MUMBAI: The build-up to the fourth Jack Daniel's Annual Rock Awards for 2008 continues with the second Jack Daniel's - Rolling Stone TRIBUTE with VH1 concert, to be held on 5 December, 2008 at Elevate in New Delhi, to honour the legendary Jim Morrison.
The concert, featuring some of the capital's finest musicians, will celebrate the iconic singer's birthday which falls on 8 December. Singer, DJ and actor Luke Kenny, a die hard Morrison fan, will host the event and also perform a few tracks. The menu for the evening: JD, music and cake.
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MUMBAI: Kerala based Malayali rock band Avial is positioned at number 13 on US based website WorldSings.com, a music and social networking community which is organising a music competition for solo singers or bands across the globe.
The bands are being shortlisted on the basis of voting by registered members for their favourite songs. The top 20 bands will compete in the Worldsings Concert to be held in Las Vegas and the winner stands a chance to grab $1,000,000 as prize money.
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MUMBAI: Different music, tweaked programming and sobered down RJ talk marked Mumbai's FM airwaves for three days after the first terror attacks hit Mumbai.
Stranded staff, affected families and other problems were swept aside as stations rallied to offer a voice of reason to a disturbed city. While some like Radio One's programming head Malini were at the Trident in Mumbai when the attack happened, other RJs, like Mirchi's Jeeturaaj stayed put on air for a marathon session, updating listeners.
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MUMBAI: Clubbing forum 'Club Converge better known as (C2) from Kerala is gearing for the C2 Ocean Fest 2008 in partnership with Club FM and Indian Express.
C2 is a popular name among the party-goers and has over 1500 registered members. The three day festival will be held at Willingdon Island in Kochi on 5, 6 and 7 December after 9 pm.
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BANGALORE: The curtain raiser for the Kingfisher–Explocity Festival of Jazz & Blues will he held on 6 December 2008 at Bangalore with performances by blues singer Dana Gillespie, accompanied by Joachim Palden on the electric piano and Enrico Morena on the drums. The curtain raiser will be held at the Hotel Royal Orchid Lawns.
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MUMBAI: Radio Misty 94.3 fm, the First and Number one fm station of North Bengal and Sikkim partnered with Delhi Public School, Siliguri for Annual cultural extravaganza Unison 2008 on Sunday. Thousands of Students and parents danced on tunes with famous TV celebrity Hussain Kuwajerwala.
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MUMBAI: With the release of Dil Kabaddi comes to the fore the prodigious musician Sachin Gupta. At only 27 years of age, he is the in-house music producer for Tips Films and has already become a name to reckon with. Apart from having produced albums for artists such as Apache Indian and Alisha Chinoy, he sky-rocketed singer Atif Aslam's musical career by creating the runaway hit compilation Doorie. So it was no surprise that more artists such as Jal, Ahmad Jehanzedb and Adeel followed on....
MUMBAI: Music composer Vishal Dadlani will soon file a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) against television news channels that showed the movements of the armed forces live to the terrorists on national television for three days during the attacks.
"It is undoubtedly known that channels did a good job of keeping the viewers clued in with the latest happenings but there has to be some code of conduct when it comes to military or anti-terrorist operations," believes Dadlani.
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