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Oasis have announced a UK tour.

The ‘Lyla’ rockers will kick off their string of shows in support of forthcoming new album, ‘Dig Out Your Soul’, in Liverpool on October 7 - the day after the album is released. It had previously been rumoured the band would start the tour in their home city of Manchester, but a source said: “They are proud of their roots, but they dig Liverpool too and thought they would kick it off there.”

The tour - the band’s first in three years - will then call at arenas in Sheffield, Birmingham, London, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Belfast and Aberdeen, before ending in Glasgow SECC on November 5.

Tickets for the 18-date run of concerts go on sale at 9am on Wednesday (20.08.08). Oasis’ new single, ‘The Shock of the Lightning’, received its first radio play earlier today (15.08.08) ahead of its release on September 29.

Oasis UK tour dates:

Liverpool Echo Arena (October 7,
Sheffield Arena (10, 11)
Birmingham NIA (13, 14)
London Wembley Arena (16, 17)
Bournemouth BIC (20, 21)
Cardiff International Arena (23, 24)
Belfast Odyssey Arena (29, 30)
Aberdeen Exhibition Centre (November 1, 2)
Glasgow SECC (4, 5)
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Amy Winehouse will battle Duffy and Kate Nash at this year’s Vodafone Live Music Awards, in a bid to retain her Best Female title.

The three singers - along with ‘American Boy’ star Estelle - are all nominated for the honour at this year’s ceremony.

Amy is the only winning artist to be nominated in the same category for a consecutive year.

Last year’s Best Tour winners, Muse, are up for Best Live Act, and will go up against Kaiser Chiefs, Primal Scream and The Verve.

The Verve, fronted by Richard Ashcroft, are also up for Best Live Return – making them the only act to achieve two nominations.

Elsewhere, Mark Ronson, Dizzee Rascal and rock veteran Paul Weller will compete for the Best Male award at the ceremony, which will take place on September 18 at London’s Carling Academy, Brixton.

The shortlist was decided by a panel of music experts, with fans choosing the overall winners in each category via internet and text message voting.

The Vodafone Live Music Awards 2008, full shortlist:

Best Female:
Amy Winehouse
Duffy
Kate Nash
Estelle

Best Male:
Mark Ronson
Dizzee Rascal
Morrissey
Paul Weller

Best Live Act:
The Verve
Kaiser Chiefs
Primal Scream
Muse

Best International Act:
Foo Fighters
Jay Z
N*E*R*D
Kings of Leon

Best Live Return:
The Verve
Spice Girls
Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden

XFM Live Breakthrough:
The Ting Tings
Glasvegas
Foals
The Wombats

Best Festival:
Reading/Leeds
Glastonbury
T in the Park
Latitude

Sony Ericsson Tour of the Year:
Take That’s Arena Tour
Sugababes’ ‘Changes’ Tour
NME Tour 2008
Girls Aloud’s ‘Tangled Up’ Tour

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US rapper Kanye West is bringing an 18-coach strong entourage with him to a UK dance festival.

The 31-year-old rapper is also having his own stage built for the Global Gathering event, and is determined to outdo fellow rap star Jay-Z’s headlining Glastonbury slot.

A source said: ‘A huge amount of planning has gone into Kanye’s performance and fans won’t be disappointed. To ensure the show goes to plan, no-one else will perform on the main stage on the Friday night. It is being built especially to his specifications.

There will be 18 performers and £100,000 worth of lights put in place.’

Kanye and his entourage are set to get five star treatment from the moment they arrive at the two-day festival at Stratford-upon-Avon, in England.

The source added: ‘Global gathering organisers are laying on a feast for Kanye and his crew. A top quality chef will be brought in especially to cook a three course sit-down meal.’ The annual Global Gathering is renowned for bringing performers and DJs together.

This year is no exception as top name DJs Tiesto, Roger Sanchez, Fedde le Grande and Eric Prydz will perform alongside acts including Sam Sparro, Moby and Mark Ronson.

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Nas is blasting US news network Fox for their coverage of Barrack Obama.

Fox news is the right-wing Republican skewed Murdoch network and doesn`t like it at all when they are backing a loser. They also don`t like it when they called on it.

‘Fox poisons the country with racist propaganda and tries to call it news,’ Nas said in a statement.

The rapper protested the network outside of the Manhattan Fox studios this week. He has also recorded the song `Sly Fox` on his latest album about the biased reporting of the network.

Nas has teamed with website colorofchange.org. The site has so far gathered more than 100,000 signatures protesting the network after it reporting that Senator Obama gave his wife a “pound” in front of the cameras and a Fox anchor calling it a “terrorist fist jab.”

Last week a Fox News on-screen graphic called Michelle Obama “Obama`s baby mama.”

Nas` latest album `Untitled` debuted at number one this week in the USA.

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NEW YORK (July 19) - Billy Joel bade a stirring farewell to Shea Stadium on Friday during an electrifying, sold-out final show at the same ballpark where the Beatles famously ushered in a new era in rock ‘n’ roll four decades ago.
He was joined by an all-star lineup of friends including Paul McCartney, who told Joel, “Came here a long time ago. We had a blast that night and we’re having another one tonight.”
“Good evening, Shea Stadium. Is this cool or what?” Joel told the crowd at the New York Mets’ home field, which is to be razed after the baseball season to make way for a new stadium across the street.
“They’re gonna be tearing this place down, but I wanna thank you … for letting me do the best job in the world,” he said.
The show paid homage to Shea’s baseball glories, with Mets highlights playing on jumbo screens during “Zanzibar.” But the concert also was a mark of the stadium’s place in music history.
The show came 43 years after the Beatles’ legendary show at Shea ? the first concert at the ballpark. The concert came at the height of Beatlemania and demonstrated the sheer power of rock ‘n’ roll and the Beatles: 55,000 screaming fans at a U.S. ballpark was virtually unheard-of at the time, and the show gave the Fab Four even more cachet among the Beatle-crazed American public.
Joel has always strongly embraced his New York and Long Island roots, and that makes for memory-making concerts every time he plays in the city. Throngs of fans know his music so well they can pretty much take over any chorus they like.
And as if the “Piano Man” playing the last concert at Shea wasn’t thrilling enough, high-wattage guests turned up the excitement level.
Tony Bennett sang “New York State of Mind” with Joel on Friday, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler performed “Walk This Way,” and Roger Daltrey of the Who did “My Generation. At the end of “My Generation,” Joel smashed a guitar against the stage, breaking it in two.
McCartney came on at the end. He sang “I Saw Her Standing There” while on guitar and “Let It Be” on piano ? the last song of the night. Joel sat on top of piano and sang backup.
Garth Brooks appeared on stage earlier wearing a Mets jersey, and in the audience, one of Joel’s famous fans ? ex-wife Christie Brinkley ? sang along, word for word, to the chorus of “She’s Always a Woman.”
During the first installment of Joel’s “Last Play at Shea” on Wednesday, John Mellencamp came on stage to perform his hit “Pink Houses,” and Don Henley underscored the baseball theme with his standard “Boys of Summer.”
The Beatles and baseball shared the spotlight at the concerts. Joel played three Beatles songs (”A Hard Day’s Night,” ”Please, Please Me” and “She Loves You”) during Wednesday’s set, and introduced his signature “Piano Man” with “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” He also played the national anthem to start the show.
“I want to thank the Beatles for letting us use their room. Best band that ever was, best band that ever will be,” Joel told fans Wednesday.
Diane Gentile saw the Beatles play at Shea in 1966 ? their second visit to the stadium after the historic show a year earlier. Her recollection of that summer night 42 years ago: “Oh, my God, there are the Beatles on that stage, and here am I.”
“It was unbelievable. It was exciting; you could feel the electricity. Right before the concert we were singing ‘Happy Anniversary’ to John because his anniversary was that day,” Gentile recalled.
On Friday, Gentile was back at Shea to watch Joel for what she predicted would be the best concert she’ll ever see.