The News Review:
- Scarlets sign test back row duo
- Sharks go for big fish
- Calling the right tune for London: as it returns for its second year…
Scarlets sign test back row duo
Celtic League – Jun 24, 2006
Thomas and Bater will join a pool of back row talent at Stradey Park that already includes Irish international Simon Easterby Wales No 8 Alix Popham and rejuvenated Welsh openside Gavin Thomas. Thomas won the last of his nine Welsh caps against South Africa in 1998 and will arrive in west Wales having played 111 English Premiership games for Bath and Leeds Tykes. He had six seasons at Bath helping them to win the Heineken Cup in 1998 before spending two seasons at Cardiff Arms Park where he played 38 Celtic League and Cup matches. He has eight seasons of Heineken Cup rugby under his belt and has played 42 matches in Europe including one season in the Challenge Cup with Bath. Bater has made 60 appearances for Swansea and the spreys in the Celtic League and Cup and has played 19 times in the Heineken Cup. php 02:29 –>User comments:… Thomas won the last of his nine Welsh caps against South Africa in 1998 and will arrive in west Wales having played 111 English Premiership games for Bath and Leeds Tykes. He had six seasons at Bath helping them to win the Heineken Cup in 1998 before spending two seasons at Cardiff Arms Park where he played 38 Celtic League and Cup matches. He has eight seasons of Heineken Cup rugby under his belt and has played 42 matches in Europe including one season in the Challenge Cup with Bath. Bater has made 60 appearances for Swansea and the spreys in the Celtic League and Cup and has played 19 times in the Heineken Cup. php 02:29 –>User comments:. php?#newcomment> Add a comment>>.
Sharks go for big fish
Manchester nline – Manchester nline – Jun 24, 2006
Sale will play Perpignan Beziers and Biarritz who knocked Sharks out of the Heineken Cup in the quarter-finals before returning home to face Edinburgh Gunners at Edgeley Park on August 25. That fixture comes just a week before they kick-off the season against the team they beat to win the English title Leicester Tigers. n August 4 they will take on Perpignan followed by a game against Beziers on August 10. Two days later they will take on the mighty Biarritz to celebrate the opening of a new stand at the Aguilera Stadium. Sharks head coach Kingsley Jones is looking forward to the challenge of taking on the French champions.
Calling the right tune for London: as it returns for its second year…
Free with registration – Music Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 24, 2006
The aims of London Calling are certainly ambitious: to put London on the international music trade fair circuit; to bring in majors and indies and newcomers; to unite the music industry with the big names of advertising marketing and technology; to challenge and stimulate with its seminars and keynotes rather than shuffling through the same old theories and perspectives. If its backers advocates and guest stars are anything to go by it has a solid chance of achieving all those alms. The speaker line-up–which features names such as MySpace Heineken Diesel Brazilian download store iMusica and hip strategic consultancy Naked Communications alongside big majors interesting indies and other music specialists–provokes genuine interest. The establishment credentials are strong too–the BPI Aim and MCPS-PRS are on board as is UK Trade & Investment. Aim in fact will stage its AGM at London Calling on the Thursday afternoon followed by its beer and chips party; the British Council will name its International Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year at a ceremony on the Friday. The majors those frequent no-shows are reported to be booking onto London Calling’s Frukt-curated seminars en masse and down on the exhibition floor close to 300 companies will be represented on more than 100 stands. If the London-based music industry isn’t very careful it might find itself with a highly worthwhile international event on its hands.