Blur have announced plans to perform at a French festival next summer ahead of their massive reunion gig at London’s Wembley stadium. READ MORE: Blur announce 2023 Wembley Stadium reunion gig The Britpop icons will warm up for their July 8 show with a performance on the opening day of the Beauregard Festival in Normandy two days earlier (July 6). Tickets for the bash, which will take place across four days from July 6-9 and will also include a performance from Alt-J, are available to purchase here. Advertisement Tickets for their Wembley show meanwhile, will also go on general...
Madness have announced tour dates in the UK and Ireland, which will take place next summer – find tickets here. READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Madness The group are due to play Forest Live gigs at Cannock Chase Forest on June 8, and Cheshire’s Delamere Forest on June 15. Elsewhere, they’ve got dates at Piece Hall in Halifax, Middlesborough’s Albert Park, Limerick’s King John’s Castle, Swansea’s Singleton Park, and Dublin’s Trinity College. Advertisement Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday, (November 18(, with tickets for the Middlesbrough and Swansea following the same day at...
Inhaler have added two new shows in London and Manchester to their 2023 tour. READ MORE: Glastonbury 2022: Inhaler say that touring with Arctic Monkeys is a tick “off the bucket list” The Dublin band have already confirmed a series of UK tour dates in February 2023 but they will now play their biggest headline UK shows to date at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse and London’s O2 Academy Brixton on May 19 and May 20. Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday (November 18) and can be purchased here. You can view the dates in full below....
Musical theatre and comedy group SpitLip have shared a new song titled ‘Fuck The Sun’, which provides a pop-punk takedown of Elon Musk – listen below. The group, made up of David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoe Roberts, are known for their work on the stage, including their debut show Operation Mincemeat, which is described as “the true story of how a stolen corpse changed the course of World War 2”. Sharing their latest song, SpitLip wrote on Twitter: “Dear @elonmusk – a while back we wrote a song about you for tv show. It was...
The nominations for the 2023 Grammys have been announced with Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Adele and Harry Styles leading the way. READ MORE: Ukraine, Billie Eilish, Louis CK: the biggest talking points from the Grammy Awards 2022 The official Grammys YouTube hosted a livestream today (November 15) for the announcement which you can watch below, with the winners set to be announced at the 65th Grammy Awards ceremony on February 5, 2023. Beyoncé clocked up the most nominations with nine nods including Record Of The Year and Album Of The Year, closely followed by Lamar with eight nominations. Advertisement Adele picked...
Stormzy has spoken out about the way Jeremy Corbyn was “vilified” during the December 2019 general election. READ MORE: Jeremy Corbyn speaks to NME: “The priority is to end university fees The London rapper, whose new album ‘This Is What I Mean’ is out next week, opened up about his continued support for the former Labour leader in a new interview. Stormzy pledged his support for Corbyn back in 2019, who he said was the “first man in a position of power who is committed to giving the power back”. Advertisement In a new cover interview with British GQ, the...
Qauvo’s sister has shared an appeal for Takeoff’s killer to be found “by any means”. READ MORE: How the understated Takeoff became the real superstar of Migos The Migos rapper, real name Kirsnick Khari Ball, was killed in a shooting in Houston bowling alley earlier this month, aged 28. The artist’s funeral took place last week, which was followed by lengthy tributes from uncle Quavo and Cardi B, who is married to bandmate Offset. Advertisement Now, Quavo’s sister, Kashara Marshall has called for the late rapper’s killer to be identified. Posting to her Instagram stories yesterday (November 14), she wrote: “Find...
Paramore have changed the artwork of their 2013 self-titled debut album. READ MORE: When We Were Young 2022 review: the nostalgic emo-fest reigns in a new age of pop-punk The original cover featured frontwoman Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York and former bassist Jeremy Davis, who left in December 2015 and was later involved in a legal dispute with the band. Now, the artwork has been updated on all streaming platforms to show just a photo of Williams with her back turned, wearing a denim jacket with the slogan ‘GROW UP’. You can view it below. Advertisement No official reason has...
Guy Pearce has opened up about how Nick Cave helped him out of a “crash-and-burn” breakdown. The actor, who starred in 2005 Western The Proposition, written by Cave, discussed having a “big crash and burn” breakdown in 2001 after an intense period of work. “It was a confluence of things,” Pearce told The Times. “The pressure I started to feel about working in America and the whole making hay while the sun shines philosophy. And of course, as an actor, you never usually work back-to-back unless, of course, you’re in a soap. Advertisement “All the time you have off between jobs,...
Peter Crouch has formed an unlikely duo with opera star Paul Potts to release a charity Christmas album, ‘Crouchy Conducts The Classics’. The ex-England footballer and Potts (who rose to fame after winning Britain’s Got Talent in 2007) have released the eight-track record on Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, and Amazon Music via Paddy Power Records. READ MORE: Peter Crouch talks NME through his ‘Firsts’ Per a press release, 100 per cent of the profits from the album will be donated to LTBTQ+ charity Stonewall in a bid to tackle oppression in the 2022 World Cup host nation Qatar and beyond....
