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Film fans argue over ‘Minecraft’ cinema chaos: “If you don’t like people screaming out of joy at the movies go watch it on your laptop”
Groups of teenagers going to see A Minecraft Movie have divided opinion online due to the popular “chicken jockey” trend that sees some of them causing chaos in the cinema. READ MORE: ‘A Minecraft Movie’ review: blockhead video game adaptation needs shaping up The phrase “chicken jockey” appears just before Garrett ‘The Garbage Man’ Garrison, played by Jason Momoa, fights a child zombie who’s riding a chicken; in other words, a “chicken jockey”. Advertisement Jack Black’s Steve then uses the phrase, at which point some teenage viewers descend into a frenzy, many throwing popcorn and drinks and shouting and...
MAMAMOO’s Hwasa ‘Twits’ Europe tour postponed to “fourth quarter of 2025”
MAMAMOO singer Hwasa has announced her 2025 ‘Twits’ tour of Europe, featuring concerts in London, Amsterdam, Paris and more. The tour’s organisers, MyMusicTaste, announced the tour’s postponement via social media on April 10. “Due to internal circumstances at MyMusicTaste and with our local European partners, we have made the difficult decision to postpone all shows of the Hwasa live tour ‘Twits’ in Europe, originally scheduled for May 2025, to the fourth quarter of 2025,” the statement read. Advertisement “We are currently working to ensure that the rescheduled concerts will take place in the same cities as originally planned, and...
Lorde shares snippet of new music after wiping social media accounts
Lorde has shared a teaser of new music today (April 9) after wiping her social media accounts. Read More: Lorde: “I feel like I can see my world and myself a lot clearer now” It’s a long time in the making, with the first hints of a new era coming with last August’s social media scrub, which saw the ‘Royals’ singer wipe her Instagram and X/Twitter accounts. Advertisement The changes to her social media came after she shared exactly one second of new music last year, posting several pictures of herself on her Instagram stories inside the studio. In the...
Everything But The Girl cover Charli XCX, Adrianne Lenker and more as they play first gigs in 25 years at intimate London shows
Everything But The Girl have performed their first gigs in 25 years at a pair of intimate London shows. READ MORE: Everything But The Girl return: “We wanted to come back with something modern” On April 6 and 7, Everything But The Girl – the duo of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt – staged their first public concerts since 2000 at MOTH Club in London. To mark the special occasion, Thorn and Watt played a myriad of their original hits, as well as covers of songs from the likes of Charli XCX, Adrianne Lenker and more. Advertisement The duo opened...
Hard Life (FKA Easy Life) face an uncertain future on new single ‘Othello’
Hard Life are back with ‘Othello’, the group’s first new single since last year’s ‘Tears’ – listen to the track here. READ MORE: Easy Life live in London: an emotional farewell amid legal drama ‘Othello’, BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record tonight (April 8), was written and recorded by frontman Murray Matravers in Japan after a period of change for the band formerly known as Easy Life. Advertisement Matravers booked a spontaneous trip to the East Asian country last year after feeling dissatisfied with the music he was making and spent time producing new material there before returning to Leicester to...
NewJeans vs HYBE: a comprehensive timeline of events
The ongoing feud between South Korean entertainment giant HYBE, its subsidiary label ADOR and K-pop girl group NewJeans has emerged as one of the most high profile feuds we’ve witnessed in K-pop in recent memory. ADOR, which houses popular K-pop girl group NewJeans, is helmed by former SM Entertainment creative director Min Hee-jin and was once poised to become one of HYBE’s most lucrative labels. However, it is now at the centre of an alleged power struggle over the treatment and management of NewJeans and future creative projects under ADOR. Advertisement Founded in November 2021, Min Hee-jin launched the label...
The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess goes viral for awkward call over council tax
The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess has gone viral over a tweet detailing an amusing phone call about his council tax. READ MORE: Soundtrack Of My Life: Tim Burgess Burgess recently shared the tweet with his fans, in which he relays a conversation that saw him forget his train of thought. Advertisement Explaining that he “forgot I was on a phone call about council tax”, he said the person on the other line asked: “What band are you in?”. He replied: “Erm, The Charlatans”, to which the other party then said: “Your council tax band.” The resulting tweet has since clocked up over...
BTS’ Jin shocks in new preview for Netflix variety show ‘Kian’s Bizarre B&B’
Netflix has shared a brand-new preview for upcoming variety series Kian’s Bizarre B&B, starring BTS singer Jin and more. READ MORE: ‘Buried Hearts’ review: a tangled web of deceit The preview, shared by Netflix on April 6, offers a glimpse into the first time the main trio of the show met to film the show. Beloved webtoon artist-turned-entertainer Kian tells the crew that he is excited for SNL Korea comedian Ji Ye-eun to join him as they run a bed-and-breakfast together on Ulleungdo island. However, he knows nothing about the third cast member other than the fact that “they’re a top star”....
Watch Dua Lipa sing ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ with Crowded House’s Neil Finn in Auckland
Dua Lipa welcomed Crowded House’s Neil Finn to the stage in Auckland for a version of the classic single ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ – watch below. The ‘Houdini’ star has been making a habit of covering local music royalty during the Australia and New Zealand leg of her ‘Radical Optimism’ tour in recent weeks, having already played Kylie Minogue’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’, Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn’, AC/DC’s ‘Highway To Hell’ and Lorde’s ‘Royals’. Advertisement She also brought out Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker for a version of ‘The Less I Know The Better’ in Sydney last week. Now, during...Recent Posts
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