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Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham shares support for the £1 arena ticket levy to save grassroots venues: “Urgent action is needed”

Andy Burnham, Manchester Mayor, has backed calls for a £1 levy to be added to the costs of arena show tickets to help save grassroots music venues. Earlier this year, the Music Venue Trust delivered their full report into the state of the sector for 2023, showing the “disaster” facing live music with venues closing at a rate of around two per week. Presented at Westminster, the MVT echoed their calls for a levy on tickets on gigs at arena size and above and for major labels and such to pay back into the grassroots scene, arguing that “the big companies are now going...
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‘Suits’ star says cast and creator are “interested” in a film

A Suits star has expressed his interest in turning the hit law series into a film. While attending the Suits reunion panel at the ATX TV Festival on Sunday (June 2), the series’ lead actor Patrick J. Adams – who portrayed Michael Ross – responded to a fan’s question if there was any interest in making a reunion film, per a Variety report. While series creator Aaron Korsh was unable to attend as he’s currently working on a spin-off series Suits L.A., Adams revealed that Korsh is indeed interested in a potential film. “It’s definitely something he’s interested in...
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Declan McKenna on working with CMAT: “She’s got the gift of the gab”

Declan McKenna has spoken to NME about working with CMAT, as well as his plans for Glastonbury and new material. The singer-songwriter and past Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition winner was speaking to NME backstage at last week’s BBC Radio One Big Weekend, where hailed fellow performer CMAT over the work they did together on her latest album, ‘Crazymad, For Me‘. “We’ve got a song called ‘Vincent Kompany’ that we wrote together and I helped her out with,” he said.  “Her brain works incredibly quickly when you’re working with her. “She’s got the gift of the gab, which is part...
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Maya Hawke says she is “comfortable with not deserving” the life she has due to nepotism

Maya Hawke has admitted that she is “comfortable with not deserving” the life she has because of her parents’ background. The Stranger Things actor and musician is the daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman and emphasised that her relationship with them is “positive” which “supersedes anything anyone can say about it”. She has also worked with them, having starred opposite her mother in The Kill Room and was directed by her father in the drama Wildcat, both of which came out last year. “Deserves is a complicated word,” she told The Times. “There are so many people who deserve to have...
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Speed share punchy new single ‘The First Test’ featuring a flute in its breakdown

Speed have shared a hard-hitting new single, ‘The First Test’, which has caught attention online for using a flute in its breakdown. The Australian hardcore band’s new song is taken from their forthcoming album ‘Only One Mode’, which will land on July 12 via Flatspot Records in the US and Last Ride Records in Australia. It follows their 2022 debut EP ‘Gang Called Speed’. Tackling the experience of finding oneself as a marginalised individual – in frontman Jem Siow’s case, as an Asian-Australian – the song notably features Siow playing a flute solo over its funk-infused breakdown. Check out...
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Megan Thee Stallion’s attorneys hit back at “sensationalist” work harassment lawsuit

Megan Thee Stallion‘s attorneys have responded to the “sensationalist” work harassment lawsuit filed against her last month. READ MORE: On the cover – Megan Thee Stallion: “I’m really working on my dynasty right now” Back in April, camera man Emilio Garcia accused Thee Stallion – real name Megan Pete – and her management Roc Nation of harassment and creating a hostile work environment. He claimed that the Houston rapper had sex in a car in front of him while touring in Spain in 2022 and made “sexual and fat-shaming comments” towards him. Garcia added that he believes Thee Stallion...
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Yung Lean and Robyn team up for summer-ready remix of Charli XCX’s ‘360’

Yung Lean and Robyn have teamed up for a summery remix of Charli XCX’s recent hit ‘360’ – check it out below. The track originally dropped earlier this month as the fourth preview of the singer-songwriter’s sixth studio album ‘Brat’, which is due for release on June 7 (pre-order/pre-save here). It follows on from ‘Von Dutch’, ‘Club Classics’ and ‘B2B’. Charli and Lean are longtime friends and she had recently pointed to him in a TikTok interview as an example of someone whose artistry she strongly believed in. Meanwhile, Charli hinted that she had worked with Robyn almost a year ago, when she...
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Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones announce ‘Normal People’ charity screening this June

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones have finally revealed what their Normal People-related tease earlier this week was all about. READ MORE: Lockdown lovers: meet the stars of ‘Normal People’ Earlier this week, the pair of Mescal and Edgar-Jones took to social media to tease something related to Normal People, with the latter writing “We’ve got some news to share!! Watch this place,” alongside a photo of them on her Instagram Story. Now, the duo have finally opened up about the tease, shutting down speculation that the show is returning for a second season anytime soon. Instead, the two have announced...
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Watch Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja read letter from doctor witnessing “catastrophe” for newborn babies in Rafah

Massive Attack‘s Robert Del Naja has posted a video reading a letter from a doctor describing a “catastrophe” for newborn babies in Rafah – watch it below. As part of the Voices for Gaza initiative, Dej Naja has joined Brian Eno, members of Fontaines D.C., R.E.M, Bastille and more in reading out letters from Palestinians in Gaza. The letter is from a gynaecologist who worked in a hospital in Rafah, returning from Gaza on March 25. The city is currently sheltering nearly 1.4million displaced residents across the Gaza Strip, and was targeted in a series of Israeli airstrikes that has reportedly...
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Snow Patrol share ‘The Beginning’ and announce new album ‘The Forest Path’ with 2025 UK and Ireland arena tour

Snow Patrol have today (May 30) shared new single ‘The Beginning’ and announced their eighth album ‘The Forest Path’ with a supporting 2025 UK and Ireland arena tour. READ MORE: Snow Patrol – ‘Called Out In The Dark’ review ‘The Forest Path’ is the band’s first full-length record in six years, following on from 2018’s ‘Wilderness’, and will arrive on September 13 via Polydor. You can pre-order/pre-save it here. Produced by Fraser T Smith, the album was written by Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Johnny McDaid, and features 12 tracks as well as writing credits from Smith, Will Reynolds, Roy...
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