Interesting News Of The Week 11/06/2012

Did you miss me?
Yes I know, I missed another week last Thursday and I am truly sorry, but I was spending the week on holiday with my amazing girlfriend Gemma Oliver, so In a way I am sorry, but in others I'm not.

Anyway, lets get on with this weeks stories.

Stone Roses gig ends in confusion

The first story this week is on a slightly musical note and is about the band "Stone Roses" and their apparently disappointing gig in Amsterdam.

Fans were said to have been left confused after the band failed to play an encore at their gig in Amsterdam on Tuesday, this was reported to have taken place because the drummer of the band Reni had left the venue and the band.

Singer Ian Brown appeared on stage alone after the performance of their last song at the Heineken Music Hall, to tell the crowd the gig was over, standing in front of all his fans, just to disappoint them, that takes guts.

Fans had expected to hear the song I Am The Resurrection, which the band had closed their show with in Spain last Friday but were left unhappy and disappointed.
Brown reported to have said said: "I'm not joking, the drummer's gone home."

Many of the fans then booed the announcement, which was expected really, but according to journalist Peter Shuttleworth, who was at the concert:
"Ian just said something like 'Come on, get all your negative vibes out on me. I can take it'," However, Shuttleworth claims the jeers were "short-lived" and fans were "more bemused than disappointed".

It was also said that Reni (who's real name Alan Wren, weird, guess his stage name comes from his last name) had stormed off stage and that he and guitarist John Squire had hugged as they left, maybe there's been a band fall out.

The band seemed to have planned to play an encore, telling fans: "If you want us to come back, we're going up four storeys, so you have to cheer loud", what literally? See you up there then.

The Stone Roses started off their first tour in 16 years in Barcelona last weekend.
They have a summer of dates planned, including three homecoming shows in Manchester's Heaton Park at the end of June, but I guess we shall all now need to wait and see if these dates come through.

Fans have dismissed speculation that the gig in Holland signals problems for the rest of the tour, calling the show "quality" and the crowd "enthusiastic".
Several reports quote an insider who suggested there had been a problem with the drum kit, but this has not been confirmed, so it could be a cover up, or the truth, who knows.

Paul Roberts was at the gig and emailed BBC 6 Music: "At one point I saw Reni waving his arms wildly at the stage mixer, obviously not happy with something.", so maybe there was some drum kit problems after all.

Another person at the scene, Matt Morris, claimed Brown's announcement "was followed by a volley of beer thrown at the stage and booing",

Remaining dates on the Stone Roses tour are expected to go ahead as planned, with the band due on stage in Sweden on Thursday, so we shall await further news on this event.

There is no video for this story so here's a lovely black and whit picture of the band:

Westlife singer declared bankrupt

The second news story this week has kept to the musical theme of the first story.

This story is about Westlife singer Shane Filan and his declaration of bankruptcy in the UK.

Westlife (an Irish band) have sold millions of records over their time in the music industry but Filan has suffered enormous losses in his country's property crash.
In a statement, he said he had "worked long and hard" to tackle his debts and was devastated that his problems have come to this conclusion, must be really gutting.

The pop star filed for bankruptcy in the UK instead of back in Ireland, probably to avoid embarrassment really.

Filan owns a property company called Shafin Developments Limited, with his brother Finbarr.
It was established in 2004 and had been involved in developments in Counties Leitrim and Sligo in the west of Ireland, their way of helping improve their home, Ireland.
Last month, the company was placed in receivership.

The singer was declared bankrupt at Kingston-upon-Thames County Court and his name has been placed on the UK insolvency register, must be fun in that group.

Ireland has agreed to liberalise its bankruptcy regime as one of the conditions of its EU/ IMF bailout, meaning it will be easier to list bankruptcy in the country (that's partly why Filan came to the UK).
However the country's banks are concerned that the reforms could lead to a flood of mortgage defaults as ordinary homeowners use bankruptcy to escape from negative equity, an easy way out for homeowners in other words.

Anyway back to Westlife and Filan, Westlife is said to be one of the most successful boy bands of the last decade, selling more than 44m records, which is confusing to think about, because if the band is making so much money, why had Filan gone bankrupt?
I smell the "fee's" of the label company of the band.

It also looks like Filan isn't going to be able to make enough money to bring himself out of bankruptcy because last October, Westlife announced they were splitting up.
The band is currently in the middle of a farewell tour and continues to fill major concert venues, bye bye Westlife.

There's no news coverage of this news story either, but instead of leaving you without a video this week I've selected a melody video containing various songs from Westlife, I thought it may be appropriate:

Summary for this week

So this week we have band problems, upset drummers, bad sound systems, break ups and finally a showing of the harsh reality of our world from Westlife and bankruptcy (could be seen as karma too).

Bonus Info
Very soon their will be a new page added to this blog and a brand new post based around it, the only clue I will give you for now is its to do with camera's (those of you who know me will know what this means).