The four canines, or fangs, of a domestic cat. (The largest two teeth of the top and bottom rows of teeth.)

A fang is a long, pointed tooth. In mammals, a fang is a canine tooth, used for biting and tearing flesh. In snakes, it is a venom-injecting tooth (see snake venom). Spiders also have fangs, which are part of the chelicerae. Some fantasy creatures such as dragons and vampires have fangs as well; indeed, for some of these creatures, their fangs are one of their defining characteristics.

Fangs are most common in carnivores or omnivores, but some herbivores, such as fruit bats, carry them as well. They are generally used to hold or swiftly kill prey, such as in large cats.

Omnivorous animals, such as bears, use their fangs when hunting fish or other prey, but they are not needed for consuming fruit. Apes also have fangs, which they use for threats and fighting. However, the relatively short canines of humans are not considered to be fangs.

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Geraldine Quinn is a songwriter, guitarist, singer, comedian and actor based in Melbourne, Australia. She won the 2006 Green Room Award (Australia) for Best Emerging Cabaret Artiste and was nominated for Original Songs.^{[citation needed]}

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Quinn was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales and moved to Melbourne with her family at a young age. She studied writing and literature at Deakin University and The University of Melbourne and trained as an actor at National Theatre Drama School.

Career[link]

Quinn has appeared on Australian TV shows Spicks and Specks and The Comedy Channel. In 2007 and 2008, Quinn toured with Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow and was a regular guest on ABC Radio’s The Comedy Hour (Australia). She has performed solo shows SEXDEATHBOWIE, Bad Ambassador, Hex and the City and Shut Up and Sing in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2007 Quinn performed at The Famous Spiegeltent with Paul Kelly in a celebration of his songs by leading cabaret artists including Eddie Perfect, Camille O'Sullivan, Paul Capsis and Debra Byrne. She has also toured live solo shows at the Sydney Big Laugh Comedy Festival, Bangalow Arts Festival and Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Quinn released her solo albums A Quick One and Scream 'Jarvis Cocker' When You're Losing and performs regularly with Casey Bennetto (writer of Keating!) and Tim Minchin.

In the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Quinn was nominated for the Golden Gibbo Award (best independent local show) for her solo production Shut Up and Sing. "Shut Up and Sing" went on to be nominated in the 2010 Victorian Green Room Awards for Best Cabaret Production, Best Cabaret Artiste and Original Songs.

Quinn was the recipient of a Moosehead Award for the development of her 2011 show "You're the Voice: Songs for the Ordinary by an Anthemaniac", which was directed by Casey Bennetto. "You're the Voice" went on to win the 2011 Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Golden Gibbo Award for Best Independent Local Production ^[1]. It was the second year running Quinn had been nominated for the award.

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• A Quick One
• Scream 'Jarvis Cocker' When You're Losing

References[link]

External links[link]

• Artist's website
• Chortle.co.uk
• The Green Room Awards Association
• Who's Who of Australian Women
• Fitroyalty (2008)
• 'Home ground has comic advantage' The Age, 11 April 2010

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Karel Gott
Karel Gott in 2002
Background information
Born	(1939-07-14) July 14, 1939 (age 72)
Origin	Pilsen, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer
Years active	1958–present
Labels	Supraphon,[1] Polydor
Website	www.karelgott.com

Karel Gott (born July 14, 1939 in Plzeň) is a Czech Schlager singer, and an amateur painter. He is considered as the most successful male singer in former Czechoslovakia and currently in the Czech Republic; he has being voted the Most Favorite Male Singer in the annual national pool Český slavík (English: Czech Nightingale) in total thirty-six times. He also gained widespread fame in the German-speaking countries.^{[citation needed]}

Biography[link]

Gott was born in Pilsen, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Plzeň, Czech Republic), and has lived in Prague since age 6. He initially wanted to study art, but failed the exams at UMPRUM, the Secondary School of Art and Industry, upon which he began training as an electrician. On completing his studies, he began working as an electrician, but was soon fascinated by the new types of music flooding the city, and became interested in jazz. He experimented with playing the bass and the guitar, but eventually decided to focus on singing, studying it privately. During the 1950s, he occasionally performed as an amateur singer and often participated in competitions.

In 1958, he participated in an amateur singing contest in the Prague Slavonic House, entitled "Looking for New Talent." He utterly failed to impress the judges, but soon made a name for himself in Prague jazz circles, finally getting his first engagement at the Vltava Prague Cafe that same year.

In 1960, he decided to undertake singing professionally. He studied opera at the Prague Conservatory under Konstantin Karenin, a student of the brilliant Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin. Knowing of Gott's interest in current musical trends, Karenin instructed him not only in classical Italian pieces, but also in the hits of the day. It was at this time that Gott traveled abroad for the first time with the Jazz Orchestra of the Czechoslovak Broadcast, conducted by Karel Krautgartner.

In 1962, Gott released his first single with Supraphon. Titled Až nám bude dvakrát tolik (When we are twice as old), it was a duet with the leading jazz singer, Vlasta Průchová. It was also at this time that Gott was voted into the Zlatý slavík (Golden Nightingale) viewer's survey, placing 49th and receiving a total of three votes. Shortly afterwards, in 1963, Gott left the conservatory to continue his studies privately until 1966.

In 1963 Gott was offered a place at the recently founded Prague Semafor theater, which was then at the forefront of the emerging Czechoslovakian pop music scene. This was his introduction to performance, where he learned how to communicate with an audience and move on a stage. In the same year, he released his first solo single, a Czech recording of Henry Mancini's Moon River, as well as his song Oči sněhem zaváté (Eyes Covered by Snow), which became the year's best-selling record. Shortly afterwards, Gott received the first of thirty-four (Golden Nightingale) awards, given to the most popular artist of the year.

Gott established the "Apollo Theater" in 1965, along with two brothers who were with him in Semafor: Jiří and Ladislav Štaidl. At this point, he was already a major star, appearing in the programs "Pilgrimage for Two" and "Evening Prayer" while building his own repertoire with his own orchestra. He began composing his own songs, and toured Czechoslovakia and abroad with the Apollo Theater. That year, he released his first album, Karel Gott Sings with Supraphon to great acclaim. Songs from his Supraphon archives are currently being released by Sony Music Bonton. This first album was followed by an English export album titled The Golden Voice of Prague (Artia-Supraphon).

In 1967, Gott performed at MIDEM, the International Fair of Record Companies and Music Producers in Cannes, France, where the applause was measured during every concert. He surprised everyone by achieving a level of 54 to Tom Jones' 58. Following this event, Gott signed a contract with the Polydor / Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft record company, renewing it several times until it became a life contract in 1997. Between 1967 and 2000, Polydor released over 125 albums and 72 singles for Karel Gott in German speaking countries in Europe. Gott represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968 with the song Tausend Fenster, finishing in 13th place.

In the same year, Gott spent six months performing daily at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, which experience made a great impression on him.

In the 70s, domestic success was marked by Gott's presence on television, including the filming of a ten part serial entitled Karel Gott in Slany. On May 3, 1977, he was awarded the title of Merited Artist, and in the following year received the Golden Hat of Cologne, given yearly to a personality in the cultural and social sphere. After human rights campaigners signed Charter 77 to protest the abuses of the totalitarian regime, Gott collaborated in the government orchestrated anti-charter movement.

The 80s were marked by international success, including the filming of the musical In the Track of Bel Canto in Italy in 1981, with a corresponding German-Italian album and duet performance with Sofia Rotaru in the Soviet Union.^[2] In 1983, Gott was given the Gold Medal of Hermann Lönse in Munich, Germany, for the development of the German national song. On April 30, 1985, he was awarded the title of National Artist for his exceptional artistic contributions. In 1986, he received Polydor's Golden Needle, which up until then had only ever been given to Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan. The Supraphon Diamond Record Award was given him on September 8, 1992, for having sold 13 million recordings, a number which would account for 86% of Czechoslovakia's population.

In 1990, Gott decided to end his career and arranged a huge farewell tour. However, the tour was so successful that he re-evaluated his decision. In 1993, he established his own artistic agency, GOJA, with František Janeček. It is this agency that currently produces Gott's records and organizes his artistic activities.

In 1996, following renewed public interest in his career, Gott again won 'The Golden Nightingale Award' with a huge lead over his rivals, and has retained the accolade every year since [2008]. He remains popular in a number of countries, including those of the former Soviet Union, where his first record, produced by Melodiya in 1977, sold a staggering 4.5 million copies. He has performed widely outside The Czech Republic, in countries as varied as the United Arab Emirates, China, Cuba, and Japan.

During the 90s, Gott began to focus increasingly on painting, his second great love. The first exhibition of his paintings took place in 1992, at the Prague Christ Child Gallery. He has since exhibited his work successfully in Berlin, Moscow, Munich, Cologne, Vienna, and Bratislava.

Karel Gott recorded a cover version of the song All by Myself called Kam tenkrát šel můj bratr Jan (Where Did My Brother Jan Go This Time).[1] The song was dedicated to Jan Palach who set himself on fire and burned to death as a protest against Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in January 1969.^{[citation needed]} The song was recorded in 1977 while Soviet troops were still present in the country. In order to continue in his career, he had to sign in 1978 the so-called "Anti-charter", a petition organized by the Communist government against the Charter 77 signed by Václav Havel and other dissidents, protesting the government's violations of the Helsinki Accords. In 2008, he covered, together with Bushido, "Forever Young" from Alphaville, for Bushido's album Heavy Metal Payback. The song is called "Für immer jung".

He has two adult daughters (Dominika and Lucie) from former relationships (they have different mothers). He is also the father to Charlotte Ella with Ivana Macháčková whom he married on January 7, 2008 in Las Vegas, the city where he started his international career. She gave birth to a second daughter, Nelly Sofie, in summer 2008. ^[3]

Discography[link]

See also[link]

• Neznámy pár - duet with Marika Gombitová
• Hrajme píseň - trio with Marika Gombitová and Josef Laufer

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Karel Gott

• www.karelgott.com — official homepage
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• Biography of Karel Gott — at www.gott.cz
• www.karel-gott.de — official homepage for German-speaking countries (German)
• Karel Gott^{[dead link]} — at the Czech Republic website
• Karel Gott — at allmusic
• Karel Gott at the Internet Movie Database
• Karel Gott discography at Discogs
• An Interactive VR Panorama of Karel Gott, arriving at Vaclav Havel's 70th birthday party, 4 October 2006
• http://www.discographien.de/alle_cds_von_Karel+Gott.htm

Blood Tsunami is a Norwegian thrash metal band.

Biography[link]

Blood Tsunami formed in 2004 with Pete Evil, Jay, Riff Randall and Dor Amazon. The band recorded their first demo shortly thereafter and made their live performance debut on August 24, 2004 as the support act for Swedish death metal legends Entombed. That was followed by a support slot for American death metal band Deicide a few weeks later. The original lineup proved to be unstable though, and both Jay and Riff were replaced within a year: Bosse, who played with Pete previously in Hellride, took over the position as bass player, and Faust (Emperor, Aborym, Scum) moved in behind the drum kit. The revamped lineup entered Oslo's Lion Heart Studios in July 2005 and recorded a second demo in three days.

In September 2006, Blood Tsunami returned to Lion Heart Studios to record their debut album for Nocturnal Art Productions/Candlelight Records. The album, Thrash Metal, was released on March 19, 2007.

Pete is the current host of MTV Norway's Headbangers Ball.^[1]

Discography[link]

Band members[link]

• Pete Evil (Peter Michael Kolstad Vegem) – vocals, lead guitar (2004–present)
• Dor Amazon (Kristoffer Sørensen) – lead guitar, backing vocals (2004–present)
• Calle (Carl Janfalk) – bass, backing vocals (2011–present)
• Faust (Bård G. Eithun) – drums (2005–present)

Former members[link]

• Riff Randall (Frode Sørskaar) – bass (2004–2004)
• Stu Manx (Stig Amundsen) – bass (2005-2005)
• Jørgen "Jay" Nordlie – drums (2004–2005)
• Peter "Bosse" Boström – bass (2004–2005, 2005-2009)

References[link]

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Blood_Tsunami/43309

External links[link]

• Official home page
• Official MySpace profile
• Metalglory interview with Blood Tsunami
• interview with Faust about the band (in French and English)

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Fang Island is an American indie rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island, and based in Brooklyn, New York. The group consists of guitarists Jason Bartell, Chris Georges and Nicholas Andrew Sadler, bassist Michael Jacober, and drummer Marc St. Sauveur. Their self-titled debut album on Sargent House was released in February 2010.

Biography[link]

Fang Island began in 2005 as an art project with original members, Philip Curcuru, Chris Georges, and Pete Watts, while attending Rhode Island School of Design.^[1][2] They were later joined by Bartell, St Sauveur, Jacober, and guitarist Nick Sadler, who had played in another Providence-based band, Daughters.^[3] The band got its name from an article in The Onion.^[3] Guitarist Jason Bartell recalled, "I think it was just a funny blip about Donald Rumsfeld having a secret hideaway, and it was on Fang Island. We like how it was sort of this, like, fictional space that we imagined our music was played on".^[3] The band describes their sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone"^[4] and their goal, according to Bartell, is to "make music for people who like music".^[5]

The band independently released Day of the Great Leap in 2007, followed by a second EP, Sky Gardens, in November 2008. Their song "The Absolute Place" was remixed by Chris Keating of Yeasayer in 2009.^[6] An unmastered version of the band's forthcoming full-length album leaked in early 2009 and was later named one of the year's top 10 albums by Brian Cook of The Stranger.^[7] In December, the group digitally released the album's lead single "Daisy", which features an electro-organ intro and chanted vocals.^[8] The song played during a series of commercials promoting the MTV reality show The Buried Life.^[9] The band's self-titled debut album was released on February 23, 2010. Adam Pfleider of AbsolutePunk described it as a "wild party" that "listeners will want to relive ... over and over again".^[10] Dan Goldin of Decoy Music praised the album for "successfully combining the luster of indie pop music with the technical eccentricities of progressive rock".^[11] Pitchfork Media's Ian Cohen called the music on Fang Island "honest and life-affirming and infectious".^[9] In March, the band performed at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas,^[3] and were named by social networking analytics site Next Big Sound as the artists who experienced the fastest growth in online fandom during the festival.^[12] While in Austin, the band also recorded three songs for a Daytrotter session.^[13] Fang Island entered the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart in April.^[14] The band opened for The Flaming Lips at several shows in July.^[15]

Band members[link]

• Jason Bartell - guitarist
• Chris Georges - guitarist
• Marc St. Sauveur - drummer

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

EPs[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Fang Island on Myspace
• Fang Island on Twitter
• Fang Island at Sargent House
• The Onion article from which Fang Island took its name
• Fang Island on Waste Water Music (German Site)