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Poor Andy. However just to clarify there are not a few concerts in Brighton with Ronan only just the one show, and it is a Charity event. Ronan has an arena tour in Asia in May and will be heading to Australia later in the Summer to tour there. Because of this he is only doing in 2 summer shows in the UK the one in Brighton and another in the Isle of Mann. He is also doing 3 concerts in Germany and 2 in Switzerland all in June. At the start of the year he did an arena tour in South Africa. On top of that he is also running the London Marathon on the 22nd of April he is raising money for Cancer Researh - not bad for someone going down the pan, I'm sure he will survive :rolleyes: To Sponcer Ronan visit http://www.justgiving.com/ronan

Teaming up for a huge charity concert with The Spice Girls according to This Is London http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/articl...nite/article.do Spice Girls to reunite By Jonathan Prynn, Evening Standard 16.02.07 The Spice Girls are set for a huge reunion concert this autumn - six years after they split. All five former members of the Girl Power phenomenon are said to be agreed in principle to a charity concert in London followed by a national tour. The reunion comes after the success of the Take That revival. The girls would appear with Nineties band Boyzone, who are also reforming, according to industry figures. "They are really keen to do it if there is a charity angle. They are talking about doing it for Bono's Red campaign. It's been on the cards for a while, at least a couple of months. They are all good friends now," said one source. Senior executives at TV production company Emap TV, who want to broadcast the concert, are flying to Los Angeles this weekend for detailed talks with Simon Fuller, the band's former manager, who still represents Victoria Beckham. One sticking point is said to be their £ 2.5 million- a- head demands for the broadcast rights to the charity concert and tour. Ticket receipts for the concert itself would go to charity. Details of the concert are still being negotiated but it would have to be after the birth of Baby Spice Emma Bunton's first baby in the summer. Scary Spice Melanie Brown is also due to give birth in March. Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell had a daughter, Bluebell Madonna last May. The fifth member is Sporty Spice Melanie Chisholm. The plans involve a concert at a huge London venue, possibly Hyde Park, in September or October. It will be 11 years after the Spice Girls exploded on to the pop scene with their debut single Wannabe, still the biggest selling single by an all-female group. A further eight No 1s followed before they broke up in February 2001 after record sales of 55 million. Halliwell left the band in 1998. The Beckhams are close to U2 front man Bono, whose Red campaign raises money to help victims of Aids. Last year David appeared in a TV advert for the Motorola's Red Razr mobile phone, which generates a contribution to the charity every time it is used. There have been a succession of rumours about a reunion, particularly at the time of the Live 8 concert in 2005. Earlier this month Beckham, Bunton and Halliwell were spotted having dinner together at Nobu restaurant in London, leading to renewed speculation. Bunton was recently asked about a reunion on the Richard and Judy TV show and replied: "I would love to. Even the other girls have said they'd love to do it. It would be great."

Hmmm I think this is just Louis Walsh's wishful thinking now that Ronan is actually talking to him again after Louis appologised to him. :P However, there is a rumour that they have signed up to do and ITV documentry on the style of the Take That one last year, but a tour is a little premature as for new material don't hold your breath. Ronan is on tour in South Africa at the moment and is touring Asia in March with Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Europe after that. He is also in training for the London Marathon in April so not too sure where he'd fit in a Boyzone tour this year! The other stumbling block is Keith Duffy, Ronan and he are still not on "real" speaking terms although Ronan is friendly with the other 3 ;) It may well happen one day, but untill Ronan actually announces tour dates himself I won't believe it :P

Thanks for that.

Just wondering what else was said in the Star about the event as a whole?

WIN TICKETS TO THE EMERALD AND IVY BALL WITH MAGIC FM ALL NEXT WEEK Ronan Keating hosts the inaugural Emeralds & Ivy Ball for Cancer Research UK, on Friday 1st December in The Roundhouse, Camden. This spectacular event is sponsored by Anglo Irish Bank and celebrates the launch of the Cancer Research UK/ Marie Keating mobile units in the UK in 2006. The guest list for this exclusive event includes George Michael, Darren Clarke, Westlife and many more. The evening starts with a champagne reception in the Roundhouse, followed by a meal in the famous round hall. There will be performances on the night by Ronan, Brian McFadden, Delta Goodrem and other special guests. Magic FM’s Breakfast DJ Neil Fox will host the auction, with the opportunity to win exclusive tickets to the US Masters in Augusta, April 2007; Dinner at Gordon Ramsay’s chefs table at Claridges, an exclusive trip with the Jumeirah Group to Dubai and many more. DJ Mark Goodier will continue the party until 2am. For your chance to win a pair of tickets worth £1,000 to this amazing event tune in to the More Music Breakfast show with all next week http://promotions.magic.fm/promotions/canc...earch/index.asp

Yeah you are right Gill Ronan's sales for this album in the UK have been very dissapointing. Its very difficult when there are so few music shows to appear on at the moment. He also didn't have the luxury of the Xmas sales or Valentines Day , or the Parky effect added to that Polydor spent very little on the promo and airplay has been c**p. So with all that against him its surprising that he sold as much as he did. However in saying all that this album did better round the world than the last studio album so I guess its swings and roundabouts. Billings at these kind of charity events are not usually about current sales though are they? Its about respect for the artist. In his career he has sold 21million albums and that will always be taken it to consideration. There are plenty of artists that don't sell as much as Will did with his current album, but that doesn't mean Will would automatically be above them in any bill. ;) The charts are c**p at the moment with downloads a top 10 can not be guaranteed even with a healthy fan base. You never know Will may find it just as hard when it comes to releasing his next album. ;) You also say its no surprise that Ronan was the headline act in South Africa, but reading through I thought it was you was saying all along that Will was topping the bill at all the shows because he was the one on all the posters, so I guess it did become a bit of a surprise to you aye! Still lets not be bitchy aye I thought that you and I were friends Gill, I guess I was wrong :( I

Sounds like Ronan picked the best time to come on when there was the biggest captive audience. At these kinds of functions a headline act doesn't always have to come on last, they just get to choose the best possible time slot...........unless he said to Will "its okay mate, I know I'm headlining the show, but I'll let you go on last tonight" Anyway sounds like a great show I wish I was there.

Ronan is on the 20th of November not the 13th

Ronan presented The Sun's podcast this weekend and talked about the charity ball he is hosting and said his friends Brian and Delta were going to perform on the night. He was out in drinking in Dublin last week with Brian and was with them both in London at the News of The World kids awards (the photograph was in todays paper of them all together). So I'm pretty sure that it will happen. ;)

Hmm I don't know whether it can be seen as a re-launch of her career in the UK, it maybe that her and Brian are performing as a favour for a friend because Brian is a close friend of Ronan's. At least it will be a little bit of publicity for her and that will help to re-establish her here again.

Delta is performing @ the Round House in London for the Emerald and Ivy Ball on the 1st of December. It is a charity event in aid of Cancer Research and is hosted by Ronan Keating. Delta will be performing along with Brian Mcfadden and others. You will need to raid your piggy banks to afford the tickets though ;) You can buy a table for 10 people for £5,000 :o However you can invest a bit less and buy a copy of OK mag who will be covering the event. For more details about the event see here: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/getinvolve...emeraldsandivy/

Good week for Ronan in Australia :dance: Certainly worth the visit down under

Take That have moved to the 20th of November as per Victoria Newton in the Sun yesterday.

I hear that Brian Mcfadden's song "Demons" has been picked up by the producers of "Lost" and has been receiving rave reviews already when it was shown on series 3. I must say it does fit in perfectly. Could this prove to be a hit for Brian at last.

You Raise Me Up is a great song, but it didn't get that much radio airplay at first, so being featured on X Factor every week must have had a positive effect on the overall sales of this single and album. Simon and Louis will feature Westlife as much as possible, you mark my words!

Its interesting that last nights X Factor programme featured All Or Nothing and Easy both songs are set to be on the WL love album. We all know how big a part the X Factor played in the success of Westlife's You Raise Me UP last year, so I wonder how many of the album's track listing will appear on the show over the next few weeks. This show is like one massive advert for Westlife! I can imagine this album being massive, unfortunately.

And the nominations for the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006 are: Male Justin Timberlake Kanye West Pharrell Robbie Williams Sean Paul Female Beyoncé Christina Aguilera Madonna Nelly Furtado Shakira Group Black Eyed Peas Depeche Mode Keane Pussycat Dolls Red Hot Chili Peppers Rock Evanescence Keane The Killers Red Hot Chili Peppers The Strokes Hip Hop Busta Rhymes Kanye West Missy Elliott P Diddy Sean Paul Alternative Artic Monkeys Korn Muse The Raconteurs System Of A Down Song Gnarls Barkley - ‘Crazy’ Nelly Furtado - ‘Maneater’ Red Hot Chili Peppers - ‘ Dani California’ Rihanna - ‘SOS’ Shakira Ft Wyclef Jean – ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ R&B Beyoncé Mary J. Blige Outkast Pharrell Rihanna Pop Christina Aguilera Justin Timberlake Madonna Robbie Williams Shakira Album Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics Madonna – Confessions on a Dance Floor Muse - Black Holes and Revelations Nelly Furtado - Loose Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium Video Gnarls Barkley - ‘Crazy’ Justice Vs Simian – ‘We Are Your Friends’ Kanye West - ‘Touch The Sky’ Ok Go - ‘A Million Ways’ Pink - ‘Stupid Girls’ MTV Europe Music Awards local nominees are: Adriatic Act Alexandra Kovač Edo Maajka Let 3 Neisha Siddharta African Act Anselmo Ralph Freshlyground Juma Nature Nameless P-Square Baltic Act BrainStorm Inculto Tanel Padar and the Sun Skamp Vanilla Ninja Danish Act Kashmir L.O.C. Nik and Jay Outlandish Spleen United Dutch & Belgian Act Anouk dEUS Gabriel Rios Kane Pete Philly & Perquisite Finnish Act Lordi PMMP Poets of the fall Olavi Uusivirta Von Herzen Brothers French Act 113 Bob Sinclair Diam’s Olivia Ruiz Rohff German Act Bushido Die Toten Hosen Rammstein Silbermond Sportfreunde Stiller Italian Act Finley Jovanotti Lacuna Coil Monda Marcio Tiziano Ferro Norwegian Act Amulet Elvira Nikolaisen Marit Larsen Mira Craig Serena-Maneesh Polish Act Blog 27 Coma Hey Sistars Virgin ‘Szansa’ Portuguese Act Boss Ac David Fonseca Expensive Soul Mind da Gap Moonspell Romanian Act Blondy DJ Project Morandi Parazitii Simplu Russian Act Dima Bilan Gorod312 T.A.T.U UMA2RMAN Valery Meladze Spanish Act La Excepción Macaco Nena Daconte La Oreja de Van Gogh Pereza Swedish Act The Knife Lisa Miskovsky Peter Bjorn & John Snook The Sounds UK & Ireland Act Artic Monkeys Corinne Bailey Rae The Kooks Lily Allen Muse Justin Timberlake is the host for the night. European awards? More like an American takeover :cry:

I read that article and it's pretty much a hatched job done by someone with a huge chip on their shoulder (a friend of Louis Walsh I believe), she certainly wasn't too bothered at getting her facts right. He doesn't promote or tour in Ireland and the radio stations didn't play the single so it was hardly surprising that it didn't do well there. His album went top 10 in most of the European countries it was released in, as well as Australia, New Zealand, Asia so I'm sure he won't too bothered about the Irish market, I don't think he will be signing on just yet!

Well the single may not be doing well in the chart, but at least it's perked up the album, massive jump last week and was sitting just outside the top 20 in the midweeks, so people are buying the album instead which I'm sure will please the label more than whether or not the single goes top 10 <_< The label were fore-warned though, a lot of UK fans were not happy about him releasing Iris as a single (too well known), they were also not happy with the Track list (no new songs on either disk).They also aren't habitual downloads:rolleyes: I downloaded his live acoustic version of the song on I-Tunes its different, but very good, better than the recorded version actually.

I thought this was interesting from Music Week - who are the current "in" thing and who are yesterday's heros: June 19, 2006 T4 on Busta's bitch Being at T4 On The Beach yesterday gave Dooley a very salutary lesson in what "the kids" are up to these days. And what an illuminating update it turned out to be. Before we settle down to the facts, though, some conclusions. A) Dooley's tastes are, sad to say, not particularly down with the kids. They occasionally intersect - and if you feel so inclined you could make a very tasty Venn diagram of the two - but generally the kids and Dooley are at odds. Sigh. And B) the world of reality TV is a cruel, cruel beast. There you are, one moment topping the charts with a record breaking single, and the next thing you know the kids are deserting your gig in droves in a bid to avoid the post-party rush, having just screamed their heads off at some dodgy ska pop band, the lead singer of whom just happened to have spent a month in the Big Brother House flirting with a non-celebrity. It never happened to Cliff, now did it? So: to business. It's official, the kids love: Lily Allen (and quite right too - her double bill of LDN and Smile was the day's undoubted pop highlight). Basement Jaxx Busta Rhymes (although points off for singing a song about your "bitch" Busta. It's live TV for crying out loud). McFly (although less than they used to). Ne-Yo (very slick). Pussycat Dolls (who waved very nicely). Razorlight (a surprise). The Zutons. The Feeling. Orson (who made Dooley go all queasy). Matt Willis. The Ordinary Boys (who were probably the most screamed at). Hard-Fi (and so do their dads). Sadly, though, the kids do NOT love: Dannii Minogue (although she really put her back into it. And the tabloids loved her). Embrace (despite the sky being a very Embrace shade of grey). Feeder (although Martin from Eastenders LOVES them so that's OK). Pet Shop Boys (sad to say - but Dooley loved them AND they played West End Girls, providing the best song of the day). Simon Webbe (Blue seems a long way away). Shayne Ward (worryingly for him). Will Young (fame, fame, fatal fame). http://blog.musicweek.com/2006/06/t4_on_bu...bitch.html#more

Any idea on the Scottish Album chart

I take it that they compile their charts on physical sales and don't include downloads.

With all eyes on Germany at the moment its interesting to see what they are listening to on the radio! Latest German Airplay chart: 02.06.2006- 09.06.2006 1.( 2) SIN SIN SIN ROBBIE WILLIAMS 1208470 2.( 1) HIPS DON`T LIE SHAKIRA FEAT JEAN WYCLEF 855.800 3.( 3) BECAUSE OF YOU KELLY CLARKSON 806.130 4.( 6) NO NO NEVER TEXAS LIGHTNING 766.620 5.( 9) WHO KNEW PINK 678.650 6.( 8) IRIS RONAN KEATING 645.345 7.(12) LOVE GENERATION BOB SINCLAR 575.140 8.(11) UPSIDE DOWN JACK JOHNSON 545.160 9.(10) WHO SAYS YOU CAN`T GO HOME BON JOVI 531.435 10.( 4) CRAZY GNARLS BARKLEY 486.060 11.(31) GOODBYE SASHA 480.110 12.(13) ICH BIN ICH (WIR SIND WIR) ROSENSTOLZ 477.470 13.(15) THE HARDEST PART COLDPLAY 476.010 14.(21) THAT`S THE WAY MWY HEART GOES MARIE SERNEHOLT 474.860 15. ( 5) IF I WERE YOU HOOBASTANK 471.320 16.(17) A DIOS LE PIDO JUANES 468.600 17.(14) UNENDLICH SILBERMOND 454.930 18.(18) SAVIN ME NICKELBACK 445.600 19.(20) MANEATER NELLY FURTADO 432.525 20.(19) ONE MARY J. BLIGE & U2 423.390 21.(16) SORRY MADONNA 414.090 22.(24) PROMISE (YOU AND ME) REAMONN 352.300 23.(37) ZEIT, DAS SICH WAS DREHT GROENEMEYER 350.065 24.(27) MAS QUE NADA MENDES ,SERGIO FEAT BLACK 346.145 25.(30) SEWN THE FEELING 343.310 26.(23) SLOWLY SASHA 342.890 27.( 7) DANI CALIFORNIA RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 337.760 28.(22) I STILL BURN TOBIAS REGNER 337.060 29.(25) S.O.S RIHANNA 325.810 30.(35) GET TOGETHER MADONNA 316.640

Poor Ronan lost out to due to downloads