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3 November 2009 9:19 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Johnny of the BBC Switch Chartjackers project has announced a one-off concert featuring Chesney Hawkes. The gig will take place tomorrow night at London's 93 Feet East and will feature YouTube musicians Ed Plant and Tom Milsom as well as Chartjackers vocalists Adam and Miranda. Johnny said: "We have a very special guest who's coming to play, and this special guest is actually a singer-songwriter who we interviewed at the very start of the Chartjackers project. "Some of you might already know who I'm talking about if you followed this from (more) »

- By Mayer Nissim

18 September 2009 5:48 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Chesney Hawkes has suggested that the four bloggers involved in the BBC Switch Chartjackers project may succeed in their goal of scoring a number one single. The musician and producer was interviewed by Alex, Jimmy, Johnny and Charlie for this week's show about song lyrics. Hawkes said: "I think you guys are on the right track and I think you've got every experience between you guys to actually pull it off. "In fact, I wanna come and see you, see how you're doing in a couple of months." The four Chartjackers received over 4,000 responses to their post about lyrics and ran their favourite contributions (more) »

- By Mayer Nissim

17 July 2009 2:00 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Duncan Jones has revealed that the soundtrack choices for his film Moon are intended as in-jokes for the audience. The science fiction movie, which stars Sam Rockwell as an astronaut isolated on a lunar mining base, features significant uses of the pop tracks 'Walking On Sunshine' by Katrina And The Waves and Chesney Hawkes's 'The One And Only'. Speaking to Digital Spy, Jones admitted that the Katrina track was intended as a nod to Danny Boyle's recent movie Sunshine. "'Walking On Sunshine', Sunshine is obviously a film we'd (more) »

- By Simon Reynolds

3 articles from 2009