Company to Ares Management and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for 6 billion. The deal marks the end of a years long effort to sell the retailer. Delta air lines. Stock is surging today on news the carrier is going to join the s p 500. The airline will be added to the index tomorrow. After the market closes. Nicole already her little plastic plane ready to go. David good for delta. Investors ignored downbeat news about kfc and pizza hut parent yum brands and pushed the stock higher. Yum announced a big august sales decline in china following a bird scare and bird flu outbreak. Microsoft is getting red to relaunch the slowselling surface tablet. The tech giant sending out invitations for a event here in new york on september 23rd. David a lot of commercials on the football channels. Google offered new concessions to end threeyear antitrust investigation by european regulators. The company trying avert a possible 5 billiondollar fine. Busy day here. After the bell starts right n
November 26th, 2008
Idlewild are one of those bands that many of us grew up with, and as 2008 draws to a close the Scottish rockers are giving fans a chance to relive their youth by perfoming all the albums, in full plus associated B sides, just before Christmas (full details below) at a series of special shows in Glasgow.
To celebrate the occasion, DiS asked singer Roddy Woomble for a track-by-track retrospective on their first full album, 1998 s
Hope Is Important.
Says Woomble: Half of the songs were written throughout 1997 and around the same times as those that appear on
Captain, the other half (including most of the singles) were written between tours in the first months of 1998, when we d been branded as the next big thing by much of the UK music press, and had given up university/employment to concentrate on touring etc. It was a time of adjustment to the (frankly gruelling) touring life around the toilet circuit in a van, and of meeting expectation from audiences