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Music News: Duffy wins 3 Brits; Duffydil flower; Il Divo tour; Karima Francis; Elvis Costello

By bandweblogs on Feb 20, 2009 in Albums, Bands, New Releases, Press Releases | Tags: , , ,

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This week has belonged to Duffy. The talented Welsh songstress walked away with three Brits on Wednesday, including the showpiece award of Best Album for ‘Rockferry’. Congratulations to Duffy on her remarkable Brit Award feat and Grammy Award which she won earlier this month.

Duffy - Rockferry

Not content with Brit Awards and Grammy’s, Duffy now has a flower named after her. The cleverly coined ‘Duffydil’ will be unveiled at the RHS show in Cardiff, April 14th.

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Il Divo head out on their all-conquering World Tour tomorrow, at Manchester’s MEN Arena. The UK leg of the tour features 2 dates at London’s O2, Feb 27th and 28th.

The new show is staged and choreographed by William Baker (Kylie Minogue) on a state of the art set, which offers fans the chance to sit within the staging and watch the show.

No doubt the show will feature tracks from their No.1 album ‘The Promise’ which has sold 3million records in just over 2 months, including 500,000 in the UK.

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Following Robert Plant & Alison Krauss‘ 5-award haul at the Grammy’s their album ‘Raising Sand’ has bounded up the US chart to No.2 this week. The Fray’s new self-titled album is still in the US Top Five this week at No.4.

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Karima Francis will open up for James Morrison on his forthcoming UK Tour. The tour overlaps her own UK tour, so she will be joining James Morrison on selected dates only. Karima’s single “Again” out March 9th has moved up to the Radio 2 A-List.

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Xenomania’s new soulful pop quintet Vagabond will be the main support for the whole of the James Morrison tour. Look out for their debut single “Sweat (Until The Morning)” out May 11th. They have just come back from LA where they shot the video for their single with Paul Minor who’s worked with Muse, Glasvegas and Editors.

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Elvis Costello will be doing a run of UK dates in April with the Brodsky Quartet, which features a show at London’s Barbican Centre, April 23rd.

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Just Jack’s hot single “Embers” was added to Radio One’s Playlist this week and is Sara Cox’s Record Of The Week. Jack plays a few club dates next month, catch him at London’s Cargo, March 10th, which will no doubt feature tracks from his new album ‘All Night Cinema’, out April 6, 2009.



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