Tag: Pink Floyd

  • Fever FM is radio partner for ‘The Roger Waters Concert’

    Fever FM is radio partner for ‘The Roger Waters Concert’

    MUMBAI: Fever 104 FM is the official radio partner for “The Roger Waters Concert” in Mumbai. Roger Waters will be performing in Mumbai on 18 February at the MMRDA grounds.

    As part of the promotional activity, the FM will play rock hits from the band and also give out passes to the concert. The grand prize of course is an opportunity to meet the rock icon in person.

    Fever FM Station Head, Mumbai Sajjad Chunawala says “Fever’s motto is to be a part of its listeners’ lives through a special bond with music. Hence it goes without saying that when the legendary Roger Waters come to Mumbai to perform, Fever 104 makes it an unforgettable experience for music enthusiasts! This is just the beginning, wherever there is music Fever will follow!”

    George Roger Waters is best known for his 1965-1985 career with the band Pink Floyd as their main songwriter, bass player and vocalist. He is the sole writer of Pink Floyd’s two most successful singles, Money and Another Brick in the Wall-Part II. Following his break up from the band in 2005, he released an opera, Ça Ira and rejoined Pink Floyd at the Live 8 concert in London, for their first public performance together in 24 years.

  • Catch Naomi Watts in a rendezvous with James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday at 7:00 pm

    MUMBAI: Watch out for Naomi Watts this Sunday on Inside the Actors Studio on PIX at 7:00pm. She had already been a working actress for over a decade when she earned notice as a promising newcomer in Mulholland Drive. Her career has blossomed into one of the busiest and most exciting careers in contemporary films.

     

    She has appeared in 37 motion pictures like The Ring, 21 Grams for which she has won the Venice Film Festival’s Audience Award as Best Actress.

     

    Read below to catch some interesting Trivia about this Australian actress…

     

     

    She is the daughter of Peter Watts, who was a sound engineer for Pink Floyd

     

    Moved to Australia when she was 14

     

    Naomi met her best friend, Nicole Kidman, when they both auditioned for a bikini commercial and they shared a taxi ride home. She also moved in with Nicole Kidman after Kidman spilt up from husband Tom Cruise

     

    She once appeared in an Australian television commercial turning down a date with Tom Cruise for her mum’s lamb roast

     

    When her cell phone rings, it plays Pink Floyd’s “Money”

     

    Accepted the role for 21 Grams without reading the script first

     

    Had a horrific fall on the New Zealand set of King Kong (2005). She fell from a height into a ditch, to the shock of the cast and crew. She thanked her rigorous practice of yoga for saving her from any permanent damage

     

    When shooting a movie, She uses a specific song to get ready for each scene

     

    Naomi Watts on Nicole Kidman: “She’s a very good and supportive friend who kept saying one thing will make the difference. All it needs is one thing and, uh, it didn’t make any sense to me. But she was right. Mulholland Drive changed everything. It was that one film that got me to where I am now.”

     

    Get your popcorn ready and snuggle up on your favorite couch to enjoy another exciting episode of Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday at 7:00 pm on PIX.

  • Zee Café to launch four shows, adds local glam series’View from the Top’

    Zee Café to launch four shows, adds local glam series’View from the Top’

    MUMBAI: The English general entertainment channel Zee Café has lined-up four new shows for the month of April, with – Candid Camera, Oz, The Gig (Musical concert) and View from the Top.

    View from the Top is yet another local show featuring the lifestyles of the rich, the famous and the achievers.

    The show will launch on 23 April at 6 pm. It is Zee Cafe’s second local show- the first being Bombay Talking.

    Zee Café business head Neil Chakravarti says, “Our endeavour is to showcase the best of English entertainment, we are now adding four new shows in the month of April to our existing line-up of award winning programmes. We are positive our viewers will find them as appealing as the earlier shows.

    He adds, “Shows like Candid Camera, Oz, The Gig (Musical concert) and View from the Top, are targeted at a wider audience.

    “We have extended our programming to provide a mixed bag in order to cater to varied tastes of the ever-growing English audience.”

    Starting from 1 April, the channel brings in the reality-comedy show Candid Camera to air at 7 pm.

    On 7 April, the channel will air the series Oz at 10 pm, chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.

    Showcasing some of the outstanding concerts from different corners of the world by some renowned artists of the music industry, Zee Café has lined up a series of 13 concerts in The Gig that includes the likes of Shakira, Usher, Destiny’s Child, Pink Floyd, Santana, Maroon 5 and many more.The Gig will air from 8 April at 2:30 pm.