The White Stripes play gig on city bus
The White Stripes yesterday performed yet another strangely-located show- on a bus in Manitoba, Canada.
Jack and Meg took a small number of fans on the road in a city bus, driving through the streets of Winnipeg as they played an acoustic set including 'Wheels On the Bus' and 'Hotel Yorba', according to report on Pitchfork.
As previously reported here, the band have already played a number of unusual locations including one in a classroom at Creekside Youth Centre in Burnaby, British Columbia and another for Chelsea pensioners in London.
They continue their lengthy tour tonight with a show at the Community Auditorium in Thunder Bay, Ontario. |
Editors confirm comeback album
Editors have announced full details of their new album and the follow-up to the acclaimed debut "The Back Room".
"An End Has A Start" is out in June and will be preceded by a single, which is called "Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors".
The full tracklisting is as follows:
"Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors"
"An End Has A Start"
"The Weight Of The World"
"Bones"
"When Anger Shows"
"The Racing Rats"
"Push Your Head Towards The Air"
"Escape The Nest"
"Spiders"
"Well Worn hand"
Editors preview the album at the following, previously announced, live dates:
May 2007
22 Warrington Parr Hall
23 London Roundhouse
24 Wolverhampton Civic Hall
25 Glasgow Barrowlands
27 Dublin Olympia
"An End Has A Start" is released on June 25. |
Madonna, Malawian child end 6-day visit
Madonna jetted out of Malawi on Sunday after a six-day visit to the impoverished homeland of the toddler she wants to adopt, carrying the boy in her arms as she boarded her plane.
Madonna and her husband, the film producer Guy Ritchie, took custody of David Banda last October after finding him in an orphanage. Critics said the 48-year-old star used her celebrity status to circumvent Malawian adoption laws ? allegations she denies.
The 20-month-old toddler waved to the bodyguards and driver who had escorted him during the visit. Madonna, wearing her now familiar straw hat, did not look back as she disappeared into the silver jet, with her daughter Lourdes following.
The star and her entourage spent their time visiting orphanages, projects for street children and agricultural development programs as well as opening a new day care center funded by her charity, Raising Malawi.
Madonna, who lives in London, made one visit to the Home of Hope orphanage, where David lived after the death of his mother in childbirth. There was no sign that Madonna had met with Yohane Banda, the peasant farmer who placed his son in the orphanage saying he was too poor to care for him.
It was also unclear whether Yohane Banda met alone with his son, as he had hoped.
David's mother died of complications in childbirth and his two siblings died of malaria in infancy.
Although a coalition of human rights groups challenged Madonna's adoption plans in the courts, many locals says they are happy that the celebrity has drawn attention to Malawi, which usually makes news because of drought, hunger and the occasional political scandal.
Madonna's childcare center aims to provide education, food and health care for up to 4,000 children. It is based on Kabbalah, Judaism's mystical sect, which counts the singer among its devotees.
Malawian child welfare officials are expected to file a report on the suitability of Madonna and Ritchie, as adoptive parents after two trips to their London residence in May and December. The singer has two other children, Lourdes, 9, and Rocco, 6. |