Sunday, May 19, 2024

Jefferson Starship drummer John Barbata dead at 79

Jefferson Starship and Jefferson Airplane drummer John Barbata has died aged 79. The musician is reported to have passed...

Latest Posts

Slash: Guns N’ Roses are ‘trying’ to make a new record

Slash has confirmed Guns N' Roses are "trying" to make a new album. The 58-year-old guitarist has been busy...

Dua Lipa changes choreography after ‘slipping’ on sweat

Dua Lipa has had to change her tour dances because she keeps "slipping" on her dancers' sweat. The 28-year-old...

New Kids On The Block singer Jordan Knight no longer listens to albums

New Kids On The Block singer Jordan Knight has confessed he no longer listens to albums - despite the boy band veterans...

Willow Smith’s ‘place of healing’

Willow Smith was in a "place of healing" when writing her new album. The 23-year-old singer/songwriter 'Empathogen' record features...

Steve Aoki has baking team

Steve Aoki has a "team" of cake makers who accompany him around the world.
The 39-year-old DJ is known for smashing baked goods in the faces of revellers at his shows and he has a team of culinary experts who craft the creations to make them the ideal consistency for smashing.
He said: "It can be as many as 10 [cakes per show]. The crowd now expect it from the show.
"We have a special team of cake makers that travel the world with us getting the consistency just right – the desired effect is explosive rather than edible."
While Steve also likes to spray his audience with champagne, he has discovered they don’t welcome getting wet as much if it’s just with water.
He told GQ magazine: "Oddly enough people differentiate between being wet from a magnum of champagne to the face, to wet from a Super Soaker filled with tepid tap water.
"We used to bring out all these water pistols and just hose the audience down but for whatever reason people didn’t dig it."
Steve previously insisted he would never throw a cake at anyone who didn’t want it.
He said: "The way I pick who gets caked is generally by who shows me the most energy and is screaming for it."
And though he claimed the unusual feature was his form of expression, he had considered putting a stop to the messy antics because of the abuse he received about it.
He said: "I still can’t help but ask myself… should I stop caking people? Will that stop the haters from hating? Stop giving the trolls more content to target me with? I even ask myself, are the cakes and the rafts taking away from the art of my culture, DJing? I’m sure many people feel that I am because things I do are not part of the norm."

Latest Posts

Slash: Guns N’ Roses are ‘trying’ to make a new record

Slash has confirmed Guns N' Roses are "trying" to make a new album. The 58-year-old guitarist has been busy...

Dua Lipa changes choreography after ‘slipping’ on sweat

Dua Lipa has had to change her tour dances because she keeps "slipping" on her dancers' sweat. The 28-year-old...

New Kids On The Block singer Jordan Knight no longer listens to albums

New Kids On The Block singer Jordan Knight has confessed he no longer listens to albums - despite the boy band veterans...

Willow Smith’s ‘place of healing’

Willow Smith was in a "place of healing" when writing her new album. The 23-year-old singer/songwriter 'Empathogen' record features...

Don't Miss

Bruce Dickinson brands Iron Maiden’s concerts ‘a magical ritual’

Bruce Dickinson has described Iron Maiden's concerts as "a magical ritual" that is "almost shamanic". The frontman of the...

Bruce Springsteen opens Kilkenny gig with rousing tribute to Shane MacGowan

Bruce Springsteen surprised gig-goers by kicking off his Kilkenny gig with a moving tribute to his late friend, Shane MacGowan.

U2’s Bono insists Coldplay are ‘not a rock band’

Bono has defended Coldplay and insisted they are not a "rock band". The U2 frontman was interviewed by BBC...

Ariana Grande is back in the studio

Ariana Grande is already back in the studio. The pop superstar has posted a cryptic snap from her "happy"...

Childish Gambino drops penultimate album under stage moniker

Childish Gambino has released the album 'Atavista'. The finished version of his 2020 record, ‘3.15.20’, which comes with the...

Stay in touch

To be updated with all the latest news, offers and special announcements.