The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest green field open-air music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km²)...
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young “star-cross’d lovers” whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. Its plot is based...
Timothy David Minchin is an Australian Comedian, Actor, Musician, and Skeptic, was born in 7 October 1975 in Northampton, UK. Tim Minchin is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in three CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which Tim Minchin has performed internationally. Tim Minchin has also appeared on television and radio in both Australia and Britain. After...
Take that are a BRIT Award-winning English pop rock band, originated in Manchester, England in 1990. Original members were Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams, Jason Orange and Howard Donald. Gary Barlow is Take That’s front-man and primary songwriter. Take That perform primarily on vocals though each have some instrumental talent/song-writing capability. Take That achieved major...
Jamiroquai is a British jazz funk and acid jazz band formed in 1992. Jamiroquai were initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the James Taylor Quartet, the Brand New Heavies, Galliano, and Corduroy. Subsequent albums have explored other musical directions such as pop, rock and electronica. Jamiroquai have sold...
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish pop music singer-songwriter. Enrique Iglesias born in May 8, 1975. Enrique Iglesias started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa. This helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Hispanic or Latino market in the United States, and the biggest seller of Spanish language...
Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop-R&B singer. Justin Bieber born in March 1, 1994. Justin Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun, who happened to come across Justin Bieber’s videos on YouTube and later became his manager. Braun arranged for him to meet with Usher in Atlanta, Georgia, and v Bieber was soon signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between...
Strictly Come Dancing (sometimes shortened to Strictly or SCD) is a British television show, featuring celebrities with professional dance partners competing in Ballroom and Latin dances. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, with an allusion to the film Strictly Ballroom. The format has been exported to 32 other countries (see Dancing with the...
Bullet for My Valentine are a Welsh metalcore band from Bridgend, formed in 1998. The band is composed of Matt Tuck (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Michael Paget (lead guitar), Jason James (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Michael Thomas (drums). They were formed under the name Jeff Killed John and started their music career by covering songs by Metallica and Nirvana. Jeff Killed John recorded six...
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and broadcaster whose career spans more than five decades. Alice Cooper was born on 4 February 1948. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Alice Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy...