Janet ‘Together Again’ with MJ at Essence Festival
Janet Jackson paid tribute to brother and King of Pop Michael Jackson, at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans last week.The event marked a powerful evening, especially for the black community, with iconic singers such as Mary J Blige and Alicia Keys hitting the stage, with rapper T.I also duetting with Blige.'Rhythm Nation' star Janet moved the whole...
Tennis star Serena Williams glams it up
Serena William shines...Glowing in a charming gold, knee high dress as she poses with her winners trophy, she stands next to men’s winner Rafael Nadal, at the Wimbledon Championships 2010 Winners Ball at the InterContinental Park Lane Hotel last Sunday in London.
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Hot Katy Perry goes cold on Miley Cyrus
The Hot'n'Cold singer has slammed Disney popstress Miley Cyrus' wardrobe.Flavour magazine recently Style Spied on Katy Perry's sophisticated vintage wardrobe, and now Katy has 'spied' on Miley.Perry is reported to have said 17 year old Cyrus' provocative dress ups are 'bad'. It seems no one can 'tame' wild Cyrus, as Perry pointed out another Britney Spears in the making.According...
Limelight Film & Arts Awards 2010
This week, the Limelight Film & Arts Awards will bring the glitz and glamour of the Oscars to the streets of London.This annual short film competition is for London based film makers and the awards ceremony has been planned with exciting performances, celebrity attendees, dignitaries and of course individuals from the film and media industry.It is the...
Rising urban star SeeJay
SEEJAY100, born and bred in South London has been making his mark in the Urban music scene for the last 2 years.At the tender age of 19, SeeJay has already amassed a string of successful performance alongside some of the UK's most renound performers and is rapidly gaining a reputation for his confident and energetic...
Tim Westwood on Lee Nelson’s Well Good
Brace yourselves for “proper mad” fun as irrepressible South London geeza Lee "Nelsy" Nelson fronts his Well Good Show. Check him out here trying his luck with the ladies with Radio One DJ legend Westwood.In his show Nelsy, the creation of critically-acclaimed character comedian Simon Brodkin, gets in among the excitable studio audience in this brand new show, entertaining...
Cool & Dre Record with The Game and Drake!
Cool & Dre were busy in the studio with The Game Wednesday, June 23rd recording a hot new track titled “Good Girl, Bad GirL” at Encore Studios in Burbank, California last week. Cool & Dre have 3 songs on the album titled “THE R.E.D. album.” The single will feature a verse by...
Into The Hoods Preview
Akai Osei is the 10-year old dance sensation who scooped the £100,000 prize of the Sky1’s competition Got to Dance in February 2010. Having only been dancing for a year, the Kent school boy started dance classes when his sister wanted to learn to street dance and wowed the judges – including his hero Ashley Banjo from street dancing...
Back British Basketball for 2012
Sam Neter, editor of Hoopsfix.com and basketball fanatic, today launches ‘Back British Basketball’ (www.backbritishbasketball.com) a blog-site which is the start of an integrated campaign to promote the Great Britain national basketball team (Team GB) and get people in the UK interested and following the team.Basketball is one of the few sports in the Olympics where the home nation doesn’t...
ACS Kings and Queens 2010 winners announced
ACS Kings and Queens, an inter university beauty pageant was held on Sunday 20th June at Ocean Music Venue in Hackney. The competition saw young women and men from 8 different universities compete for the title and Peter of Hertfordshire ACS and Nicholette of Bedfordshire ACS were crowned ACS King and Queen 2010 after 5 rounds which included an...
Tina O’Brien and the Nectar Budget Babes
In these austere times, Tina O’Brien and the Nectar Budget Babes rally the nation to ‘Keep Calm and Carry One’. As the new Government unveils its emergency budget, Nectar encourages consumers to use loyalty cards to save money and still treat themselves
Blitz: taking it back to the old school
It is one pm, UK time as I set out to phone Blitz the Ambassador the Ghanaian born ‘musician/rapper’. I first got wind of his album Stereotype (2009) through some sources who were literally scrapping their skin off with excitement. Once I heard the album, I too found scrapping my skin off was the best way to relieve the...
Kissing Frogs part 7
Every fortnight Zowie Edwards will be regaling Flavour readers with her dating tales from the Urban Jungle…….If last column’s date surprised me by being a million times yummier in the flesh than a two dimensional photo could ever suggest, this fortnight’s guy had, sadly, the exact opposite effect.Note to all internet daters: Be extremely wary of black-and-white photos. They...
Amy Webster: The unsigned teenager with an amazing voice
You may have never heard of new singer Amy Webster, but it’s only a matter of time before you will.A young teenage girl from Liverpool is set to take the music industry by storm having shared her skill with MySpace and YouTube, rapidly accumulating thousands of fans almost overnight! Amy style boasts a soft yet controlled tone and she...
MC Versatile hooks up with Crazy Cousinz
The popular vibrant Garage UK Funky club MC - VERSATILE returns to the scene following a tunefully successful 2009. He has teamed up with the Crazy Cousinz for his first commercial release of 2010 with a summer sizzling dance track titled ‘Searching for You. This tune is already a club dance floor hit and has been granted airtime play...
Princess Nyah returns with her new single Butterflies
Flavour presents to you - Princess Nyah, after the release of her infectious hits Frontline and Big Bois she returns once again to the UK music scene with an exclusive neo soul sounding single 'Butterflies' from her debut album 'Diary of a Princess' out this autumn. Princess Nyah has been busy working on making her title a household...
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at World Premiere of ‘Raavan’,
The Red Carpet was rolled out to welcome Indian cinema royalty and off-screen couple, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, as they brought the height of glamour to London’s cultural hotspot, BFI, Southbank, London SE1 on Wednesday 16th June 2010 at the World Premiere of ‘Raavan’, a darkly intense film that invites audiences into a new world order. The...
Kyshera – Paradigm review
Kyshera are a three-piece Alternative Rock band from South Wales. Formed in 2005, the band consists of James Kennedy, Matt Warr and Rhys Jones. Currently unknown in the mainstream and public eye, they are a band who’s sound resonate the musicality’s of Stereophonics, Muse, and Radiohead. When asked what would be the best word to describe their sound the...
Make a video mash-up for Red Bull X-Fighters and win a trip to Rome!
Red Bull and Dave TV are calling on the UK’s aspiring editors and filmmakers to take Red Bull’s archive of X-Fighters footage, images and sounds to create a high-energy mash-up that gets the adrenaline pumping for the Red Bull X-Fighters event in London.The winner will be Red Bull’s VIP guests at the two remaining stops of the X-Fighters World...
Shola Ama talks to Live and Unsigned
Shola Ama is billed as one of Britain’s most successful RnB artists.The London based singers debut album ‘Much Love’ sold over one million copies and she enjoyed massive chart success with the top five singles ‘You Might Need Somebody’ and ‘You’re The One I Love’. And achieving four MOBO nominations and winning a Brit award cemented her position on...
Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Award winner Louise Broni-Mensah’s ticketing idea
A young entrepreneur from London has scooped a national award after setting up a business that provides a digital ticketing solution for niche entertainment event organisers. Shoobs enables event organisers of all sizes the ability to set up an online ticketing, promotion and a social media platform to connect people to London’s most vibrant, hippest events.Louise Broni-Mensah, aged 27,...
My Life Your World exhibition at Rich Mix
The stories of the street children of South Africa are easily forgotten amidst the excitement about the world cup. Yael Mindel and Max Reeve's current installation showing at the Rich Mix Mezzanine Gallery gives the viewer pause for thought with it's moving photos and testimonies of South African street kids living in a Cape Town bus terminal environment,...
Behind the scenes images: On the Atlanta video set – for She Geeked Video
Check out behind the scenes pics of the music video for She Geeked
The Wendy Williams show is heading to BET UK!
American chat show host Wendy Williams hit London this week and Flavour headed down to the Soho Hotel to find out all about her chat show, which is winging its way to our screens on BET this summer.For those who don’t know (and ya really should), Wendy is a notorious DJ/ presenter/ best selling author who loves digging the...
England’s Finest
In anticipation of the England vs. Algeria game, we have mashed up the Brooklyn’s Finest (In Cinemas now) poster to showcase four of England’s star players who will hopefully bring the World Cup back to England. This Friday is not just football. This is war. This is England!DON CHEADLE, RICHARD GERE and ETHAN HAWKE are BROOKLYN'S FINEST. This gritty...
Interview with America Ferrera and Lance Gross stars of Our Family Wedding
It’s a common story. Two people fall in love and decide to get married – but what should be the most thrilling, romantic and fulfilling day of their lives turns into a near disaster – well before the first guests have arrived, even before the dress and the cake have been ordered. In director Rick Famuyiwa’s warm...
Flavour Editor Judges Live and Unsigned
Flavour Magazine's editor Annika Allen joins the Live and Unsigned panel as a guest judge, where she will decide who out of the pop and urban category will be crowned the winner at the UK's largest music competition for unsigned artists. A battle of the bands and singers competition like no other. The Live and Unsigned Festival is an...
Toni Braxton talks motherhood, acting, that Trey Songz kiss
Since 1991 Toni Braxton has blessed us with unforgettable hit singles such as Unbreak my Heart, You’re Makin’ me High and He Wasn’t Man Enough and scooped six Grammy awards for her efforts. Brace yourselves – Toni Braxton’s sexy soulful voice is back! She recently signed to Atlantic Records and will be releasing her new album next month, featuring...
Young & Ambitious: Drumma Boy
Named Drumma Boy due to his distinctive drumming patterns and production arrangements, Christopher Gholson has been touted as one of the hottest producers to emerge in recent years. Describing his style of production as “Gumbo” music because of his ability to use whatever he can find and turn it into a hit record, Drumma Boy is known to combine...