VidZone Update: A Tale Of Prodigies, Slayers, Wolves And Their Mothers

Sounds like Halloween all over again doesn’t it? I hope you all had fun frightening each other over the weekend. It really is the only time in the year that you don’t even blink as a man dressed up as a bleeding priest chases after a girl dressed up as a viking down your local high street as I did.

Things to watch out this week… MASSIVE SLAYER COMPETITION and EXCLUSIVE PRODIGY INTERVIEW. Be excited… Be very excited.

But first, I have some important info…

We are all working really hard to get all these new countries live in time for the end of the year, and everything is going really well so far and we should be able to announce some dates very soon. In order for this to happen we have to make some changes to our infrastructure (for all of you none techy people, that basically means tightening screws and bolting bits on). This means that the service MAY be interrupted periodically for 48 hours starting at 00:00 GMT on Tuesday 10th November. Hopefully this shouldn’t affect you too much and we will try and keep the outages to the veeeeeeeery minimum.

Ok… important stuff over…Let the fun stuff begin…

Homepage Feeds

Slayer Greatest Hits & Competition
Original 80’s American thrash metallers are a mildly scary but very giving bunch. Not only are they willing for their greatest hits be available as one of our homepage feeds but they are giving y’all a chance to win 3 pairs of backstage tickets, a pair for each date for the English leg of their World tour or a signed copy of their new album “World Painted Blood”. To enter go here and sign into your PSN account and answer a multiple choice question. Good luck!!

We also have similar giveaways for the German and French leg of the tour, check out the competition area of PlayStation.com on Friday 6th November for details how to enter. Good luck!!

ARTIST OF THE WEEK

Prodigy Exclusive Interview (All VidZone Countries)
These guys don’t talk to anyone… apart from us!!! Liam, Keith and Maxim. We get up close and personal with these dance music gods. I’m sure you must agree that this is pretty exciting and if you don’t keep reading I’m sure there is something to get your heart racing.

Wolfmother – (UK, Ireland and Australia)
“WOMAN, you know you, WOMAN” etc… Remember them?? Of course you do!! The Aussie rock’n’roll trio are fighting back onto the scene with their new album “Cosmic Egg”. Personally it’s the best album title of 2009 . We give to you a playlist including all their hits and their soon to be a hit new single “New Moon Rising”

SingStar Take That Special
In honour of one of Europe’s hottest acts, SingStar is releasing a Take That disc to sing along until you can’t sing along no more. Just in case you forgot… or if you just love them with all your heart… this playlist will make your day

Back to the 80’s
My favourite decade ever!!! Synthesisers , strange outfits and stupid hair… and probably the inspiration for your favourite bands today. George Michael to Cyndi Lauper to Pointer Sisters. Have an 80’s party all by yourself or with your friends.

Reccomended playlists

21st Century Rock
OK, so it may not have been possible to have the rock of today without the old school of rock… but forget that for a minute and get your air guitars out of the cupboard for the new style.

Hottie Videos
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… Hotties…

Interview Room
We have changed the homepage feed into a full playlist so you can search though all the juicy interviews we have on VidZone.

Next week’s Hompage Feed

Artist of the week
Leona Lewis – With a voice as surprising (but a lot less disturbing and a lot more amazing) as finding your toothbrush covered in marmite, Leona has constantly has wowed the whole world with her towering inferno of a voice and that s no different to her new single “Happy”… You will be after you have heard it.

Indie Disco
You know it’s cool to mash genres together like slamming and apple against a mango. Indie disco is the new black and we have all the videos you need to keep you dancing all the way to the record store.

Award Winning Artists
To coincide with that ultra flashy annual affair they like to call the MTV Video Music Awards (The VMA’s if you wanna be cool about it) we have all the videos from all the winners.

Other Things

Genres
Loads of requests for new genres to be added so you will start seeing new ones being added sporadically over the next few weeks. Keep an eye out for them and let us know what you think.

Think that’s it, no doubt I will think of something as soon as I hit publish.

Ben