Wednesday 3 September 2008

Mp3 music: Operation Ivy






Operation Ivy
   

Artist: Operation Ivy: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Other
Rock: Punk-Rock
Punk

   







Operation Ivy's discography:


Energy
   

 Energy

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 27
Sound System
   

 Sound System

   Year: 2000   

Tracks: 14
East Bay [EP]
   

 East Bay [EP]

   Year: 1995   

Tracks: 3
Lint : The King Of Ska
   

 Lint : The King Of Ska

   Year: 1993   

Tracks: 3
Plea For Peace
   

 Plea For Peace

   Year: 1992   

Tracks: 4
Operation Ivy
   

 Operation Ivy

   Year: 1991   

Tracks: 27
Ramones EP
   

 Ramones EP

   Year: 1989   

Tracks: 6
69 Newport
   

 69 Newport

   Year: 1989   

Tracks: 2
Seedy
   

 Seedy

   Year:    

Tracks: 11






One of the starting time bands to commingle gospeller ska with the energy and aggression of post-hardcore spunk rock rock (after the Mighty Mighty Bosstones), Operation Ivy were also 1 of the few ska-punk bands to make critical hail. Part of the reason was that they were 1 of the genre's innovators, possessed of a novelty that many of their imitators lacked, merely their lyrics were often more intelligent and essential as well. Thanks to their early breakup (the chemical group was but together for iI years), Operation Ivy became an abiding, even legendary influence in the neo-punk underground, especially after half of the band went on to hit it big in a new free radical, Rancid.


Operation Ivy were formed in Berkeley, CA, in May 1987 out of the ashes of several local bands. Lead isaac Bashevis Singer Jesse Michaels, guitar player Lint (born Tim Armstrong), bassist Matt McCall (born Matt Freeman, renamed afterward the hero of the TV series The Equalizer), and drummer Dave Mello began performing extensively at the famous Gilman Street golf club, a center of the Bay Area's burgeoning punk revival meeting scene. (Initially, they had no horn section, though sax player Paul Bae would later unite them on selected recordings.) They quickly sign with the local punk rocker label Lookout, and appeared on deuce compilations by the end of the year: the label sampler The Thing That Ate Floyd, and the Maximum Rock'n'Roll magazine publisher taste tester Turn It Around. In 1988, they released an EP coroneted Hectic and toured the state, playing small-scale punk rocker venues.


With a budding repute as an fantabulous live band, EMI offered Operation Ivy a major-label handle. Unsure of how to react to the prospect of success -- both because of their independent politics and local-mindedness -- the band chose to break up rather than compromise their intentions, playing their final demonstrate in May 1989. Their debut uncut record album, Energy, was released on Lookout several months later, and became a touchstone of the third wave ska revival mostly through word of mouth. Michaels went on to sing with Big Rig before going music; varying accounts book that he became either a Buddhist monastic or a Central American missionary, and crataegus oxycantha consume returned to the U.S. to influence for Lookout. Mello united Schlong and then reunited in short with Armstrong and Freeman in Downfall, which released an record album on Lookout in 1995. Armstrong and Freeman, backsliding to their real names, formed Rancid in 1991; their Clash-inspired punk and ska helped make them one of the virtually democratic bands of the '90s punk rock resurgence, after Green Day and the Offspring.






Sunday 24 August 2008

Shilpa Shetty: 'I Forgive Cancer-Stricken Jade'

...more Big Brother 9 �

Shilpa Shetty has commit Jade Goody�s racist �Shilpa Poppadom� scuttlebutt behind her and has offered her support to the Big Brother whiz after she pulled kO'd of the Indian translation of the show star following her cancer diagnosis.


The Indian Big Boss hostess insists that the former Celebrity Big Brother adversaries have order the past times behind them.


And she wants to be there for Jade every step of the mode after they forged an unlikely friendly relationship and a strong emotional connection.


�I spoke with her. It was a private conversation, simply we�ve exchanged numbers and we�ve put all our previous troubles in the past so I�d wish only the best for her,� Shilpa said.


�It is identical emotional and I�m truly sad. When you spend time with somebody, whether they�re in effect, bad or ugly, you know the person. And when you know them you wouldn�t wish something bad to happen to them.


�I cerebration about her family and when I spoke to her she said: �You know, I�m really apprehensive for my children, I�ve been through a set in my life but this is the worst�.


�It was so sad. You wouldn�t wish this on your enemy. And Jade isn�t my enemy. I felt very helpless,� The Mirror reports.


A dolorous Shilpa said �my heart went out to her and I told them we had to do what we could to make her feel comfortable, that in that respect had to be someone to put her on the flight back to England.�

Just a week agone Jade went into house and the pair met again for the number 1 time since Celebrity Big Brother.


�I think they were a short scared I might walk out of the demonstrate, but they were organism presumptuous in thinking I hadn�t affected on. I have and I�ve forgiven her."


�When Jade came on stage before going into the house, it was the first base time we�d met since Celebrity Big Brother and her full demeanour had changed, fifty-fifty her face. Just the way she approached me � care she precious to lay everything behind her."

Thursday 14 August 2008

Download Marley Marl






Marley Marl
   

Artist: Marley Marl: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Rap: Hip-Hop

   







Discography:


Hip-Hop Lives
   

 Hip-Hop Lives

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 14






One of hip-hop's low-pitched gear (and finest) superproducers, Marley Marl was an early groundbreaker in the art of sampling, development new techniques that resulted in some of the sharpest beatniks and hooks in rap's Golden Age. As the founder of Cold Chillin' Records, Marl assembled a roll filled with some of the finest rap gift in New York: MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shanté, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, and Masta Ace. His production work for those and many former artists in the main boasted a bright, booming, and robust sound that -- along with his ear for a catchy sample -- helped act street-level hip-hop's transonic blueprint into more accessible soil. Most authoritative, though, were his skills as a beatmaker; Marl was among the number one to mine James Brown records for grooves and likewise well-educated how to workmanship his have drum loops through sample distribution, which decreased hip-hop's reliance on tinny-sounding drum machines and gave his '80s productions a brisk, modern flavour.


Marl was born Marlon Williams on September 30, 1962, and grew up in the Queensbridge housing stick out in Queens, NY. He became interested in music through local talent shows and region parties and became an established DJ during rap's early days. He did mixture work on a number of singles for the old school hip-hop/electro label Tuff City and started up his own Cold Chillin' pronounce, which he initially ran out of his sister's apartment in Queensbridge. Marl set about recruiting for what became ane of rap's first talent collectives, the Juice Crew. He caught his number one bad break in 1984 when he produced Roxanne Shanté's "Roxanne's Revenge," one of many answer singles inspired by U.T.F.O.'s resistance smash "Roxanne, Roxanne"; as luck would have it, "Roxanne's Revenge" was the biggest and it assign artist, label, and manufacturer on the map. Marl trumped it by helming "The Bridge," an ode to Queensbridge by his full cousin MC Shan that became the unofficial Queens rap hymn and elysian a gritty feud with Bronx aboriginal KRS-One. With Marl's success came the opportunity to bring forth artists outside the Cold Chillin' stable, which he did with the monumental Eric B. & Rakim single "Eric B. Is President," as well as full-length albums by Heavy D & the Boyz.


The end of the '80s is a great deal referred to as hip-hop's Golden Age, a time when the form's creativeness was expanding by leaps and bound. Marl's Juice Crew was an important force in ushering in this eRA thanks to its advances in lyrical technique and the distinctive personalities of rising stars like Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane. With business at Cold Chillin' prosperous, Marl assign out the offset full-length freeing under his possess constitute in 1988 (he'd antecedently recorded the single "DJ Cuttin'" in 1985 with the alias NYC Cutter). In Control, Vol. 1 was for the most part a slip for several Juice Crew affiliates to strut their stuff, virtually thrillingly on the legendary, larger-than-life posse cut "The Symphony." Marl scored his greatest crossover voter success in 1990 by helming LL Cool J's Mom Said Knock You Out; bolstered by Marl's state of matter of the art production, the record album restored LL's street street street cred patch decorous his biggest vender ever so, making Marl an sought-after after remixer. 1991 brought the release of In Control, Vol. 2, which regrettably displayed signs that the Cold Chillin' natural endowment pool was beingness depleted.


After working with TLC on their 1992 debut, Marl remained largely quiet for a few eld; 1995 brought the freeing of House of Hits, an splendid retrospective of his c. H. Best productions all over the years. Splitting cancelled from Cold Chillin', Marl spent several years in a legal battle over money and ownership rights that, in 1998, eventually resulted in his organism awarded control of all the songs he'd produced for the pronounce. In the late '90s, Marl's position as a high profile producer was restored thanks to his work with artists care Rakim, Queensbridge's own Capone-N-Noreaga, and Fat Joe. In 2001, Marl assign together some other compilation of original productions with guest rappers for the British BBE pronounce, highborn Reentry.





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Wednesday 6 August 2008

The Pigeon Detectives Map Winter UK Tour Dates

The Pigeon Detectives possess now confirmed a full-length UK circuit this Winter, which testament see the Leeds

Friday 27 June 2008

Nellie McKay

Nellie McKay   
Artist: Nellie McKay

   Genre(s): 
Comedy
   Pop
   Jazz
   



Discography:


Obligatory Villagers   
 Obligatory Villagers

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 9


Pretty Little Head   
 Pretty Little Head

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 23


Get Away From Me   
 Get Away From Me

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


CD 2   
 CD 2

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9




Aim Away from Me, the claim of singer/songwriter Nellie McKay's debut album, was a play on two titles by romantic female vocalists world Health Organization became popular in the former 2000s: Norah Jones' Get along Away with Me and Jane Monheit's Get along Dream with Me. But spell McKay shares some of Jones' and Monheit's influences -- vocal malarky, floorshow, pre-rock Brill Building pop, flashlight singing -- and has some things in common with them melodically, it would be a huge error to lout her in with Jones, Monheit, and Diana Krall. Those malarky or jazz-influenced start artists lean to be romantically satisfying, whereas McKay's lyrics hind end be every flake as cutting, nervy, and bitter as Alanis Morissette or Pink -- and to lout McKay in with Jones, Monheit, and Krall ignores the fact that her work is typical and imposingly unorthodox.


McKay, world Health Organization is too a gifted piano player, brings an unbelievable combination of influences to her work, which isn't easy to categorize. The New York City resident is relevant to pop/rock, just she is besides relevant to cabaret, traditional pop, and vocal jazz. Tin Pan Alley, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, Annie Ross, Peggy Lee, and Billie Holiday have unnatural her writing (either straight or indirectly), simply so make Dory Previn and Randy Newman (the latter a sponsor comparing), the Beatles, and hip-hop. McKay, in fact, shares Newman's taste for lyrics that ar misanthropical and sarcastic as well as dark-humored; like Newman, McKay knows how to laugh at the world even when she's complaintive roughly how screwed up it is -- and she lavatory be incredibly clever and witty.


McKay was born in London, England, on April 13, 1984, only spent to the highest degree of her early life in the United States. At the age of deuce, McKay (an only minor) touched with her mother (actress Robin Pappas) to New York City -- and the deuce of them lived in Manhattan's Harlem section until 1994, when they touched cicily Isabel Fairfield to Olympia, WA. After that, they lived in the Poconos in northeastern Pennsylvania, only in 2000, they returned to N.Y.C. so that McKay could see the Manhattan School of Music. After falling out, McKay briefly flirted with standup comedy just gave it up and made music her elementary nidus. McKay began performing around Manhattan in the early 2000s, and for a patch, she was managed by folk-rocker Lach (wHO much set-aside her at the Sidewalk Café in the East Village).


McKay's gigs at Manhattan clubs like the Sidewalk Café and the Fez earned her a small East Coast following, and in 2003, she signed with Columbia. Other labels had verbalised interestingness, including Virgin and Blue Note, only she felt that Columbia had the greatest savvy of her musical vision. Nonetheless, McKay had some originative differences with the label; she wanted to call her debut album either Smuggled America or Penis Envy, and Columbia disliked both. But eventually, McKay and Columbia in agreement on the title Get Away from Me. Produced and engineered by Geoff Emerick -- topper known for his operate with the Beatles -- Get Away from Me was released in February 2004. Although it made the year-end lists of many critics, creative battle between McKay and Columbia only continued.


Sparring over producers and direction for her sophomore album eventually resulted in McKay funding the recordings herself; the upshot, titled Pretty Little Head, was due to be released in early 2006, just McKay was let go and the record album was dropped from Columbia's release agenda. At the same time, McKay was fussy rehearsing for co-starring role in a Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera with Alan Cummings, Ana Gasteyer, and Cyndi Lauper. Pretty Little Head at last surfaced in October of 2006, released on McKay's own Hungry Mouse tag and overseen by the indie spinART. Less than one year later on, McKay returned with a 30-minute illumination entitled Obligatory Villagers.






Thursday 19 June 2008

Gossip Pays

Internet gossip Perez Hilton -- real name Mario Lavandeira -- who started his celebrity blog on a shoestring out of his West Hollywood apartment in 2005, now draws so many readers to his site that advertisers pay as much as $54,000 to run a one-day ad package on it, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Friday). According to the newspaper, the PerezHilton.com website now draws about 7 million page views a day. Hilton/Lavandeira may need the money to fight a spate of copyright-infringement lawsuits that have been filed against him for posting stills from other websites and music videos. Hilton claims "fair use," saying that he alters to the photos and videos with his commentaries about the performers who appear in them.


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Wednesday 11 June 2008

Magnate Y Valentino

Magnate Y Valentino   
Artist: Magnate Y Valentino

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   



Discography:


Before and After   
 Before and After

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13




 






Friday 6 June 2008

Warning SF

Warning SF   
Artist: Warning SF

   Genre(s): 
Other
   



Discography:


Aftermath   
 Aftermath

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10




 





Mr. Doctor

Saturday 31 May 2008

Michael Jackson - Judge Throws Out Jackson Airline Retrial

A judge has dismissed a request for a new trial in the case of an air charter service which was ordered to pay pop superstar MICHAEL JACKSON over $20 million (GBP10 million) for secretly videotaping the singer.

The now defunct XtraJet was accused of making videos of the star and his lawyers onboard one of the firm's planes when he flew from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara, California in November 2003.

The Thriller hitmaker was on his way to hand himself into police, who were investigating child molestation charges against him .

The California-based company was ordered to pay Jackson, his lawyer Mark Geragos and associate Pat Harris $20.5 million (GBP10.25 million) in damages for invasion of privacy.

Lawyers for XtraJet's owner Jeffrey Borer had issued a request for a retrial, claming the tape was not a violation as it did not include sound.

But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Soussan Bruguera rejected the motion, agreeing with Jackson's lawyer that even if there was no audio, the company's intention had been to record conversations.




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Grey's stars say Chambers is now "fine"

Justin Chambers' 'Grey's Anatomy' co-stars have said that the actor is "doing just fine" following his stint in a psychiatric ward recently.
According to People magazine, James T Pickens, who plays Dr Richard Webber, said: "[Justin] just needed a break. He said: 'Man I'm fine'."
He also said that the actor was planning on spending some time relaxing with his family. "[He] thanked everybody for their concern but everybody's good," Pickens said.
Chambers' co-star Chandra Wilson, who plays Dr Miranda Bailey in the show, also said: "Everybody goes through stuff. It's no different than anybody else in the world. We just happen to be in the public eye...  Justin's doing just fine."
A representative for Chambers recently confirmed that he checked himself into a psychiatric ward because of a sleeping disorder.

Mum

Mum   
Artist: Mum

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Electronic
   Ambient
   Electronic
   Industrial
   Rock
   Indie
   Dance
   



Discography:


Warsaw, PL 0523   
 Warsaw, PL 0523

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


Summer Make Good (Promotional Edition)   
 Summer Make Good (Promotional Edition)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


Summer Make Good   
 Summer Make Good

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


Please Smile My Noise Bleed   
 Please Smile My Noise Bleed

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


Dusk Log   
 Dusk Log

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 4


Peel Session 03.10.02   
 Peel Session 03.10.02

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4


Live Barcelona Accio Musical, Barcelona   
 Live Barcelona Accio Musical, Barcelona

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 7


Live @ The BBC On The Blue Roo (20 Apr 02)   
 Live @ The BBC On The Blue Roo (20 Apr 02)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 1


Live @ Sheffield 2002-05-26   
 Live @ Sheffield 2002-05-26

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


Green Grass Of Tunnel   
 Green Grass Of Tunnel

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 3


Finally We Are No One   
 Finally We Are No One

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


BBC Radio1 The Blue Room Dj Session (04.2002)   
 BBC Radio1 The Blue Room Dj Session (04.2002)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 1


Sincerly Yours Part 1   
 Sincerly Yours Part 1

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 4


Remixed   
 Remixed

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9


Blai Hnotturinn   
 Blai Hnotturinn

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 15


BBC Radio1 Show One World   
 BBC Radio1 Show One World

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 5


Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK   
 Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today   
 Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


The Ballad of the Broken (12)   
 The Ballad of the Broken (12)

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 5


Asnakjalkar I Apabuningum   
 Asnakjalkar I Apabuningum

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 4


Loksins Erum Vid Engin   
 Loksins Erum Vid Engin

   Year:    
Tracks: 11




 





Confirmed: Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz Engaged

NYC-Based Singer-Songwriter KJ Denhert, Acclaimed for Her Inspired Live Performances, to Tour Throughout the Spring and Summer in Support of Her New Album LUCKY 7

In addition to U.S. dates, highlights include KJ's fifth consecutive year
at Italy's renowned Umbria Jazz Festival

LOS ANGELES, April 30 -- Award-winning singer-songwriter
and guitarist KJ Denhert -- known for her lusty fusion of jazz, funk, R&B,
neo-soul and folk -- will tour this spring and summer, beginning with dates
in her hometown, New York City. The itinerary kicks off with a May 3 show
at storied prohibition-era Greenwich Village venue 55 Bar, where Denhert
has held a regular slot every other Saturday night (when she's not on the
road), for a decade. Also in NYC, she'll play the New Song Festival at
Bryant Park on May 14 and 55 Bar again on the 17th before heading to the
West Coast for two weeks of club and festival dates. Northern and Southern
California highlights include Yoshi's in San Francisco (5/27), Temple Bar
in Santa Monica (6/3) and the Sonoma County's Harmony Festival in Santa
Rosa (6/6-7).

In addition to U.S. dates -- which also include engagements in
Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York state -- the
Grenadian-American Denhert will be an artist-in-residence at the world
renowned Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy for an unprecedented fifth
consecutive year, July 11-20. She and her longtime band, the NY Unit --
also featuring ace saxophonist Aaron Heick -- will play two shows daily.

Denhert's live performances are always cause for celebration, because
her earthy and spirited personality, laced with her signature sense of
humor, are as much a part of the occasion as her genre-transcending music.
Famed radio personality and smoothjazz.com founder Sandy Shore recently
wrote, "You'll be hard pressed to find a talent as cool and unique as one
Miss KJ Denhert. We're rather reluctant to label this artist, however. Even
she is challenged when describing her music ... This vocalist offers up
robust, soulful, pop jazz that truly provides an enrapturing listening
experience. Warm, rich and vibrant are words that I'd feel comfortable
using rather than forcing a fit into a specific music genre."

Those qualities shine on her new album LUCKY 7, slated for release May
27. An enhanced CD featuring twelve songs plus videos of KJ and the NY
Unit, the disc is her Motema Music debut, in association with her own
Mother Cyclone Records imprint. KJ also produced the album --
appropriately, her seventh -- and enlisted keyboardist Bennett Paster to
co-produce several tracks (they first collaborated at Umbria Jazz 2006).
LUCKY 7 was recorded and mixed by engineer/producer Ben Wisch (Marc Cohn,
Diana Krall, Patty Larkin, etc.), and highlights include: the title track,
"Little Problems," the heartbreaker "He's Not Coming Home," the three-part
"What's My Name" and KJ's unaccompanied performance of "Sad Song." The
album's one cover, an intimate take on "Over The Rainbow," is a fan
favorite at shows.

Performing Songwriter has written that, "KJ Denhert is so full of a
love for life that you hear it in her voice, her lyrics and the exuberant
beats of her songs." Hear her in concert to fully experience it.


For more information, log on to http://www.kjdenhert.com or
http://www.motema.com

5-03-2008 The 55 Bar New York, NY
5-14-2008 The New Song Festival New York, NY
at Bryant Park (5PM slot)
5-17-2008 The 55 Bar New York, NY
5-24-2008 Sonoma Jazz Plus (2PM slot) Sonoma, CA
5-25-2008 Monterey Live Monterey, CA
5-27-2008 Virgin Mega Store Union Square San Francisco, CA
5-27-2008 Yoshi's San Francisco San Francisco, CA
5-31-2008 The 55 Bar New York, NY
6-02-2008 Kuumbwa Jazz Center Santa Cruz, CA
6-03-2008 Temple Bar Santa Monica, CA
6-04-2008 Anthology San Diego
6-06-2008 Harmony Festival Santa Rosa, CA
- Sonoma County Fairgrounds
6-07-2008 Harmony Festival Santa Rosa, CA
- Sonoma County Fairgrounds
6-08-2008 Menlo Park Sunset Celebration Menlo Park, CA
6-14-2008 The 55 Bar New York, NY
6-21-2008 JVC Jazz at Le Poisson Rouge New York, NY
(formerly Village Gate)
6-28-2008 The 55 Bar New York, NY
7-11-2008 Umbria Jazz 2008 Perugia, Italy
through 7-20-2008 (2 shows daily)
7-26-2008 The 55 Bar New York, NY
8-02-2008 Dazzle Jazz Denver, CO
8-04-2008 Belly Up Aspen, CO
8-08-2008 Belleayre Music Festival Highmount, NY
- Belleayre Mountain
Ski Resort
8-09-2008 The 55 Bar New York, NY
8-13-2008 Cape Cod Jazz Festival Chatham, MA
- Wequasset Inn
8-16-2008 Knowlton Riverfest Delaware, NJ
8-17-2008 River to River Festival New York, NY
- Pier 70
8-19-2008 Cornwall on Hudson Cornwall on Hudson, NY
Bandstand Concert
8-23-2008 The 55 Bar New York, NY

Tchort

Tchort   
Artist: Tchort

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Gothic
   Rock
   



Discography:


Love Metal - Government Issue Rock N' Roll   
 Love Metal - Government Issue Rock N' Roll

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


Political Consciousness   
 Political Consciousness

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 6




 





Jose Padilha to direct 'Elite Squad'

Pastaboys Inspiration

Pastaboys Inspiration   
Artist: Pastaboys Inspiration

   Genre(s): 
House
   



Discography:


Sun Dog (MC008) Vinyl   
 Sun Dog (MC008) Vinyl

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 3




 






Costa Awards winners are announced

The winners of the 2007 Costa Book Awards have been announced in the UK.
Previously the Whitbread Awards, the Costa Book Awards honour writers in five categories: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book.
Catherine O'Flynn, born in Birmingham to Irish parents, is the winner of the First Novel Award for her book 'What Was Lost'.
Scottish writer and comic AL Kennedy has won the Novel Award for her fifth book, 'Day'.
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the winner of the Biography Award for 'Young Stalin'.
The Poetry Award has gone to Jean Sprackland for her collection 'Tilt'.
Ann Kelley has won the Children's Book Award for her book 'The Bower Bird'.
The five authors are now eligible for the 2007 Costa Book of the Year Award, which will be announced on Tuesday 22 January.

Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson

LISTEN to Rattlin' Bones and Monkey on a Wire from the queen of Australian country's new No.1 album Rattlin' Bones, made her husband Shane Nicholson.

Click on the links below to listen to their new tracks. 
Listen: Rattlin' Bones by Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson
Listen: Monkey on a wire by Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson
Watch their exclusive acoustic performance of their new track Ratlin' Bones in the Herald Sun studios.
Then, watch the interview by Mikey Cahill.