Who is Banksy? It is one of the art world’s, perhaps even pop culture’s, most enduring mysteries since the street artist burst onto the scene in the early 2000s. But we may be one step closer to the artist’s true identity following the recent discovery of a lost BBC interview in which Banksy appears to confirm his name.
The BBC reported on Monday that it had unearthed a 2003 interview between the young, up-and-coming street artist Banksy and the former BBC arts correspondent Nigel Wrench. The original recording was edited for a spot on BBC radio, which was then used as part of the BBC podcast series The Banksy Story that was released in July. But Wrench, having listened to the podcast series, was inspired to revisit the full original recording and discovered a lot more buried information about the artist that was never used.
In the discovered audio,...
The BBC reported on Monday that it had unearthed a 2003 interview between the young, up-and-coming street artist Banksy and the former BBC arts correspondent Nigel Wrench. The original recording was edited for a spot on BBC radio, which was then used as part of the BBC podcast series The Banksy Story that was released in July. But Wrench, having listened to the podcast series, was inspired to revisit the full original recording and discovered a lot more buried information about the artist that was never used.
In the discovered audio,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Abid Rahman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“What do you reckon, black or white?” Mike Skinner asks, as we walk into an empty hall in East London, as he peers upwards, deciding what colour curtain to have as his backdrop ahead of some filming he had planned later that day. A seemingly innocuous, yet strikingly familiar introduction to this artist – as the man behind The Streets has always been renowned for his informal accessibility. His approachable, even intelligible tonality, the relatable lyricism, which manages to be so real, and yet so poetic at the same time. It’s a voice that defines a generation – and one that has never truly changed. Since the age of 21 when he created Original Pirate Material all the way up to the present day, and with his latest album ‘The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light’ and the connected feature film of the same name, it feels like truly, barely anything...
- 10/24/2023
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The era-defining rapper and producer has spent the last ten years making his first feature film, The Darker the Shadow, the Brighter the Light, almost entirely by himself. He discusses creativity, avoiding musical nostalgia – and why he loves the National Trust
In Dr No, there’s a casino scene featuring Sean Connery as Bond. He’s playing chemin de fer, against the icily beautiful Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson). Bond is the bank, cool in a penguin suit, and, when Sylvia asks his name, he replies – of course he does: “Bond. James Bond.” Now, we all expect him to do it, but in 1962, when Dr No was released, it was the first time Connery ever spoke those words on screen.
And Connery said them right here, at Les Ambassadeurs casino, off glitzy Park Lane in London. “Yeah, just through those doors,” says Mike Skinner, Aka the Streets, rapper, musician, writer, producer and now,...
In Dr No, there’s a casino scene featuring Sean Connery as Bond. He’s playing chemin de fer, against the icily beautiful Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson). Bond is the bank, cool in a penguin suit, and, when Sylvia asks his name, he replies – of course he does: “Bond. James Bond.” Now, we all expect him to do it, but in 1962, when Dr No was released, it was the first time Connery ever spoke those words on screen.
And Connery said them right here, at Les Ambassadeurs casino, off glitzy Park Lane in London. “Yeah, just through those doors,” says Mike Skinner, Aka the Streets, rapper, musician, writer, producer and now,...
- 10/1/2023
- by Miranda Sawyer
- The Guardian - Film News
Is there anyone out there writing more emo-tastic lyrics than Yungblud? The 24-year-old Doncastrian (aka Dominic Harrison) kicks off his self-titled third album with a gleefully mascara-smudging blast of pop-rock, in which he imagines “dancing at my funeral/ Waiting for you to arrive/ I was hoping you’d look beautiful/ Dancing with tears in your eyes/ But nobody came, what a shame, hey…”
Hands up – the headbang-as-you-shop mall-rock sound that Yungblud embraces here has never been my cuppa. The pretty thrash-by-numbers blurs notes like plaid shirts on hangers flipped swiftly along chrome rails, allowing melodies to glide past forgettably. Like the credit-roll track of every teen romcom since the 1990s, delivering enough focus and momentum to ensure you leave the cinema with your jacket, but not enough to linger in your head on the journey home.
Yet Harrison has a knack for narrative and a snagging vocal that lifts potential...
Hands up – the headbang-as-you-shop mall-rock sound that Yungblud embraces here has never been my cuppa. The pretty thrash-by-numbers blurs notes like plaid shirts on hangers flipped swiftly along chrome rails, allowing melodies to glide past forgettably. Like the credit-roll track of every teen romcom since the 1990s, delivering enough focus and momentum to ensure you leave the cinema with your jacket, but not enough to linger in your head on the journey home.
Yet Harrison has a knack for narrative and a snagging vocal that lifts potential...
- 9/1/2022
- by Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
Michael Fassbender will soon star in the action adventure film “Assassin’s Creed,” based on the video game by the same name, but he’s already appeared in many films this past year, including “The Light Between the Oceans,” “X-Men: Apocalypse” and then “Trespass Against Us,” a family drama that premiered earlier this year. “Trespass Against Us” follows three generations of the Cutler family who live as outlaws in their own corner of Britain’s richest countryside. Fassbender plays Chad, an heir apparent to his father Colby (Brendan Gleeson), but soon starts looking for another life as his own son Tyson (Georgie Smith) comes of age. It co-stars Sean Harris (“Prometheus”), Lyndsey Marshal (“The Hours”), Rory Kinnear (“Quantum of Solace”) and more. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
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This is Adam Smith’s debut feature film.
- 12/8/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
In an age where Donald Trump can become President of the United States, it’s sadly fitting that English reality host Jeremy Clarkson had to flee to America to keep doing whatever the hell he wants. You see, the former “Top Gear” host’s contract wasn’t renewed by the BBC because of not one, but many controversial incidents involving the volatile “car journalist” (self-described), including accusations ranging from jokes about murdering prostitutes and imitating a Nazi salute to tossing around so many ethnic slurs it seems as though he’s offended every race and gender imaginable.
But what put him over the line across the pond was a March 2015 altercation with Oisin Tymon in which he allegedly punched the “Top Gear” producer for serving him soup and a meat platter instead of steak. Despite protests from fans (including a petition garnering over 1 million signatures), the BBC stood by their...
But what put him over the line across the pond was a March 2015 altercation with Oisin Tymon in which he allegedly punched the “Top Gear” producer for serving him soup and a meat platter instead of steak. Despite protests from fans (including a petition garnering over 1 million signatures), the BBC stood by their...
- 11/19/2016
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
From Autons to tribophysics via Kronkburgers, here's a pick of the best nerdy in-jokes and references from the 2005 series of Doctor Who...
Ten years ago, the world was about to be re-introduced to one of the most enduring and exciting television characters of all time, Doctor Who. The programme's new 2005 sheen brought with it a cheeky self-referential side (though it did do a bit of that in the 80s) and a knowingly raised pop culture eyebrow. From films such as E.T. to Barbarella to Star Trek to modern literature (The Lovely Bones) and icons (Michael Jackson) - everything was in the Time Lord’s gaze.
So let’s take our very own trip back in time and have a look at the more notable and interesting references and in-jokes from Doctor Who Series One, starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper.
Rose
Most obviously, this opener saw the return of the...
Ten years ago, the world was about to be re-introduced to one of the most enduring and exciting television characters of all time, Doctor Who. The programme's new 2005 sheen brought with it a cheeky self-referential side (though it did do a bit of that in the 80s) and a knowingly raised pop culture eyebrow. From films such as E.T. to Barbarella to Star Trek to modern literature (The Lovely Bones) and icons (Michael Jackson) - everything was in the Time Lord’s gaze.
So let’s take our very own trip back in time and have a look at the more notable and interesting references and in-jokes from Doctor Who Series One, starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper.
Rose
Most obviously, this opener saw the return of the...
- 3/23/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
The Streets rapper talks inspiration at Cph:conference.
Mike Skinner, the British rapper also known as The Streets, has plans to move into longer-form film projects, saying he plans “a longer film in the coming year.”
Skinner has already made what he calls a “short documentary or a long advert” for shoes brand Dr Martens, the two-minute 15-second Spirit of 69.
He told Friday’s Cph:conference, part of Cph:dox in Copenhagen, that he spent three months researching the project. “The more fascinated I became with that era of skinheads is when I realized really they were mods,” he said.
Skinner, who also wrote and narrates the film, said the client wasn’t always happy with his vision – “I had an argument with Dr Martens, but I was determined to tell the truth. I have a reputation that people trust and there’s a trust I want to have.”
“It’s as truthful as any documentary can be, and it was...
Mike Skinner, the British rapper also known as The Streets, has plans to move into longer-form film projects, saying he plans “a longer film in the coming year.”
Skinner has already made what he calls a “short documentary or a long advert” for shoes brand Dr Martens, the two-minute 15-second Spirit of 69.
He told Friday’s Cph:conference, part of Cph:dox in Copenhagen, that he spent three months researching the project. “The more fascinated I became with that era of skinheads is when I realized really they were mods,” he said.
Skinner, who also wrote and narrates the film, said the client wasn’t always happy with his vision – “I had an argument with Dr Martens, but I was determined to tell the truth. I have a reputation that people trust and there’s a trust I want to have.”
“It’s as truthful as any documentary can be, and it was...
- 11/17/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Streets rapper talks inspiration at Cph:conference.
Mike Skinner, the British rapper also known as The Streets, has plans to move into longer-form film projects, saying he plans “a longer film in the coming year.”
Skinner has already made what he calls a “short documentary or a long advert” for shoes brand Dr Martens, the two-minute-15-second Spirit of 69.
He told Friday’s Cph:conference, part of Cph:dox in Copenhagen, that he spent three months researching the project. “The more fascinated I became with that era of skinheads is when I realized really they were mods,” he said.
Skinner, who also wrote and narrates the film, said the client wasn’t always happy with his vision – “I had an argument with Dr Martens, but I was determined to tell the truth. I have a reputation that people trust and there’s a trust I want to have.”
“It’s as truthful as any documentary can be, and it was...
Mike Skinner, the British rapper also known as The Streets, has plans to move into longer-form film projects, saying he plans “a longer film in the coming year.”
Skinner has already made what he calls a “short documentary or a long advert” for shoes brand Dr Martens, the two-minute-15-second Spirit of 69.
He told Friday’s Cph:conference, part of Cph:dox in Copenhagen, that he spent three months researching the project. “The more fascinated I became with that era of skinheads is when I realized really they were mods,” he said.
Skinner, who also wrote and narrates the film, said the client wasn’t always happy with his vision – “I had an argument with Dr Martens, but I was determined to tell the truth. I have a reputation that people trust and there’s a trust I want to have.”
“It’s as truthful as any documentary can be, and it was...
- 11/17/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
With the news that singer-songwriter Foxes will make her TV acting debut in an upcoming episode of Doctor Who, Digital Spy brings you everything you need to know about the vulpine-named musical starlet.
Doctor Who: Singer Foxes to star and perform in series 8
So who is Foxes, anyway?
Foxes is a 25-year-old Londoner (originally from Southampton) whose mum knows her as Louisa Rose Allen. She uses the stage name Foxes so she doesn't get muddled up with Lily Rose Allen, and because her mum had a weird dream about foxes one time.
She confesses to writing "songs that make you feel like everything's s**t at the beginning and then everything's great by the end". Her debut album's out now but you've probably already heard her on songs like Zedd's 'Clarity'.
Do any of the bin-delving, urban mammals appear in her band as her namesake suggests?
Don't be silly.
Doctor Who: Singer Foxes to star and perform in series 8
So who is Foxes, anyway?
Foxes is a 25-year-old Londoner (originally from Southampton) whose mum knows her as Louisa Rose Allen. She uses the stage name Foxes so she doesn't get muddled up with Lily Rose Allen, and because her mum had a weird dream about foxes one time.
She confesses to writing "songs that make you feel like everything's s**t at the beginning and then everything's great by the end". Her debut album's out now but you've probably already heard her on songs like Zedd's 'Clarity'.
Do any of the bin-delving, urban mammals appear in her band as her namesake suggests?
Don't be silly.
- 5/29/2014
- Digital Spy
Feature Andrew Blair 21 Nov 2013 - 07:00
In this celebration week, Andrew tips his cap to just a few of the people whose hard work and talent made New Who what it is today...
After writing about the Classic Series production crew, we take a look at some of the people whose hard work, talent, and ability to fib have worked wonders behind the scenes in the twenty-first century.
5. Jane Tranter
In the late Eighties, Jane Tranter could be found marking out rehearsal rooms with tape as part of her job as an Assistant Floor Manager. She worked on shows such as Eastenders, Bergerac, and Doctor Who.
In 2000, she became Head of Drama Commissioning at the BBC. Like the Seventh Doctor, she had a long-term planny-type thing. Unlike the Seventh Doctor, Tranter did not actively seek out conflict by immediately announcing that Doctor Who would come back, waiting until she had...
In this celebration week, Andrew tips his cap to just a few of the people whose hard work and talent made New Who what it is today...
After writing about the Classic Series production crew, we take a look at some of the people whose hard work, talent, and ability to fib have worked wonders behind the scenes in the twenty-first century.
5. Jane Tranter
In the late Eighties, Jane Tranter could be found marking out rehearsal rooms with tape as part of her job as an Assistant Floor Manager. She worked on shows such as Eastenders, Bergerac, and Doctor Who.
In 2000, she became Head of Drama Commissioning at the BBC. Like the Seventh Doctor, she had a long-term planny-type thing. Unlike the Seventh Doctor, Tranter did not actively seek out conflict by immediately announcing that Doctor Who would come back, waiting until she had...
- 11/20/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
While 2011 was a banner year for the British box office, there was one success story that proved more surprising than any others. It was a film that, despite costing a fraction of the competition, outearned "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," "The Hangover Part II," "Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon" and "Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows," and doubled the grosses of films like "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "Fast Five" and "Cars 2," becoming one of the most successful British comedies in history. That film was "The Inbetweeners Movie," a big-screen version of the popular TV teen comedy (which airs on BBC America in the U.S.), and now, it's finally coming to the U.S.
Newly titled "The Inbetweeners," Wrekin Hill Entertainment will bring the movie to U.S. theaters on September 7th, and in additoin to the release date, we have the exclusive...
Newly titled "The Inbetweeners," Wrekin Hill Entertainment will bring the movie to U.S. theaters on September 7th, and in additoin to the release date, we have the exclusive...
- 6/8/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Edinburgh International Film Festival
It should be settling into senior citizenship, but the 65-year-old festival is reinventing itself this year. The programme has been mixed up by a host of guest curators – ranging from Gus Van Sant to Jim Jarmusch, and Mike Skinner to Apichatpong Weerasethakul. And as well as the usual core of new international features and documentaries, there are envelope-pushing new strands and events. Of the conventional features, highlights include Romain Gavras's awaited feature debut Our Day Will Come, a French skinhead tale that looks as confrontational as his music video work (which plays beforehand). David Hare presents his new MI5 thriller Page Eight, led by Bill Nighy (who'll also be giving an onstage interview); Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle buddy up in Irish cop comedy The Guard; and festival regular David McKenzie returns with apocalyptic art sci-fi Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.
The...
It should be settling into senior citizenship, but the 65-year-old festival is reinventing itself this year. The programme has been mixed up by a host of guest curators – ranging from Gus Van Sant to Jim Jarmusch, and Mike Skinner to Apichatpong Weerasethakul. And as well as the usual core of new international features and documentaries, there are envelope-pushing new strands and events. Of the conventional features, highlights include Romain Gavras's awaited feature debut Our Day Will Come, a French skinhead tale that looks as confrontational as his music video work (which plays beforehand). David Hare presents his new MI5 thriller Page Eight, led by Bill Nighy (who'll also be giving an onstage interview); Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle buddy up in Irish cop comedy The Guard; and festival regular David McKenzie returns with apocalyptic art sci-fi Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.
The...
- 6/10/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The first photo of the new cast in the Red Dawn remake, two stills from Water for Elephants, and set photos from the Vancouver shoot for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
"Ewan McGregor is rumoured to be playing Greenpeace activist and 'eco-pirate' Captain Paul Watson in the biopic "Ocean Warrior". Keith Ross Leckie and Julie Allan are writing the script…" (full details)
"Jodie Foster will join Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley in "District 9" director Neill Blomkamp's next sci-fi feature "Elysium" at Media Rights Capital. Story details are still being kept under wraps..." (full details)
"Warner Bros. Pictures has won the 2010 domestic box-office race with $1.89 billion in revenue. Paramount came in second with $1.67 billion, Fox third with $1.45 billion, Disney fourth with $1.4 billion, Sony fifth with $1.26 billion and Universal sixth with $842.2 million…" (full details)
"Brit rapper Mike Skinner (aka. The Streets) says he’s working with collaborator Ted Mayhem on a...
"Ewan McGregor is rumoured to be playing Greenpeace activist and 'eco-pirate' Captain Paul Watson in the biopic "Ocean Warrior". Keith Ross Leckie and Julie Allan are writing the script…" (full details)
"Jodie Foster will join Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley in "District 9" director Neill Blomkamp's next sci-fi feature "Elysium" at Media Rights Capital. Story details are still being kept under wraps..." (full details)
"Warner Bros. Pictures has won the 2010 domestic box-office race with $1.89 billion in revenue. Paramount came in second with $1.67 billion, Fox third with $1.45 billion, Disney fourth with $1.4 billion, Sony fifth with $1.26 billion and Universal sixth with $842.2 million…" (full details)
"Brit rapper Mike Skinner (aka. The Streets) says he’s working with collaborator Ted Mayhem on a...
- 1/4/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Mike Skinner is going to be a father. The Streets rapper and his long-term girlfriend Claire Le Marquand will welcome their first baby together in April.
A source said: "Mike is delighted. He can't wait to be a dad. He says this is the best Christmas gift ever. He is doting on Claire and making sure she puts her feet up at home."
The 30-year-old musician recently revealed he is planning to take time out from the music business after the next Streets album.
Mike said: "The next album will be the last one I'll make. I signed a five-album deal and I don't think it would be right to be making Streets albums after that."...
A source said: "Mike is delighted. He can't wait to be a dad. He says this is the best Christmas gift ever. He is doting on Claire and making sure she puts her feet up at home."
The 30-year-old musician recently revealed he is planning to take time out from the music business after the next Streets album.
Mike said: "The next album will be the last one I'll make. I signed a five-album deal and I don't think it would be right to be making Streets albums after that."...
- 12/23/2008
- icelebz.com
Mike Skinner is sick of Lily Allen's constant complaining, reports The Sun. The Streets frontman said the 'Smile' singer secretly likes the press attention she moans about on the internet. "Whenever you read Lily Allen's blog she's moaning about some paparazzi b*****ks. It makes me think, 'Just stop giving them such good stories to write about and it’ll all go away'. "For God’s sake, people - don’t you get it? She wants all of the photographers following her round. (more)...
- 10/15/2008
- by By Sarah Rollo
- Digital Spy
With 2006's The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, The Streets' Mike Skinner committed one of music's most unpardonable sins: droning on about the "perils of fame." For speak-singing "every-bloke" Skinner, playing the hotel-trashing hotshot was an alienating move, suggesting that he'd already lost touch with the geezers and gits and become that dullest of creatures—the self-loathing superstar. Make that second-dullest: With Everything Is Borrowed, Skinner has evolved into the intolerable former drinking buddy who's taken up jogging and "found himself"—all pithy platitudes and clunky philosophizing. Skinner's self-actualization prattle would be more admirable if it had any real insight, but the best he can offer are cheap aphorisms tailor-made for tote bags, like the Buddhism-lite refrain, "I came to this world with nothing / And I leave with nothing but love / Everything else is...
- 10/14/2008
- by Sean O'Neal
- avclub.com
Mike Skinner has heaped praise on Leona Lewis and The X Factor. The Streets singer, who released new album Everything Is Borrowed last month, commented that the money made by the programme helps Sony fund less mainstream acts. "I think X Factor makes good TV and it is certainly funding a lot of experimentation at Sony music group right (more)...
- 10/9/2008
- by By Michael Thornton
- Digital Spy
Mike Skinner has explained why he plans for The Streets to split after their fifth album. The singer revealed earlier this year that he wanted to stop recording under his Streets moniker after two more LPs. "The next album is the last album," he told NME. "I did a five-album deal and I don't think it would be right to be making Streets albums after that. "I always envisaged them as a box-set and (more)...
- 8/11/2008
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Muse have explained the origins of their leaked collaboration with The Streets. 'Who Knows Who', which surfaced online earlier today, features the Devon three-piece providing a soundtrack for Streets singer Mike Skinner. It was initially rumoured that the track may appear on Skinner's new LP Everything Is Borrowed, which is released later this year. Commenting on the leak, Muse said: "The MP3 floating around on the message boards at the moment (more)...
- 8/4/2008
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Mike Skinner has claimed that some of the songs on his new album will have a "green" message. The Streets singer previously admitted the record, titled Everything Is Borrowed, would have a "peaceful, positive vibe". Speaking about one of the tracks, Skinner told NME: "[I sing] about something quite eco, green, right on, if you get me." Skinner also revealed that he was struggling to decide on the tracklisting for the LP. "There's this really fast one. I mean (more)...
- 6/18/2008
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Mike Skinner has revealed that the fifth Streets album will be their last. In a posting on his MySpace blog, Skinner noted that the group's upcoming Lp - their fourth - would be titled Everything Is Borrowed and would have a "peaceful, positive vibe" in comparison with 2006's The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living. He explained: "If you like The Streets you are about to experience the peaceful, positive vibes that comes after a disturbing work (more)...
- 6/2/2008
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Mike Skinner has revealed that the new Streets video will show him walking to France.
Writing on his MySpace blog, Skinner said he was working on "a music video-type music video for a new song of mine called 'The Escapist'".
He added: "For this work of creative moving imagery I have decided to walk to the south of France. I will be relaying the highlights of it with you over the next few weeks . . .
Writing on his MySpace blog, Skinner said he was working on "a music video-type music video for a new song of mine called 'The Escapist'".
He added: "For this work of creative moving imagery I have decided to walk to the south of France. I will be relaying the highlights of it with you over the next few weeks . . .
- 5/18/2008
- by Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Muse have revealed that they would like to work on a rap-rock collaboration with The Streets.
The three-piece said that if they recorded a track with Mike Skinner it could be the "English's answer to Rage Against The Machine".
Singer Matt Bellamy told BBC 6 Music: "I think we would like to do something with Mike Skinner - we haven’t asked him yet actually, but we would like to do English’s answer to Rage Against The Machine.
"Like London rap rock - just like a . . .
The three-piece said that if they recorded a track with Mike Skinner it could be the "English's answer to Rage Against The Machine".
Singer Matt Bellamy told BBC 6 Music: "I think we would like to do something with Mike Skinner - we haven’t asked him yet actually, but we would like to do English’s answer to Rage Against The Machine.
"Like London rap rock - just like a . . .
- 4/14/2008
- by Alex_Fletcher_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Alex Fletcher)
- Digital Spy
LONDON -- The Britney Spears' hit "Toxic", written by Cathy Dennis, Christian Karlsson and Henrik Jonback, strutted off Thursday with this year's Ivor Novello music award for most-performed work. The 50th Ivor Novello Awards also saw the charity record, Band Aid 20's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" secure the prize for the U.K.'s best-selling single. British rapper and songwriter Mike Skinner grabbed the best song (music and lyrics) award for his song "Dry Your Eyes".
- 5/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- The Britney Spears' hit "Toxic", written by Cathy Dennis, Christian Karlsson and Henrik Jonback, finds itself among the nominees in the most performed category for this year's Ivor Novello songwriting awards. Spears will battle it out with George Michael's "Amazing", written by Michael and Jonathan Douglas and Jamelia's "Thank You", written by Jamelia Davies, Carsten Schack and Peter Biker in the category for the awards, announced Monday. But a charity record, Band Aid 20's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and The Streets -- aka British rapper and songwriter Mike Skinner -- find themselves nominated for two Novello apiece in separate categories.
- 4/12/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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