Sunday, 24 August 2008

Red Light Company kick off Leeds Festival day two

Red Light Company kicked off daytime two of the Leeds Festival today (August 23) with a fiery set on the Festival Republic stage.


The newcomers - whose members come from America, Scotland and New Zealand - were in impressive form, playing a 20-minute set of punchy indie-rock.


Recent single 'Meccano' got the biggest hearten, whilst 'Scheme Eugene' was introduced by singer Richard Frennaux as being "a song around death".

Red Light Company played:

'Sinking Ship'

'Scheme Eugene'

'With Lights Out'

'Station'

'Meccano'

'Arts and Crafts'

'When Everyone Is Everybody Else'


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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Basinger Fights Sale Of Tigers To Iraq

Campaigning Hollywood star Kim Basinger is battling to save deuce tigers from being sold to a zoo in Iraq. The actress is furious the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Usfws) has sanctioned the exporting of the animals from a zoological garden in Mebane, North Carolina to Baghdad Zoo. Basinger has scripted to Usfws director H. Dale Hall, begging him to turnabout the decisiveness. The longterm People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) campaigner writes, "It has already been shown that the animals at the Baghdad Zoo cannot be properly saved from the country's military conflict. When the warfare began, hundreds of animals in the zoo were killed, stolen, eaten, or let slack by looters. The last two tamil Tigers escaped and were