Alicia Keys, AudioSlave, Bloc Party

Halle and Alicia confirm movie

Halle Berry has signed up Alicia Keys for her new film ‘Composition of Black and White’.

Alicia will take the lead role in the movie to be produced by Berry.

The film is based on Kathryn Talalay's novel about inter-racial pioneer Philippa Schuyler reports contactmusic.com.

Halle said: "I adore Alicia and there's nobody more perfect for it than her."

Speaking about the role Keys said: "It's a pretty big honour for me."
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Audio and studio slaves!

AudioSlave are to go into the studio following their European tour to work on new material. The band, currently on the European festival circuit, including a date at the T In The Park festival next month (09 July), will follow the dates with time recording before a North American tour later this year.

Guitarist Tom Morello told Billboard: "What we'd like to do is blur the lines between rehearsing, recording and touring. It's healthy to constantly be writing and recording music. We want to keep fresh. Everybody has been playing great on this tour, and we want to take some of that momentum while it's hot and write some songs, record and then go back on tour in the States."

As well as their own shows, the group will play at the Live8 in Berlin this Saturday, 02 July.
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Bloc Party’s ID crisis

Bloc Party have been talking about the pressures of touring and getting their next album written. They've been on the road pretty much non-stop and so have had to grab time when they can to work on new material:

"We're making time, we're jamming stuff during sound checks, we're recording our sound checks and I listen to them a lot."

"We haven't really got any time off between now and the end of the year, and we kind of want to write a new record."

"We're going to be recording our new record at the start of next year, to be finished at the middle of next year."

Kele says he's spent so much time away from home he fears he's losing his identity: "To be honest I feel less British, I feel less confident about saying that I'm a British person, I'm never at home, so it doesn't feel like home anymore."