Royal Ascot Horse Racing 2010 Event Details

History of Royal Ascot and the Grandstand:
It was Queen Anne who first saw the potential for a racecourse at Ascot, which in those days was called East Cote. Whilst out riding in 1711, she came upon an area of open heath, not far from Windsor Castle, that looked an ideal place for “horses to gallop at full stretch.”

The first race meeting ever held at Ascot took place on Saturday 11 August 1711. Her Majesty’s Plate, worth 100 guineas and open to any horse, mare or gelding over the age of six, was the inaugural event. Each horse was required to carry a weight of 12st and seven runners took part.

Today the tradition does not change – the Queen Anne Stakes continues to be run in memory of the monarch who founded the course nearly three centuries ago. The original Ascot racecourse was laid out by William Lowen, who was assisted by a team of helpers, William Erlybrown, a carpenter, Benjamin Cluchett, a painter, and John Grape, who prepared the paper work for racing.

The first permanent building on the course was constructed in about 1794 by George Slingsby, a Windsor builder. It held 1,650 people and was used until 1838. Today's Royal Ascot grandstand was completed in 2006 following a two year £200 million redevelopment. The official opening of the new grandstand took place on the first day of the Royal Meeting, with an opening speech from Her Majesty The Queen, who owns the racecourse.

Through a combination of style, pomp and tradition Royal Ascot has become the most famous of all the prestigious events in the horse racing calendar. ‘Ladies Day’ is particularly notorious for the infamous hats, attracting legions of devotees each year from all over the world.

Leeds Festival 2010 Information

From punk and metal, through rock, alternative and indie to dance and nu rave, Leeds offers the music fan a chance to see hot new acts, and local bands beside big established ones, plus the odd exclusive performance.

Leeds Festival 2010:

There are 49 weeks and 1 day until Leeds Festival 2010 The dates for Leeds Festival 2010 are confirmed as on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th August at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

As with previous years organizers Festival Republic are keen to encourage festival goers to respect the local residents and the environment, and to encourage everyone to leave their cars at home.

Leeds Festival 2010 Ticket Information:

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Previous Leeds Festival:

The dates for Leeds Festival 2009 had confirmed as on the bank holiday weekend, from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th August at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The headliners for that year's festival were Arctic Monkeys (Friday), Radiohead (Saturday), and Kings Of Leon (Sunday). Also playing the main stage on Friday were The Prodigy, Maximo Park, Ian Brown, The Courteeners, Enter Shikari, and Eagles Of Death Metal. Saturday has Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, and Brand New. Sunday's line-up includes Faith No More, Kaiser Chiefs, Placebo, Fall Out Boy, Deftones, and Funeral For A Friend

Leeds Festival Offers Something For Everyone:

For as long as I've been attending Leeds festival, it as always been the highlight of the festival season, in the past line-ups have included Metallica, Iron Maiden, Oasis, Rage Against The Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, Muse, Pearl Jam, Green Day, and Guns N Roses. So being a rock music fan at heart, Leeds always satisfied my appetite for great live music.

Obviously this year was no exception to the rule, although Radiohead did seem to be a questionable choice to be headliners, after seeing them play, they should be categorised as flatliners instead.

This year Leeds festival even had a nice surprise in the form of Them Crooked Vultures - if like me you had never heard of them, it is a superband with Dave Grohl on drums, Josh Homme (QOTSA) and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin). Now seeing them was worth the ticket price alone.


Obviously Kings Of Leon were one of the few main stage bands to get a huge crowd, and they knew how to impress their fans. Other bands which impressed on the main stage included The Prodigy, which to be honest I have never seen them ever do a bad show. The Kaiser Chiefs have still got that magic ingredient to attract vast numbers to come and watch them play live.

Overall I absolutely loved this years Leeds Festival, so I will certainly be looking forward to going next year regardless of who the headliners are, which I predict will be the Kaiser Chiefs, and Them Crooked Vultures. The only thing that will stop me going is if they decide to book those flatliners Radiohead again.

Wimbledon Championship 2010

The Championships, Wimbledon, or merely Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is usually considered the most important. It has been held at the All England Club in the London community of Wimbledon since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis contests, and the only one still played on the game's unique surface, grass, which gave the game of lawn tennis its name.

New Options to Wimbledon Championships 2009:

Wimbledon's Centre Court was fitted with a retractable roof to assure against the chance of rain stoppage breaking off Centre Court matches throughout the tournament. There'll finally be an end to 'rain stops play' at Wimbledon... thanks to a Sheffield company.

The long-awaited retractable roof for Wimbledon's Centre Court was formally revealed to the public in June 2009. It was designed and built by a Sheffield company called SCX. The Wincobank-based company was first approached in around 2004 with the request for a retractable roof for Wimbledon.

 Their managing director Simon Eastwood came into BBC Radio Sheffield to talk to Toby Foster about the roof. As Toby said, Simon is the man who stopped Cliff Richard from singing at Wimbledon!

 Venus 'loving' first week success: After setting up a fourth-round clash with Ana Ivanovic by dispatching Carla Suarez Navarro, a confident Venus Williams says she's really enjoying Wimbledon 2009.

Wimbledon 2009 Facts and Figures:

Attendance: The total attendance figure for the 13 days of The Championships was

• 511,043 a record high, beating the previous high of 475,812 set in 2008 by 35,231.
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  9 day records were set: Wednesday 24 June was the highest day attendance in history - 46,826.
  
  
• 160,600 people queued for tickets and ground passes

Oasis is on Tour!

Yes, it is true. Oasis has embarked on a major UK Arena Tour that will kick off in Liverpool on October 7th, the day after their latest album Dig Out Your Soul is released. Oasis will be on the road for an entire month, playing 18 shows across the U.K. This is the second leg of Oasis’ 14 month world tour. 

Oasis took on the world in 1994, hailed by some as the new Beatles, taking British pop back to the top of the worldwide charts. Oasis was formed by singer and frontman Liam Gallagher, Paul Arthurs on guitar, Paul McGuigan on bass and Tony McCarroll on drums. The band was soon joined by Liam’s older brother Noel Gallagher who steppedinto the lead guitar and lead vocals shoes. Oasis have sold more than 50 million records worldwide. The band has eight UK number-one singles, 15 NME Awards, 5 Brit Awards and 9 Q awards. The Gallagher brothers are the band’s leading songwriters and the only members who have been there from the beginning. The present band includes Gem Archer and Andy Bell, as well as unofficial drummer Chris Sharrock.

Oasis harkened back to the raw revolutionary energy of the Rolling Stones and the Who fused with sweet and melodic Beatles sounds and that anarchic devil may care, destroy all to create the world anew Sex Pistol’s paradigm. With deafening guitar roars and a cheeky defiant attitude Oasis is infamous for their cocksure arrogance.

Oasis began in its conception as a band formed by schoolmates Liam Gallagher, Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs, Paul McGuigan, and Tony McCaroll. Noel Gallagher wasn’t there at the outset as he was hired as the guitar technician for a band called Inspiral Carpets which had been inspired by the Stone Roses. When Noel Gallagher returned to Manchester he found that his brother had started up a band and said that he would be a part of it if he could have total control over the group. The band agreed to Noel’s terms and Oasis was born.

Noel Gallagher’s songs reflect this fusion of rock ‘n roll influences. Gallagher reworks hits like “Cigarettes and Alcohol” and has borrowed the riff from “Bang a Gong” by T. Rex. Gallagher has also used parts of Wham’s “Fade Away” and “Freedom”, putting the hooks on different settings and tweaking the sounds.

Oasis released their first single “Supersonic” in the spring of 1994, but it was with “Shakermaker” adapted from the song “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” (the song featured in a famous Coca-cola advert) that the UK stood up and took notice of the band that was to become the legendary Oasis. Oasis struck black gold with first album, Definitely Maybe, which became the fastest selling debut album in British history, beating out the Beatles. Thus the beginning of Oasis mania. Let’s not forget Wonderwall. Get your Oasis tickets now before they are ancient history.

Beyonce Music

Whether you are a certified Beyonce fan or a just an admirer, there's no getting away from the fact that this is one babe with a heck of a voice! She emerged from Destiny's Child, had the requisite celebrity lifestyle and enviable solo career and now she hits the UK for a huge arena tour in 2009. Beyonce has stated her concerts schedule for UK in coming days and Beyonce concerts will be held in London, Dublin, Nottingham and Manchester. 

Madonna Is Top Music Money Maker

Madonna topped the Billboard Magazine’s Moneymakers list of the top tours in 2008. Madonna raked in more than $242 million for her Sticky & Sweet Tour, which reportedly sold more than 1 million tickets, making it the highest-grossing tour ever by a solo artist. Madonna was followed by New Jersey’s favorite sons, Bon Jovi ($157 million) and Bruce Springsteen ($156 million), and the final shows by the reunited and now broken-up again Police ($109.9 million), and Celine Dion ($99,171,237). The top five Moneymakers are also the five acts that earned the most on tour, and in the same order, according to Billboard Boxscore.

Among the stats pointed out by Billboard Magazine is that despite easily topping the touring list, Madonna’s Hard Candy was only the 50th best-selling album in the U.S. in 2008, another sign that touring revenue is becoming a larger and larger part of artists’ revenues.

Sonisphere Festival Coming Soon

Sonisphere Festival will bring some of rock’s premier talent on August 1st and 2nd, on a weekend camping Festival at the UK’s true home of rock, Knebworth. 60,000 fans will witness titans Linkin Park and one of the biggest rock acts of all time Metallica - headlining at the first ever Sonisphere. Sonisphere Festival opens its doors on the Thursday, and with bands, freak-shows, DJs it is a camping festival all the way.

Metallica, the American heavy metal band, which has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, will headline Sonisphere at six European venues in 2009, with the tour set to be expanded into the Far East and Australasia next year. The only other act confirmed to appear this year is Linkin Park, the American nu-metal band, but the organisers are promising a “broad church” of around a dozen rock groups. Others rumoured to be in the frame for a slot include Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, Muse, the Foo Fighters and the Stereophonics.

Great Festival Events

Plan your trip to take in one of the hundreds of festivals and special events like music festivals, The Queen's Favorite horse race, sports events, art shows, flower shows, heritage festivals, air shows and more. From celebrations of ancient traditions, to huge opera, theatre and rock festivals, something special is happening somewhere every day of the year.

Some Great Events are V Festival, T in the Park Festival, Bandstand, Reading Festival, Latitude Festival, Oxegen Festival, Summer in the Park, Cheltenham Festival and Leeds Festival.

Great Shows

Some of the biggest headliners this concert season include Coldplay, AC/DC, the Eagles, Metallica, and Disturbed. Not to be left behind are the tried-and-true Billy Joel, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac. From Charlotte, N.C. to Las Vegas Nev. to Bogota, Columbia, Britney Spears kicks off her comeback tour in New Orleans in March.

More artists on the road with tickets available through Fan2fantickets include Mötley Crüe, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, the Killers, Coldplay, Oasis, Bob Dylan, Pink and Nickelback. Don't forget Slipknot, Morrissey, Radiohead, Kings of Leon, The Who, Peter Gabriel, Madonna, Phish, Iron Maiden and Kid Rock. 

Not to be left out on tour are classic acts like Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Robin Williams and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Joining them in cities all over the world are Styx, Kenny Chesney, BB King, Cheech & Chong, George Strait, The Pretenders and Lynyrd Skynyrd. 

Theatre

Eddie Izzard Theatre:

Eddie Izzard's comedy style is expressed in rambling, surreal monologue and self-referential pantomime. In addition to touring, he is also a television, stage and film actor, and is active in charity work.

Lord of the Dance:

Michael Flatley found his first fame starring in Riverdance, but he left the show in 1995 before its debut in London after a disagreement over creative control. Flatley dreamed of putting together a dance show capable of playing in arenas instead of traditional theaters. The show took 6 months to bring it from conception to the stage.