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Cedar Fair sale battle shifts: Opponents of Apollo deal halt share-buying strategy
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James Marsters - "Caprica" Tv Series - Ifmagazine.com Interview 2
10 MarWhedon.info
Exclusive Interview : 'CAPRICA'S' JAMES MARSTERS TALKS 'TORCHWOOD,' 'BUFFY' VS. 'TWILIGHT' FANS AND MORE - PART TWO
The actor talks about stage, music, his favorite works of science-fiction and why some TWILIGHT fans don't like BUFFY
In the second half of our exclusive interview with James Marsters, he talks more about his role as religious zealot Barnabas Greeley on Syfy's series CAPRICA, plus all the other things he's been doing lately.
iF MAGAZINE : You're doing another L.A. Theatre Works live radio play production, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, this summer. Last year, you starred in Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST for them …
JAMES MARSTERS : That was so fun. I'd only done [plays of that period by George Bernard] Shaw before and I thought that, because I'd done Shaw, that this would be easy. But it was a whole different experience and I went in less prepared than I should have been, and I really had to hit the books. It was four days of eating, sleeping and putting my faith in this play, in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. And Oscar Wilde is a taskmaster. He's like a mathematician. If you hit the rhythm correctly at the right speed, he will provide the laugh for you without fail, but if you make one little mistake, like in music, it just blows apart. It was exciting.
iF : Is doing a radio play more like doing an audio book, because you're not physically moving around, or is that more like doing a play ?
MARSTERS : Just like a play. It's very much like a play. We have a live audience and the other actors are right there. With a book on tape, you're really just out in the void by yourself.
iF : And you're still doing author Jim Butcher's Dresden Files audio books ..
MARSTERS : Yeah, I just finished another one.
iF : Were you instrumental in choosing SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, or did L.A. Theatre Works come to you and say, “Well, you did a good job with Oscar Wilde, so how about this one ?”
MARSTERS : The latter. They are much better at choosing what will play, both for the live audience and also over the radio or on CD. They're good producers, and I'm an actor at heart – I wait ‘til they call.
iF : Any other recent projects ?
MARSTERS : Let's see. I just did Shakespeare's sonnets [on stage] in New Jersey. And I did an A.R. Gurney play, LOVE LETTERS, in London [with] Beth Andrews. I just did concerts, both in London and back East, and that's about it right now. I'm finishing up the books on tape.
iF : So you're doing more stage now …
MARSTERS : Yeah. It's fabulous. It scares the heck out of me. I had never done the sonnets before, and when I got into them, it was quickly revealed to me that Shakespeare was bisexual. Two-thirds of the sonnets are to a guy. And not in a subtle way, either. It's right out there, “O, my beautiful man.” I cannot believe that no one told me about that. Once you understand that, and once you understand that the sonnets are really autobiographical, they become almost like punk rock. Because Shakespeare doesn't come off very well in them. Shakespeare comes off like a mewling, wet little kitten. From the plays, you think of him as this great genius who loves everyone and has everything figured out. But when you read the sonnets, it's like all that's ripped off and you get to see this guy underneath that who's confused and put-upon and self-pitying and he doesn't come off so wise, and I love that. It's almost like John Lennon singing, “I'm a loser and I'm not what I appear to be.” I hadn't delved into some good, dangerous Shakespeare for awhile. I thought it was going to be like, “The sonnets, oh, easy, lovey-dovey stuff,” but it was real love, which is all about feeling like a wet, drowned kitten.
iF : There are rumors of a U.S. TORCHWOOD project .Has anybody talked to you about the possibility of you reprising/recreating your Captain John character in that ?
MARSTERS : I don't think they've talked to me yet because they know that I'd come within seconds. I love it. I would come so fast to that project. I mean, if they do anything more in England, I would come to that. I understand they do some of their scripts on radio, specifically for radio, I'd love to do that for the BBC. I'd love to do an American version, all of it.
iF : Has the BBC approached you to do anything else ?
MARSTERS : Yeah. It was a co-production for BBC and the History Channel was called MOONSHOT !, about the Apollo 11 moon landing. I got to play Buzz Aldrin.
iF : Have you gotten to meet him ?
MARSTERS : No. I had the chance to go to Italy for the opening of the film. I passed because I wanted to spend time with my kids. I think I did the right thing, but I also kicked myself a little bit. Now I just collect Buzz memorabilia, like everybody else.
iF : You've said elsewhere that your niece has gotten very into vampires due to the TWILIGHT books …
MARSTERS : [laughs] Yes, very much.
iF : Does she have any opinion of Spike, or do you let her watch BUFFY yet ?
MARSTERS : Well, she's old enough now to watch it, but she believes that vampires can be good, like [TWILIGHT hero] Edward, and that it is just terrible to show vampires as fully evil, so she thinks that BUFFY is ridiculous. She refuses to watch it on moral grounds.
iF : Well, Angel is usually a good vampire. And Spike is good sometimes …
MARSTERS : At the very end. But there are reruns playing enough that she's seen enough episodes to know that most vampires who come on BUFFY last for about thirty-five seconds. They're very ugly and they get staked, and she just hates that.
iF : Are you keeping up at all with the BUFFY and ANGEL comics ?
MARSTERS : No. I should. I got my heart broken early on by Dark Horse when they inked the comic book that I wrote about Spike and Dru and they made Dru ugly. I had to go apologize to Juliet Landau, who played Dru, and take my comeuppance for starting a project that ended up making her look so less beautiful than she truly is. But Dark Horse started drawing me extra-pretty from then on, almost like it was [an apology – laughs].
iF : Are you still appearing at both regular conventions and events that are built around you doing a play and/or a concert, with question and answer sessions ?
MARSTERS : Oh, yeah. I find that I enjoy going to [regular] conventions [as a guest], but I also want to do my own kind of thing, with more performance art involved.
iF : That way, you don't have to wait for somebody else to say, “Let's do this play” ?
MARSTERS : Yeah, just go out and decide that this should be done. I've written some new songs, just go out and play them. Or I was talking about a new play – I want to do a David Sedaris. I could do that – that would be fun.
iF : Are you working on another album of the songs you write and perform ?
MARSTERS : Yes, in the very preliminary stages, actually. I think I'll be working with [former Ghost of the Robot band mate] Charlie De Mars again. We've gotten back in touch with each other. It's feeling really good – it's feeling fun again. I think it will be an album of very simple acoustic sounds, just me on guitar, I think my son on guitar and maybe piano and stand-up bass.
iF : Are you proud that he's sort of following in your musical footsteps, or are you going, “That's a hard career path” ?
MARSTERS : Everything. I'm very proud for his musical gift ; I'm very aware of what a tough life it is. Mainly right now, I'm just trying to get him focused on his homework.
iF : Do you know what sort of project you'd like to do next ?
MARSTERS : I feel like it's arrogant to form a plan as an actor. I tend to get offered roles that are very interesting, often roles where they want someone to kind of pop out, like when I got cast as Buzz, the director immediately said, “Buzz is the rock star. I so needed you for this role.” So good projects and interesting characters kind of gravitate toward me, and I'm just going to let that happen and keep trying to rock it when they give those kinds of roles to me, and I think Barnabas is no exception.
I think Barnabas is designed to pop. [CAPRICA works] on so many levels. The thing that got to me the most was just the decadence and the culture and watching something fall apart, as if in slow motion, me knowing what's coming and they not knowing. I think there's so much in what they're going for. They're going for the whole pile. I mean, artistically, they really are aiming high. I think that they have a really good thing going up on CAPRICA, and it is an uncomfortable ride in a certain way, in the same way that BLADE RUNNER is an uncomfortable ride, or I, ROBOT is an uncomfortable ride, or A.I. is an uncomfortable ride. Those are my favorite kind of science-fiction projects. Actually, all of those are very much like CAPRICA. All of those are about a future world where we stay on the planet. We don't go blasting off into the stars all the time. But I think that those projects seem to be able to talk about what I recognize as my experience.– I recognize what's going on in those projects. Most of Philip K. Dick, who's my favorite science-fiction writer, stays on the planet and I think that CAPRICA is very much in that tradition. They get to talk about those things that artists are dying to talk about ; we just put a little patina of sci-fi over it and we can really address it very directly. I think that we may be in a dance of destruction every bit as destructive as what we're watching on CAPRICA right now. And hopefully, we're giving the audience a chance to contemplate that.
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The Drums announce June headline show at Heaven, London
9 MarAltsounds
Having just finished the NME Awards Tourwith a triumphant show at London's Brixton Academy, The Drums were crowned winners of the "Philip Hall Radar" award at NME awards on February 24th. The quartet have now announced a new London headline show for June plus they'll be playing Camden Crawl & Live at Leeds Festival as well:
30th April - Live at Leeds Festival, Leeds1st May - Camden Crawl, LondonTuesday 8th June - Heaven, LondonHeaven, London:Under The Arches, Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NGTickets go on sale Friday 12th March
Released on March 29th, the first single from the album will be brand new track 'Best Friend', which has fast become a live favourite with its soaring chorus and guitarist Jacob Graham's impassioned tambourine playing.
Additionally, The Drums will be appearing as the special guests on Florence and the Machine's May UK tour.
Florence and the Machine support dates:02-May - Dublin, Olympia Theatre03-May - Dublin, Olympia Theatre05-May - Edinburgh, Corn Exchange06-May - Edinburgh, Corn Exchange07-May - Blackpool, Empress Ballroom09-May - Blackpool, Empress Ballroom10-May - Wolverhampton, Civic Theatre11-May - Wolverhampton, Civic Theatre13-May - London, HMV Hammersmith Apollo14-May - London, HMV Hammersmith Apollo15-May - London, HMV Hammersmith Apollo
The Drums' 'Summertime!' EP is out now on Moshi Moshi / Island Records.
Jonathan Pierce, VocalsThe Drums:
Jacob Graham, Guitar
Adam Kessler, Guitar
Connor Hanwick, Drums
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Flight of the Conchords Extra Dates Added
9 MarAltsounds
New Zealand folk comedy duo Flight of the Conchords will kick off a 15-stop European tour with dates in the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Ireland, and the UK on May 3rd, 2010 at Amsterdam's Melkweg Max. The tour follows the second season and series finale of HBO/BBC's hit show Flight of the Conchords as well as the release of the duo's second full-length album, I Told You I Was Freaky. Comedians and fellow Flight of the Conchords actors Kristen Schall and Arj Barker are set to open each night. Complete list of tour dates below.Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, the comedic musicians who together are Flight of the Conchords, first came onto the European scene after being nominated in 2003 for the Edinburgh Comedy Festival's prestigious Perrier Prize. This success led to the band's BBC 2 radio series, earning the pair the Bronze Sony Radio Academy Award for comedy. In 2008 Flight of the Conchords released their self-titled full-length debut which has gone on to achieve Gold status in the UK and was nominated for a Grammy for best comedy album, furthermore, the duo also received 2 Emmy nominations the same year for Best Writing (Comedy Series) and Best Directing (Comedy Series). This followed their 2007 Grammy win for the EP The Distant Future in the same category. 2009's I Told You I was Freaky received a 4/5 in The Sun, 8/10 in NME, and a 4/5 in Time Out London."Flight of the Conchords has had a great relationship with the U.K in the past. In some ways you could say we got our start there, and we were always over at the U.K's house. But then one night, some heated words were said and Flight of the Conchords left in a huff. We haven't been back since. That was five years ago," quipped Jemaine Clement. "Now, we're coming back to say we're sorry. We'll also be visiting our old friend Ireland, an acquaintance that we had an uneasy first date with called 'The Netherlands' and some countries we have never met called Norway and Sweden."More about support act Kristen Schaal & Arj BarkerKristen Schaal, who plays Flight of the Conchords' fan-turned-stalker Mel on the BBC series, will open the tour dates from 3/5 through 15/5. In addition to her role on the Flight of the Conchords series, Schaal's film and TV credits include Law & Order, South Park, Kate & Leopold and the upcoming Toy Story 3. Comedian and actor Arj Barker, who plays Jemaine and Bret's New York friend Dave on the hit series, will open 16/5 through the end of the tour.Flight of the Conchords 2010 Tour Dates:Dates with Kristen Schaal3rd May- Amsterdam, NL at Melkweg Max **SOLD OUT4th May- Amsterdam, NL at Melkweg Max **SOLD OUT5th May- Dublin, Ireland at Olympia **SOLD OUT6th May- Dublin, Ireland at Olympia **SOLD OUT10th May- Birmingham, UK at NIA **SOLD OUT11th May- Manchester, UK at Apollo **SOLD OUT12th May- Manchester, UK at Apollo **SOLD OUT14th May- Glasgow, UK at SECC **SOLD OUT15th May- Glasgow, UK at SECC **SOLD OUTDates with Arj Barker16th May- London, UK at HMV Hammersmith Apollo **SOLD OUT17th May- London, UK at HMV Hammersmith Apollo **SOLD OUT20th May- Bergen, Norway at Grieghallen **SOLD OUT22nd May- Oslo, Norway at Folkteatern **SOLD OUT23rd May- Copenhagen, DK at Vega **SOLD OUT
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Buzz Aldrin gears up for ‘Dancing’
9 Marmsnbc.com - Technology & Science
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Buzz Aldrin Gears Up For 'Dancing with the Stars'
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February 27, 1978: DCPA's mixed debut
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You Me At Six Announce New Single
5 MarAltsounds
YOU ME AT SIX'S meteoric rise from the underground to the mainstream continues unabated. Already scheduled to play their biggest tour to date next month, the quintet will also release their new single 'Liquid Confidence' on April 19th on Virgin Records.
Combining tender emotions with the band's patented exuberant energy, 'Liquid Confidence' utilises an acoustic opening and atmospheric vocal harmonies to create one of the band's most anthemic moments to date. The single is taken from the band's recently released second album 'Hold Me Down' that debuted at #5 as the second highest new entry of the week - three places above Delphic.
YOU ME AT SIX'S famously incendiary live show recently toured arenas as guests to Paramore, and has also graced festival dates including Download, Reading, Leeds and T in the Park. Their biggest headline show to date at London's Roundhouse will be surpassed with the Brixton date of their imminent UK tour:
March
9th - Birmingham, O2 Academy
10th - Newport, Centre
11th - Sheffield, O2 Academy
12th - Manchester, Apollo
13th - Newcastle, O2 Academy
14th - Glasgow, O2 Academy
16th - Leeds, O2 Academy
17th - Nottingham Rock City
18th - Southampton, Guildhall
19th - Norwich, UEA
20th - London, Brixton O2 Academy
Produced by John Mitchell (Funeral For A Friend, Enter Shikari, Architects) and Matt O'Grady (The Blackout, Hexes), and mastered by Bob Ludwig (Radiohead, Coldplay, Pearl Jam), 'Hold Me Down' has built upon the momentum which was established with their critically-acclaimed debut album 'Take Off Your Colours'. The Surrey quintet has twice been nominated for Best British Band at the Kerrang! Awards and were also named Best British Newcomers in the Kerrang! Readers' Poll. -
Forever The Sickest Kids album and single announcement
5 MarAltsounds
Veterans of three straight summers rocking Vans Warped Tour with their fresh and insanely hummable blend of classic-lined power-pop, punk energy and space-age electronics, breakthrough band FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS have announced UK dates in March 2010 with You Me At Six and We the Kings.
The tour coincides with the first release of the six-track album FRIDAY and single What Do You Want From Me arriving on March 15th 2010 , the first of three mini albums to be released in succession in 2010, the group's innovative approach to following up their successful Universal Motown album debut UNDERDOG ALMA MATER. Their 2008 debut album was released in a deluxe version in July 2009.
The Dallas-based six-man group (Austin Bello, bass & vocals; Kyle Burns, drums; Jonathan Cook, vocals; Kent Garrison, keyboards; Marc Stewart, guitar and Caleb Turman, guitar & vocals) was formed in 2006, and within four months, had recorded an EP, Television Off, Party On, written many of the songs for their eventual full-length debut, and been booked for the indie stage of Warped Tour.
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS MARCH 2010 UK DATES:
Tuesday 9-March Birmingham O2 Academy
Wednesday 10-March Newport Centre
Thursday 11-March Sheffield O2 Academy
Friday 12-March Manchester Apollo
Saturday 13-March Newcastle O2 Academy
Sunday 14-March Glasgow O2 Academy
Tuesday 16-March Leeds O2 Academy
Wednesday 17-March Nottingham Rock City
Thursday 18-March Southampton Guildhall
Friday 19-March Norwich UEA
Saturday 20-March London Brixton O2 Academy
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WE THE KINGS - New album SMILE KID released on March 15th 2010
4 MarAltsounds
Floridas We The Kings have secured themselves as one of the most original & exciting bands in the pop-rock circuit, with a heavily dedicated fan base, having toured the US with bands such as Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, Cobra Starship and, most recently, headlining the 2009 Vans Warped Tour.
Sophomore album, Smile Kid, will be released on March 15th and infectious first single, Heaven Can Wait, is already climbing the charts in the US, becoming the band's fastest rising single to date & reaching the Top 10 on the Alternative Singles Chart. Its the bands third Top 40 charting single in the US.
Produced by S*A*M and SLUGGO (Gym Class Heroes, Cobra Starship) Smile Kid follows their self titled smash debut which hit # 1 on Billboards New Alternative Album sales chart.
Time in the studio gelled the band's already energetic and tight sound. Instantly addictive tracks such as Heaven Can Wait, She Takes Me High & Well Be A Dream (featuring Disneys Demi Lovato) brim with youthful vibrancy and enthusiasm, clocking in at short and sweet three-minute bursts.
The world of We The Kings is a never-ending buzz of activity, where fans and band are equal participants. They are constantly tweeting, updating blogs & websites and documenting life on the road in their online mini sitcom, The Kings Carriage.
Infectious high spirits and camaraderie energize their live performances. The boys hit our shores March 2010 supporting You Me At Six on a Nationwide tour.
March 9 Birmingham O2 Academy
March 10 Kingsway Newport Centre
March 11 Sheffield O2 Academy
March 12 Manchester Apollo
March 13 Newcastle O2 Academy 2
March 14 Glasgow O2 Academy
March 16 Leeds O2 Academy
March 17 Nottingham Rock City
March 18 Southampton Guildhall
March 19 Norwich UEA
March 20 London Brixton Academy
FULL ALBUM STREAM - Smile Kid playlist by We The Kings on MySpace Music - listen to songs & purchase MP3s
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