Caribana acts in the news
Plan B wins yet another award, Interpol are sounding better than ever and Plain White T's have a new hit.
Plan B has won the Songwriter of the Year award at the prestigious Ivor Novello awards.
The soul singer/ rapper – who plays the Grand Scène at Caribana on Friday 10 June – also won the best album award for the Defamation of Strickland Banks and the most performed work for She Said at the awards, considered the Oscars of British music.
The album has now spent 47 weeks in the UK charts and has just been released in the US, where Plan B will support Bruno Mars on his forthcoming tour.
Plan B has also just been cast alongside Ray Winstone in the starring roles in a new film version of cult British police show The Sweeney.
Morcheeba have just finished an extensive US tour and the trip-hop pioneers will kick off a three-month European run with their tour premiere at – Caribana. They play Friday night 10 June on the Grand Scène.[Soft Break][Soft Break]The band marked the end of their US trip with an appearance on iconic US radio channel NPR. Check out their interview and acoustic session here: t.co/b9Cn4GS
Blood Like Lemonade, the title track of their most recent album, also featured recently on the season finale of True Blood.
Interpol have boldly declared that they are sounding better ever despite the departure of bassist Carlos Dengler. The New York indie sensations headline the Grand Scène on Thursday 9 June.
Drummer San Fogarino recently said: “I think the band sounds better than ever. There’s a great sense of comfort onstage... It’s been 10 years, and if we didn’t sound like we do now we shouldn’t be doing it, it would be a waste of time. It would be pathetic to have a crowd spending money to see us if we weren’t at our best. I never felt so confident and comfortable than I do now.”
The Plain White T’s have just scored their third million-selling single in the US. The first single from their current album Wonders of the Younger. The song -- their first to feature guitarist Tim Lopez on vocals -- has been certified for sales of a million copies. It's their fastest-selling track to date, and their third platinum single following "Hey There Delilah" and "1,2,3,4."
The Chicago band – who play the Scène du Lac at Caribana on Thursday 9 June – feel they are now breaking free from the “one-hit wonder” label. Guitarist Lopez recently told the Charlston City Paper: I feel like our band lives in a certain niche of the market ... but I feel once we get a couple more people through the door and they see the live show, it'll change some things. I think we're starting to finally knock away that one-hit wonder title."
