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Friday, 05 December, 2008

PLANETNOTION TELEVISION!

CAMERA-FOLK AND FILM EDITORS WANTED!

Planet Notion is looking for guys and dolls to film and edit features for its new TV channel, PNTV. Accompanying Notion to artist interviews, gigs, fashion shows, festivals and international events, you will be skilled, passionate and full of ideas about how to produce shit-hot video content. Camera-folk will be experienced and ideally have their own equipment, or at least access to equipment, while editors must be able to turn projects around quickly, and with stylistic flare. If you can both film and edit content, we would especially like to hear from you! These casual, unpaid positions would be ideal for those looking to develop their showreels, and to get the chance to travel, film major artists and top events.

Please email lucy(at)musichqmedia
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Sebastian Krüger

Sebastian Krüger

Sebastian Krüger was born on June 30, 1963, in Hameln. After finishing school in 1982, he studied free painting at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Brunswick. Since 1986, the artist has been working as a self-employed caricaturist, illustrator and painter. In 1989, the first publications of his works were issued with more to follow. Krüger Art Calendars have been available since 1992. He has created cover pages for magazines such as Stern, Der Spiegel, Capital, Musik-Express/Sounds, Kowalski, Petra, L’Espresso, and has contributed featured art to Playboy and Penthouse. Furthermore, Krüger has designed covers for LPs and CDs. His works on the Rolling Stones and other stars were exhibited in Germany and abroad. Krüger has had a very special personal friendship with the Rolling Stones for many years. The artist lives near Hanover. WWW.SEBASTIANKRUGER.COM

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Misstress Barbara

Misstress Barbara

In 1996, Italian born Misstress Barbara got her first booking and has gone on to play across all the major cities from North and South America to Europe, Asia and Australia alongside respected artists such as Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Bjork, Thievery Corporation and Carl Cox. With a sense of maturity dawning, Misstress Barbara is the first to admit that her sound has shifted. The following is Barbara's take on her music in her own words. There is a difference between business and art.Unfortunately we call businesses most thingsthat should be artistic, like for example the moviebusiness or the music business. When things get tothis point we often forget their essence and I thinkit's very sad. When a DJ chooses to play a particularstyle of music it usually means that it's the style theDJ feels the most. Even though I'm sure that there are a bunch of people who started being DJs just because they think it's cool without ever even having any passion for music whatsoever, I think that usually the key behind the success of a DJ is their passion and honesty, because by playing what the DJ really likes the most, the DJ becomes influential and then the essential happens: the DJ becomes the means of connection between the music and the crowd. It's how passionately the DJ plays you the music that means the crowd ends up liking it too. How many times have I heard from people during my so very hard killer techno sets, "I never liked techno but you like it so much yourself that when one watches you play it's impossible not to want to dance!" Those comments I've had have always been very touching for me as well as a big source of motivation for playing such an unpopular style of music so very difficult for the masses to understand, but I've always done it because I truly liked it and didn't care if it was not going to bring me popularity. Funnily enough though, in my own style with my very unpopular hard music I developed a trademark: the most Relentless Hard Techno Queen. With my honesty and passion for the music I liked I created for myself a very comfortable place and I was loved and recognised for what I was doing. One of the oldest and most world famous trademarks of the world for its particular and recognisable taste is Coca-Cola. When you buy Coca-Cola, you want Coca-Cola, nothing else! I believe that people who buy tickets to hear Misstress Barbara also want the same thing that they've always known and recognised me for, and I can understand that. But one day, about a year and a half ago, I didn't feel as passionate for this hard techno sound anymore and I started feeling really worried, thinking, "oh no, am I going to become like all those boring DJs who don't even seem to enjoy what they do?" I had two choices: becoming an unexcited and unexciting DJ who, only to save their "business", stays true to their trademark and keeps playing the same old stuff, without any passion to it whatsoever and who would eventually end up disappointing people anyway because at some point they wouldn't find in me the same excitement as before. Or becoming exciting and excited again as my excitement when playing what I really, really like is strong enough to influence even my 94 year old grandmother and make her want to dance, just like it's always been about for me since I first fell in love with techno. Anyone can viciously think that I change just to follow fashion and to be like everyone else. But even with all the malicious thoughts and the critics, being honest as I am and never having played music just for its popularity otherwise I would have probably been a trance DJ. I chose option two, even with the risk of disappointing all my fans, because I think that music is not a business but it's an art, and that you should follow your heart and not the money that popularity brings you. You should also always remember the essence behind things and for me it has always been and always will be the fun and the pleasure of playing the music I really like, no matter what risks I run. And I truly know that whoever is open minded enough to give me a chance, will love it and will dance! MISSTRESS BARBARA'S NEW MIX ALBUM 'COME WITH ME' IS AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH CIVILISED WORLD www.iturnem.com www.misstressbarbara.com

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Adam Bartlett

Adam Bartlett is a graphic artist who lives and works in London. Having completed a degree in textiles specialising in print at Manchester he then went onto work freelance within fashion and home furnishings before pursuing a career in illustration and graphics. In the last five years he has produced work for a varied array of clients including BMG Records, Bacardi Martini, Actionaid, Digital Vision, Mixmag and is currently producing images for an advertising agency. "As well as the commercial work, I am also pushing my own self-initiated projects, which includes Uncle Meat, Droguez and Cold. I like to use a combination of pen, pencil and Mac to get the look and feel I want from my initial ideas." His most recent work will be shown at the One Hand exhibition at the La Viande gallery from May 23rd to 29th 2006. What are you currently working on and what are your plans for the rest of 2006? Right now, I'm producing stuff for galleries, my own t-shirts, a new website and some commercial work in advertising. I would love to develop some of my stuff into toys later this year but that’s a way off. Are there any musical artists/bands you are a fan of and would love to work with? The Flaming Lips. But really if I like the music that's enough - it could be anything from death metal to electro. Is there anything you collect obsessively? What's your favourite thing you have collected? I used to collect my empty Thunderbird bottles and particularly cherished the red label variety. Been collecting records for a long time now, so much good music. Do you have any favourite projects you've worked on/clients you have worked for? Each project started is my favourite until I start a new one and then that’s my favourite! Who do you see as your contemporaries and who do you rate? Flying Fortress, Jon Burgerman, Sam Green. Ooh, there's a few but these folks are rocking it right now. The Teddy Troops are well cool and Burgerman has stuff coming soon too, the whole graphics thing is massive and there is beautiful inspirational work everywhere. www.coldkrush.com

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Silvia

Silvia Prada (born in 1969), is an artist and illustrator and lives and works in Barcelona. Her work incorporates a strong ideology of movement within a broad range of cutting-edge contemporary pop culture including fashion, design, art and illustration. Following her Fine Arts degree from the University of Salamanca in 1993, Silvia continued her postgraduate studies in Visual Communication in Kassel, Germany. After attending various workshops led by artists like Juan Munoz, Laurence Weiner and Richard Deacon, she is selected for the 1994 Gallery circuit with Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid). In 1999, she contributed to various Spanish magazines, worked as interior designer for Zara and Mango and decided to go back to the publishing world where she collaborated with Colette on an exhibition project for Self-Service magazine. She dedicated 2001 to her Masters studies at the Elisava Design School of of the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). She has collaborated as an independent illustrator for magazines such as The Face and Dazed and Confused. She has also showcased work at Barcelona’s Alternative Fashion Week Celebration. What are you currently working on and what are your plans for the rest of 2006? This year, I'm presenting my new book, 'The Silvia Prada Art Book' Are there any musical artists/bands you are a fan of and would love to work with? I love Annie and her 'Anniemal' album. Is there anything you collect obsessively? What's your favourite thing you’ve collected? I collect all the Barbra Streisand stuff! Vinyl, CDs, photos... everything! Do you have any favourite projects you've worked on/or clients you’ve worked with? Yes, I used to work with Carlos Magazine, it's my favourite magazine, produced for Virgin Atlantic. Who do you see as your contemporaries and who do you rate? Ryan McGuinness, Brian McGee, Julie Verhoeven... not prejudiced artists.

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Paul Oakenfold

Paul Oakenfold has long been one of the most important - if not the most important - name in modern club culture. People who don't know that much about DJ culture or the music itself are familiar with Oakenfold's name and what he represents. Of course, many people who think they're unfamiliar with Oakenfold's music actually may have heard it often, thanks to appearances globally on the radio and in TV commercials. Matt Darey: Among other accolades, 'Bunkka' was the recipient of the Best Album award at the USA Dancestar Awards in 2003. The first track from your album 'Faster Kill' has gone straight in at number one in the Cool Cuts and DMC Buzz Chart. Is that kind of success important to you or is it all about artistic integrity? Paul Oakenfold: It's always nice when something you've worked on sees a lot of success but what's always been most important for me is that I’m proud of the material and I feel that I've done the best job that I can with it. That's what you get to take home with you because after that it's really not in your control how people will respond to it. MD: Back in the day you did A&R for London's Champion Records, signing among others Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince and Salt n' Pepa. When you hear someone who's going to be huge, can you tell? PO: I don't know if I can necessarily tell that an artist is going to be huge but there are certain characteristics that give me a good sense of whether they have the potential to be huge such as their drive, determination, the way people respond to them and of course, if they really have the talent to make it to the top. MD: It's said that you, Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Ian St Paul were responsible for the birth of the modern club scene, by founding the "Balearic house" sound in this country following spending summers in Ibiza. Are you proud of that? Have there been any other revolutions in contemporary music of that size? Do you think there ever will be again? PO: I’m honoured that people feel I've contributed to such a great era for dance music. I don't know if I would consider it to be a revolution but rather the right time to give the scene something new. I think it's essential that music re-invents itself over time. When you find yourself opening new doors as an artist, there's a strong sense of gratification that goes along with that. MD: What was Ibiza like back when it all started? Do you miss those days? What are your fondest memories from those times? PO: I think the island has become more commercial over the years but that's not a bad thing in my eyes. It shows that people are hearing good things about it and they want to travel there and discover it for themselves. It still has a great vibe, exciting clubs and amazing sunsets and that will never get old. MD: Along with studio partner Steve Osbourne you produced and remixed major artists including U2, Simply Red, Happy Mondays, New Order, the Cure, Massive Attack, The Rolling Stones, Stone Roses and Snoop Doggy Dogg. That's some list. Which was the best buzz? PO: They were all great for very different reasons. I love the experience of learning from other artists and seeing how they work. For me, working with U2 is always special because I have such a strong liking for their music. I find it very inspirational. MD: You're allegedly the highest paid DJ in the world. Can you tell us the most you ever got paid for one gig? PO: A cool million dollars for a two hour set - I'm thinking about raising my fee this year... know of any offers... it'’s all gone a bit quiet. Do you believe me? MD: How do you spoil yourself with all that cash? PO: Aston Martins, private jets, hotel parties, the whole package. MD: What's the best thing about DJing besides the love of music? PO: Getting to see the world through a box of records. All the great places that you get to see and the different groups of people and friends that you meet along the way. MD: What's the worst thing about being a DJ? PO: It's funny because the best thing is also the worst thing and that's the travelling. As much as I enjoy it, after a while it gets really hard. Your body just gets tired and you really have to push yourself to keep as much balance in your schedule as possible. MD: You've worked on the scores for 'The Pink Panther', 'Shrek 2', 'Swordfish', 'Golden Eye', 'Planet of the Apes', 'Austin Powers', and 'Matrix:Reloaded', among others. Again, that's a very impressive list. You made a conscious decision to move towards scoring films and away from DJing. What attracts you to scoring films? PO: It wasn't a desire to move away from DJing as much as it was the pursuit of a desire to become more involved with the film world. I've always enjoyed film and scoring was a great way to make the transition. I find it very challenging but also very exciting to put a piece of music over a scene because it dictates so much of what the audience feels when they watch it. It can be a tedious process but when you see the finished cut of the film it’s amazing to see all the elements come together. MD: You featured in the US TV series 'The Club', following the story of a nightclub as it undergoes a makeover to compete with the gaming hotels on the Vegas Strip. Did you have fun making it and what’s being on TV like? PO: I did enjoy working on the show because the whole situation was new to me. I don't particularly enjoy being in front of the camera but the process was very interesting and I took a lot from it. MD: How do you find life in LA? Will you ever live in the UK again and what do you miss about Blighty? PO: LA is a great city if you're here with a goal and you stick by it. It's very driven by the entertainment industry which is a very cut-throat world. If you have a plan and you believe in yourself, it can be the most exciting city to find yourself. I don't know if I will move back to the UK down the line but it will always be home and there are times when I miss it tremendously. MD: You've kept your British accent. What have you embraced about American life? PO: The LA sunshine. I didn't think there could be this many sunny days in a year. THE SINGLE ' FASTER KILL PUSSYCAT' FEATURING BRITTANY MURPHY IS RELEASED ON MAY 29TH WITH THE ALBUM ' A LIVELY MIND' TO FOLLOW ON JUNE 5TH. Words: Matt Darey and Josie Harral

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Mary Anne Hobbs

Mary Anne Hobbs

So, you like my new bike then, huh? Brand new Kawasaki ER6-n, 650cc, top speed of about 140mph with the design influenced and inspired by Japanese war-masks. Sick motorcycles are my favourite toys in this life and if ever I get a minute free when the sun’s blazin', you'll find me up at my favourite petrolheads ghetto The Ace Cafe on the North Circular Road in London, hangin' with my boys Scatta and Lee, and watching Alex and the AWOL stunt kruz showin' off mad-skills in front of an audience of thousands. Badman MC JME says I should have starred in 'Kill Bill'. I told him, "I taught Uma everything she knows..." If you're into racing, I guess you should know that I'll be hosting the 2006 World Superbike Championship series on TV for British Eurosport, beginning April 23. http://www.crash.net/ is the best source to plunder all racing info you need. Noisia, (ace drum and bass three-piece from Gronegen) want me to teach 'em how to ride dirt bikes this summer so they can ride to all their gigs across the fields and scream up to the front of the guest-list queue, tyres smokin', covered in filth from head-to-toe. It's a strong look. Check these boyz, they’re seriously gifted: www.noisia.nl/ Professionally and emotionally, the greatest moment of 2006 has to be the Dubstep Wars show we threw down on my Radio One show the Breezeblock in January - no contest. We had such unique, incendiary, and deeply inspirational back-to-back sets from Digital Mystikz, Skream, Kode 9 and Space Ape, Vex'd, Hatcha and Crazy D, Loefah and Sgt Pokes and Distance... and word from playaz at the heart of the scene in the UK and around the globe talking about their passion for the sound. We've had a lot of love for Breezeblock Specials in the past, but I have never in the seven year history of the show seen a global response as far-reaching and big as this... not ever. Check out the Dubstep Forum, there are 12,000 hits about the show on this thread: /dubstep.forumsplace. com/message-683.html/ All the love is such a great testimony to the raw energy and bountiful talent inside dubstep and I feel blessed to have been able to capture a flava of it at the flash-point of this wildly inspirational scene. I'll carry this experience with me for all time, as I know all the artists who played for us will... You can see beautiful pictures documenting the night by Infinite at: www.drumzofthesouth.com/ Dubstep Warz was a statement of intent and it was just the beginning for the Breezeblock in '06, we'll be rolling out so much more through the year. Boxcutter has played already, Burial is in the frame for a mix in March and there's a major summer event on the drawing board too. Keep it locked 1am-3am Monday night -Tuesday morning. Breezeblock BBC Radio1. www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/breezeblock/ Meantime, Plastician has just launched a new Residency show on Radio1. He put me over his knee and smacked it so hard when he made his debut in February be sure to look him up at www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/residency/ Loefah and The Bug have asked me to play at their new club Bash which fills me with equal parts terror and delight when you look at the line-up. Residents are Andrew Weatherall, Adrian Sherwood, Coki and Mala from Digital Mystikz, Newflesh, DJ Rupture, Tayo, Kode 9 , The Deciples, Seamus and The Rootsman. Ras B, Ricky Ranking, Sgt Pokes and Warrior Queen host. Bash takes play every last Thursday at Plastic People in Shoreditch. You know that next to the DMZ dances and raves, Bash has all the makings of the heaviest night of the year... WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MARYANNEHOBBS

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Danny Robins

Life is excitingly busy at the moment. I'm doing my weekly Radio 1 show and I’ve got a "controversial" documentary film coming out for BBC 3. I like being busy but I find it harder and harder to relax these days. I think I might take up meditation. Or crack. Definitely one of the two. I was doing some interviews on the street the other day for my Radio 1 show and I was chatting to an old bloke. I asked him if he'd ever heard my show. "What time is it on?" he asked. "3am", I confessed, knowing it was unlikely he'd have heard my late night offerings. "Oh, I’m often up at that time," he said. Excited, I asked him if he was a bit of a raver. "No, I suffer from chronic pain," he replied. Crikey. Faux pas. I'm currently rehearsing for some shows I'm doing at the Soho Theatre in February. I'll be doing my character DJ Danny. He's an English teacher by day and a DJ by night. He just desperately wants to be a superstar DJ like Fatboy Slim, but he's actually deeply whack. I did him up at the Edinburgh Fringe last summer and got some really nice reviews. The Daily Telegraph really liked it. It's always good to know you've got the right wing press on your side. If there’s ever a military coup, I should be safe. The show was inspired by my own experiences DJing. I used to run a club night. I used to find it quite amusing how I could get away with playing my CD collection to a room full of people and calling it a talent. The Edinburgh Festival is great. It's kind of to comedians what Ibiza is for DJs. We all go up there, abuse our bodies and somehow remember to do a gig every night. And we lose loads of money. You have to fund your own show. Even if you sell out and get great write ups, you seem to come back owing thousands. Not quite sure how that works out. Someone’s making money somewhere. I think it might be the Edinburgh chip shops. I'm making a lot of music at the moment. I think I'm vicariously living out my dream of being a rock star. I do a slot on my radio show called Danny Robins' Music Therapy where listeners email me their problems and I try and help solve them through the sheer sweet power of music. I create an original song for each person. I see myself as a kind of hipper, music based version of Claire Rayner or maybe Dr Raj Persaud. I actually interviewed Raj Persaud recently. He was quite intense. Somehow the interview finished with him diagnosing me with OCD and telling me "there are people you can go and see you know." I think he was touting for business. I don’t think I do have OCD, but I do sometimes stop and think that my life can be pretty weird. The other day I spent the morning going up to strangers on the street asking them questions and then the afternoon doing impressions of Johnny Cash and the Beastie Boys for our latest Music Therapy. It's fun. I've got to go now as I’m making a drum and bass remix of James Blunt. It's sounding good. I'm not sure James Blunt would like it, but then he’s far too posh to be a pop star anyway. He's posher than the Queen. He's probably got a gift shop in his house. HEAR DANNY ON RADIO 1 FRIDAY NIGHT/SATURDAY MORNING AT 3AM AND CHECK OUT HIS FIVE STAR RATED EDINBURGH FESTIVAL SHOW AT SOHO THEATRE, LONDON ON 9TH, 10TH, 11TH FEBRUARY... TICKETS AVAILABLE AT WWW.SOHOTHEATRE.COM/ OR 0870 429 6883. WWW.DANNYANDDAN.COM/

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Ben Elton

Ben Elton has announced yet more dates tohis already extensive UK tour. These will be his first British gigs since he played to over 300,000 people on his record-breaking 1997 tour. With his trademark energy and signature delivery, Ben Elton is one of Britain's modern comedy icons. Althoughan incredibly successful best-selling novelist andwriter, as a trail-blazing story-telling comedian he is unmatched. It was as a stand-up comedian that Ben became best known, starting at the LondonComedy Store in 1981. His big break came in 1986 when he began to host Channel Four's cult hitSaturday Live. He has since become one of thebiggest live acts in Britain. Now, he is back on the road doing brand new stuff in front of an audience for the first time in eight years. He can still cut it live, but will you be able to keep up? Ben Elton established himself as the leading figure in the generation of British comedy with the ground breaking smash hit BBC comedy 'The Young Ones'. This show became a worldwide cult and the 1984 book of the series was the biggest seller in Britain that year. The icons Ben has written for reads like a who's who list of the cream of comedy, including Lenny Henry, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Harry Enfield. In 1985 Ben began his successful writing partnership with Richard Curtis. Together they wrote 'Blackadder 2', 'Blackadder the Third' and 'Blackadder Goes Forth' - a series that achieved vast audiences all over the world and was awarded four BAFTAs and an EMMY. In 1995, Ben wrote and produced 'The Thin Blue Line', which again starred Rowan Atkinson. It achieved record audience figures for a new sitcom and went onto win the British Comedy Award for the Best New Comedy Series, also picking up both the Public and Professional Jury Awards at Reims. Ben has also had serious success with his novel writing. His first novel 'Stark' was published in 1988 and became an instant number one best-seller and has gone on to sell over a million copies. His subsequent novels 'Gridlock' in 1991 and 'Eden' in 1993 matched it's success, and his next novel 'Popcorn' in 1996 went to number one in the best seller's list and remained there for six months. Two further novels by Ben - 'Blast from the Past' and 'Inconceivable' were released in September 1998 and October 1999 respectively, and were both best sellers. Interestingly enough, Ben’s ambitions were originally theatrical. After studying Drama at Manchester University he returned to the theatre with his first stage play, 'Gasping' which ran for nine and a half months in 1990 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End. This was followed immediately by Ben's second play, 'Silly Cow' which kept the Haymarket Theatre full for a further eight months. The stage play of 'Popcorn' opened to rave reviews at the Apollo Theatre, London in April 1997. 'Popcorn' was also staged in Paris successfully completing an 18-month run and has since won the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. In 1992 Ben began his acting career, starring in his own adaptation of his novel, 'Stark' - directed by Nadia Tass and filmed entirely in Australia. That year Ben also appeared alongside Michael Keaton as 'Verges' in Kenneth Branagh's acclaimed feature film, 'Much Ado About Nothing'. 2000 saw Ben make his screenplay directorial debut with Maybe Baby, (which he adapted from his novel 'Inconceivable') starring Joely Richardson, Hugh Laurie, Dawn French, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson and Adrian Lester. Ben's first musical collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber 'The Beautiful Game' opened to critical acclaim at the Cambridge Theatre in September 2000. He is currently writing two screenplays for two feature films; Popcorn to be directed by Ridley Scott and Phantom of the Opera, which will be directed by Shekhar Kapur. His second musical project 'We Will Rock You', for which he wrote the story and script to accompany the music and lyrics of Queen, opened in London in May 2002. Now in its fourth successful year it has since opened in Madrid, Germany, Australia, Las Vegas and Russia. Since then Ben has written two books, Dead Famous and High Society, both top 10 bestsellers. It seems that there's nothing this man cannot do - involved in so many aspects of entertainment, Ben's success has been overwhelming with everything he touches turning to gold. Catch Ben on tour this year for a taste of his unique comedic style live and in the flesh.

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