musicMagpie

musicMagpie, the online entertainment purchaser and retailer, has secured investment from LDC, the mid-market equity specialist, rumoured to be worth £10m.

Launched in 2007 by Steve Oliver and Walter Gleeson, musicMagpie, purchases CDS, DVDs and games directly from customers to resell on its website.The website has grown to become the largest operator of its kind in Europe, employing more than 500 people and serving customers in over 80 countries worldwide.
Oliver says the investment will be used to fund “the next phase of our international expansion”, which “has already begun with the launch of our German website, which is already showing some very encouraging results.”
With LDC’s support, musicMagpie also plans to advance its online purchasing and sales capabilities overseas, and build on its existing partnerships with global industry players to launch a series of consumer marketing campaigns in Europe, as it sets out on its international expansion programme.
musicMagpie has appointed Allan Leighton as non-executive chairman. Leighton formerly experience, held non-executive chairmanships at Asda unsecured loans  (Walmart), the Royal Mail and Lastminute.com.
Oliver continued: “With the backing of LDC, an investor renowned for developing international opportunities for its portfolio businesses, and with the contribution to the team by Allan Leighton, we hope to further develop the musicMagpie.co.uk brand and our strong trading performance in the bad credit loans UK, in other countries.”

GlobalGathering

GlobalGathering - the UK’s cutting edge and forward thinking electronic music festival has announced further details of their 2011 event, which will take place at Long Marston Airfield in Stratford-Upon-Avon on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th July.

Following their first ever phenomenal live appearance at Radio1's Big Weekend and their forthcoming Glastonbury show, Nero will be bringing a bigger and better full Live show to the GlobalGathering crowd for the very first time.  London dubstep bad credit loans quartet Modestep have also been added to this year’s line-up and will be hosting their live show at the Wax:On Arena on the Friday

Taking to the Main Stage on Friday will be multi-million selling drum and bass luminaries Pendulum, with support from legendary Swedish House Mafia DJ Steve Angello. British rapper Professor Green will also take to the stage, plus vocal genius Beardyman, who’ll start the weekend as it means to go on.

Following his triumphant appearance at GlobalGathering 2010, home-grown rap superstar and double-Brit winner Tinie Tempah takes charge of the Main Stage on Saturday, returning for the second year running with his thrilling torrent of drums and rave synthesizers. The Main Stage headliner will be supported by a host of established and fresh new acts  unsecured loans including Axwell, Labrinth (Live), Dirty South, Alex Metric and Yasmin (Live).

For the full line-up and details of who will be taking to the Global, Metropolis, Above & Beyond Presents Group Therapy, Wax:On, Union, Carl Cox Revolutions, Godskitchen, Toolroom Knights, Hospitality, Bedrock and Electric Arenas go to www.globalgathering.com

Goldman Sachs fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission is accusing Goldman Sachs of “[creating] and [selling] a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail,” according to The New York Times. The investment in question, Abacus 2007-AC1, was the brainchild of hedge-funder John A. Paulson. The Times reports: “Goldman let Mr. Paulson select mortgage bonds that he wanted to bet against—the ones he believed were most likely to lose value—and packaged those bonds into Abacus 2007-AC1, according to the S.E.C. complaint. Goldman then sold the Abacus deal to unsecured loans investors like foreign banks, pension funds, insurance companies and other hedge funds.”Goldman is denying any wrongdoing. A statement to the paper noted that the investments “were popular with many investors prior to the financial crisis because they gave investors the ability to work with banks to design tailored securities which met their particular criteria.” However, according to charges from Robert Khuzami, director of the Division of Enforcement at the S.E.C., “Goldman wrongly permitted a client that was betting against the mortgage bad credit loans market to heavily influence which mortgage securities to include in an investment portfolio, while telling other investors that the securities were selected by an independent, objective third party.” Investors—maybe make that “former investors”—now appear to be betting against Goldman: The Wall Street Journal reports that the bank’s stock has already dropped 12 percent.

Fiona Apple

It’s been long enough since Fiona Apple’s second (and to date second-to-last) album was released in 1999 that there are probably some more recent fans of hers who were actually born after its release. Those fans could probably be forgiven, then, for balking at the recently announced title of Fiona’s upcoming fourth studio album—which, to be fair, is considerably unwieldy and perplexing. It is as follows:

The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do.

Tough one, sure. (For the record, Wikipedia defines an “idler wheel” as “a system used to transmit the rotation of the main shaft of a motor to another unsecured loans rotating device, for example the platter of a record-reproducing turntable or the crankshaft-to-camshaft gear train of an automobile,” if that helps.) But really, this is child’s play compared to that 1999 album:

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he’ll win the whole thing ‘fore he enters the ring
There’s no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won’t matter, cause you’ll know that you’re right

No, those weren’t the lyrics to a song on the album—we bad credit loans don’t think so anyway, it’s been a while—that was actually the whole album title. By contrast, the 23-word new one might as well be Take Care or 21. Plus, it even has a singular central noun to make it easy to refer to in shorthand. “Hey, you guys got that Idler Wheel in stock yet?” Much less cumbersome and weird than “Hey, you guys got that When the Pawn…?”
C’mon, Fiona, you used to be challenging. Quit lobbing us these softballs.

Leeds and Reading line up

The hotly-anticipated line-up for this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals was announced this evening – with Foo Fighters, Kasabian and The Cure revealed as the headliners of the two-site festival.
Other notable inclusions to the bill include the newly reformed At The Drive-In, who announced they were playing earlier today (see below), Florence and The Machine, The Maccabees, The Black Keys, The Vaccines and The Horrors. unsecured loans
Reading and Leeds will take place across the August Bank Holiday weekend (24th-26th) and tickets went on sale tonight to coincide with the announcement of the line-up. Check out the links below for ticket details for each of the sites:

As mentioned above, newly reformed post-hardcore legends At The Drive-In announced their inclusion on the bad credit loans Reading and Leeds line-up on Twitter a full 3 hours before the ‘big’ announcement:

Freight train coming !!!… At The Drive In will be performing atReading / Leeds Festivals August 25-26
— At The Drive-In (@AtTheDriveIn) March 12, 2012

What do you think of the line-up? Excited or underwhelmed? Let us know in the comments below…

Latitude annual festival

The line-up for the seventh edition of Latitude Festival, held at Henham Park Estate, Suffolk, from 12 to 15 July 2012, has been announced.

Theatre highlights in this year's programme, which was announced during an event at the Century Club last night, include performances by the BAC, Lyric Hammersmith, Globe Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, C!rca and HighTide.

Sadler's Wells return to the Waterfront Stage, which will be shared with acclaimed concert pianist Lang Lang who has also been named as exclusive special guest.

Performances in the theatre arena include companies such as Australian circus performers C!rca, the Lyric Hammersmith returning with a series of site specific pieces, Battersea Arts Centre and documentary-theatre company Look Left Look Right, who will premiere their Latitude commission of four new musicals.

Political activist and alternative comedian Mark Thomas will also preview his new play about his father, Bravo Figura at Latitude before transferring it to the Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Fringe.

Other high-profile productions include Alice By Heart, a new rock-musical take on Alice in Wonderland from Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, the writers of Spring Awakening. The show is brought to Latitude as part of the National Theatre's Connections, the theatre's annual, national festival of new writing and young theatre making.

Away from the Theatre Arena, Theatre Delicatessen premiere their new production of Henry V in The Outdoor Theatre, which will also play host to Globe Education at Shakespeare’s bad credit loans Globe.

HighTide Festival Theatre will also showcase their major new work on local folklore created especially for Latitude, Eisteddfod, whilst the award-winning Pentabus Theatre will present specially created work The Diggers Band.

Elsewhere on the site comedy headliners include Whatsonstage.com Award-winning comedian and creator of Matilda the Muscical Tim Minchin whilst the music stages are headlined by Bon Iver, Elbow and Paul Weller.

Lionel Richie gives advice to Jesse Campbell

Lionel Richie is seen offering advice to The Voice contestant Jesse Campbell in a new preview for the NBC singing competition. 

The 'Hello' singer will serve as a guest mentor for Christina Aguilera's team on the second season of The Voice, which airs Monday nights on NBC. 

A new preview clip released by NBC shows Richie and Aguilera listening to Campbell performing Alicia Keys's 'If I Ain't Got You' as he prepares for the battle rounds. 

Watch Lionel Richie on The Voice below: 




Richie previously said that he has known Aguilera "for a while" because she is friends with his daughter Nicole Richie, and also knows fellow coach Blake Shelton because he featured on Richie's new album Tuskegee. 

An earlier preview released by NBC shows unsecured loans that Campbell is paired against Anthony Evans in his battle round, with both singers performing 'If I Ain't Got You' in a bid to get through to the next round. 

Single dad Campbell had impressed all four coaches in his blind bad credit loans audition, opting to join Team Christina, while Evans became a member of Team Christina following his performance of 'What's Going On'. 

Cher Llyod USA

Cher Lloyd is gearing up to take the US by storm, transporting her credible, unsecured loans  yet fearless approach to pop music to the stages of Austin, TX, performing at Perez Hilton's annual SXSW showcase, Nylon Magazine/Dub Frequency event as well as Idolator's party.

Now she is hitting the shores of the US with her new single "Want U Back" set to reach the US airwaves in April following her live performance debut of the song at SXSW.

"I am so excited about coming over to the states and working with L.A Reid," said Cher. "L.A is a musical genius and has been such a great supporter of me. Now I just cannot wait to get on that stage and for everyone to hear my music."

"I had the pleasure of meeting Cher Lloyd backstage bad credit loans at The X Factor USA," commented L.A. Reid. "The moment she walked in the room I could just feel the presence of someone truly special. I believe in her extraordinary talent and will stand by her as we climb to the top of the US music charts."

Last year, Perez Hilton proclaimed, "Cher Lloyd is on the fast track for SUPERSTARDOM!" and now he has announced Cher as part of his annual SXSW event line-up at the Austin Music Hall on Saturday, March 17th. Fans can also catch her at Idolator's event on Thursday, March 15th and the Nylon magazine/DFM at the W Hotel party Friday, March 16th.

lil wayne - rollingstone

n the new issue of Rolling Stone — on stands and online in the digital archives on January 21st (subscription required) — Lil Wayne opens up for the first time about his time in prison. (See video from his cover shoot below.) During his eight month stint in Building C-76, cell 23 at Rikers Island, Weezy worked as an SPA (suicide prevention aide), listened to a lot of music on the radio (oldies and Hot 97) and played countless games of Uno with his cellmates in the Protective Custody division.

"I'd bust a nigga's ass at Uno," he told writer Josh Eells. "We gamble for phone unsecured loans time. I'd take nigga's commissary: Lemme get them cookies, lemme get them chips, get that soup."

Lil Wayne: A History in Photos

Eventually his cellmates stopped inviting him to games. "They'd be like, 'Oh, we thought you were asleep,'" Wayne says. "Like you can't look inside my cell and see that I'm right there! We ain't got no doors!"

Lil Wayne Goes to Jail: Rolling Stone's February 2010 Cover Story 

Other highlights from the piece:

- When Wayne sat court-side at a recent Miami Heat/New Orleans Hornets game he was upset that Lebron James and Dwyane Wade never came over to talk to him. "Them niggas never speak to a nigga," he says. "They don't chuck me the deuce or nothing. Nigga spent all that money on them fucking tickets ... Come holla at me. We sit right by them little bitch-ass niggas. At least come ask me why I'm not rooting for you."

Life on Planet Wayne: Rolling Stone's 2009 Lil Wayne Cover Story

- In prison he read biographies of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Joan Jett, Vince Lombardi and Anthony Kiedis. "[Kiedis'] Scar Tissue was really good," he says. "I also read the Bible for the first time. It was deep! I liked the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up being that. Like he'd be dissing Jesus, and then he ends up being a saint. That was cool."

Lil Wayne's 2009 Rolling Stone Cover Shoot

- He spent his final month in jail in solitary after he was bad credit loans caught with an iPod charger in his cell. It could have been worse: He also had a watch with an MP3 player on it, but another inmate took the rap. "He was a solid nigga," says Wayne. "Shout-out to Charles...Solitary was the worst. No TV. No radio. No commissary. Basically you're in there 23 hours a day." The only upside was he had a window where he could watch cars go by. "I used to sit at that motherfucker all day," he says.