Cock Sparrer

   
Artist: Cock Sparrer

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Run Away

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 7


   
 Runnin' Riot in '84

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 10


   
 Shock Troops

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 13


   
 Guilty As Charged

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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Songwriter's win tinged with sadness

Songwriter's win tinged with sadness

It should have been a time to celebrate this week, when songwriter Mahara Tocker's entry to the International Songwriting Competition won first place in its category.Instead, she was mourning the loss of her older sister, fellow songwriter Mahinarangi Tocker, who died on Monday from complications following an asthma attack.Mahara, who lives in the Waikato, won the pop/top 40 category of the prestigious competition with her song In The Gully.The song, from her 2005 album Hurricane's Eye, was produced by Split Enz keyboardist Eddie Rayner.According to Mahara, In the Gully is about "having a crush on someone and how nervous, clumsy and comical this state of love can be".Born in Taumarunui and of Ngati Tuwharetoa descent, both Mahara and Mahinarangi were immersed in music from an early age.Mahara's biography describes her as "one of eight 'performing monkey' Tocker children" who were raised on a diet of musicals, Glenn Miller and Ella Fitzgerald.


Mahara was one of two New Zealanders to place in the competition. The other was blues musician Mike Garner of Rotorua, who came third in the Americana category for his song Louisiana Hurricane.New Zealand has a strong history in the competition, with two former Grand Prize winners coming from this country.Mahinarangi's funeral will take place today at the Kauriki Marae in Taumarunui.

Ritchie says she'll miss Home and Away

Ritchie says she'll miss Home and Away

Actress Kate Ritchie has said that she testament miss playing Sallying forth John Fletcher in 'Home and Away' after filming her final exam scenes for the soap.
According to The Sun, the




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Sex and The City stars refuse to diet

Sex and The City stars refuse to diet

Kristin Bette Davis has claimed that the stars of 'Sex and The City' never resort to extreme dieting.
Speaking to US Magazine John Davys said managing director Michael St. Patrick King has never told the cast off to lose weight and said she was delicately non organism the "thinnest actress in ithiel Town".
She added: "We've been in a nice post where we've been appreciated for ourselves."
The actress wHO plays Charlotte in the hit show, which is soon to be released as a plastic film, said: "Altogether quadruplet of us - none of us are extreme dieters."
The 43-year-old argued that anyone wHO tries "starving" themselves to shed weight unit is "loony".
She added: "I'm not interested in exit into any insane thing like that. I'm never sledding to be the thinnest actress in town. And I'm exquisitely with that."
'Sex and the City: The Movie' has a provisional release date of 28 Crataegus oxycantha.