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Ludovico Einaudi announces three more London dates

- Source: Music-News.com

Composer/pianist Ludovico Einaudi, whose latest album 'In A Time Lapse' hit No 1 in the Classical charts and 24 in the pop charts on its release at the end of January, has announced that he will return to the UK to play three consecutive shows at London's Barbican Centre in the summer.

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Blur On Hyde Park Performance

- Source: ClashMusic.com

Blur have spoken about their decision to take part in the BT London Live concert at Hyde Park. The Olympics were brought to an end on Sunday might (August 12th), with millions around the globe watching an extravagant closing show.

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First Photos And Details Emerge For New ‘Toy Story’ Short ‘Partysaurus Rex’

- Source: The Playlist

When " Finding Nemo " is theatrically re-released next month, re-formatted for 3D and following a similar trajectory that made " The Lion King " a surprise smash last year, it will come packaged with it a very sizable incentive – a brand new " Toy Story " short film, entitled " Partysaurus Rex ," and centered around our favorite neurotic dinosaur Rex (played, from the beginning, by Wallace Shawn ).

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BT River of Music: Transglobal Underground interview for London 2012

- Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

"Of the three singers," Lee says, "our first choice was Nizar Al Issa, who's Kuwait-born and also plays the oud – he's one of the best singers of his national style in this country. We found Mansour Al Mohanadi in Qatar – he's the real thing in his resplendent dishdasha robe. Then Hamdan Al-Abri adds a different flavour – he doesn't sing in Arabic. He mostly performs on the hotel music scene in Dubai, doing a kind of experimental electronic soul."

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River of Music, London 2012 Festival, preview

- Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

Asia will be housed in Battersea Park, Europe in Somerset House and Trafalgar Square, the Americas at the Tower of London, Oceania in Greenwich's Old Royal Naval College and Africa at the London Pleasure Gardens close to the Olympic Park. With admission to all of these events free – bar a small booking charge – BT River of Music is a mammoth and hugely ambitious undertaking, which will be, in the words of organiser David Jones of concert promoters Serious, "not one festival, but six, all taking place simultaneously".

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OfCom’s three-strikes code: Reactions

- Source: CMU - Complete Music Update

So, as previously reported, yesterday media regulator OfCom published the latest long-time-coming draft of its Obligations Code stemming from the copyright section of the 2010 Digital Economy Act, the bit that puts in place the first elements of a three-strikes system for combating online file-sharing.

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Five UK ISPs forced to block access to The Pirate Bay

- Source: CMU - Complete Music Update

The High Court in London yesterday issued orders requiring five internet service providers to block their customers from accessing the always controversial file-sharing search service The Pirate Bay. The court orders were possible thanks to the precedent set in last year's Newzbin case, and followed a court ruling earlier this year that confirmed that, under English copyright law, The Pirate Bay is itself liable for the copyright infringement it enables its users to actually commit.

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