LATEST NEWS…SHARON VS DANNII ROUND TWO: Outspoken former X-Factor judge Sharon Osbourne has launched another scathing attack on her X-Factor co-star, the untalented Minogue sister (no need to elaborate). Mrs Osbourne previously said Dannii was only chosen as a judge because the show's creator Simon Cowell wanted to sleep with her. This time Sharon called Danni "f*cking useless." "She wasn't so much a dim bulb as a bulb in a power cut," Shaz added." You have to hand it to Sharon - she calls a spade a spade….NAOMI STRIKES AGAIN: Our favourite supermodel with anger management issues, Naomi Campbell, allegedly punched out a taxi driver in New York late last month. The driver claims the out-of-control model flew into a rage and began hitting him from the back seat leaving him with a black eye. He alleged that Naomi jumped from the vehicle and ran from the scene after he stopped the car to contact police. Taxi drivers all over New York now have a fear much greater than late-night knife muggings - God help them…WINO BACK WITH EX: Amy Winehouse has reunited with her druggie ex Blake Fielder-Civil. The pair were spotted pashing outside a London restaurant. The couple decided to reconcile their train-wreck relationship after Blake left her for another woman last year. Despite Blake making K-Fed look like the catch of the century, Wino probably hasn't been sober since she met him anyway. Well someone needs to fill Whitney and Bobby's shoes….TIGER'S GOT BALLS: Golf balls that is. Tiger Woods has resumed training and sources close to the family say the disgraced golfer will return to golf at the Tavistock Cup tournament on March 22. Meanwhile there has been no sign of the player's wronged wife Elin, although reports say she visited the man-whore - err sorry, her husband - in sex rehab. He probably should return to work since buying his wife's silence obviously comes at a very high price…LIFE IMITATES ART FOR TV STAR: 'Two and a Half Men' star John Cryer, who plays Charlie's super annoying brother Allen, isn't just hated by his onscreen ex wife. The whiny actor allegedly had a hit taken out on him by his actual ex wife (the aptly named) Sarah Trigger. A US court alleged that Trigger wanted to have the actor bumped off because he no longer agreed pay his $10 000-a-month child support for their two kids. Meanwhile his onscreen brother Charlie Sheen is in rehab after threatening his wife with a pocket knife. On the plus-side, there's enough drama in their lives to inspire a whole new series of 'Men'…UNDERBELLY - ANOTHER CONTROVERSY: It just wouldn't be Underbelly without controversy. The new series 'Underbelly: The Golden Years' about the Kings Cross underworld is again embroiled in controversy as a former Kings Cross police officer depicted in the show sues for defamation. The former officer, Wendy Gaye Hatfield, has demanded that the Supreme Court allow her to preview episodes before they go to air to ensure she has not been defamed. Hatfield believes that the plot suggests she had a sexual relationship with a notorious Kings Cross nightclub owner and was promoted in the NSW police force by providing sexual favours. While it all sounds juicy, Hatfield will try to stop parts of the show that paint her in a bad light from going to air. She probably doesn't realise she can cash in on the controversy just like Roberta Williams….MR HEIDI MONTAG IN HOSPITAL: Mrs plastic fantastic Heidi Montag's less famous other half, Spencer Pratt, was recently hospitalised needing stitches in his tongue. The injury to his tongue occurred in a bizarre incident where he implicated his new pet dog after he bit his own tongue leaving him unable to talk for several days. Unable to accept responsibility for being a clumsy fool, he blamed his poor (more intelligent) Pomeranian for his stupidity. Given the mindless rubbish that comes out of The Hills star's mouth, here's hoping he bites his tongue more often….JOHN HELPS JESS GET GUYS: John Mayer's recent comments about Jessica Simpson's talents as a lover are helping the blonde singer pull men. In an Oprah interview early this month, Jess said her phone had been ringing off the hook since John described her as "sexual napalm" to US Playboy. Meanwhile, no females will touch John Mayer with a ten foot pole after he described his junk as a 'white supremacist' and basically bagged all of his former girlfriends in the highest selling men's magazine in the world. Perhaps John also needs to have a freak accident involving Spencer Pratt's dog?...CHERYL COLE DUMPS HUSBAND: Another day, another sports star cheats on his wife. This time it's British soccer player Ashley Cole who has cheated on UK glamour girl and former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole. The 26-year-old glamour found Shane Warne-style text messages on her husband's phone and after countless other infidelities on his part, finally decided to leave his ass. Cheryl is busy promoting her solo album '3 Words' which has been given rave reviews, so she probably isn't wasting much time crying over it. For the last time girls, do not date rockers, sports men or actors - unless you are totally against monogamy….
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BIG DAY OUT CELEBRATES 100th SHOW

Sydney celebrated the 100th BDO festival on January 23rd with a sold-out show. The annual summer festival has been attracting the most dedicated music punters for 18 years and is bigger than ever. This year, 53,000 excited punters attended Sydney's second show, and over 70 artists toured all around the nation. The heat, unbearable like every year, was harsh until a cool change in the evening was welcomed by many sweaty music lovers. Home grown acts such as Powderfinger, The Temper Trap and Jet joined forces with huge international artists such as Muse, Lily Allen, Mars Volta, Peaches and Dizzee Rascal, who pulled off one of the days biggest sets despite the storm that roared and rained during nearly every song. Fireworks and a fire canon lit up the sky to celebrate the milestone show with Groove Armada ending the show at Midnight in what was sure to be one hot and sore legged boiler room dance party.

THE BIGGEST HOTTEST 100 EVER

There is nothing more Australian than backyard cricket, a barbecue and the tradition of tuning into triple J's hottest 100 live countdown on Australia Day. Since 1989, triple j's hottest 100 has established itself as one of the largest music polls in the world and this year the national radio station received the most amount of votes ever reaching an enormous 1.1 million. English folk rockers Mumford & Sons took out the number 1 position for 2010 with 'Little Lion Man'. Four Australian acts made an appearance in the top 10 including triple j's own unearthed winners Art vs. Science at number 2. Official bets on the poll had to be stopped early as the results of the number 1 song were leaked early through the ABC shop website. The article was written for the next edition of J Mag but was supposedly published too early on the site. A triple j spokeswoman refused to comment on the leak.

FRANZ FERDINAND TWEETING RAGE OVER MCDONALDS

Franz Ferdinand are highly unimpressed with their American record label at the moment after one of their songs appeared in a campaign for McDonalds. Singer Alex Kapranos showed his disgust on twitter after label Epic, which is owned by Sony Music Entertainment, approved the use of the song on the fast food empire's website. He wrote 'http://www.latenightmcdonalds.com/ is an example of how a band falls out with their U.S. label. Did they think we'd approve this sh*t?" Kapranos went on to tweet, "Dirty bastards. Stupid arrogant motherf*cking pig-brained arseholes. I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds. I'm not really pissed off with McDonalds. They're just the same as any other psychopathic corporation - no more evil, no less." As his anger subsided, the singer showed his humorous side after posting the following: "I'm just pissed off because I had a sponsorship deal with White Castle on the cards which is now totally scuppered. I was going to get a lifetime supply of those cute (much tastier than McD) burgers and they were going to open a Dennistoun franchise."

GOLD AT THE GRAMMYS

The music industry's best were all glitzed and glammed up at this years 52nd Annual Grammy Awards that took place in late January in Los Angeles. Neil Young received his first Grammy and was honoured as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year. The biggest winners of the night were the ladies with Beyonce winning an amazing six awards and breaking the record for the most ever wins in one night by a female artist. Other artists picking up more than one Grammy included Taylor Swift who also won Best Album of the Year, The Black Eyed Peas, Jay-Z and Kings of Leon. A significant 100 of the 109 winners were announced earlier in the day in a lower profile ceremony. Lady Gaga and Elton John kicked off the show with an elaborate collaborative performance including pyrotechnics, theatrical choreography and many sequins. Pink was also an outstanding performer on the night singing upside-down whilst suspended in the air. Michael Jackson's children appeared onstage to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award honouring The King of Pop after a special 3D tribute.

ST JEROME'S LANEWAY FESTIVAL HITS SYDNEY

The hipsters of Sydney were in their element at the recent sold out St Jerome's Laneway Festival which returned with a new line-up and a new location. A relatively new and previously smaller festival that originated in Melbourne in 2004 with only 1400 attendees cramped into a tiny alleyway. Since then, the festival has grown substantially and relocated from its significantly smaller Sydney CBD location to an ex-asylum in the Sydney College of the Arts in Rozelle. The diverse range of musical acts included Florence and the Machine, The Middle East, Wild Beasts, The xx, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Mumford and Sons, Echo and the Bunnymen and a stack more from Oz and abroad. Glorious weather and three conveniently laid out stages made for a close to perfect day for the well dressed indie crowd.

GROWTH FOR THE AUSTRALIAN RECORD INDUSTRY

The Australian record industry has announced for the first time in six years that the industry is growing. Wholesale sales of sound recordings and music videos for 2009 has demonstrated the first peak in revenue since 2003 and an increase of over 5% from last year. Whilst physical CD sales are still in decline, the key contributor to the success is the overall digital album sales. Digital albums now account for 7.5% of overall album sales by volume, up from 4.35% across the same period last year. Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed A Dream" and Michael Buble's "Crazy Love" were the two biggest sellers through traditional music retailers. Artists such as La Roux, Mumford & Sons and Australian singer songwriter Lisa Mitchell all had albums in 2009 with which more than 20% of their sales were generated in a digital format.

GOOGLE RUINED SURPRISE PROPOSAL FOR KATY PERRY

Katy Perry discovered that her now fiancé Russell Brand was to propose to her when she received a Google alert. Katy admitted that she still does search for herself on Google and in doing so, discovered that the proposal was imminent when the search engine revealed that the 34 year old comedian had been shopping for engagement rings. Russell didn't deny it but somehow still managed to surprise the 25 year old pop diva with a proposal when holidaying together in India. Russell said 'There was an elephant involved. We were on an elephant just before it'.

VANS BOWL-A-RAMA 2010

For the sixth year running, the infamous shores of Bondi Beach will play host to VANS BOWL-A-RAMA, not only the biggest concrete event in the Southern Hemisphere, but now the biggest week of festivities to hit Bondi! Taking place on 20 February, legendary skateboarders expected to make an appearance include: Bucky Lasek, Omar Hassan, Steve Caballero, Christian Hosoi, Bob Burnquist, Rune Glifberg, Pat Ngoho, Otavio Neto, Jackson Pilz, Juergen Horrwarth, Renton Miller and Corbin Harris. The Bowl-A-Rama festival will kick off on Wednesday 17th of February 2010 and the killer skate action will commence 11am Saturday the 20th of February 2010. You can also catch all of the action on FUEL TV on Wednesday the 24th of March at 6pm.

AC/DC SONGS DOMINATE IRON MAN 2

Music from AC/DC, spanning several decades, will be featured on the new Iron Man 2 soundtrack. An epic 15 tracks will be featured in the movie including songs from 1976 right through to 2008. Not since Stephen King's 'Maximum Overdrive' have the iconic Australian rockers licensed their music to a film. Marvel Pictures and Sony struck a deal to have the high energy music featured in the incredible film. "Music is an integral part of the Tony Stark and Iron Man experience, and we are pleased that Columbia and AC/DC are taking part in the franchise's phenomenon. Through this relationship, the band is delivering fans supercharged Iron Man branded music through all our combined consumer touch points, from the movie to retail outlets and even virally with the debut of the new video," said Tim Connors, Chief Operating Officer, Marvel Studios. The Album will be released in April as a CD/DVD 2 disc set before the release of the movie in May.

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