Thursday, September 02 2010

Entertainment

TV & Radio

Top Gear's The Stig. Photo PA

Stigy end

The identity of 'The Stig' was revealed yesterday

Music

Guns n? Roses frontman Axl Rose. Photo: Reuters

Fan fury as Rose shows thorny side

THOUSANDS of music fans were left reeling last night when one of the world’s most famous rockers walked off the stage after just 25 minutes.

Film & Cinema

Richard Gere, 61, dislocated his shoulder filming a fight scene with a British actor. Photo: Getty Images

Fighting spirit

Richard Gere has dislocated his shoulder filming a fight scene

Up Front

Concert organiser John Reynolds. Photo: Douglas O'Connor

Electric Picnic acts 'to perform as planned'

Organisers of the Electric Picnic moved swiftly yesterday to allay fears that a number of theatre acts scheduled to take to the stage over the weekend had been cancelled.

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Matthew Weiner, right, along with cast members, accepts Emmy award for outstanding drama series for Mad Men. Photo: PA

Mad Men honoured at Emmy Awards

The darkly intimate 1960s-era drama Mad Men and the comedy romp Modern Family were the big winners at the Emmy Awards as American life past and present proved a winning formula.

The Guns N' Roses tribute act performing on the barge in the Liffey yesterday

New Nova sound rocks the boat

Hundreds of onlookers lined the quays in Dublin yesterday as a new radio station launched with a raucous Guns N' Roses tribute band performing from a barge in the middle of the Liffey at O'Connell Bridge.

Sex appeal: Amanda Brunker places Eva the Diva in the murky underworld of London's strip
clubs to rack up stories for a TV show and notches on her bedpost. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Champagne bubbles remain fizzy for finale

In 2008 in Renards, the Dublin nightclub where Amanda Brunker once worked as a hostess, the self-styled model, TV presenter, party girl and former Miss Ireland launched Champagne Kisses, the first in a trilogy of novels charting the doings of one Eva "Da Diva" Valentine, gossip columnist, party animal and general good-time girl.

The Script's eagerly anticipated second album, Science and Faith, is released on September 10

All in The Script

The Script mean business. It's rare to meet three people who are so passionate and focused in any walk of life, let alone the notoriously fickle world of music and showbiz.