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The ‘Woman On A Mission’ singer has previously admitted she gets anxious before every performance, but said she got even more nervous than ever ahead of taking to the iconic main stage at Glastonbury.

She told BANG Showbiz: “I love festivals but you never know what you’re going to get.

“When I did Glastonbury - which was quite scary really - I almost weed my pants.”

Gabriella said the reception she gets is a huge shock to her sometimes, however, and her most memorable performance to date was when she played Scotland’s T In The Park festival.

She explained: “I loved T In The Park - that was the first time I played a tent and it was full. I had a peek before I went on and there was no one there, I thought that it was just like a normal gig, like I used to play in the pub.

“But then I went onstage and the tent was full, and that was pretty cool. That was the first time I’d really experienced that and it was an amazing feeling.”

Gabriella Cilmi has opened nominations for the vinspired national awards which celebrate and recognise young volunteers for the inspirational work they do, and gave a masterclass to a group of volunteers to thank them for their efforts earlier this week.

For more information or to nominate someone visit www.vinspired.com

The famously forthright singer and guitarist claims anyone who wants to sing in a band needs to have an attitude.

Talking ahead of his band’s performance at the Hard Rock Cafe presents Absolute Radio Sessions in Edinburgh, UK, Liam said: “The thing with our band is, there’s not many, well there isn’t any egos.

“I mean, obviously you’ve got mine, but that’s fine, the band know it, you know it you’ve got to.”

“If you don’t have an ego then get in the background. But the band knew when they signed up, it wasn’t like I put an advert in, a magazine and said ‘Please come and be my friend, we’ll start a band because a label wants to give us loads of money’,

“It was the complete opposite.”

Liam – who is joined in The Courteeners by Michael Campbell, Daniel Conan Moores and Mark Cuppello – also dispelled rumours he is to release a solo record, saying he’s already started writing material for the group’s third album.

He added: “writing, I’m kind of starting to get bits and bobs together for the next record, so I’m always really writing, but I wouldn’t say I’ve planned for a solo album.”

The goth pop rockers achieved worldwide success in 2003 with their hit ‘Bring Me To Life’ but fans were left confused when founding member and key songwriter in the group Ben suddenly left, after reportedly falling out with the band’s other remaining founder, Amy.

In a long statement the guitarist – who now fronts We Are The Fallen, with two ex-members of Evanescence – explained how he felt he had to leave after the pair’s creative relationship went sour by the time they went on tour for their 15 million selling debut album, ‘Fallen’.

He wrote: “I believe we both contributed to the resentment of the deterioration of our friendship that quickly turned into a downward spiral of animosity, conflicting opinions, and a very volatile environment. By the time we went on tour to support ‘Fallen’, it sadly was over.

“Ironically, it was Amy and my absolute equal devotion to Evanescence that drove us to such extreme opposition. We had such opposing desires and personalities that mixed with the pride of youth and inexperience led to an all-out war.

“On the night of October 22, 2003 everything came to a head. As I sat on the bus that night in absolute shame and defeat, there was no escaping the truth. Either I leave or Evanescence dies.

“It broke me in a way I could never truly describe. My entire existence, my self worth, my identity was this music, this band. If my life is to mean anything, Evanescence has to mean something.”

Amy and Evanescence continued without Ben and have gone on to release a second album ‘The Open Door’. We Are The Fallen released their debut album ‘Tear the World Down’ earlier this year.

Mark Ronson – who worked with Amy on her breakthrough ‘Back in Black’ album in 2006 – said while he’s recently been in the studio with the troubled singer and they recorded a song together for a soundtrack, he doesn’t know anything about how her eagerly-anticipated third record will sound.

Mark explained: “We did a song together about six weeks ago for a Quincy Jones soundtrack.

“She came up onstage with my band at London’s 100 Club last week and we did ‘Valerie’. She’s a friend. But I don’t know anything about her next album, to be honest.”

The producer – whose stepfather Mick Jones is the founding member of British band Foreigner – admitted he wouldn’t know how to go about remixing one of the band’s iconic tracks.

He added to Q magazine: “Oh man … I mean, ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’? ‘Waiting For A Girl Like You’? I wouldn’t really know how to do it any other way.

“They don’t make them like that anymore. Something 25 years old and up always sounds better to me. I call that Lenny Kravitz Disease – but older stuff is a little better.”

Mark’s third album, ‘Record Collection’ recorded under the name Mark Ronson & The Business Intl will be released on September 27.

The ‘Thriller’ singer-who died of acute Propofol intoxication aged 50 last June –is the world’s most popular solo star, ahead of Lady Gaga, Elvis, the Black Eyed Peas and Rihanna according to download records from Nokia’s Ovi Music Store.

Musicologist Geoff Roberts believes the singer’s upcoming birthdate on Sunday (29.08.10) could be responsible for an increase in his popularity

He said: “Michael Jackson has always been a pop music legend. But the anniversary of his death and upcoming birthday celebrations seem to have revived Jackson fever as fans rediscover his songs – making him the most popular solo artist of all time.”

The ‘King of Pop’ – who would have turned 52 this weekend - is most popular in India where he accounts for 26 per cent of the country’s entire Ovi downloads, followed by the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Finland.

Singer’s 1982 single ‘Beat It’ is the most popular track at the Ovi store, with ‘Billie Jean’ and ‘Thriller’ close behind.

Meanwhile Michael’s hometown of Gary, Indiana, will mark his birthday with a party outside his childhood home tomorrow (28.08.10).

The party will take place alongside a separate four-day ‘MJFanvention’ which began in the town yesterday (26.08.10).

The main attraction at the fan event will be a special tribute concert on Saturday, featuring Tony Award-winner Melba Moore and the late singer’s former tour guitarist Jennifer Batten, as well as impersonator Edward Moss and a choir of Indiana residents.

The psychedelic rock band famously had their initial attempt at recording second album ‘Surfing The Void’ scrapped by their record company, leading to them taking three years to follow up their Mercury Music Prize winning debut album.

Guitarist Simon Taylor-Davis admitted the band weren’t initially ready to record when they first did, telling The Scotsman newspaper: “We made the big mistake of going into the studio without any new songs. If you want to waste a lot of time and a lot of money, follow our example!

“We came up with a lot of exciting, experimental and totally self-indulgent stuff - crazy time signatures, really long songs.”

After aborted attempts to record with a number of different producers, the group finally found a sound they liked with heavy metal producer Ross Robinson and the results were released this week. The band will also play the Reading and Leeds festivals this weekend, where bassist Jamie promises the band will put on an audio/visual spectacular for their slot headlining the NME/Radio1 stages.

He told NME magazine: “We’ve got a full team, and Ed Warren, our visuals guy is going to be on board for the first time, so he will do his business.

“I think the set’s really strong. We’ve set the balance really well and we’re just raring to go.”

Klaxons play Leeds on Saturday (28.08.10) and Reading on Sunday (29.08.10).

The group’s singer, Axl Rose, had stormed offstage at the festival’s twin site in Reading on Friday (27.08.10) night, after receiving a volley of boos and chants from the crowd when the band were an hour late onstage.

He returned, however, and tried to play a final song, though promoters had turned the band’s equipment off, fearing they would break a time curfew by over half an hour.

After singing through a microphone onstage in protest, Axl was then ushered off by security.

Last night, the band finished and played a final song, ‘Paradise City’ as an encore, which Axl introduced by telling the crowd: “We come here to play for you, but the cops and the promoters wanna f**k us in the a*s.

“We’d like to play a few more songs, but we’ll just play one.”

At the song’s conclusion Axl announced: “Be safe, good night and to all the cops and promoters - f**k you.”

Meanwhile, LCD Soundsystem and Mumford and Sons closed the other stages of the festival.

At the Reading site, Blink 182 headlined the main stage, where they made jokes about Axl Rose, and Klaxons closed the NME/Radio 1 stage. The group were celebrating new album ‘Surfing The Void’ reaching the top ten in the UK album charts.

Form the stage singer Jamie Reynolds said: “Thank you all so much, It’s just overwhelming to headline.

“We’ve played here four times before and to close this stage is incredible.”

‘Wake Up The Nation’ singer Paul said he was pleased to have secured the services of the former Oasis man for some recent studio tracks, and people don’t always give him his due as a musician.

Paul told Absolute Radio: “I Haven’t hired him, he came free. He’s a great drummer. He always keeps it fat and funky, you know, that’s how we like it.

“He’s a good all-rounder, people don’t realise what a good musician he is, he can plays keys, bass, all sorts really, harmonica, electric kettle, all sorts.”

Although he has Noel playing for him, Paul isn’t pledging an allegiance to either of the Feuding Gallagher brothers – who fronted Oasis together until they split last year – and recently wore clothes from Noel’s brother, Liam’s Pretty Green clothing range onstage for his set at the Virgin Media V Festival.

Paul added: “Funnily enough, I’m going to wear a jacket which they made up for me. I’ve been to the store, Liam’s got some great clothes.”

The Led Zeppelin musician – who has refused requests to reform the group for a full tour -said his musical tastes have completely changed.

Speaking about going to see his former Led Zeppelin bandmate John Paul Jones’ new rock group Them Crooked Vultures he said: “I feel so far away from heavy rock now. It’s quite odd how mine and John’s paths seem to have crossed over – we’ve sort of gone into each other’s world’s a bit.”

The 62-year-old musician also admitted that he could no longer handle the decibel level of a rock concert saying his ears “bled for two days” after the show.

Now Robert - who won several Grammy awards for ‘Raising Sand’ his collaboration with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss in 2009 –hopes to focus on a different type of music and lifestyle.

He said: “For me, it’s no longer to do with vanity, ego and visible success.

It’s just about getting down into the earth of music. I spent three or four years never playing a Zeppelin song from 1981 onwards, because I didn’t want to lean on Zeppelin. I’ve gone from being in that huge band to picking up the pieces of my own gift.”

The ‘Guns ‘N’ Roses singer was furious when organisers cut the band’s sound before they had finished and fined them for taking to the stage late on Friday (27.08.10) at Reading - even though the reason for the delay was because Axl was asleep backstage.

A source told the Daily Star newspaper: “Axl has a very firm rule that he is not to be woken up whenever he is asleep. That proved costly at Reading.

“Axl was furious. He refused to take responsibility and blamed his team, so he sacked them.”

However, this move left the band without a crew for their headlining slot at Leeds on Sunday (29.08.10), meaning Axl had no option other than to continue employing them.

The source added: “Then he realised it was too late to fly in anyone else from America so he had to rehire them for Leeds.”

Things did not go to plan for the band at Leeds, as the ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ singer overslept again and started 30 minutes late.

Axl then claimed the band had agreed a deal with organisers to play past their curfew and that no-one in the surrounding area would be upset by the noise the band was making.

He said: “We were guaranteed to play till 11.58 but they are telling us to end our set. The festival promoters just want to f**k you.

“We’re 35 miles from Leeds in a field in the middle of nowhere, who cares?”

Writing on his twitter page after the performance he said: “So u know, we allegedly had a deal in place pre show w/the city at least at Leeds to do a bit longer performance that was either miscommunication, someone wasn’t informed, changed their mind, didn’t care or it was a con (sic).”