The Dead Weather Tour The UK!

4:54 PM GMT 10/08/2009

The Dead Weather have announced details of their upcoming UK tour.

Jack White and co will hit the road in October.

The band play:

Manchester Academy (October 19)
Newcastle O2 Academy (21)
Edinburgh Picture House (22)
Leeds O2 Academy (23)
Bristol O2 Academy (25)
Birmingham O2 Academy (26)
London Brixton O2 Academy (29)

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday (August 14)

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A film charting the life and times of country music legend Hank Williams has been picked up by Universal.

Variety reports that 821 Entertainment Group and Strike Entertainment will join forces to produce the movie. The Hank Williams estate has also offered its support.

Mark Abraham, the man who produced the apocalyptically excellent Children Of Men, is currently writing the script. Colin Escott's biography of Williams is being cited as a main source for the narrative.

Williams died at the age of an overdose in 1953. He was 29.

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This Is It, a film made up of footage of Michael Jackson's final days of rehearsal, will be shown in cinemas from October 28.

The movie has been put together using hundreds of hours of film shot during the late star's preparations for his proposed 50-date run at London's O2 Arena. Jackson had been rehearsing at Los Angeles' Staple Center in the run up to the scheduled series of shows before his death on June 25.

This Is It will be released via Sony Pictures.

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And finally...45 years ago today a band called The High Numbers stepped onto the stage at The Railway Hotel in Harrow. The would eventually go on to do this:

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 4:54 PM GMT 10/08/2009

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