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I really like Love Is Noise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTJvbGVXwMI

Yay, do I win a prize :D

Jose for Chelsea. Again?

I wonder how that low76 or whatever his name was is doing these days.

I have no direction either mr cool. I'd love to do some sort of charity/volunteering work but have no idea where to start - I'll check out the sites recommended above I guess. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

If we needed a tiny bit more confirmation of that 'officially leaked album' thread being started by a moron, then I think we just found it :P

Table Talk: Danny McNamara Adam Moss 17/ 4/2008 HE MAY be a Yorkshireman but Danny McNamara, singer with chart-topping rock band Embrace, has done more than anyone to champion the cause of Manchester's music scene in the last year. "I love Manchester and the music scene here is like nowhere else in the country," he says as we sit in the lofty environs of The Modern restaurant, at the top of the huge designer greenhouse that is Urbis, for a bit of posh nosh. Danny opts for sorrel, watercress and spinach soup to start while I plumped for a plate of juicy hand-dived scallops. The food looks amazing and, indeed, delivers on the taste front also. Danny is full of surprises too. We all know he's been bringing new Manchester rock and pop bands to the attention of the London-centric music business by putting them on at his Aftershow events at Moho Live in the Northern Quarter. But he's writing songs again, for the first time in two years. And he's also writing a novel, which he hopes to have published once it's finished. Danny McNamara is a man revitalised. And spending so much time in the creative hub that is Manchester has much to do with the rebirth of his own creativity. "In the last few weeks me and the band have been slowly starting to write new songs again. We've had a two-year break, which we needed, but we feel ready to start again now. "We are putting together material for a new album and it will be the best one we have ever done - it has to be otherwise we won't release it," Danny tells me as he starts to tuck into a main course of deliciously rare lamb rib. "I've been influenced by much of the music I've been hearing from bands coming through The Aftershow," he tells me. "Some of the bands we have had on have been amazing so it's hard not to be inspired by what they do." So successful has The Aftershow been that Danny is on the verge of doubling the dosage of the hugely-popular unsigned bands night from monthly to bi-monthly. I don't know how he finds the time to write his own material, too, but he does. "I've written a new song in the last two weeks called Della - its about a girl. I really like it. It's very different to the Embrace stuff we've done in the past," he says. But it's his new novel which really gets the singer excited. "I've been writing about 6,000 words a day and I'm about 250,000 words into the book so far. "It's about a man who believes everything he reads, sees and hears. He has been had over by everybody but every day he gets up and feels a new sense of hope. It's not based on me or anyone else I know. It's just something I've had inside my head for a while now," he explains. "It feels more natural writing books than being in a band, to be honest. I hope when its finished I can get it published. I'd love to be a writer alongside my music career." Lofty ambitions revealed in Manchester's loftiest restaurant. Let's hope the new Embrace album reaches such dizzy heights. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/food_and_drink/s/1045699_table_talk_danny_mcnamara

Hehe nice one, she can set fire to me any day can Miss Granger.

I think the point Bart was making was that it is better to wait until the album is released to hear the songs, so that there is something to look forward to, instead of listening to half of it before it is released, right? I don't know lol.

What are these listening sessions like? Is everyone silent for the duration of the album? Do you get shouted at for talking? Do they provide 'light refreshments'? Do they play it really loud, or do people talking get in the way of some parts?

In that case Aleja, you're next ;) Stop it, stop it stop it, naughty boy. Right, I'm definitely off to bed now. "Get thee to a nunnery" - that's Shakespeare that - I is well cultured and well-read and not naughty at all. Honest. Is Shakespeare a turn on? Quoting him I mean, not Willy Shaker himself, unless you like his type of course. Right then - which one of you fancies a hufflepuff up the ol' dumbledore ;)

All they have is drawn from memory, I've got you and tomorrow.

I meant to say 'hot' as well as 'cute' but didn't wanna go over the top or be seen as kissing too much arse (which in this case aint such a bad thing!) :P Is that pervy enough for you ;) I should go to bed before I say something that may cause this forum to virtually explode!

Thanks girls and fellas. Perv Power :D That sounds so wrong, hehe. Ohh is that you HotPlay007! You're cute :P

Pretty, pretty please with sugar on top.

Emma Watson was in my dream last night. Can I join the Perv Unit?

What follows is extremely cheesy: I've only been into music properly since 2005. This is the first album that I have really looked forward to by a a band that I really love. I can't wait to listen to it all the way through the very first time and for it to be the soundtrack to where I am in my life at the moment. When I heard Viva La Vida for the first time I literally had tears in my eyes - no song has EVER had that impact on me on first listen. Something about the reviews, the parts of the album I've heard so far and the themes that this album covers tells me that this may well be the first album to really "change my life". That doesn't answer the question, not at all. I guess that can only really be answered in a few years time. And even then, it's all a matter of opinion.

Done :) Good luck!

I think Chris would be most comfortable answering questions about The Flaming Lips or another band he likes :P

An MP has called for an inquiry into council monitoring of a seven-year-old girl who may have starved to death. Khyra died in hospital on Saturday and police are investigating the theory she died because of starvation. Claims that the youngster had been removed from school by her mother 10 weeks ago. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, in Birmingham on Thursday, said she was shocked by the case and supported Mr Mahmood's inquiry call. "What I think is important is we, as the local MP has called for, look very carefully at the background of the case before coming to any immediate conclusions. "But it's a tragedy and I feel desperately sorry for those who knew the young girl," she said. Parents dropping children off at Grove School, Handsworth, where Khyra was a pupil, spoke of their shock at her death. Renata Palczewska, 26, said: "The teacher, when she told me, was almost in tears. She was very upset. She knew the girl. "The school gave us a letter but they couldn't give us much information. "I can't believe this could happen. You would expect someone to notice." "Police are conducting inquiries and a man aged 29 and a woman aged 33 have been charged with neglect and appeared before Birmingham magistrates on 19 May. "They have been remanded to appear again on 28 May. A Birmingham City Council spokesman said: "We are deeply saddened by the death of this child and our sympathies go to the child's family and friends at this difficult time.

The news. Apparently Man Utd won some cup. Mothers of the Disappeared, U2.

We can't really make a decent judgement until we've heard the whole album - I'm sure there will be bits of Oldplay on there somewhere :)

Can someone tell me what was wrong with the Violet Hill sheets on Music Notes please?! I'd like to know if there's any point in buying it.

Wow Ben Jones, he's great, how cool of you to post on here :D

Come on Malta - Morena es muy caliente.