Mastifal & other: July 2008

Robbie Williams invites Lily Allen to hunt UFOs

Robbie Williams - who has a huge interest in aliens - has invited singer Lily Allen to go UFO hunting with him in Los Angeles.The singer has reportedly told friends he "sees a lot of himself" in Lily and wants to spend an evening with her when she is in Los Angeles, where he lives.Robbie hopes to take the 23-year-old singer - who has recently been criticised for her drunken antics - to his favourite restaurant STK before heading for a night of star gazing for spaceships.A friend of Robbie, 34, told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "Robbie loves Los Angeles but the one thing he does miss is the British sense of humours and impudence, so Lily's attitude appeals to him."He thought it would be nice to meet up while she's recording her album in town and got his people to call Lily's people to invite her for dinner at his favourite restaurant."Rob likes to be a big brother figure to celebrities who seem to find themselves in the same position he has been - young and vulnerable and in the glare of the media.

"And he feels that taking an interest in UFOs and the unknown is a good way of putting things in perspective, hence asking Lily to join him."Earlier this week, it was revealed Robbie has taken up camping in the hope of seeing an alien.A source close to the star said: "Robbie has been taking pals out to the woods for long weekends. He wants to live like a cowboy in a Western. He also has a fascination with UFOs and thinks he has more chance of seeing one away from Los Angeles' bright lights."Earlier this year, it was claimed Robbie was planning to splash out

Coldplay accused of copying 'Violet Hill' melody

An American indie band have implied that Coldplay knowingly copied one of their melodies for recent single 'Violet Hill'.

Posting their claims in a Youtube clip, Brooklyn group Creaky Boards alledge that the melody in Chris Martin and co.'s track sounds very similar to one of their songs - and that the Coldplay frontman may have even seen them play live last year.

Including footage of the band play at the 2007 CMJ festival in New York, a caption posted by songwriter Andrew Hoepfner reads: "We were flattered when we thought we saw Chris Martin in the crowd that night. He seemed pretty into it. Maybe too into it."

He then adds: "The crazy thing is that my song is actually called 'The Songs I Didn't Write'."

The clip compares sections of both songs to allow viewers to make up their minds.

Hoepfner then concludes the video with a caption, saying: "Anyway, I wish Coldplay the best of luck. If they ever want to collaborate, I've got some microphones we could use in my bedroom. I'm gonna get ready to play a show now. I hope the soundguy remembers to pass the tip jar..."

You can watch the full clip below.

Coldplay have yet to respond to the claims.

Meanwhile, the band are set to play a free gig at Brixton Academy tonight (June 16) - see NME.COM for a live report later today.

Wolfgang Voigt

Artist: Wolfgang Voigt

   Genre(s):
Techno

Discography:

Diskoschleifen 2000

Year: 2000
Tracks: 5

20 Minuten Gas Im November / 20' To 2000.November

Year: 1999
Tracks: 2

Few artists potty claim to be as prolific as Wolfgang Voigt, an creative person from Cologne, Germany, wHO has recorded diverse styles of techno under more names than one can buoy ideate. Beginning with the initial success of his Love Inc. caterpillar tread, "Enchantment Atlantic Excess," Voigt has since eclipsed all of his gifted peers by cathartic records at a unrelenting pace. Rather than flooding the techno community with his nonstop releases -- and partially in assistance to the electric potential hearer -- he releases his records under different name calling, making it look as though the burgeoning Cologne scene is a great deal bigger than it really is. Yet no matter how impressive Voigt's production, his importance as an advanced techno producer in the late '90s cannot be unnoted, particularly his experimental Studio 1 records.

Before Voigt became known as Mike Ink, Studio 1, Gas, or M:I:5, he launched fellow Cologne artist JÃ¶rg Burger and his Trance Atlantic label in 1991 spell the couple was living in Belgium, with the Love Inc. record "Spell Atlantic Excess" as the low gear acquittance. This particular record reflected the metre washed-out by the couple in England during the late-'80s acid house explosion, demur the two invest their have twist on the acid sound for "Spell Atlantic Excess." This record went on to become a European reach, finally beingness licensed by multiple labels, including Achim Szepanski's powerful Force Inc label, which gave Voigt the reach he required to extend his ferment remote of Cologne. After a few more releases as Love Inc., including the New Jack City and R.E.S.P.E.C.T. EPs, he released a full-length Love Inc. album, Life's a Gas.

Even so during the old age following the initial launch of the Trance Atlantic label, Voigt was too recording tracks under other names such as Mike Ink and had stirred to Germany, where he collaborated with Burger, Ingmar Koch, and Cem Oral as the Brotherhood of Structure. As Mike Ink, Voigt recorded tracks for a startling telephone number of modest German labels passim the nineties -- Trance Atlantic, Structure, Mono Tone, DJungle Fever, New Transatlantic, Profan, Eat Raw, Kreisel, and Auftrieb, along with bigger labels such as Warp, Harvest, and Force Inc. Of these Ink recordings, his collaboration with Burger as Burger/Ink, Las Vegas, would finally be licensed to Matador in the U.S., helping counterpane his music to a progressively mainstream American audience.

When he wasn't producing his Mike Ink tracks, Voigt was virtually likely grueling at ferment on one of his many additional side projects. For the second acquittance on the seminal Cologne label Structure, he appeared as M:I:5 with the Structuralism EP, a pretence he would continue to search on Profan, the impressive label he began in 1993 to showcase his ferment. Then after putt out some records as both Love Inc. and Mike Ink on Force Inc., he began cathartic full-length data-based listening albums as Gas for the label. By the end of the nineties, his side projects spiraled ostensibly out of control, as even the most truehearted Voigt fans struggled to keep up with his increasing telephone number of guises, including Strass, Freiland, and Mint.

Following the success of his Profan label, Voigt went ahead in 1995 and began what would become a revolutionary label in the techno residential area: Studio 1. The ten-spot records released here refined the sound of techno to only if its to the highest degree essential components. Next Voigt began the Freiland label to showcase his more abrasive substantial, along with Auftrieb, even so another label for unprocessed sounds. Once Delirium -- the fabled Cologne record store at the center of the city's techno movement since the early '90s -- renamed itself Kompakt in 1998 and brought Voigt's many labels under its wings, the busy creative person attempted unitary last prolific exploit for the terminal twelvemonth of the millennium: he would help impel a tag called Kreisal that aimed to departure a 7" record every week during 1999. After the success of this amazing effort, it became net that though the name Wolfgang Voigt mightiness not be as well known as his many pseudonyms, his contributions to the techno biotic community during its 1990s increase forge were second to none.

Downlord

Artist: Downlord

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Random Dictionary of the Damned

Year: 2007
Tracks: 15

Adam Sheridan

Mickey Har

Artist: Mickey Har

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Airto/Flora Purim / Dafos

Year:
Tracks: 8

Reverend And The Makers triumph at Glastonbury

Reverend And The Makers were greeted by a huge crowd at Glastonbury tonight (June 27) - despite the muddy conditions around the John Peel Stage.

Taking the stage wearing a hoodie and jeans, a mohawked John McClure and his band had the crowd chanting from the opening note.

Starting the set with 'Heavyweight Champion Of The World', despite the sound being quiet, McClure bounced around onstage throughout the gig.

Attracting a big crowd, even though the tent space was extremely muddy, the band and their enigmatic frontman proved as entertaining as ever.

Jogging on the spot before launching into 'The State Of Things', McClure whipped the crowd into a sing-along frenzy.

Darting from the stage to the front of crowd throughout the set, McClure and his band finished with 'He Said He Loved Me', which saw the band and crowd rocking out through the elongated breakdown.

Reverend And The Makers played:

'Heavyweight Champion Of The World'
'Bandits'
'What The Milkman Saw'
'Silence Is Talking'
'The State Of Things'
'18-30'
'The Machine'
'He Said He Loved Me'

Keep up with all the action from Glastonbury this weekend (June 27-29) as it happens on NME.COM. For news, pictures and blogs keep checking NME.COM's Glastonbury Festival page. Plus make sure you get next week's issue of NME on UK newsstands from July 2 for the ultimate Glastonbury review.

Arkenstone, David

Artist: Arkenstone, David

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Visionary - The Ultimate Narada Collection (cd2)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 13

Visionary - The Ultimate Narada Collection (cd1)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 12

Frontier

Year: 2000
Tracks: 18

Kate Middleton Turns Down Queen's Ascot Offer

Amy Winehouse To Play Gig With Paramedics On Standby

Amy Winehouse is reportedly determined to perform at Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday Concert and Glastonbury this summer, despite her hospitalisation for emphysema.

The ailing singer's father Mitch has spoken of his fears for his daughter after tests revealed that she was in the early stages of the lung disease.

He told a UK newspaper, "With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up.

“There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70 percent lung capacity."

He added, "The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her."

Despite her precarious condition, Amy still intends to perform for Mandela at Friday's gig in London's Hyde Park – but with a few changes to her back-stage requirements.

Here usual rider of alcopops and vodka, will be replaced with a private hospital suite complete with massage bed and paramedics, according to the Daily Mail.