Friday, September 22, 2006

Tila Tequila/Bat For Lashes/Wicked

Tila Tequila



Tila Tequila- 31.5 million people can't be wrong. Can they?

Tequila, or Tila Nguyen to give her her proper name, is the crowned queen of social networking. Trading in her playboy roots for an empire carved off the back of MySpace, Tila has her own clothing range, a mobile phone endorsement and a brief singing carer ahead of her thanks to A&M Records. Not bad for a diminutive Vietnamese girl who spent her early years in a gated Buddhist community.

Tila proves that all you need is friends in low places to make it big.


Bat For Lashes



Brighton based Bat for Lashes are Equal parts Bjork and Tori Amos, and Natasha Khan matches them both on eccentricity. The Wizard comes across like a sweeping post modern version of Kate Bush’ Wuthering Heights, all electronic resonance and otherworldly whispered vocals. It taps the influences of Broadcast in its use of vocal reverb and hidden drum movements but the depth and clarity of Natasha’s voice has a staggering beauty that is unique only to her. Immerse yourself in her atmospheric and tragic stories.

MP3: Bat For Lashes - The Wizard


Gregory Maguire - Wicked



“And I’ll get your little dog too..”

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire is the story of the Wicked Witch of the West up to the point where Dorothy dumps a house on her sister and then cruelly melts her. The story centres around little green Elphalba and the trials and tribulations of growing up, all the characters we know from L Frank Baum’s story are here, Glinda (a blonde airhead) the wicked witch of the east, Dorothy and even the Munchkins. Maguire brings the characters to life, not by parodying the tale but by rooting its fiction in a deep seated reality, conveying the true tragedy of the girl who ended up with blue monkeys as her only companions.

Wicked has been turned into a successful stage play and has just opened in London.

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