4 TRACK EP INCLUDES COVER VERSIONS OF THE BEATLES, CYNDI LAUPER, RONNIE LANE & PALMA VIOLETS & RECORDED LIVE IN LONDON

Tom Odell, the BRITS Critics Choice, is set to release a very special 4 track 12" vinyl recorded in London for Record Store Day titled ‘The Daytrotter Recordings’, this Saturday April 20th.  It follows the release of his debut single ‘Hold Me’ and is a precursor to his much anticipated debut album ‘Long Way Down’, set for release via I.T.N.O/Columbia Records on June 24th.

The 4 tracks were recorded on Monday 15th April in London and are set for a highly limited vinyl run that Tom will then hand deliver into his favorite record store, Resident Records, in Brighton.

When asked about his involvement with Record Store Day, Tom said...

When I found out I had the opportunity to release something for Record Store Day I was excited. Just the chance to get back in the recording studio seemed very appealing. I wanted to do something different. The thing I love about Record Store Day is that the releases are completely unique. It’s one of the few moments when you can find and own something that won't be available anywhere else. It becomes more personal. It becomes more special.

I decided I wanted to release an EP that could emulate some of the stuff I've been doing on the road with my band. I wanted it to sound live. So we recorded a set of some of my favourite songs, and we recorded them straight to tape. We only had a couple of hours, and a couple of reels of the stuff, but that made it all the more compelling.

Hope you enjoy, Tom

Track Listing for ‘The Daytrotter Recordings’

1. Anymore for Anymore (Originally performed by Ronnie Lane)

2. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Originally performed by Cyndi Lauper)

3. Best of Friends (Originally performed by Palma Violets)

4. Oh Darling (Originally performed by The Beatles)

Tom heads back to the US for further tour dates before returning to mainland Europe and the UK for a string of sold out shows including Somerset House, two shows at Camden’s Electric Ballroom and Shepherds Bush Empire. He will also be supporting The Rolling Stones later in the summer.

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The businessman gave his opinions on gay marriage during his brief GOP presidential run and said that he doesn't believe in it at all: "I just don’t feel good about it, I don’t feel right about it."

Lauper, who is a long-time advocate of equality and the LGBT community, explained to Next magazine that there's no room for bigotry and she is disgusted to think someone in a position of such power could hold such closed-minded and discriminatory beliefs:

"I’m not going to kiss ass with somebody like that. I felt that what he said about the gay community was disappointing because a lot of gay people work for him. It’s just sad."

"I thought he could have done better for his country than just go to the lowest common denominator and stir up the crap,' she said. 'It’s our country, it’s not wrestling.'

'If you try and make our president fail, it doesn’t matter who he is, you make our country fail. And if you really are a patriot, if you really give a sh*t about our country, you don’t do stuff like that. First of all, you’re an entertainer, and you make ugly buildings, and you’re famous for it. And you have a reality show with very high ratings. Don’t step into the forum like that. Become educated with facts. Don’t just be a sh*t-stirrer."

Back in 2011, Lauper appeared on Trump's 'Celebrity Apprentice' to benefit her True Colors Fund, which helps "to raise awareness about and bring an end to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth homelessness", so she is especially concerned with his opinions on the matter.

Watch a recent interview with Lauper, in which she talks about her love for Eminem and Nicki Minaj, here:

When asked by Parade magazine why she thinks she is still successful, Lauper explained that not following trends helps and she enjoys doing her own thing without taking direction:

"I don't think it's a secret: I never stopped [recording]. When people told me you can't do this or that, I would just do it. I didn't think there was another choice for me."

The songstress, who recently performed with Adam Lambert at the Home For The Holidays concert (shown below), added that not being conventional has always been on her side and admitted that her look is also something she puts together herself:

"I always liked that salmon-pink hair colour; I still use it. And I loved the retro-glam look, but I wanted to make it my own, so I wore high heels and pedal pushers, which nobody was really wearing at the time. I'm obsessed with fashion."

Watch Lauper and Lambert perform a cover of 'Mad World' together here:

The vocal sensation shot to fame following his stint on the programme, from which he emerged the runner up, and has gone on to enjoy an incredibly successful career, but told Fiasco magazine that it can be a tough background to build a base from.

Lambert explained that people often don't consider artists to have genuine integrity until they record and release original material: "It's interesting because you get all this hype and celebrity and its of the moment. But as far as being an artist, that's not really explored until you put out your own original material."

In the same interview, the hitmaker revealed that sexuality often impacts your career if you're in the music industry and said: "The way I look at it, there’s just as much pressure [on men], but men aren’t supposed to talk about it. It’s supposed to seem easy, but men, especially in the public eye, are just as worried as women are.”

Watch his performance of 'Mad World' with Cyndi Lauper at the recent Home For The Holidays Christmas Concert here:

The businessman gave his opinions on gay marriage during his brief GOP presidential run and said that he doesn't believe in it at all: "I just don’t feel good about it, I don’t feel right about it."

Lauper, who is a long-time advocate of equality and the LGBT community, explained to Next magazine that there's no room for bigotry and she is disgusted to think someone in a position of such power could hold such closed-minded and discriminatory beliefs:

"I’m not going to kiss ass with somebody like that. I felt that what he said about the gay community was disappointing because a lot of gay people work for him. It’s just sad."

"I thought he could have done better for his country than just go to the lowest common denominator and stir up the crap,' she said. 'It’s our country, it’s not wrestling.'

'If you try and make our president fail, it doesn’t matter who he is, you make our country fail. And if you really are a patriot, if you really give a sh*t about our country, you don’t do stuff like that. First of all, you’re an entertainer, and you make ugly buildings, and you’re famous for it. And you have a reality show with very high ratings. Don’t step into the forum like that. Become educated with facts. Don’t just be a sh*t-stirrer."

Back in 2011, Lauper appeared on Trump's 'Celebrity Apprentice' to benefit her True Colors Fund, which helps "to raise awareness about and bring an end to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth homelessness", so she is especially concerned with his opinions on the matter.

Watch a recent interview with Lauper, in which she talks about her love for Eminem and Nicki Minaj, here:

When asked by Parade magazine why she thinks she is still successful, Lauper explained that not following trends helps and she enjoys doing her own thing without taking direction:

"I don't think it's a secret: I never stopped [recording]. When people told me you can't do this or that, I would just do it. I didn't think there was another choice for me."

The songstress, who recently performed with Adam Lambert at the Home For The Holidays concert (shown below), added that not being conventional has always been on her side and admitted that her look is also something she puts together herself:

"I always liked that salmon-pink hair colour; I still use it. And I loved the retro-glam look, but I wanted to make it my own, so I wore high heels and pedal pushers, which nobody was really wearing at the time. I'm obsessed with fashion."

Watch Lauper and Lambert perform a cover of 'Mad World' together here:

The 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' icon has enlisted the help of some popular musicians and stars for her upcoming Cyndi Lauper & Friends: Home for the Holidays event, which will benefit homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths.

The event, which will take place on December 8 at the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan, will also feature appearances from Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell and Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells.

Speaking about the concert, Lauper explained that it's important to support the LGBT community and she's excited about this year's line-up: "When I first learned that up to 40 percent of all homeless youth in this country identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender I was shocked and saddened."

"For far too long homeless youth have not received the attention, resources and funding necessary to bring an end to this epidemic. My hope is that through this inspiring evening of music and comedy we can raise awareness and much needed funds to help these young people through our newly launched Forty to None Project.”

Meanwhile, Lambert recently made headlines after his cameo in 'Pretty Little Liars' and TV By The Numbers reports that it was "Tuesday’s #1 “Most Social” program and scored a 31% share of all TV-related social media activity."

Watch a clip from Lambert's spooky role in the show here:

She explained to London's Metro newspaper that a fan got her thinking about this idea during a recent concert and now she can't seem to get away from it:

"One young woman walked up to me recently at a concert and thanked me for my work 'in the midst of all this rape music'. I never thought of it like that, but so much music nowadays is about sex, sex, sex and is quite aggressive. She called it rape music. I thought, 'Oh my God, I guess she's right'."

She then added that when writing her own songs she tries to do so for people who will take her lyrics on board and to heart: "I just try to write music that connects with people's conscience and make music for awake people rather than sleepwalkers."

A Woman's Heart is a compilation of twelve tracks performed by six female Irish artists, namely Eleanor McEvoy, Mary Black, Dolores Keane, Sharon Shannon, Frances Black, and Maura O'Connell. The album was released in July 1992 and sold over 750,000 copies worldwide, more than any other Irish album in Irish history. A special concert has been anounced in The Olympia, Dublin, Ireland in February to mark the 20th Anniversary. Tickets can be bought here: http://www.ticketmaster.ie/A-Womans-Heart-tickets/artist/1644618

Eleanor McEvoy has recently released her ninth studio album, Alone, which features 12 stripped-down solo tracks.

It is regarded as one of her most exquisite albums to date, showing off McEvoy's style and panache as both a performer, songwriter and composer.

Joining Sir Terry Wogan in conversation this month, McEvoy spoke about her career to date, her latest album ‘Alone’ and also performed 2 songs ‘You’ll hear better songs than this’ and by request, she covered the well known Cyndi Lauper song ‘True Colours’.

In reaction to the great feedback from listeners to the show, Eleanor writes: "I really enjoyed doing the Weekend Wogan Show – it was a joy from start to finish. I was bowled over by the lovely warm reception from Terry himself and I am really excited from the reaction to the show, the tweets and messages are still flowing in”. Playback link to the full BBC Radio2 interview and performance can be heard here: http://j.mp/uN6pbG

 Just announced are the new Irish, UK & European tour dates for Eleanor McEvoy in 2012:

GREAT BRITAIN- JANUARY

*Friday 27th Celtic Connections 2012 Song for Ireland Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland

*Monday 30th  O2 Academy Islington, London

IRELAND- FEBRUARY – MARCH

*Friday 24th Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival and Songwriting Convention, Castlereagh Civic Centre, Belfast

*Saturday 25th Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival and Songwriting Convention, Cube Crescent Arts Centre

*Wednesday 29th A Woman’s Heart 20th Anniversary Live The Olympia Theatre, Dublin

*Thursday 1st A Woman’s Heart 20th Anniversary Live The Olympia Theatre, Dublin

*Friday 2nd A Woman’s Heart 20th Anniversary Live The Olympia Theatre, Dublin

*Saturday 3rd A Woman’s Heart 20th Anniversary Live The Olympia Theatre, Dublin

 EUROPE- MARCH

*Saturday  17th Lens  Centre Culturel Ronny Coutteure, France

 *18th – 20th  Poland (dates to be announced soon)

 Please see www.eleanormcevoy.com for all updates. 

The 'True Colors' superstar appeared to suffer the same fate as Christina Aguilera, who flubbed the words during the same part earlier this year, as she sang "O'er the ramparts, we watched as our flag was still streaming," instead of "O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming."

She took to social networking site Twitter after her rendition of the anthem to explain her embarrassing mix up and wrote: 

"Whew, I just did the anthem for the US open. It was an awesome experience.I got choked up in the middle remembering 9/11. The moon shone done on us and I tried to say a prayer at the same time.. I hope I didn't mess up too bad. I wanted it to be comforting. Xcyn"

Watch her performance of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' here:

In a recent interview, the 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' hitmaker revealed exciting details about the progress of the building and explained that there would be significant emphasis placed on helping residents build and devlop social skills and solid relationships:

"We'll be building from the ground up so our residents will have a brand new, modern building with studio apartments for each resident and both indoor and outdoor community space to socialise or attend education and recreation programmes."

"Each resident will be responsible for paying affordable rent based on their income and will receive ongoing assistance in obtaining employment best suited to their individual interests and skills."

The True Colours Residence is due to open in Manhattan on September 1 and you can watch an interview with the star below:

As newly announced inductees to receive their star on the world famous "Hollywood Walk Of Fame," Boyz II Men will be releasing their NEW STUDIO ALBUM simply titled "Twenty," which will feature brand new material for the first time in 10 years. Currently in studio, the iconic group have reunited with hit producers Babyface, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Dallas Austin and Tim & Bob. While adding the likes of Teddy Riley, Rob Knox (Justin Timberlake, Joe Jonas), Julian Bunetta, amongst others.Twenty will be released exclusively through Walmart later this fall 2011 on the Boyz own label MSM Music, in partnership with Benchmark Entertainment.

"We started with a pure love for music, so to be here twenty years later still doing what we love has been a pure blessing," comments Wanya Morris of the trio. The group's tenor and judge on hit breakout show NBC's The Sing-Off, Shawn Stockman remarked, "From day one our fans have been amazing, they've seen us grow from boys to men, so we owe all our success to their continued support," while Nathan Morris commented, "No matter how many albums we have done throughout the years we always strive to put out the best sounding music possible. We are excited to be in the studio again with the guys who have been a part of some of our biggest hits to date, it's a really good feeling."

Selling over 60 million albums worldwide and winning every award from Grammy's to American Music Awards across the globe,Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris, and Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men, have broken numerous records in their 20 years, making them one of the biggest pop groups of all time. Cited as influences to some of the most successful artists of all time, from N*SYNC to Beyonce, Usher to Justin Beiber, the group still holds the number one (One Sweet Day ft. Mariah Carey), three (I'll Make Love To You) and fourth (End Of The Road) spot for most consecutive #1 records on top of the Billboard Hot 100. The group stands in the company of Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Mariah Carey as the only artists to have stayed so long on top of the music charts.

More recently, the group added to their mark on pop culture, by leaving their indelible mark on some of Motown's most timeless hits. Boyz II Men earned rave reviews with their 2007 Decca label debut, Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA(Decca/Universal). The record earned them two Grammy nominations for their rendition of classic Detroit soul Motown hits. The group then followed up with another timeless album in 2009, named Love covering songs made famous by Bonnie Raitt, Journey, Sam Cooke, Cyndi Lauper and The Beatles.

Twenty finds Boyz II Men twenty years later, fulfilling their dreams with a worldwide following, millions of records sold, countless amounts of awards across the globe and a new album ready to move the Boyz to their next chapter.

SOURCE Benchmark Entertainment