Rocklife event - Anger as parents unable to buy tickets

Promoters deny they are to blame as poor sales lead to second day of Rock4Life event being cancelled
Anger as parents unable to buy children’s festival tickets
By Jonny Muir

Published: 15/04/2010

Parents yesterday criticised the organisers of a Highland music festival, saying they were unable to buy children’s tickets for the event.

One mother was told she could only buy adult Rock4Life tickets – double the price of children’s tickets – when she inquired at two vendors in Inverness.

It emerged on Tuesday that the second day of the inaugural festival at Whiteness, near Nairn, had been cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

Just 477 out of 20,000 tickets were sold, with acts including McFly, the Sugababes and Lemar, failing to “capture the imagination” of the Highland public.

Parents contacted the Press and Journal yesterday, blaming low ticket sales on the apparent lack of availability of children’s tickets.

One mother was told she could not buy tickets, costing £22.50, at two advertised sellers in the city-centre, Number 27 bar and a Highland Hospice shop.

Tobias Leask, of Caledonian Productions, which is organising the festival, countered the claims, insisting children’s tickets are available from both outlets, as well as Eden Court and the Eastgate Centre.

He said: “There is no problem with children’s tickets. I get reports daily and I can see that families are buying tickets.”

Karen Mackay, of Invergordon, who wanted to buy tickets for two adults and three children, said: “This is a family event, I presume, with the Sugababes and McFly, so why no children’s tickets locally?”

She said her only option was buying tickets through Ticketmaster, which she said would have incurred an 8% booking fee and a charge for postage.

She added: “I feel that having the only option of additional booking costs and postage certainly put me off and maybe this is why the event has not sold well?”

Another mother said: “We can’t buy children’s tickets anywhere. All the venues told us to purchase adult ones. The Sunday show would have been more fun for kids.

She added: “We have been waiting and waiting on the tickets to be sorted out, probably like hundreds of other parents in the Highlands.”

Rock4Life will now be a single-day event on May 1, featuring Status Quo, former Runrig singer Donnie Munro, Steve Harley and Cockney Revel and the Vatersay Boys.

Profits raised from the festival will be donated to the Highland Hospice, an Inverness-based centre for adults with incurable diseases.



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Sugababe Keisha Buchanan set for Strictly Come Dancing

Sugababe Keisha Buchanan set for Strictly Come Dancing
By 3am's Clemmie Moodie and Danielle Lawler 15/04/2010


Former Sugababe Keisha Buchanan has been lined up for the next Strictly Come Dancing.

Beeb bosses have approached the singer, who is in LA laying down tracks with Dallas Austin for her solo album. And we hear Keisha, 25, is keen to take on the challenge.


A pal tells us: "Keisha was thrilled when asked to be part of the show. But she is a little apprehensive.

"In the Sugababes, it was all about the singing. They never really danced. So the training would be really hard for her.

"Her pal Alesha Dixon saw her solo career really take off after Strictly and she's hoping that it could help her, too. "She has so much on, it depends on whether she can fit it all in. "But she is seriously keen. It's one of the only reality shows she would ever consider."

Amelle's Happy with 2st Weight Gain

Amelle's 2st Weight Gain
Amelle Berrabah


Pictures of a size zero Amelle Berrabah shocked fans in 2009.

But since finding love (and peace at work), Amelle's gained weight.

Now the Sugababes star says she is happier than ever with her 9st figure.

Speaking to Closer magazine, Amelle, 25, said: "I've always been thin, and conscious of it. The stress last year meant I lost even more weight.

"I wasn't not eating because I wanted to be skinny.

"I felt like a little boy with no boobs. Now I've put on weight my boobs are back and I've got a bum."

The stress that Amelle is referring to is likely to be the tension within the Sugababes, which ended in the departure of Keisha Buchanan from the band last September.

Size zero: Amelle last year But it's not only a settled work life that has given Amelle her body confidence. She also puts it down to her happiness with new boyfriend Tom Benn: "He's lovely. We've only been official for the last few weeks but it's great.

"I'm glad I found him."

So how has Amelle been getting her new, curvier figure? The singer recently posted on Twitter: "Just had the nicest pizza ever."

And: "I had a chicken club with cheese instead of bacon."

At last, a celebrity diet we can get on board with.

Life's sweet in LA for JLS

Life's sweet in LA for JLS
14/04/2010

Jls are having a Suga-coated introduction to the tough music business in Los Angeles.

Keisha Buchanan - formerly of the Sugababes - is also in La La Land working on her debut solo album and has taken the boys under her wing, intro-ducing them to big names like Jay-Z and Kanye West.

A source said: "It's all go for JLS, and there's even talk of a collaboration with Keisha - who is already making waves with music honchos."

Proving again it's not what you know, but who you know...

Cannes Concert for Sugababes

The Sugababes performed in Cannes on the Beach on Tuesday night, with Jade performing her first 60 minute set Successfully

@JadeEwen Tweeted :



JadeEwen: sitting in my hotel room in cannes going over the songs for later... had to learn stronger, in the middle, denial and red dress..

JadeEwen: what a nice song stronger is...

JadeEwen: its just a gig not promoting. and they like us to sing songs that everyone knows like the old hits...

Earlier in the Day @Heidi_range Tweeted



Heidi_range: Just landed in the south of france for tonights gig, lovely sunshine x


Much Earlier in the day Heidi Tweeted

Heidi_range: Just done a Zumba class at Virgin Active, it was so much fun. Shakira eat you your heat out! x

Heidi_range: oops...eat your heart out not heat! x

Sugababes Sweet 7 Album Launch

The Sugababes launched their album Sweet 7 at the trendy Supperclub in London's Notting Hill on Wednesday 3rd March and we were there to catch all the action just for you! Find out what happened below and watch the performance videos!

The exclusive Supperclub was decked out in opulent style for the launch party, with large white beds, scatter pillows and small tables. The guests partied to the DJ's floor fillers as they waited for the glamorous trio to arrive.

Amelle, Heidi and Jade, dressed all in black, opened the launch with their big UK hit "Freak Like Me" accompanied by a live band dressed in white boiler suits and sparkly black masks!

They then sang the popular "Hole In The Head" and their latest single from the new album "Wear My Kiss" before launching into "Too Lost In You". The girls said that they were delighted to be live on stage again in front of their fans before singing "Crash And Burn" from Sweet 7. The band then performed the hugely successful "Girls" with fans singing along word for word.

The fans went wild when the girls made an energetic performance of their second single from the new album "About A Girl" before moving on to "Push A Button". They made a stunning performance of "Get Sexy" and rounded off the spectacular line up with "About You Now". The girls closed the gig by thanking everyone for coming before jumping into the surprised crowd on exit. They then continued to party with guests and new Sugababe member Jade Ewen commented that the girls are all really excited to be on stage performing and are looking forward to their future together as a band.

The much anticipated Sweet 7 is in stores now! Check out the girls performances from the album launch below: (Link not working on photos , need to go to Website http://www.sugababeslovewindows7.com/sugababes_sweet_7.html)


Freak
Round Round
Hole in the Head
Wear my Kiss
Too Lost in You
Crash N'Burn
Girls
About a Girl
Push the Button
Get Sexy
About You Know

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Sugababes schedule

Sugababes Latest Schedule :-


April:
Tues 13/04/2010 Fly out to Cannes, South of France for Concert
Wed 21/04/2010 Fly out to India
Fri 23/04/2010 SWEET 7 Release date in Australia
Fri 23/04/2010 IPL (India Premier League ) Cricket closing ceremony
Sun 25/04/2010 IPL (India Premier League ) Cricket closing ceremony on April 25th (INDIA) confirmed

May:
Sat 01/05/2010 Camden Crawl . Roundhouse
Sun 02/05/2010 Rock 4 Life ,Whiteness, Inverness, Scotland (Cancelled 13.4.10)

June:
Sun 20/06/2010 Heidi+Amelle 54mile Cycle ride from London To Brighton for Charity

July:
Sat 03/07/2010 Sound music festival at Netherdale in Galashiels.

August:
Sat 21/08/2010 V Festival or
Sun 22/08/2010 V Festival (This year's V Festival will take place at Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park, Staffordshire over the weekend of August 21 to August 22. Tickets are on sale from this Friday 5th March.)


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Lucie Cave's diary - Heidi does Zumba

Lucie Cave's diary
Posted by heatworld 13 April 2010 17:19

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"So last week we had the delights of Pineapple Dance Studios Louie Spence in heat Towers – this week I bumped into none other than Chace Crawford off of Gossip Girl on reception. Well, he wasn’t so much on reception (he wasn’t answering the phones – that would be too brilliant), he was more leaning across reception with a stubbled face speaking in a deep voice. For more on his stubbly whereabouts keep your eyes on heatworld. He might be popping up on this very site. That’s all I’m saying.

Aside from Chace-chasing, I got up at stupid-o-clock this morning to dance about like a stupid thing with Heidi Range from the Sugababes (see pic). She invited me to try out the latest celebrity workout craze called ‘Zumba’ at Virgin Active - and I worked up a right old sweat. And trod on her foot. It’s a Latin-based dance workout which is the reason for my lack of coordination (I can’t actually dance), but was actually very fun. Other celeb fans are Victoria Beckham, Shakira and Michelle Obama, but I didn’t see them in the changing room afterwards (or the shower, for that matter). Thankfully Heidi is just like the rest of us ladies when it comes to matters of food “I LOVE carbs and can’t stop eating them,” she told me. “For me to keep the weight off I have to go to the gym between 3-5 times a week, while the other Sugababes can eat what they want and not even exercise. It’s not fair!”.

Speaking of not fair. I had to suffer a train journey home from Liverpool this weekend with a load of football fans stood on top of me (I nipped up to visit some of my Hollyoaks pals Jennifer Metcalfe and Claire Cooper who’ve just opened their own fancy designer clothes shop called The Closet). One even farted in my ear. The football fan that is, not a Hollyoaks girl. I’ll leave you now with a snippet from a conversation I have just had with heat’s Art Director about a set of pictures we’re printing in heat next Tuesday. “Can the headline go into the arse do you think?” “Maybe we can put Mark Croft’s face on it.”

Rock festival second day cancelled

Rock festival second day cancelled
Published: 13 April, 2010

Sugababes - had been due to star on second day of Rock 4 Life.

THE second day of Highland festival Rock 4 Life – featuring Sugababes and McFly – has been cancelled.

Festival organisers Caledonian Productions have confirmed the May 2 line-up for what was to have been a two-day festival has been dropped because of poor ticket sales.



Ticket outlets had been advised in the middle of last week to stop selling Sunday tickets.

Tobias Leask, one of the organisers, said just 420 out of a potential 10,000 tickets had been sold for the Sunday, leaving them with no choice but to cancel the second day.

The festival at the former McDermott's oil yard at Whiteness, near Ardersier, is in aid of the Highland Hospice.

Lined up to top the bill on the Saturday are veteran rockers Status Quo. Other acts include Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and ex-Runrig frontman Donnie Munro.