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Halestorm members unharmed after tour bus fire
Halestorm have confirmed that they were unharmed and safe after their tour bus caught fire in the middle of the night last week. The US rock band just completed a handful of dates with Evanescence across the east coast of America yesterday (January 21), but the short tour didn’t go entirely smoothly. Guitarist Joe Hottinger posted a photo of the burnt-out interior of the bus on Instagram on Thursday (January 20). “Old Halestorm had a night for the books. We were all in our hotel rooms last night and we woke up to our bus burning down at 3AM,”...
Adele FaceTimes fans to apologise for Las Vegas residency postponement
Adele has FaceTimed fans who went to Las Vegas to see the opening nights of her residency to apologise for postponing the shows. The singer announced on Instagram on Thursday (January 20) that the residency would no longer start the next day. “We’ve tried absolutely everything we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you, but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVID,” she said. READ MORE: Adele – ‘30’ album review: dependable pop titan finally mixes things up Now, fans who were meant to attend this weekend’s concerts have shared...
UK could soon be left with just 5,000 nightclubs, according to study
The UK could soon be left with just 5,000 nightclubs in operation across the country, according to a new study. The findings were made by two hospitality-focused software companies, Stampede and StoreKit, using data obtained from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). READ MORE: Music venues and nightclubs “on the brink of collapse” and demand immediate” government action The results showed that, despite an uptick in registered hospitality businesses since 2019, the UK’s nightlife sector is in decline. Between 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, the number of pubs, bars and clubs in the UK dropped, continuing a trend that has seen businesses...
‘SNL’’s Pete Davidson and Colin Jost want to turn old Staten Island Ferry boat into new performance venue
Pete Davidson and Colin Jost have bought an old Staten Island Ferry boat with plans to turn it into a performance venue, according to reports. The Saturday Night Live stars, who are both from Staten Island, are said to have won a decommissioned ferryboat at an auction organised by the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services. READ MORE: SNL heroes: stunning Saturday Night Live performances by your favourite stars Davidson and Jost anonymously bid on the boat alongside comedy club owner Paul Italia, paying $218,100 (£161k) for the vessel, which is named after President John F. Kennedy....
New Nirvana NFTs to be launched to mark Kurt Cobain’s birthday
A new set of Nirvana NFTs will be launched next month, to make what would have been Kurt Cobain’s 55th birthday. The non-fungible tokens will be released on February 20 and will be created from previously unseen photos taken at one of the band’s 1991 gigs. READ MORE: Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ at 30: a track-by-track guide from your favourite musicians The NFT set will be comprised of 28 photos taken by photographer Faith West and will be sold via Pop Legendz. The images were taken on October 6, 19991 – six days after the release of ‘Nevermind’ – when Nirvana performed...
Björk says her new album will “probably come out in the summer”
Björk has said she is currently “finishing” her upcoming 10th album, revealing that it will “probably come out in the summer”. Back in October 2021, the Icelandic musician explained that the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Utopia’ was “for people who are making clubs at home in their living room” during the COVID-enforced lockdown. READ MORE: Björk’s ‘Cornucopia’ live in London: an audacious, expectation-disrupting spectacular from an artist unbothered with people-pleasing Björk described the record’s sound as being like “a man who was headbanging, then sat down again and had another glass of red wine, and everyone is home by 10 o’clock,...
Halsey reveals ‘Nightmare’ originally featured Tatu sample, shares unreleased demo
Halsey has taken to TikTok to reveal the original demo for their 2019 single ‘Nightmare’ featuring a sample of Tatu’s iconic ‘All The Things She Said’. READ MORE: Halsey: “I’ve always been driven to reinvent myself and reinvent my genre” Before the track was released Elena Kiper, one of the original songwriters, posted on her Instagram that the song “contained an extensive interpolation of the original work” but said the finished version only referenced the track. Now though, Halsey has shared the original version of ‘Nightmare’, complete with the Tatu sample, alongside the caption: “Should I leak this version?”....
Skunk Anansie tease new music with cryptic Instagram posts
Skunk Anansie have teased the arrival of forthcoming new material on social media – check out the posts below. READ MORE: Skunk Anansie: “All anybody wanted to talk about back then was Britpop, Britpop, Britpop” Skin and co. released their most recent studio album, ‘Anarchytecture’, back in 2016. The band are due to embark on a delayed European/UK headline tour in March and April to mark their 25th anniversary. Now, it appears that Skunk Anansie will have new music in tow to showcase at the upcoming gigs. Advertisement Earlier this week, the group sparked speculation among their fans after sharing...
Ed Norton pays tribute to ‘Fight Club’ co-star Meat Loaf: “He was so funny and gentle”
Ed Norton has taken to social media to pay tribute to his Fight Club co-star Meat Loaf, who passed away aged 74 earlier this week. READ MORE: Meat Loaf, 1947 – 2022: a unique performer with big, bold odes to the dreamers and believers Sharing a still from 1999’s Fight Club where his character of the unnamed narrator is embraced by Robert Paulson (played by Meat Loaf), Norton wrote: “I don’t keep pictures from films around home. But I have this one in my office in a frame because it makes me smile every time. “It’s engraved ‘Love and...Recent Posts
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