Bring the Disco to Your Desktop

Don't you just love the weekends? It is the time that you can dress up or dress down and you can enjoy the night and you do not have to worry about waking up early the following morning. After all, you do need a pretty good rest because the main thing that you love doing during the weekend is going to the disco and dancing the night away. With all that stress at work, dancing surely just melts it all away and you are recharged.

But of course you cannot go to the disco every day of your life. It is also important that you work because you do need the money that comes with it. But you sure do think that life would be far better if we all could disco and get money for doing it. You do feel that you have been born to be part of this and you just do not want the music to stop.

Now there is no need to stop the music and there is no need to put out those wonderful lights. The disco can be brought right to your desktop and you can do that easily. Yes, that is right. All you need is the Desktop Disco and the disco fever stays with you even while you work. Oh just imagine working with this gadget right with you. Sure enough, you will be more than energized that you will definitely breeze through the day without even noticing where the time went.

Boogie Down in Disco Diva Style

Disco might be dead, but the spirit definitely isn't. Just because you never made it through the doors of Studio 54 doesn't mean you can't enjoy a little bit of the disco life; with the right beats and the perfect disco-fabulous costume, dancing the night away is just as much fun now as it was in the 70's!

The disco era is probably one of the most mocked when it comes to the fashions. Men wore suits with huge lapels and bell-bottom pants, while women dressed in wild outfits with bright patterns, and wore heavy makeup. Certainly today the clothes seem over the top; they were outrageous to be sure, but it was a truly outrageous era, and anyone who lived it can tell you it was also an incredibly fun time.

In the late 70's Disco fever was at its height, and people from all walks of life dressed up in their best and headed out to spend the night boogying at clubs across the country. The dance floor wasn't just a showcase for your Saturday Night fever inspired dance moves - it was also a place to see and be seen, and take in the sight of people dressed in some of the wildest outfits ever to grace a dance floor.

Glasgow Gay Bars


Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and over 1 and a half million people call Glasgow home. Glasgow gay bars and Glasgow gay clubs are brilliant and the gay scene in Glasgow is better than you'd expect. There are many Glasgow gay bars and Glasgow gay clubs and you may struggle deciding where to go.

When in Glasgow the choice of gay bars and clubs is endless, each with its own features, the Glasgow clubs such as Aqueerious + Passionality, Burly, the Court Bar and others, with all types of entertainment. The Aqueerious + Passionality is located at Planet Peach, Union Street and is open on Mondays and Tuesdays from 11:00 PM to 3:00 AM. Monday night is quieter night of the two nights; Tuesday night is a music filled club night.

Burly is located at The Arches on Midland Street, this is a trendy bar where the dress code can include rubber, denim, leather and kilts, because this is after all Scotland. There are drink promos and live DJs, along with other events at Burly. The Court Bar is located on Hutchinson Street, this is a smaller Glasgow gay bar, is a pub setting and music from the seventies and eighties. This is a pub where drinks, conversation and dancing can start the evening, prior to clubbing.

Arcade Fire announce plans for celebrity charity basketball match in Canada

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Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler has announced plans for a special charity basketball match in his hometown.

The singer is staging the 'POP vs. Jocks' event, featuring NBA stars including San Antonio Spurs' Matt Bonner and musicians such as Vampire Weekend drummerChris Tomson, at Montreal's McGill University Sports Centre on September 24 .

The event, which is part of the POP Montreal International Music Festival, will also seeButler take part in the match along with his brother and bandmember Will Butler.

Arcade Fire's RĂ©gine Chassagne will play organ, and band member Richard Reed Parry will premiere a bicycle symphony called 'Drones' during the halftime show, which will also feature Kid Koala.

The band are due to perform a gig during the four day festival on September 21. The POP Montreal International Music Festival will be held from September 21-25.

For more information go to the POP Montreal International Music Festival website

Jay-Z faces protests over renovation work on his New York nightclub

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Jay-Z has been criticised over the handling of renovation work on his New York '40/40 Club'.

The city's District Council Of Carpenters has set up giant inflatable rats outside the club in protest over "substandard wage" conditions and the fact union workers aren't being used for the job. Protestors have also set up a huge banner which reads, 'Shame On The '40/40 Club' (Jay-Z) For Hurting New York City'.

The union is claiming that the company which was hired to make renovations to the building, Conelle Construction Corp, "does not meet area labour standards, including providing or fully paying for family healthcare and pension for all of its carpenter craft employees."

They are holding Jay-Z responsible saying the rapper "has an obligation to see that area labour standards are met for construction work on their future location."

But a spokesperson for the club told gossip site TMZ it is a non-union building and they are not required to use union contractors. They also said some protestors have been using "racial slurs against the workers, to try intimidate people and scare away business".

The '40/40 Club' is scheduled to re-open on November 1

Madonna confirms new album release in spring 2012 - video

Madonna confirms new album release in spring 2012 - video

Madonna has confirmed she will release her new album next spring.

The singer said she has started work on the record with producer William Orbit and is expected to be busy in her New York studio until the end of the year in a video interview for Sweden's Sveriges Television. Watch the interview by scrolling down and clicking below.

Madonna revealed the news during promotion for her new movie W.E. at theVenice Film Festival. She recentlyconfirmed that the first single for the record is due out in February or March.

Her manager Guy Oseary previously confirmed she had started work on the record in July.

The album, which is the follow-up to 2008's 'Hardy Candy', will be her first in a deal to release music in partnership with concert promoter Live Nation.

Conrad Murray's lawyers appeal over jury isolation decision in Michael Jackson trial

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Lawyers for Michael Jackson's doctor are appealing against a decision not to isolate the jury in the forthcoming manslaughter trial.

Attorneys for Dr Conrad Murray urged the sequestering of the jury because of fears that massive media coverage could influence them.

But Judge Michael Pastor who will oversee the trial, said he didn't think it would be necessary and said it would be unlikely the Los Angeles court system would be able to afford it, with costs likely to exceed $500,000 (£308,000). He also said it would be difficult to cut members of the jury off from their families.

Jury selection officially begins on Thursday (September 8) and the trial is set to get under way later this month, reports Perezhilton.com.

Murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. He faces up to four years in prison if convicted.

The trial will take place more than two years after Jackson's death from an overdose of a powerful anesthetic used as a sleeping aid.

Prince on the brink of $4 million (£2.4 million) payout to perfume company

Prince is facing the prospect of being forced to pay almost $4 million (£2.4 million) by a perfume company that claims he failed to help promote the '3121' fragrance named after his 2006 album.
Prince on the brink of $4 million (£2.4 million) payout to perfume company
A New York judge has recommended the singer pay the amount to Revelations Perfume And Cosmetics Inc, but the sum will have to be confirmed by a second judge.

The company said it licensed the musician's name, likeness and the album title to market its fragrance and that he broke promises to help promote the scent after its launch in July 2007.

It also claims Prince's refusal to give interviews and stage in-store events forced the cancellation of the licensing agreement because the fragrance failed to meet its minimum sales requirements.

But the singer's lawyer told the New York Law Journal he will fight to ensure he doesn't have to pay compensation. The lawsuit was first filed in November 2008.