The famous Beyonce will be appearing at Glastonbury in June 2011.

Beyonces label company; Columbia Records have announced that Beyonce Knowles will be one of the headline acts at this year’s Glastonbury festival. The US star will perform on the last day of the event, held at Pilton in Somerset, on the Pyramid Stage, Columbia have revealed. The 29 year old star is said to be ‘really pumped up’ thinking about performing in front of a huge audience.

She said that Glastonbury really is the biggest music festival in the world and she cannot wait to perform there. Organisers of the festival, which runs from the 22nd to the 26th of June have not yet officially announced the 2011 line up. Tickets went on sale last October and were completely sold out in about four hours.

In last year’s Glastonbury festival, the headliners included Muse, Stevie Wonder and the Gorillaz, who replaced U2 after they pulled out. Australian singer Kylie Minogue also made a surprise appearance, performing with the Scissor Sisters.

Sources say that Pete Doherty and Carl Barat will reunite in time for Glastonbury and the pair are stated to net plenty of cash if they do decide to reunite for another performance, making a show ‘a good earner’ if they do arrange a get together for the date.

YAY! Beyonce will be at Glastobury, it’s a shame I didn’t get a ticket, wish I did. Beyonce is amazing.

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A 33 year old woman in Sunderland has been attacked at knifepoint.

Northumbria police have said that a woman has been attacked as she jogged along the seafront in Sunderland.

The 33 year old woman was on the promenade at Seaburn and went down to the beach after hearing a cry for help at 6.45pm on Friday. She was then assaulted at knifepoint which left her distressed and shaken, but luckily, not needing hospital treatment.

The woman is now being assisted by specially trained officers. Police are carrying out enquiries in the area and are appealing for anyone who was in the area at the time and who may have seen or heard anything to contact the police straightaway.

There really should be less of this and I think that people who go round mugging people with knives are just cowards.

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For months on end, Lady Gaga’s fans (her ‘Little Monsters’) have been waiting for the release of her brand new single Born This Way. Yesterday, it was finally unveiled, and Gaga is literally on top of the world.

With a worldwide radio premiere happening simultaneously across the globe, the internet was buzzing from Twitter to Facebook to forums speculating what it would sound like, and whether it was going to become another smash for the PokerFace singer.

In true Gaga style, in under 24 hours of release it has already broken records. It climbed to the top of the US iTunes chart in a mere three hours, being the only song ever to do so. It also was the most played song on US radio in one day in history, being played a huge 2,445 times, destroying the previous record held by Britney Spears’ Hold It Against Me, which hit 619 plays. This has nicely set up Born This Way to be a huge contender to get the 1000th number one on the US singles chart this week.

Last but definitely not least, it is the only song ever to chart at number one at the same time on every single iTunes chart across the world in existence. All in less than a day!

Despite the song’s record breaking chart performance, reviews of the single have been somewhat mixed. Fans of the performer and many critics raved about the single, while a lot of people claimed it was simply a rip off of Madonna’s 1989 hit Express Yourself. There are definitely similarities!

While there are obvious similarities to Express Yourself, I don’t see why people use that as a reason to dislike Born This Way. I’m pretty sure Gaga didn’t go out of her way to copy Madonna, and as long as her fans are happy I would wager she doesn’t care either!

It’s certainly not her best single, but I find the song growing on me with every listen! What are your thoughts on the song?

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Games developed Activision have announced that the upcoming 2011 Guitar Hero release has been cancelled, and the massively successful series of video games will be discontinued.

Despite each game in the series constantly selling bucket loads, and more than competitors such as Rock Band, the death of the video game favourite has been blamed on, you guessed it – money.

“Given the considerable licensing and manufacturing costs associated with this genre, we simply cannot make these games profitably based on current economics and demand,” Activision publishing chief Eric Hirshberg told reporters. “Instead, what we’ll do is focus our time and energies on marketing and supporting our strong catalog of titles and downloadable content.” 

Since beginning in 2005, the Guitar Hero games combined have sold millions of copies across many platforms such as the PlayStation 3, XBox 360 and Wii consoles, generated over $2 billion in revenue for Activision, and paved the way for music themed games, and helped them become a recognizable genre that was a big sales competitor for the ever popular war, RPG and sports games.

However, industry experts suspect that Guitar Hero hasn’t seen its last days just yet. “I wouldn’t classify Guitar Hero as ‘dead,’ but rather ‘hibernating‘. It may take three to five years, and likely a whole new generation of consoles, but I see a possibility of a short revival in the future,” said Electronic Entertainment Design analyst and Research Jesse Divnich.

I certainly hope Divinch is right, I love Guitar Hero and I’m sad to hear it’s ending! While I can see the issues with paying for licensing to use the songs etc, you would think that all the sales they get from not just the game but all the hardware such as guitars, microphones, and drums, they would be able to make up the costs! Apparently not, what a shame!

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