Me and a cute little cat that wanted to be friends in the park today :)
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Friday, 17 August 2012
OK! Chats to Mollie King,Scott Maslen and Heidi Range at the WTA Pre-Wimbledon Party
OK! Chats to Mollie King, Cheska Hull, Scott Maslen
and Heidi Range at the WTA Pre-Wimbledon Party
Published on 22 Jun 2012 by OKMagazineTV
We [http://www.ok.co.uk] caught up with Mollie King at the WTA pre-Wimbledon party who revealed that there is a new single coming out in a few months as well as The Saturdays gigging around the UK during the summer months. Rochelle and Vanessa are currently away in Africa this week for Comic Relief.
We also caught with Cheska Hull (Made In Chelsea), Scott Maslen (EasterEnders) and Heidi Range.
Presenter - Emma Pollard
Camera, editor and Producer - Julian Coleman
Co-Producer - Stacey Waterman
Serett Productions http://www.serettproductions.com;http://www.facebook.com/serettproductions
We also caught with Cheska Hull (Made In Chelsea), Scott Maslen (EasterEnders) and Heidi Range.
Presenter - Emma Pollard
Camera, editor and Producer - Julian Coleman
Co-Producer - Stacey Waterman
Serett Productions http://www.serettproductions.com;http://www.facebook.com/serettproductions
Leggy Jade Gif found by Elliot
:) a gif someone made for me on tumblr..http://jadeylocks.tumblr.com/post/25647754778 …
And now I am sharing it on my blog :-) - JEF
Amelle , Jade and Friend on the Beach in Barbados
GarySintillate Gary Sewell
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Welcome to Amelle Berrabah's Youtube Channel
Welcome to Amelle Berrabah's Youtube Channel
Published on 15 Aug 2012 by Amelle Berrabah
A short introduction to the wonderful Youtube channel of Amelle Berrabah.
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Monday, 13 August 2012
Suga dumped: More dramas for the Sugababes as they reform as MKS - Daily Mirror
Suga dumped: More dramas for the Sugababes as they reform as MKS
Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan prove they lost none of their feistiness while they were away by giving their shocked manager the boot
in their former professional lives as the Sugababes they were plagued with dramas.
And now it appears there’s more turbulence in the lives of Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan as the group gets back together.
I can reveal the girls have parted ways with manager Felix Howard, the man who got them to reform and give it all a shot a second time.
Sources claim Felix was fired, although the girls’ PR rep Shoshanna Stone insists it was a “mutual parting of ways”.
My mole told me: “The girls got rid of him – there’s no two ways about it. They didn’t think things were working out and wanted to get a new manager. Everyone was really shocked.
“Felix knows how to manage a band and is a good guy for the job. But they wouldn’t have it and thought best to get a new manager before they started releasing the new music. There’s no bad blood.”
The original Sugababes line-up of Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy – or MKS as they’re now known – have signed a new record deal with Polydor Records and have three possible lead singles ready to go in the coming months.
Now don’t get me wrong – I’m bubbling with excitement for this comeback. They can sing, cut it live and have a chance at chart glory. But they have got to pull it together without these dramz.
Felix wrote their debut hit Overload and was widely considered to be behind the gritty early sound of the band. Now they are searching for the right person to guide them back from the dead.
Another source said: “They were looking for a manager to co-manage with Felix but it seemed better to find one rather than two.”
I’m sitting well on the fence on that but I reckon MKS stand a great chance.
MKS team up with Shaznay Lewis of All Saints for new album!
The original Sugababes team up with Shaznay Lewis of All Saints for new album!
The original Sugababes – or Mutya Keisha Siobhan – have recently tweeted that they’re officially in the studio writing with the one and only Shaznay Lewis from All Saints. If you are a fan of this blog you know that we are totally in love with this girl and her debut album Open. The “Origibabes” also confirmed that they did write a song with Shaznay in November but not in the studio together. Let’s hope for a slow number on this one. Oh, and guest vocals please!
Studio today with Shaznay Lewis! We wrote a song with her Last November but she wasnt in our session but this time we're all in a room—
Mutya Keisha Siobhan (@MKSOfficial) August 06, 2012
Friday, 10 August 2012
Original Sugababes Mutya Keisha Siobhan finish new album - Digital Spy
Original Sugababes Mutya Keisha Siobhan finish new album
Published Tuesday, Aug 7 2012, 17:20 BST | By Lewis Corner
Mutya Keisha Siobhan have confirmed that their new album is complete.
The girl group - who originally started out as the Sugababes - announced their reunion last month, but insisted that new material won't be released until 2013.
However, the trio recently hinted that their new collection was nearly finished and have now indicated that the entire set is complete.
"With the girls in the studio. I think the album is finished!!!" Siobhan Donaghy tweeted, before adding: "Whoop!"
Mutya Keisha Siobhan have worked with a range of producers and songwriters including Emeli Sandé, Naughty Boy, ex-All Saints singer Shaznay Lewis and MNEK.
Keisha Buchanan recently wished the current Sugagabes lineup - which includes Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen - "the best of luck" and insisted that there are no hard feelings.
The girl group - who originally started out as the Sugababes - announced their reunion last month, but insisted that new material won't be released until 2013.
However, the trio recently hinted that their new collection was nearly finished and have now indicated that the entire set is complete.
"With the girls in the studio. I think the album is finished!!!" Siobhan Donaghy tweeted, before adding: "Whoop!"
Mutya Keisha Siobhan have worked with a range of producers and songwriters including Emeli Sandé, Naughty Boy, ex-All Saints singer Shaznay Lewis and MNEK.
Keisha Buchanan recently wished the current Sugagabes lineup - which includes Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen - "the best of luck" and insisted that there are no hard feelings.
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Will the real Sugababes please stand up? - The Independent
The original Sugababes have reunited and are back in the studio, but they're no longer called the Sugababes because that name is now taken by the new incarnation of the group. In a confusing and, perhaps, unprecedented situation in pop music, the original trio who made the Sugababes famous have had to rename themselves Mutya Keisha Siobhan.
he original Sugababes have reunited and are back in the studio, but they're no longer called the Sugababes because that name is now taken by the new incarnation of the group. In a confusing and, perhaps, unprecedented situation in pop music, the original trio who made the Sugababes famous have had to rename themselves Mutya Keisha Siobhan.
When Keisha Buchanan left the Sugababes in 2009 and was replaced by solo singer Jade Ewen, she was the final original member to leave the pop group. Yet still, the group kept the name Sugababes, leading critics to question how it was possible for a band to retain its name and status as a serious pop act despite having an entirely different line-up – perhaps the only other band to do so (and still exist) is Renaissance, which the former Yardbirds members Keith Relf and Jim McCarty launched in 1969 and already had an entirely new line-up by 1971.
The very fact that Sugababes continue proves how successful a manufactured pop act can be; the brand name is more important than the make-up of the personalities of its members. To long-standing fans of the original band, the name Mutya Keisha Siobhan will be instantly recognisable – to new fans it's a bit of a mouthful. Not that the trio, who are currently working on a new album set for release early next year, seem too perturbed. They've pointed out that when they formed as 16-year-old teenagers in 1998, they took on the name Sugababes so they didn't have to use their first names.
In a recent interview, Keisha said to Mutya: "I found a clip of you when you're 16 and they ask you why we came up with the name 'Sugababes'. And you go: 'Well we had to have a band name because we couldn't have people just calling us Mutya, Keisha, Siobhan'."
The pop world continues to be peppered with bands who have changed their names for legal or other reasons. Most recently, the rising indie band Brother faced a challenge from a 20-year-old didgeridoo and bagpipe-wielding Australian Celtic rock trio of the same name. The Slough four-piece became UK Brother before settling on Viva Brother last year, although clearly the name alteration affected their sense of identity and their rise – the band split up a few months later. In June the band reformed and reinvented themselves entirely with the new name Lovelife, abandoning their grit-pop sound for slower-paced synth-pop.
When the Californian power-pop band The Morning Benders changed their name to POP ETC earlier this year, it wasn't because of a legal challenge, but the reaction from fans; they were horrified to discover that in the UK "bender" is a slang term describing gay people. "In a lot of ways it was the perfect time to change it," their frontman Chris Chu says. "We had just finished making an album that was completely different than anything we had made before, and it matched our new-found perspective. It felt positive to start this phase of our musical lives with a new name, because in many ways it affords you a new start. When we first named our band The Morning Benders we never thought it would be a band we would all be playing in five or six years later. POP ETC aligns itself more closely with where we are. It's given us a unique chance to tell people we absolutely love pop music and believe in its power to affect people."
There were some negatives to the name change, though, one being the idea that changing their name meant they had "sold out" or betrayed their fans. "That was incredibly frustrating," Chu says. "At the end of the day our old band name and the "brand" one might associate with it was incredibly more profitable financially than a new name no one had heard of."
The biggest downside is what faces all acts when they change name: making sure their fans know about it. But it's early days. "We still get stopped on the street by people asking about our old band name," Chu says.
Others have made the name change less willingly. Suede were at their peak in the UK in 1993 – their self-titled debut album had sold 100,000 copies in its first week – and they were hoping, unsuccessfully, to make it in America after they secured a tour slot with The Cranberries. It can't have helped that at that time a lawsuit arrived from a US lounge singer by the same name, forcing them to drop the trademarked name Suede, so they became The London Suede, only serving to reinforce their Britishness and further distance them from potential US fans.
"The London Suede is not the name I chose for the band," singer Brett Anderson said a few years later. "I didn't change it happily, and I'm not going to pretend I did." Recalling the incident, bassist Mat Osman says: "The whole thing was a bit of a mess really. The first we knew of it was a letter to the American record company telling us that we needed to change our name to 'Brett Anderson and the British Band Formerly Known as Suede'. We weren't too keen on that and riposted with The London Suede, a name which I think even then we all hated and as the years have gone by have grown to like even less. It feels wrong, and parochial and just plain ugly." Although Osman doesn't feel it impacted directly on their success, it certainly made them less keen on performing there.
"Much as I'd love to blame our lack of US No 1 singles on people heading for the 'S' section of record stores, seeing nothing between the Subways and Supergrass, and just buying something else instead, I don't think it made a huge difference to our sales. It did make us less keen on touring there though. It looks rubbish on record sleeves, too."
Changing names didn't do the Chemical Brothers any harm when the dance duo had to switch from their initial moniker Dust Brothers after the US hip-hop producers discovered them. It will be interesting to see how Mutya Keisha Siobhan distinguish themselves from the current Sugababes – and whether they end up shortening their name to the more manageable MKS.
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