Day: January 31, 2012

He never quite made his mark. Good luck moving forward, buddy!!

Post author By Dan
Post date January 31, 2012

Saturday Night Live Casualty: Paul Brittain, aka “Sex” Ed Vincent, Exits

Saturday Night Live is down a cast member.

A show insider has confirmed that Paul Brittain has left SNL after a one-year stint as a featured player and will not be appearing on this weekend’s episode hosted by Channing Tatum.

Guess this means no more “Sex” Ed.

The 34-year-old funnyman joined the late-night comedy series for its 36th season back in September 2010, but was a relatively quiet presence, never moving up to the rank of regular performer.

Among Brittain’s most memorable characters were Croatian stand-up comic Goran “Funky Boy” Bogdan, Lord Wyndemere and “Sex” Ed Vincent, a sexpert who holds enthusiastic symposiums on the subject. He also did impressions of James Franco and Johnny Depp.

No reason was given for his departure, though Entertainment Weekly quotes a source close to the comic as saying Brittain “had the opportunity to pursue other projects, and he and the show parted ways amicably.”

A rep for the actor was unavailable for comment, and there was no official comment from NBC.

Brittain, the nephew of legendary comedian Bob Newhart, is far from the only performer to leave Saturday Night Live after such a brief tenure. Notable short-lived Not Ready for Primetime Players include Laurie Metcalf, Ben Stiller, Damon Wayans and Janeane Garafalo.

Awards

It will be good to have her back!!

Post author By Dan
Post date January 31, 2012

After surgery, Adele to perform at the Grammys

NEW YORK (AP) — Adele is nominated for six Grammys, and she’ll be on deck to collect anything she wins: The 23-year-old singer is set to perform at the awards show.

Adele had surgery on her vocal cords last year, and the Grammys will be the first time she has performed live in five months, The Recording Academy announced Tuesday.

Her sophomore album, “21,” has sold more than 6 million copies in the U.S. It is nominated for album of the year and best pop vocal album. The CD has three singles that have hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart, including “Rolling in the Deep,” which is up for record and song of the year.

The Grammys will air live Feb. 12 on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Concerts

Got my tickets already!!!

Post author By Dan
Post date January 31, 2012

Adams books big Cdn. tour

Bryan Adams has finally set his sights on a Canadian tour – and he has 20/20/20 vision.

The veteran pop-rocker and his band will play 20 shows in 20 cities from Newfoundland to British Columbia this spring and summer on his first national trek in over 20 years.

Adams’ three-stage tour kicks off April 11 in St. John’s and covers six cities in Atlantic Canada and Quebec. In May, he hits Ontario for seven shows, including a May 3 gig at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. In June, he wraps up with seven more shows in the West, ending with a June 22 concert in Winnipeg. See below for a full list of dates, cities and venues.

Tickets for the Quebec and Atlantic shows go on sale Saturday, Feb. 4 at Ticketmaster and livenation.com. Seats for all the other shows will be available Monday, Feb. 6. Most seats will cost between $20 and $95 before taxes and fees. Various pre-sale and VIP packages are also available.

The Ontario-born, Vancouver-raised singer-guitarist’s most recent studio album was 2008’s 11, which he followed up with a lengthy run of solo acoustic concerts. He is reportedly working on a new studio album due later this year.

Bryan Adams Canadian Tour:

Van Halen

Honestly, did anyone think that he would like it?!?

Post author By Dan
Post date January 31, 2012

Hagar blasts new VH album

Rocker Sammy Hagar has blasted his former Van Halen bandmates’ comeback album, revealing it left him cold and unimpressed when he heard it.

The band’s former frontman was not asked to be part of the group’s 2012 plans and now he’s glad he missed out because he’s convinced the band’s February album will leave fans feeling cheated.

He tells Radio Metal, “What I’ve heard so far, I wasn’t impressed with at all, personally… I think they chose to take the easy route and take some of their old stuff and re-record it instead of writing new songs… I don’t think the fans are going to be happy with it.

“I couldn’t care less if it’s the biggest album of the year; that wouldn’t be important to me. What is important to me is that, as artists, why would you do that? They haven’t released an album since my last album in something like 1991 or 1992, and then they just go back. To me, it makes a strange statement, it kind of says, ‘We don’t have anything, we’re not a band anymore, we’re not creative.’

“To be honest with you, the last time I was around those guys was in 2004 on the reunion. It was a disaster, it was horrible… I don’t know what they’re thinking, to be honest with you.”

And Hagar believes the pressure to record finally got to his former bandmates: “I don’t think they had any choice. If they had had a choice they would’ve done all new stuff. From today. They would’ve written together like a band… I think there’s zero inspiration and zero creativity.”

Replacing Hagar and longtime Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony in the group is original singer David Lee Roth and Van Halen’s son Wolfgang.

Music

Bring It On!!!

Post author By Dan
Post date January 31, 2012

Jack White to release solo album

The White Stripes frontman Jack White said on Monday that he will debut a solo album, “Blunderbuss,” on April 24, with entirely new songs written by him and embodying his own sense of self-expression.

“I’ve put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas,” White said in a statement on Monday.

Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, “Blunderbuss” is the first solo album from White, 36, who gained fame as lead singer, guitarist and pianist in the Grammy-winning two-piece band The White Stripes with his ex-wife Meg on drums. The band officially split in February 2011, after 14 years together.

The “Seven Nation Army” singer is also a member of rock bands The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather.

Ahead of the release of “Blunderbuss” in April, fans can get a taste of the first single, “Love Interruption,” which will be available to listen to online and purchase from Monday.