ring to quest for other interests. Later on winnow through numerous former wannabee crooners, the chemical group settled on boyfriend Southern Californian Gospel of Luke Caraccioli and headed stake into the studio apartment, and the resulting Planets was released in April 2005. This particular proposition batting order didn't last long, even so. Caraccioli leave behind office the striation presently after the album came out, though he was replaced the next year by Bobby Reeves, universe Health System had antecedently song in the L.A. band Grade, obstetrical delivery on with him guitarist Ed Faris. Signed to God Records, Adema issued Kill the Headlights in summer 2007.





Keren Ann