THE DIRTY DOZEN -DAILY ROUND UP

• Alphabeat and Ladyhawke have been added to the bill of next months V Festival on August 22nd and 23rd
• Jade Ewen who represented and came third for the UK in this years Eurovision aims to shake off the Euro tag with nw single My Man on September 14th
• Frankmusik is refusing to take notice of his consecutively poor chart postions after Confusion Girl stalled inside the UK Top 30 saying hes just grateful to be in the industry.
• September releases Cry For You -The album next week , a compilation of her previous hit singles in Sweden.
• JLS will release Forever And A Day as the follow up to Beat Again.
• Manic Street Preachers embark on their first tour of the USA in ten years in September to promote current album Journal For Plague Lovers.
• Daniel Merriweather releases Impossible on August 17th , the third from platinum debut album Love And War.
• Mr Hudson has denied been spotted on a date with Rihanna after attending a film premiere in London together.
• The Saturdays have confessed they still have a long way to go before equalling the success of girlband rivals Sugababes and Girls Aloud.
• X Factor boot camp is in full swing with the judges expected to pick their final acts shortly. The sixth series returns to ITV in August.
• Amy Winehouse was alleged to have been too high on drugs to record the last Bond theme tune Quantum Of Solace. Thats according to estranged hubby Blake Fielder Civil embarking on a tabloid blitz dishing the dirt on his troubled marriage to the singer.
• Michael Jackson's 1988 autobiography Moonwalk is expected to be re-released and reprinted in October after renewed interest following the death of the King of Pop last month.