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Don't you just hate the internet?! I was up early this morning trying to get my hands on some tickets for City and Colour at the Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms - a tiny capacity venue - in between his festival dates, and couldn't even get on the website! It was so infuriating, and judging by his Facebook page I wasn't the only one. His website is usually fine, but the huge traffic of people trying to get tickets must've sunk the hosting dedicated servers, so loads of us couldn't even load the page. I must see Dallas Green! I missed his Royal Albert Hall show because I didn't get tickets and couldn't afford to get one off a tout, I can't stand to give them money anyway, robbing so-and-sos. But I might have to resort to that for this show - I simply cannot miss him again. Photo: eastscene (Flickr)

James Newman is a Yorkshire born soul singer currently doing the toilet circuit in London to make a name for himself. Already impressing big names like James Morrison, Newman is showing signs of a very promising future indeed. With a raw gravely voice that could smooth down a table Newman sings punchy soul pop that the likes of Winehouse, Nutini or even Plan B would be proud of. With an honest working class persona and loveable rogues on stage antics, he could be exactly what the UK charts are looking for right now. Quite simply one of the best unsigned singer songwriters that I have seen. www.myspace.com/jamesnewmanmusic image: James Newman myspace

Now, it is definitely too soon to be making a Hollywood biopic of the recent crazy murderer Amanda Knox who was sentenced less than even three years ago, distasteful even. Very very distasteful, however one thing that is tasteful, at least to me anyway, is casting the beautiful Hayden Panettiere in the role of Knox. Pannettiere is like some kind of special TV based angel and was in my honest opinion the greatest thing about the cheesy superhero show Heroes. Knox is not an angel, in fact, I would say she is just about the worse thing to come out of Italy since....I don’t know Mussolini or that horrible scene from that Italian directed zombie film where the zombie bites that shark. Hayden Pannettiere is alright though. A full on good egg. So yes, whilst the film is a terrible idea, on the whole, every cloud..... Image: hayden-pannettiere.com