Patrick Wolf booked for Underage festival

Eccentric bisexual singer Patrick Wolf will be performing songs from his upcoming album, The Bachelor at Underage festival.

Wolf, 25, has made a few changes to his fourth album, most markedly leaving Universal to start his own label, Bloody Chamber Music, and put up shares for the album on bandstocks.com.

In Wolf's own words: "Basically, you can invest in the finishing of the album and the production of it, and you get a share in the album. So you almost become part of the record company, like a co-owner of the album."

The critically acclaimed festival, open only to those under the age of 19, returns to Victoria Park for its third year on 2^nd August.

Actors needed for Naked Boys Singing 2009

The producers of Naked Boys Singing are looking for hot, funny men who can sing to appear in a summer production of the show.

Award-winning UK director Phil Willmott is planning to audition some new talent alongside more established performers and welcomes applications from those who may not usually be seen for a high profile Off-West End show.

The 65-minute review will feature six good-looking and talented male actors celebrating the glories of the naked male body through a series of catchy cabaret numbers.

The rehearsal commitment is short and once the show has started and it may be possible for participants to work day jobs while appearing in the production in the evening. There will be a small fee.

If you’d like an audition, you can sing to West End/Broadway standard and you have a flair for comedy and a great body that you enjoy showing off, email a covering letter, CV and a photo to producer Danielle Tarento at info@kingsheadtheatre.org

Would-be actors should note they will not be required to be naked at their first audition.

The show will be staged between May 27th and July 5th at the King's Head Theatre.

Kanye West: I do not dress 'gay'

Kanye West has again chosen to offer his opinions on homosexuality, this time stating that he does not 'dress gay'.

Speaking to Complex magazine, he said: "I really think it's because society tries to dictate the way a guy is supposed to dress and the way a guy is supposed to act, and I refuse to conform.

"A lot of these dudes would never be accused of being gay just because they all look exactly alike.

"If people could just realise the amount of mundaneness and followers that lack creativity... I think people's mentality is like, 'Only gay people are that creative'.

"And it's true there are a lot of gay people who are incredible creative minds, but there are straight people who are incredible creative minds - and there's gay people who can't dress or create at all, too.

"Closed-minded gay people probably say they dress 'straight'.

Last month, the rapper stated that the term 'gay' will be used in future as synonymous with fashionable and stylish.

Did Madonna's thugs beat up gay pop star?

Gay musician Patrick Wolf has claimed he was assaulted by bouncers at a Madonna concert during her 'Sticky & Sweet' tour last year.

He told EQ, the music blog, "Three songs in, me and my man were kissing and there were loads of conservative straight couples around us that complained.

"And then the bouncers came up to me and said, 'Can you stop that? This is a family venue.'"

Wolf went on to claim that he was handcuffed by security and beaten up outside Wembley Arena.

"The police came and it just went on and on and on. My man's face covered in blood. I couldn't move for like a month."

He has now said as a result of the incident he will never listen to Madonna's music again.

Madonna's bro lays into Demi Moore

Madonna's gay brother has lashed out at Demi Moore claiming that she ditched their friendship after meeting her now husband Ashton Kutcher.

"A certain kind of diva carries a gay man around like a handbag, like an accessory," said the not-in-any-way-bitter Christopher Ciccone.

"And then once they find the right straight guy, they don't need a male companion any more."

This is not the first time Ciccone has spoken out against Moore.

In August last year, he revealed how she had squirted breast milk over his lesbian friends.

"We went out and Demi was dancing up on me and humping me from behind. The one part that's not in the book is that she was lactating at the time and she was squirting breast milk at my lesbian friends. The lawyers didn't think it was wise for me to print that."

Adele's heartache over bisexual boy

Singing sensation Adele has revealed her new song Daydreamer is about her doomed love for a bi boy.

"I had no problem with him being bisexual, but I can’t fight off girls and boys, I get jealous enough as it is," the 19 year old London girl said.

“It’s about everything I was hoping he’d be and we’d be, but he would never be and we would never be. So it’s me daydreaming about him.”

Boy George's sympathy for George Michael

Gay star Boy George knows a thing or two about drugs, and he has spoken out after fellow celeb George Michael was arrested and cautioned last week for possession of crack cocaine and cannabis.

"I'm sober now. I don't drink or take drugs, it's chaotic and miserable," he said on ITV1's  The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

"I do sympathise with George. You need perspective and the only way to do that is to get away from your drug problems and get yourself clean."

Boy George has also had his brushes with the law.

In 2006 he completed five days of community service in New York after being convicted of false reporting of an incident.

He claimed he had been robbed, but when police arrived to investigate they found a large quantity of cocaine in his flat.

Kerry Katona's ex gives fashion advice

Did Brian McFadden really think he could get away with his ill founded, schoolboy comments about gay men recently?

During an interview on a New Zealand radio, Brian's thoughts turned to fashion.

According to the ex-Westlife crooner and former hubby of Kerry Katona, straight men shouldn't wear pink.

'Saying pink is a form of red is the same as saying homosexual is a form of male.’

Obviously the idiot didn't pay much attention at school, as pink is a form of red.

Not only is he totally ignorant of colour schemes, but he had forgotten about a certain gig in Melbourne recently where he had worn said colour.

After realising what a hypocritical buffoon he had been, he claimed the slur was a joke.

McFadden, via a statement from his publicist, told Confidential his pink thinking should not be taken out of context.

"To come to the conclusion that I am homophobic from these sentences is far from the truth," the statement read.

"Some of my friends and colleagues are gay and if I was truly homophobic then I have picked the wrong industry."

Finally a testament to Bryan McFadden’s idiocy: " no normal man should wear pink, only gay men should wear pink".

Dear, dear, dear Mr. McFadden.

Madonna helped write gay brother's tell all book?

The New York Post reports that the reason Madonna has had so little to say about brother Christopher Ciccone’s new tell all, Life With My Sister, may have little to do with her shock over its limited revelations or the fact that she’s consumed with preparations for her upcoming concert tour.

Instead some now suggest that the pop diva’s silence about her younger bro’s tome is due to the fact that she actually helped him write it.

According to the Post, an un-named insider told the paper the following about Madonna’s involvement in brother Christopher’s autobiography:

"She [Madonna] actually ghost-wrote parts of it with him, the way Princess Diana helped Andrew Morton write his book on her.

"That's why there's nothing too devastating in Chris's book. He's mean to others, but not so much to his sister."

Which might explain Ciccone’s harsh critique of brother-in-law Guy Ritchie’s alleged homophobia in the book and his kinder, more gentle view of his sister about whom he sticks to more well known facts. Ritchie and Madonna have been regularly rumoured to be experiencing marital problems as of late.

The revelation comes as rumours circulate that the timing of the book’s release was conspicuously set to coincide with and generate publicity for Madonna’s forthcoming Sticky and Sweet tour, ticket sales for which have been the subject of controversy in and of themselves.

While the New York Post last month reported that ticket sales for Madonna’s upcoming tour had been poor, Live Nation, with whom the singer recently signed a $120 million (£60m) deal, refuted those claims saying that ticket sales had been brisk and more dates added to the tour schedule.

According to Live Nation, as of June, the tour had already grossed $74 million.

No stranger to using controversy to her advantage, Madonna is said to turning the surrounding the announcement that she has been named in the divorce proceedings between Alex 'A-Rod' Rodriguez and his wife, into a cheeky stunt on her tour.

The star has reportedly ordered three baseball jerseys with the name 'A-Rod' on the back to be worn as costumes on stage.

Reps for Madonna have not yet responded to any of the rumours.

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Madonna worries she will upstage baseball game

Madonna upstage the last All-Star game to be played at the soon to be torn down Yankees Stadium? Not according to her publicist Liz Rosenberg.   

Despite reports the material girl had been planning to head to Yankees Stadium tonight to watch her pal A-Rod, her publicist has simply said “No” when asked if she’ll indeed be attending.   

According to Mark Malkin at E! Online, Madonna is worried the recent press connecting her to A-Rod will upstage the game.   

In fact, Madonna hasn’t seen her friend play in nearly a month, when she, with kids Rocco, David and Lourdes, took in a Yankees game on June 22.

She kind of popped up at last week’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, when fans bombarded A-Rod with photos of Madonna.

Reports Madonna would attend Rodriguez's pre-game party in New York City last night also proved false. Guy Oseary, manager for both and the connection between the two, attended.   

Madonna has been facing down reports her marriage to Guy Ritchie is in trouble. Last week, A-Rod’s wife Cynthia filed for divorce, stating that the ball player had emotionally abandoned her and the kids.   

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