Last Update - November 21, 2011 at 6:30 AM EST
The 'Reading And Viewing List' for November 1 through November 10, 2011 looks back at the beginning of November 2011.
The following articles and videos include film, television, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and WRC rally news.
November 10, 2011
Saxon To Release Live DVD
By mdome at Classic Rock
Saxon are to release a live DVD in early 2012.
It’s to be called Heavy Metal Thunder Live: Eagles Over Wacken, and will feature performances from the Wacken Festival...
CR AWARDS: Queen
By gbarton at Classic Rock
Queen won the Best Reissue Of The Year Award – come inside for exclusive chinwags with none other than guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor...
...Do you have any theories about why those old Queen albums are still so popular?
Taylor: That’s such a difficult question to answer, there were so many great bands that didn’t last the way we have. We definitely put our hearts into what we did back then. It was beautifully crafted; Freddie and Brian were always utter perfectionists.
May: We were also very competitive at the beginning, and that contributed to our high standards. Being so critical of each other definitely helped to raise the bar. We could all be self-indulgent, but between the four of us we managed to stop that.
Are the newspaper rumours true, is Lady Gaga going to join Queen?
Taylor: No. Even though she nicked the name [from Radio GaGa].
May: It’ll never happen.
FIA Thursday press conference - Abu Dhabi
Posted at Formula1.com
Drivers - Sebastien Buemi (Toro Rosso), Paul di Resta (Force India), Timo Glock (Virgin), Heikki Kovalainen (Team Lotus), Vitantonio Liuzzi (HRT) and Vitaly Petrov (Renault)...
Abu Dhabi preview - DRS to dial up electric Yas Marina
Posted at Formula1.com
Last year the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix saw Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel snatch the world championship crown from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and his own team mate Mark Webber, but the dearth of overtaking played a key role in the final outcome. This year both the drivers' and constructors' titles are long settled, but the use of DRS could make for a much more exciting race...
Petter plans to push in Wales
Posted at WRC.com
Petter Solberg is planning a "big push" on Wales Rally GB this week as he bids to end a sometimes frustrating 2011 World Rally Championship season on a high in his privateer Citroen DS3 WRC...
November 9, 2011
'Iron Man 3' Seeks 1,000 Extras For North Carolina Shoot
By Kevin P. Sullivan at MTV's Splash Page
If you live near Wilmington, North Carolina, you might have a chance to be an extra in "Iron Man 3", and your chances are actually pretty good. A Facebook post by Premiere Casting stated that production would call for 1,000 background actors for the shoot in Wilmington starting in May 2012 and finishing in January 2013...
Lou Reed And Metallica Play On TV
By mdome at Classic Rock
Lou Reed and Metallica performed last night (November on Later...With Jools Holland...
...Check out the footage here and here.
Title rivals go face-to-face in Wales
Posted at WRC.com
The two contenders for this year's World Rally Championship squared up to one another today as the start of Wales Rally GB drew ever closer...November 8, 2011
POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Stars 5, Capitals 2
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com
No D vs. Big D – For the last two-thirds of the 2010-11 season, the Washington Capitals were the league’s stingiest defensive team. And they were the stingiest team the league had seen in a decade or so...
Racing against the clock - 2011 pit stops analysed
Posted at Formula1.com
The combination of DRS and Pirelli tyres has made 2011 a bumper year for the sport, but not just in terms of on-track passing manoeuvres. The characteristics of the Pirelli tyres, designed to improve the racing, have also seen the total number of pit stops rise steeply - so far, there have been an average of 58 stops per race. Slick pit work has always been important in Formula One racing, but the frequency with which the pit crews have been in action this year has brought both speed and consistency to the fore. Mercedes explain more...
GB preview notes: Part two
Posted at WRC.com
Petter Solberg (anxious to make up for his pain in Spain): "After my short drive in Spain, I’m so looking forward to drive here in Wales. We started with a few hours of testing [on Sunday] and everything looks very promising. The often muddy and slippery conditions in Wales suit me very well, and we have had many good results here in the past. My aim is to finish of the 2011 season on the podium."...
World Rally Radio preview: Wales
By Becs Williams at WRC.com
...Last year the drivers’ championship was decided in France, two rounds before the end of the season. This time around we get a fight on the very last round. It’s Seb Loeb (who else?) versus Mikko Hirvonen. 2009 ring any bells?...
November 7, 2011
Punk Exhibition In London
By mdome at Classic Rock
...Called Punk And Beyond, it runs from Friday, November 25 to Saturday, December 17, and is being curated by Gaye Advert. There will be artwork on display form her, plus Billy Childish, Marco Pirrone, Thurston Moore, Savage Pencil, Mark Mothersbraugh, Jamie Reid and Robyn Hitchcock among others...
We want YOU in the next Doctor Who "Best of" Special!
Posted on YouTube by BBC America
Record your wittiest, most festive answers to the any of the questions in this video and submit it as a response video here on YouTube!
Submissions must be in by WEDNESDAY November 23RD!
Other things to know: You do not have to live in the US to participate. There are no age limits but you will need the consent of a parent or guardian if your video is chosen.
Thin Lizzy Name New Guitarist
By mdome at Classic Rock
Thin Lizzy have announced that Damon Johnson is now a full-time member of the band...
Hirvonen chasing GB glory
Posted at WRC.com
Mikko Hirvonen will start Wales Rally GB this week knowing that he will almost certainly need to win the event to stand any chance of preventing Sebastien Loeb from making it eight World Rally Championship titles in a row...
GB preview notes: Part one
Posted at WRC.com
The World Rally Championship is set for a dramatic climax on Wales Rally GB this week with Mikko Hirvonen and Sebastien Loeb facing off for the world title. This is a summary of what the leading contenders have had to say in the build-up to the battle in Britain...
November 5, 2011
POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Islanders 5, Capitals 3
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com
Caps Can’t KO DiPietro – Through the game’s first 20 minutes, Washington had the homestanding New York Islanders right where they wanted them. The Caps owned a 2-0 lead, Isles goaltender Rick DiPietro looked shaky to the point that the fans were chanting for back-up Al Montoya as the clock wound down in the first frame, and the offensively challenged Islanders were up to more than 100 minutes since they scored their last goal...
Review: All-star cast shines in 'Masterpiece' film 'Page Eight'
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com
..."Page Eight" was written and directed by David Hare, who wrote the scripts for "The Reader" and "The Hours" but is a playwright by trade. And there's a very stage-like quality to the film, much of it consisting of Johnny sitting in conference rooms and drawing rooms discussing his life, his legacy and the current state of British intelligence with friends and colleagues, most of them played by a murderer's row of British (and/or Australian) character actors. In addition to Bill Nighy as Johnny, we have Michael Gambon as Benedict, Judy Davis as their colleague Jill, Rachel Weisz as Johnny's inquisitive neighbor Nancy, Ralph Fiennes as the British prime minister, Alice Krige as one of Johnny's many ex-wives and Felicity Jones as their estranged daughter...
Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
By Ollie at The Ripple Effect
He’s back ... the man behind the mask. Well, strictly Alice has never really gone away. Now Alice, in my humble opinion, has never made a truly terrible album although some do shine far brighter than others. 1975’s original Welcome To My Nightmare set, however, stands head and shoulders above anything else in his solo career. As a die hard Alice fan, when I heard in 2010 he was working on a sequel to that album, Hell, I was intrigued...
November 4, 2011
POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 5, Hurricanes 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com
Five Unanswered – Washington came into Friday night’s game with Carolina as the league’s most prolific offensive team with an average of 3.9 goals per game. That average will get a bit of a bump northward after the Caps trounced the Hurricanes 5-1 at RBC Center in a four-point Southeast Division contest...
New Pirates! Trailer
Posted at David Tennant - Fan News Blog
David's DWM Lis Sladen Tribute
Posted at David Tennant - Fan News Blog
The above interview with David is included in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which is a special tribute issue for the Sarah Jane Smith actress Elisabeth Sladen who so sadly passed away earlier this year.
Benjamin Cook who conducted the interview with David has some fab sound bytes on his official website at www.benjamincook.net...
Wrc.com preview: Wales Rally GB
Posted at WRC.com
...After 12 thrilling rounds in four continents, the 2011 World Rally Championship concludes in Great Britain next week with the title battle finely poised between Mikko Hirvonen and defending champion Sebastien Loeb...
November 3, 2011
The Prison In Space - Scriptbook
Posted at Doctor Who Online
...Eager to inject some humour into the series, producer Innes Lloyd called upon experienced scriptwriter, Dick Sharples, to come up with a story that would inject a lighter tone into Doctor Who. That adventure was The Prison in Space, originally envisioned to write out the character of Jamie and introduce a new companion called Nik - and it's a story that was just a hair's-breadth away from being made...
See Exclusive Rush Video
By gbarton at Classic Rock
Come inside to watch an amazing four-and-a-half-minute clip from the Canadian maestros’ brand new Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland DVD...
Twisted Sister - Double Live DVD/Live At the Marquee CD
By Woody at The Ripple Effect
A few months ago I wrote a frantic, drooling review of the reissue of Twisted Sister's debut album Under The Blade. It came with a bonus live DVD of their hell raising performance at the 1982 Reading Festival in the UK. As great as that package is, 2 others have come out and blow it away. In July the Double Live DVD was released containing a full live show from 1982 and their reunion at the 2001 NY Steel benefit, and just a few weeks ago Rhino released an audio CD called Live At The Marquee recorded in 1983...
Loeb won’t hold back on Rally GB
Posted at WRC.com
Citroen legend Sebastien Loeb insists he won't settle for second place on the World Rally Championship decider in Wales next week...
November 2, 2011
Primeval Season 5 Exclusive Trailer
Posted on YouTube by BBC America
This November, PRIMEVAL comes roaring back to BBC America's Supernatural Saturday - bigger and badder than ever before. Don't miss the all new season *** premiering Saturday November 12 at 9/8c ***
In the highly-anticipated new season, dark secrets bubble to the surface, testing relationships to the limit as anomalies - holes in the fabric of time - become more unpredictable and numerous, with more far reaching consequences than ever before. An underground creature causes chaos to a city, a nuclear submarine encounters an anomaly in the sea and a raptor roams the same streets of the infamous murderer Spring Heeled Jack in Victorian London.
Will there be a Torchwood season 5?
By Simon Brew at Den Of Geek
...While it never reached the commercial and critical heights of Torchwood: Children Of Earth, this year’s long-awaited fourth season of Torchwood, Miracle Day, appears to have been a solid enough success...
Hear ‘N Aid Single To Be Reissued
By mdome at Classic Rock
...Originally put out at the start of 1986, it was the heavy metal world’s contribution to raising money to help fight famine in Africa. Conceived by Ronnie James Dio, the single featured members of Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Blue Oyster Cult and Spinal Tap, plus the likes of Ted Nugent ad Yngwie Mamsteen...
...Here’s the original video for Stars...
Block relishing Rally GB return
Posted at WRC.com
Ken Block is relishing his return to Wales Rally GB next week citing it as one of the events that first attracted him to the sport...
November 1, 2011
POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 5, Ducks 4, OT
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com
Laich Line, Life Line – For the first half of tonight’s Caps-Ducks game, things weren’t going the home team’s way. Although they stayed out of the penalty box and generally limited Anaheim’s chances at even strength, the Caps found themselves on the short end of a 3-0 score
Bill Bailey In Metal - Out Now!
Posted by Pete at BillBailey.co.uk
Today sees the launch of the eagerly awaited album Bill Bailey In Metal, a collection of nine solid rock tracks that were forged for Bill’s headline set in the fiery furnace of the Saturn Stage at Sonisphere 2011. Each of these pieces were then hammered into shape in the studio furnace using the voodoo brilliance of a superb band of musical sorcerers...
