Astbury

The Cult frontman Ian Astbury is hoping to add documentarian to his resume by making a movie based on Nobel Prize-winning author Andrea Smith's book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. here's an interview w/smith about her work (unrelated to this guy).

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Mark Cameron, chief operating officer at Astbury Marsden, reckons that expectations are being massaged by employers and that at least 12% of City employees expect no bonus this year.

Banks under fresh pressure to curb bonus and dividend payouts 2011

As if to demonstrate their range, they've just released two contrasting LPs: Heavy Rocks is a primal, howling, wounded beast of a record, featuring the Cult's Ian Astbury on backing vocals; while Attention Please is an album of ethereal post-punk, sung entirely by female guitarist Wata.

This week's new live music 2011

Even so, this is the time of year that banks begin to calibrate the size of the bonuses and City workers are also mulling the size of their annual payouts, according to Astbury Marsden.

Banks under fresh pressure to curb bonus and dividend payouts 2011

According to a survey by headhunters Astbury Marsden published on Monday, City professionals expect an average bonus of 24% of their basic pay for 2011, indicating a payout of £19,920 on an average salary of £83,000.

Banks under fresh pressure to curb bonus and dividend payouts 2011

As if to demonstrate their range, they've just released two contrasting LPs: Heavy Rocks is a primal, howling, wounded beast of a record, featuring the Cult's Ian Astbury on backing vocals; while Attention Please is an album of ethereal post-punk, sung entirely by female guitarist Wata.

This week's new live music 2011

Ian Astbury: We wanted to release less music, and what we arrived at was that the album format is becoming less and less relevant.

Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive : Only Son's "It's A Boy," Plus Conversations With Tom Higgenson of Plain White T's, Cake's John McCrea, and The Cult's Ian Astbury Mike Ragogna 2010

Ian Astbury: We wanted to release less music, and what we arrived at was that the album format is becoming less and less relevant.

Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive : Only Son's "It's A Boy," Plus Conversations With Tom Higgenson of Plain White T's, Cake's John McCrea, and The Cult's Ian Astbury Mike Ragogna 2010

Ian Astbury: We wanted to release less music, and what we arrived at was that the album format is becoming less and less relevant.

Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive : Only Son's "It's A Boy," Plus Conversations With Tom Higgenson of Plain White T's, Cake's John McCrea, and The Cult's Ian Astbury Mike Ragogna 2010

The helix shape of hair proteins discovered by Astbury later also proved to be the secret of DNA.

Sidelined scientist who came close to discovering DNA is celebrated at last Martin Wainwright 2010