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Touch and Anzac Girls have won key prizes at the 2014 Australian Cinematographers Society awards for South Australia and Western Australia.

Aaron Gully took the best cinema feature award for Touch, a mystery starring Leeanna Walsman, Matt Day and newcomer Onor Nottle, produced by Triptych Pictures. Julie Byrne and directed by Christopher Houghton.

The best telefeature, series, TV drama or comedy trophy went to Geoffrey Hall Acs for episode four of Screentime.s Anzac Girls. Hall also collected the Milton Ingerson award for best entry overall.

Jim Frater Acs took the dual prize for best dramatised documentary for The War That Changed Us episode 1 and for Desert War- Alamein, both produced by Electric Pictures. Andrew Ogilvie. Here is the full list of winners: Student Cinematography Gold: Jordan Agutter ~ The Crane Wife ~ Sa Silver: Caroline Fisher ~ Source to Sea ~ Sa Bronze: Molly O.Connor ~ Damsels ~ Sa Experimental & Specialised Gold: Malcolm Ludgate...

Dance music duo Massive Attack are donating all the proceeds from their new mini-album to the War Child charity. Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall are longstanding supporters of the organization, working with charity bosses to highlight the plight of needy kids in areas of conflict such as Bosnia and Sarajevo.

And they've pledged to boost the cause's funds with their new release, "Atlas Air". Del Naja tells BBC 6 Music, "They do a lot of great work in different territories which aren't really that newsworthy anymore maybe."

"When the glare of the camera is gone and the focus isn't on that place obviously other people need to step in and help work on the ground with the kids out there, who are still in really awful environments and predicaments."...

Massive Attack's Robert del Naja has revealed that the trip hop progenitors reunited thanks to the Meltdown Festival. Del Naja, 45, said that curating the 2008 event with Grant Marshall made the duo realise their recent recordings "missed that 'together' vibe". With Bristol tainted by memories of past tensions, the pair decided to create new LP Heligoland from Damon Albarn's 13 studios in West London. "It was the first time we had worked together since (more)...

Massive Attack nearly "imploded" in the 90s. The Bristol-based group - who have collaborated with numerous music stars, including Madonna and Neneh Cherry - have revealed inter-band fights became so intense they nearly gave up. Grant Marshall - who is now only joined in the group by Robert Del Naja after third member Andrew Vowles, also known as Mushroom, quit in 1999 - said: "Oh yes, we were definitely on the edge of imploding. There didn't seem any point remaining friends." Similar problems emerged during the making of their last album, 2003's '100th Window', after Marshall became a new father and had little input into the record. He added: "Luckily, we came through it because it turned out that the...

Massive Attack have announced the details of their first U.K. tour in three years. The Bristol band is currently in the studio recording its fifth album, which is due for release at the same time when they start touring in September.

The band will kick off the trek with two dates at London's O2 Brixton Academy on September 17 and 18. Other stops include Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle.

The band is reportedly working with Guy Garvey (frontman with Elbow) and reggae singer Horace Andy for its new album. Their last album "Collected" was released in 2006.

Tickets for their upcoming shows go on sale on Friday (April 24) at 9am (GMT). Massive Attack's U.K. tour dates are:...

Massive Attack have announced the details of their UK first tour in three years. The band are currently in the studio recording their fifth album, which is due for release around the time of their autumn tour. Massive Attack were recently unveiled as the headliners of the first night of this year's Bestival. The group will play the following live dates:

September 11 - Isle of Wight, Bestival

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One of the most popular questions I get from fans is "What kind of music does Channing Tatum like?". No need to wonder any longer, Chan has now completed his very own playlist on his official MySpace.

I was personally excited to see 'Dear Life' from the 'Step Up' soundtrack and Israel's 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' on Chan's list. Feel free to leave a comment on this post and tell everyone your favs. Here's the compete list of Channing's favorite music:

Gun Street Girl by Tom Waits

Black Milk by Massive Attack

Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Hands Held High by Linkin Park

Clap Hands by Tom Waits

Dear Life ('Step Up' Soundtrack) by Anthony Hamilton

Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel

Remember The Name ('Fighting' Trailer) by Fort Minor

You can click on the image below to hear all of the songs...

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Kraftwerk and Massive Attack have been announced as the first two headliners for this year's Bestival. Other acts confirmed for the event include Fleet Foxes, Florence And The Machine, Friendly Fires and Bjorn Again. Curator Rob Da Bank said: "Artist wise, I keep having to look at the scruffy piece of paper I keep the lineup on in my diary to convince myself that we are indeed bringing Kraftwerk to the Isle of Wight. "I'm so bloody happy I could cry but then I (more)...

Photo: Screen Actors Guild Awards® Back again for a brand spanking new live blog and this time it is the 2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards edition! You have already predicted who you think is going to win and if you don't want to click over there to see how the results turned out here is a quick rundown: Actor - Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Actress - Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road (just edged out Meryl Streep) Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Supporting Actress - Kate Winslet, The Reader Ensemble Cast - Doubt No, we don't do TV predictions around here, but I will announce those as they happen too so don't worry. As I go along I will obviously be including winners in the blog and they will be highlighted in yellow as such, but you can also keep track of them right here. So, with that said, stay...

Coldplay are newly crowned double winners at the 2008 Q Awards. The rock band were hailed Best Act in the World Today and their latest album "Viva la Vida" was given the honor as Best Album. "I don't think we're the best act in the room, let alone the world," Chris Martin, the band's frontman said.

The British event also saw winnings from Duffy, The Last Shadow Puppets, Keane, and Kaiser Chiefs. Duffy beat Adele and Santogold but she could not attend the event to receive the award. Puppets, which is a side project by Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner, picked up Best New Act. Turner appearing solo said, "Thank you very much. I understand it's voted by the readers so this means a lot of course. Unfortunately my partner couldn't be here because he had some trouble with the trains."

A tribute session was given to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour...