Absolute radio and swiftcover.com are giving away tickets to this years Latitude Festival, and they aren’t only giving away one ticket but you could win 6 tickets- so you can go along with five of your friends!
The festival will be held from the 15th to the 18th July in the beautiful countryside of Sunrise Coast in Suffolk. The line up for this year includes Florence and the machine, Belle and Sebastian, and Vampire Weekend. As well as the music you can also enjoy comedy, poetry, theatre, cabaret and there are many more activities planned for the event- there will be something for everyone.
The festival season is underway and as everyone knows the weather is always unpredictable, so when packing for a festival it’s always important to remember to pack your wellies.
This summer your wellington boots will not only keep you dry but will also charge your mobile phone. A new kind of wellies have been created and will be able to charge your phone as you dance, they have a power generating sole that coverts heat from your feet into electrical current. Mobile phone company, Orange will launch the eco-friendly wellies at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset later this month. Charging a mobile phone is always difficult to do at festivals but this won’t have to be a worry anymore, and the new wellies will just give everyone a good excuse to dance more!
Jay-Z, Paul McCartney, Pink, and Florence and the machine are just a few of the brilliant line-up of artists who will be playing. The festival will run from the 11th June to the 13th June and will be a great weekend for music lovers.
A new technology of hands free tweeting has been developed for Ford cars. The system has already been fitted in Ford Fiesta cars in America, and will be fitted into Ford Focus cars in the UK from next year. The system will be able to read twitter updates out load while you are driving so you won’t need to take your hands of the wheel and your eyes can stay on the road.
Future developments of the system will include voice recognition where the driver will be able to add tweets by saying them out load. The system will also include the ability to read text messages out loud while you’re driving, and you will be able to control your MP3 player using voice commands. Hopefully this will encourage motorists to avoid using their mobile phones while driving.
Iggy Pop and the stooges were entered into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on Monday night. The award took place in New York, where Iggy took to the stage and accepted the honour saying:
It’s a big industry. If it makes the right decisions, it will stay an industry. Music is life, and life is not a business.
Iggy and the stooges then performed ‘I wanna be your dog’ which according to the Mail Online was an energetic performance, which was accompanied by inductor Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. Abba and Genesis were among the other groups who were also inducted into the hall of fame.
Iggy and the stooges have made a comeback this year and Iggy Pop also recently fronted swiftcover.com’s ‘Get A Life’ advertising campaign, which helped the insurer increase sales by a third in 2009.
Last week the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld 12 viewer complaints that the recent TV ads by swiftcover.com featuring Iggy Pop were misleading.
The ASA believed that the ads implied that the punk rocker had a policy with Swiftcover, but at the time of the TV ads airing Swiftcover did not cover musicians.
swiftcover.com says that not only have the Iggy ads been a huge success, helping to push sales up by almost a third in the first quarter of 2009, the interest shown by musicians has prompted the company to make its insurance available to musicians for the first time.
Tina Shortle, marketing director of swiftcover.com, says:
“Iggy Pop and swiftcover.com have made motor insurance interesting for a change, increasing awareness of swiftcover.com and sending our sales soaring by almost a third, so we would be crazy to lose Iggy.
“However, we appreciate that some musicians were disappointed that they could not get ‘swiftcovered’, so we are now one of the few insurers that actually insures musicians. Iggy Pop will return to continue swiftcover.com’s campaign to help UK motorists get cheap online car insurance and make it clear that now even musicians can ‘Get a Life!’”
The ads led to a surge in interest in swiftcover.com and a 31% increase in sales in the first three months of 2009 compared with the same period in 2008.
The Eurovision Song Contest used to be an important day for the UK. One of my earliest memories of the competition was in 1981 when Bucks Fizz won with ‘Making your mind up’. Believe it or not the UK are based second in the all-time Eurovision Song Contest winners league according to The Times. But we haven’t won it since Katrina and the Waves in 1997.
So where are we going wrong? As a nation we produce some fantastic music and have artists that are popular across Europe and the World but for some reason when it comes to the Eurovision song contest we can’t seem to get it right. How can a rock group called Lordi that dress up as monsters win for Finland but the UK can’t?
Back in 2003 our entry was a boy and girl group called Jemini who performed a song called ‘Cry Baby’ and they will go down in history as one of our worst entrants ever, getting absolutely no points. Almost matching that was our 2007 entry Scooch who finished in position 23 out of 24. The last time we finished in a decent position was back in 2002 when Jessica Garlick finished 3rd.
Our 2008 entry is dustbin man Andy Abraham who shot to fame when he participated and finished 2nd in the 2005 X-Factor. He came across as a likeable man winning the hearts of many people and has since had a successful singing career releasing two albums. But will the curse of the Eurovision Song Contest put an end to a flurishing career? I really hope not.
The one problem I think that exists with this competition is that all the votes are political and very few take in to account the actual song or the performer. So even if we had the most fantastic song ever, I doubt that we would finish anywhere near the top.
I look forward to being proved wrong on the 24th May!
Despite being ridiculed for much of her career for one reason or another, the one thing Britney has always had going for her has been some top-notch pop songs. Her debut single - covered here by Travis - made her a superstar in one fell swoop and is probably still her defining song, although “Oops I Did It Again” is oft-used as a backdrop or headline whenever she hits the headlines.
But never mind all that, just listen to this Travis version - it strips away the high-gloss production and makes you realise what a good song this is..
Swiftcover car insurance has taken the pain out of getting cheaper motor insurance quotes. There are no queues, no unnecessary chat and no endless questions.
