INNER MUSIC EST 2011

   New Kids On The Block Raise again. Editor Katie Watkins 11/4/22 When we talk about NKOTB we think boyband, teenage fans and manufactured music. It was also a good decade for teen idols in music, and few, if any at all, were bigger than New Kids on the Block . The famous band, including members Jonathan Knight, Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre,  Donnie Wahlberg , and Danny Wood  The band were the blue print for so many other bands to follow in there footsteps and about a decade before Lou Pearlman made stars out of the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. With promoter Maurice Starr — the same man who discovered New Edition in the early '80s — took five teenage boys from Boston and transformed them into global superstars. Just as you can expect from a popular boy band, NKOTB had a knack for cranking out up-tempo earworms and tender love ballads alike, though they weren't afraid either of veering into harder-edged, almost pop-rock territory ("Hangin' Tough") With most manufact...

Pulp reunite for 2011 concerts Music News : Katie Watkin's (Music Journalist) 7th Jan 2011 This article is more than 9 years ol Pulp  announced  they are to reunite for 2011 concerts in a short statement the band, which alongside Blur and Oasis defined the Britpop era, promised to play fan favourites as they confirmed dates at the Wireless festival in Hyde Park and at Spain's Primavera Sound festival, both next summer. A tour could follow. Pulp are  just one of the latest band to reform amid a wave of nostalgia, stretching from Led Zeppelin's comeback gig at the O2 arena in London in 2007 to Spandau Ballet's recent world tour.  But perhaps the most successful have been two other stalwarts of the 1990s; Blur, who reunited in 2009, with a headline slot at Glastonbury festival, and Take That, recently reunited with fifth member Robbie Williams.  Pulp appear to be prepared for the onslaught of questions that inevitably accompany news of a band's reunion. Pulp origin...