The total line-up for Jeff Lynne‘s ELO last gig has been confirmed. Take a look at the main points beneath.
It comes because the band have been introduced as headliners for the upcoming 2025 version of BST Hyde Park this summer season, and the present will come as an extension to their ongoing farewell tour.
The group haven’t performed on the London stay music collection in over a decade, taking to the stage beforehand in 2014 for what was then their first pageant set in 30 years. The upcoming slot at BST shall be held on July 13, and help acts had been later confirmed as The Doobie Brothers, Steve Winwood and Dhani Harrison.
Now, the complete listing of artists becoming a member of Lynne on the gig has been revealed, with W. H. Lung, Cats in House, Excessive Fade, Neckbreakers, Bobbie Dazzle and Bec O’Malley added to the invoice.
W. H. Lung are from Manchester and have carved out an area with their forward-thinking synth-pop sound. The upcoming gig comes as they lately shared their third album ‘Each Inch of Earth Pulsates’, and spent the final yr touring throughout the UK.
Cats In House are a British rock group that emerged in 2015 with their ‘debut album Too Many Gods’. They’ve since opened for iconic teams like Standing Quo, Deep Purple, Phil Collins and Blondie.
Excessive Fade are a three-man band from Edinburgh who’ve amassed 30 million views and streams inside six months of their first launch and gained recognition from Jack Black, Cypress Hill, Deep Purple’s Glenn Hughes and Brad Wilk from Rage Towards The Machine.
Neckbreakers are a gaggle introducing a brand new era of indie, Bobbie Dazzle is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Siân Greenaway and impressed by ‘70s glam, and Bec O’Malley is a rising singer-songwriter getting recognition by mixing uncooked emotion with melodic storytelling.
Talking concerning the upcoming BST Hyde Park present, which is able to function a last “goodbye” to followers, Lynne stated: “My return to touring started at Hyde Park in 2014. It looks as if the proper place to do our last present.
“We couldn’t be extra excited to share this particular night time in London with our UK followers. Because the music goes, ‘We’re gonna do it One Extra Time!’”
ELO are headlining this yr’s version of the London live performance collection together with Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Surprise, Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan and Neil Younger And The Chrome Hearts. You’ll be able to find any remaining tickets here.
Final yr’s instalment noticed headliners Stevie Nicks, Kylie Minogue, Stray Children, SZA, Kings Of Leon, Morgan Wallen, Andrea Bocelli, Robbie Williams and Shania Twain.
Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, Pedro Pascal and extra celebrities have signed an open letter in help of federal funding for LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention programmes within the US.
READ MORE: Ariana Grande – ‘Everlasting Sunshine’ evaluation: a compelling temper piece
The letter has now signed by quite a few celebrities, together with the likes of Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, Pedro Pascal, Dua Lipa, Troye Sivan, Cara Delevingne, Christina Aguilera, Daniel Radcliffe, Dasha, Ethel Cain, Eugene Lee Yang, Fletcher, Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hutcherson, King Princess, Margaret Cho, MØ, Noah Cyrus, Oliver Sim, Orville Peck, Paris Hilton, Sarah Paulson, SG Lewis, Tove Lo, Alan Cumming and extra.
The Trevor Challenge’s marketing campaign notes that because the 988 programme’s launch in 2022, it has related “almost 1.3million disaster contacts with life-saving, affirming care to LGBTQ+ younger folks throughout their most susceptible moments”.
Per the Trevor Challenge’s estimation, over 1.8million youths within the LGBTQ+ group in the US ponder suicide yearly, with one trying suicide each 45 seconds.
The Trevor Challenge writes: “At a time of deep division, let this be one thing we as folks can all agree on: no younger particular person must be left with out assist in their darkest second. Stripping away this lifeline leaves LGBTQ+ youth with the message that their lives should not price saving. We refuse to simply accept that message.”
“To each LGBTQ+ younger particular person studying this: you aren’t alone. We see you. We worth you. You’ve got the fitting to really feel protected, supported, and cherished precisely as you might be. You deserve entry to life-saving providers that honor your humanity. You might be hurting. You might be scared. You might really feel like nobody hears you — however we do. We are going to preserve displaying up and talking out. We won’t cease combating for you.”
Earlier this 12 months, the LGBTQ+ group in the US confronted a significant setback by the hands of President Donald Trump, who signed an government order declaring that the US authorities will solely recognise two genders: female and male.
Euphoria star Hunter Schafer spoke out concerning the “harsh actuality” of Trump’s anti-trans government order, revealing her new passport now lists her gender as ‘Male’.
“Trans persons are stunning,” Schafer stated on social media. “We’re by no means going to cease current, I’m by no means going to cease being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that. And fuck this administration. I don’t actually have a solution on what to do about this however I really feel it was vital to share. That is actual. So um yeah, fuck.”
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The Fyre Competition model is trying to a launch a lodge expertise later this yr – discover out extra beneath.
READ MORE: Fyre Competition: Is that this the worst ‘luxurious’ pageant of all time?
Yesterday (June 2), the much-maligned pageant model introduced the Fyre Resorts expertise, scheduled to happen from September 3 till September 10 on the Coral View Utila in Honduras, the Caribbean.
Per a newly launched Fyre Hotels website, the lodge expertise stems from the preliminary 2013 incident that impressed controversial founder Billy McFarland’s Fyre Competition: “A software program engineer and hobbyist pilot challenged Billy to depart NYC and to try to fly a small aircraft from NYC to a distant Caribbean island.”
“Alongside the best way, Billy overshot, ran out of fuel, and was saved by a touchdown strip on a distant island. The magic of the island created a legend that shortly unfold again residence. These journeys grew from a single engine propeller aircraft with 4 loopy entrepreneurs to the expertise lead and journey infused journeys that grew to become FYRE Competition.”
Lodge packages are actually on sale, priced from US$199.53 a day for a room that homes two individuals, bringing the whole week-long keep to just about $1,400. Included within the packages are day boat excursions and guided snorkelling, seashore health periods, kayaking, seashore volleyball, guided hikes throughout the island, nightly leisure and seashore bonfire events, visitor merch, “unique shock moments”, sundown cruises and extra.
In keeping with the Fyre Resorts web site, the pop-up expertise comes as “a small seashore resort and the island of Utila, Honduras had seen the headlines” following the Fyre model asserting in April that it was promoting its IP. “They’ve tapped FYRE to convey world consideration to this off-the-map gem, programming unforgettable experiences, and easily having fun with life on the fringe of the reef.”
Not like previous plans for the Fyre Competition model, the lodge expertise will stray away from the extremely luxurious way of life: “We’re not chasing luxurious. We’re chasing tales. Our journey is about deep dives, avenue meals, late night time bonfires, and waking as much as one thing sudden. This location is the essence of magnificence, power, and potential for journey.”
Billy McFarland has additionally begun selling the lodge expertise, suggesting that he will probably be concerned and current over the week-long occasion regardless of earlier feedback saying he would step again from the band. He wrote on Instagram: “See you on the island.”
Fyre Competition founder Billy McFarland rides a jet ski in Netflix’s ‘Fyre’ documentary. Credit score: Netflix
This all comes after founder Billy McFarland in late April revealed that he was looking for to promote all the Fyre Competition model, and that he can be stepping away from operations and would let an unbiased staff take management of Fyre.
He additionally briefly hinted at reviews suggesting Fyre’s IP has already been bought to be became a music streaming service: “Within the two years since we’ve re-launched FYRE Competition, Hollywood and leisure executives have already licensed the model to develop properties particularly in theatre, music streaming, and Free Advert-Supported TV.”
His assertion got here after the unsurprising indefinite postponement of Fyre Competition 2 earlier in April. Fyre Fest 2 was initially introduced for Might 30 till June 2 on an island in Mexico, earlier than the tourism board and native officers claimed that no such pageant exists.
First developed by McFarland eight years in the past, the botched pageant Fyre Fest was initially set to run over two weekends on a non-public seashore within the Bahamas however was revealed to be fraudulent as soon as punters arrived on the scene, with insufficient circumstances and a scarcity of meals and water. The debacle was then captured in the now-iconic Netflix documentary FYRE.
Again in February, it was introduced that the pageant can be going down on a tropical island off Cancún, Mexico. Nonetheless, it was revealed earlier this month that the allow McFarland had obtained – as seen in his timeline of occasions – solely permits for a 12-hour listening celebration that should have fewer than 300 individuals.
Clubbers within the UK have been issued a warning after a harmful batch of drugs was linked to 2 deaths.
The message was shared by drug welfare organisation Release Drugs over the weekend, and highlighted how the drugs have been linked to 2 individuals dying and one being hospitalised in London.
The drugs are inexperienced and round and will be recognized by the ‘80’ marked on them. They reportedly comprise MDMA, ketamine and Isotonitazene – with the latter being a strong artificial opioid that results in an elevated danger of overdose.
Launch Medication states that the drugs are being noticed in nightclubs in London, however it’s unsure whether or not they’re being offered as MDMA or not.
The 2 deaths and one hospitalisation linked to the drug happened in Southall, Ealing, and a warning shared by the drug welfare organisation states that unwanted side effects embrace dizziness, uncontrolled vomiting, gradual reflexes, tiredness and unconsciousness. Those that have consumed the drugs are inspired to hunt fast medical consideration.
One other membership to concern a warning is central London’s XOYO, which shared that the drugs answerable for the fatalities are much like these recognized earlier this 12 months by hurt discount charity The Loop.
“Two individuals died final weekend after clubbing. Testing confirmed these had been nitazene drugs,” their replace learn. “They had been very related in look & contents to a capsule examined by The Loop 2 months in the past. Nonetheless, it’s not recognized what the drugs had been purchased as.”
Within the recommendation shared, the venue encourages individuals to take security precautions if they’re contemplating taking drugs. These embrace testing medicine utilizing nitazene check strips, making use of drug-checking providers, staggering doses, and carrying naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses.
It additionally outlines indicators of an overdose to maintain an eye fixed out for, together with shallow or absent respiratory, loud loud night breathing or rasping, blue/gray lips or fingertips, and lack of consciousness.
The information comes after a separate warning round medicine within the UK was issued final October, when clubbers had been advised that some high-strength drugs led to “a number of” hospitalisations throughout London.
The considerations had been shared by The Loop, after some tablets contained strengths of MDMA between 90mg and 290mg. 1 / 4 of all ecstasy tablets it examined got here up with over 200mg – double the grownup dose.
Through the years, UK festivals have issued warnings round medicine too. In 2022, Studying & Leeds Competition issued an announcement about the usage of medicine at their festivals, noting that “ecstasy deaths seem like rising 12 months on 12 months”.
Round that very same time, Boardmasters was pressured to warn their attendees of dangerously high-strength MDMA that was discovered on-site on the competition, and drugs examined at Secret Backyard Occasion 2022 had been discovered to comprise greater than 2.5 occasions the standard quantity of ecstasy.
In 2023, figures from the dwell music trade criticised the federal government’s U-turn on competition drug testing, which got here amid the Residence Workplace retracting its assist for drug testing at festivals.
Wunderhorse have shared a moody new single titled ‘The Rope’, following the band’s debut efficiency on Later with Jools Holland.
READ MORE: Wunderhorse – ‘Midas’ evaluate: a masterclass within the enterprise of evolution
The brand new monitor, which Wunderhorse have been enjoying at a few of their gigs throughout their just lately accomplished UK tour and the Holland-presented present, is their first bit of latest materials because the exit of their bassist Peter Woodin.
In line with a press launch, the moody new monitor was written and recorded mere weeks earlier than their tour at London’s RAK Studios with producer Loren Humphrey.
The music will likely be obtainable on a restricted version 7” vinyl with B-side, ‘Arizona (acoustic)’. Followers can pre-order the vinyl file from indie file shops from June 3 at 10am BST.
Final month, Wunderhorse introduced Woodin’s exit via a social media publish, after followers noticed that the bassist was not current throughout the filming of Later With Jools Holland.
The publish saying Woodin’s departure learn: “It’s been an awesome 7 years, however sadly our long-standing pal and bass participant Peter Woodin will now not be working with us transferring ahead. We want Peter all the most effective in his future endeavours.”
Woodin reposted the image to his Instagram story, stating: “Thanks, and see ya on the subsequent one.”
Final yr, the band launched their sophomore album ‘Midas’, which was given a four-star evaluate by NME and described as “a masterclass within the enterprise of evolution”.
“The place that debut album targeted on Slater lastly turning into the songwriter he had the potential to be, its follow-up reworks and refines his robust storytelling,” it learn. “Right here, the frontman enriches his lyrics and pairs them with a splash of chaotic vitality introduced in by his bandmates and the unity between them.
“Although it’s meant to be a second album, ‘Midas’ looks like a contemporary begin for a bunch that, via turning into a correct crew, has discovered its method. It might solely be a second album, but it surely seems to be just like the enterprise of Wunderhorse is about to proceed to prosper.”
Donald Trump has mentioned that he’ll look into a possible pardon for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, whereas 50 Cent has claimed that he’ll “attain out” to make sure it doesn’t come to fruition.
The US President mentioned that he’ll “actually take a look at the info” in relation to contemplating issuing a pardon for the New York rapper – who’s at the moment on trial for federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
Rumours about presidential intervention within the case come as Trump just lately pardoned rapper NBA YoungBoy, who pleaded responsible to gun costs in 2024, and excused Lil Wayne from authorized costs throughout his first time period.
Discussing a attainable pardon on Friday (Might 30), Trump advised a press convention: “I do know individuals are fascinated by it. Folks have been very near asking.”
The enterprise mogul and the rapper have been as soon as on good phrases, every describing the opposite as a “buddy” at varied factors prior to now. This relationship has soured lately, nonetheless, and Trump made reference to this in his newest feedback.
President Trump on probably pardoning Diddy: “No person’s requested…I do know individuals are fascinated by it…I have not been watching it too carefully…I have not spoken to him in years…I will surely take a look at the info.” pic.twitter.com/34e7SmBRvd
“I haven’t seen him, I haven’t spoken to him in years,” he mentioned. “He used to essentially like me quite a bit, however I believe after I ran for politics that relationship busted up… I learn some little bit nasty statements within the paper swiftly.”
Referring to a attainable pardon, Trump added: “I will surely take a look at the info. If I believe someone is mistreated, whether or not they like me or don’t like me, it wouldn’t have any affect on me.”
Combs has pleaded not responsible to costs of intercourse trafficking and racketeering and has denied all different allegations of misconduct levelled in opposition to him.
He has additionally pleaded not responsible to 5 legal counts, together with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He has persistently denied all allegations in opposition to him and has asserted that every one sexual exercise described by prosecutors was consensual.
50 Cent says he’s going to contact President Trump to inform him the unhealthy issues Diddy mentioned about him after Trump didn’t rule out pardoning him 👀 pic.twitter.com/BinolcqPma
Whereas Trump has mentioned that he’s prepared to look into the Diddy case, 50 Cent has pledged to get entangled and attempt to stop any pardon being issued for Diddy.
Taking to Instagram, the rapper – who has been outspoken in his dislike in the direction of Combs all through the years – mentioned in a now-deleted put up: “[Combs] mentioned some actually unhealthy issues about Trump, it’s not okay. I’m gonna attain out so he is aware of how I really feel about this man.”
He continued: “Donald doesn’t take nicely to disrespect, and doesn’t overlook who chooses to go in opposition to him. Whereas working tirelessly to make America nice once more there isn’t a room for distraction.
“He would take into account pardoning anybody who was being mistreated, not Puffy Daddy.”
50 Cent – actual identify Curtis James Jackson III – has been vocal about all the allegations rising in opposition to Diddy. Final yr, he hit out on the hip-hop mogul over his apology video for allegedly attacking Cassie Ventura.
The ‘Sweet Store’ rapper additionally confirmed that he’s engaged on a documentary in regards to the allegations surrounding Diddy, titled Diddy Do It?. Particulars of the mission have been first shared in December 2023, shortly after the primary wave of allegations in opposition to the hip-hop mogul got here to gentle.
In late 2024, Netflix secured the rights to the documentary sequence, and the mission was reportedly being expanded to incorporate the most recent developments within the authorized case.
Diddy’s intercourse trafficking and racketeering trial began final month and has to date seen his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura testify in opposition to him in courtroom and allege that he had spent years subjecting her to brutal sexual violence and abuse.
Because the trial kicked off, Justin Bieber has shut down rumours that he was one in all Diddy’s alleged victims, and Jamie Foxx has dismissed conspiracy theories that say the rapper tried to kill him.
Joe Jonas has mentioned on the South Park parody of Jonas Brothers, and stated that Nick and Kevin weren’t too happy with the depiction.
The animated present – recognized for brutally mocking and tearing down popular culture figures – took purpose on the boy band in the course of the peak of their time on Disney Channel, and portrayed them as company shills who have been being exploited by vengeful boss, Mickey Mouse.
Aired in 2009 as a part of the present’s thirteenth season, episode The Ring made a nod to the movie Jonas Brothers: The 3D Live performance Expertise, and noticed the Disney company making an attempt to make use of the band’s picture to promote intercourse to younger feminine viewers – all whereas making an attempt to keep up their respectable picture by making them put on purity rings as an indication of their virginity. In a single scene, they’re seen being violently crushed by Mickey Mouse for disobeying his orders.
Talking in regards to the depiction of him and his brothers in an upcoming episode of Legendary Kitchen’s Final Meals, Joe Jonas defined how he had a extra constructive response to the episode than his siblings on the time.
“I feel I used to be the one brother that liked it,” he stated (by way of Entertainment Weekly). “I assumed it was hilarious, as a result of I watched South Park, and I used to be like, ‘That is so humorous, I do know what they’re doing, they make enjoyable of everybody!’”
“To be made enjoyable of by a comic book is often an indication that they offer a shit, they usually care, and it’s humorous. They actually went for us,” he added. “I imply, what an honour to get my ass kicked by Mickey… I feel it’s considered one of my favorite episodes.
“Now we simply chuckle [about it]. We love that. I feel it’s so nice. Positively a claim-to-fame for me.”
Earlier this 12 months, a trailer was shared for the forthcoming twenty seventh season of South Park, taking purpose on the likes Diddy, Ketamine, and a struggle with Canada. That season will air from July 9, with UK viewers in a position to watch new episodes by way of streaming service Paramount+.
Joe Jonas’ interview on Final Meals will probably be accessible in full tomorrow (June 3) at 6am ET/3am PT by way of Mythical Kitchen’s YouTube channel.
Lorde has shared that attending the GQ ‘Man Of The 12 months’ awards in 2023 performed a component in her ongoing journey exploring gender.
READ MORE: Lorde’s ‘What Was That’ takes us again to the dancefloor for one more emotional, electrical journey
Lorde launched her new music, ‘Man Of The 12 months’ – taken from her extremely anticipated album ‘Virgin’ – late final month (Might 30), alongside a deeply private music video that sees her take off her high and bind her chest with duct tape.
The New Zealand singer has been frank about her gender changing into “extra expansive”, and former advised Rolling Stone that the opening line of album’s first observe on – which reads “Some days I’m a lady/Some days I’m a person” – displays her present headspace by way of gender fluidity.
She defined that Chappell Roan had requested her about it, saying: “She was like, ‘So, are you non binary now?’ And I used to be like, ‘I’m a lady aside from the times after I’m a person.’ I do know that’s not a really satisfying reply, however there’s part of me that’s actually immune to boxing it up.”
She additionally stated that ‘Man of the 12 months’, “was totally consultant of how [her] gender felt in that second.” The music was partially impressed by her expertise of making an attempt on a pair of males’s denims and exhibiting an image of it producer Jim-E Stack: “He was like, ‘I need to see the you that’s on this image represented within the music.’ This was earlier than I had any sense of my gender broadening in any respect.”
She has since expanded on the creation of the music, not too long ago telling Triple J that attending the GQ get together two years in the past triggered a gender revelation for her. “I had been feeling this expansiveness of gender taking place for some time, and this was my first occasion that I’d been to shortly,” she stated.
“I wore type of like a ‘sizzling woman’ gown,” she added. The ‘Royals’ singer wore a form-fitting emerald inexperienced robe to the occasion, and later shared a narrative on Instagram telling followers: “Some days I’m a lady, some days I’m a person.”
“I felt so not like myself,” she continued. “And it was a extremely cool marker, particularly being at this occasion that was celebrating all these cool guys, I used to be like, ‘Oh, I’m a type of guys, like, generally, after I wanna be. And I used to be like, ‘Whoa, I don’t assume the hot-girl gown is the best machine for this second.’”
The subsequent day, Lorde says she and producer Stack had been within the studio “type of hung over”, when she advised him she wished to pen a music about “how I’m the Man of the 12 months for me”.
The discharge of the music and its accompanying video have seen Rahim Redcar (previously often called Christine & The Queens) accuse the singer of copying work “with out crediting me as an inspiration”.
Shortly after the video’s launch, Redcar took to his Instagram story to react to it, writing: “To Lorde: I assume you’re welcome lol. So bizarre to see such fixed parts of my work being digested and put ahead with out ever being credited as an inspiration.”
This can be in reference to the artist’s 2022 tour, by which he additionally used tape to cowl his chest. “Erasure of my expertise someway occurred due to my unusual path? Do you assume? What else was I imagined to do? Lie?.”
In the meantime, Lorde additionally not too long ago introduced that she will likely be hitting the street once more this yr for some headline tour dates throughout the UK, Europe and North America in celebration of the album. These kick off in September in Austin, Texas, and run via to December, the place the tour wraps up with a remaining cease in Stockholm. Majority of the reveals are bought out.
Within the run-up to the album launch and subsequent tour, Lorde has been sharing particulars about issues that will have impacted her sound. These embody candid discussions about her time overcoming consuming struggles, and the way the upcoming reveals could also be her “masterpiece”.
Robbie Williams has shared a behind-the-scenes video from his ‘Rocket’ shoot, which features a clip of him discussing the collaboration with Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi – see what they needed to say beneath.
The previous Take That star is making ready to launch his first studio album in nearly a decade, additionally titled ‘BRITPOP’, within the autumn (pre-order here). The album has to date been previewed by the blistering rock single ‘Rocket’, which options Iommi ripping by way of a depraved guitar solo. Iommi additionally seems within the video for ‘Rocket’.
Robbie Williams, 2025. Credit score: Jason Hetherington.
Within the new behind-the-scenes clip, the pair are seen snapping images collectively and sharing a chat after wrapping on the shoot. Joined by backing musicians Karl Brazil and guitarist Tom Longworth, Robbie explains how the collaboration got here to be.
Williams shared, “Karl, who’s my drummer, is a Brummie. He’s pals with the royalty right here in Birmingham. I’ve obtained this monitor ‘Rocket’, which wanted a little bit of poke.” Turning to Iommi, he continued: “Which you… it’s my honour that you simply stated sure and have come to present it a little bit of poke. And right here we’re, that’s it.”
Iommi responded: “No, I prefer it. It’s actually good.” Earlier within the video, Iommi additionally shared with Karl that he had simply agreed to promote Williams his signature Gibson SG guitar from the shoot.
Watch Robbie Williams’ and Tony Iommi’s interactions beneath.
Previous to the behind-the-scenes video being launched, Iommi has been speaking up the collaboration on social media. Following the music video’s launch, he wrote on Facebook: “What an honour to be featured on Robbie Williams’ new single ‘Rocket’. A genuinely nice man with a really proficient band”. He stated in a separate publish: “An excellent pleasure to look alongside Robbie Williams within the official music video for his new tune ‘Rocket’.”
Earlier this yr, Williams teased that he had a collaboration with Iommi within the phrases. “This [track] is very large guitars, as you may think about,” he’d beforehand stated of the tune. “It’s adrenaline-filled and balls-to-the-wall.” He additionally stated that whereas the monitor was extra rock-influenced, “pop songs turned up alongside the way in which” whereas he was engaged on the album.
NME caught up with Williams final month when he obtained the Icon Award on the Ivors 2025. Requested about collaborating with Iommi for his comeback single, the ‘Angels’ hitmaker replied: “How fortunate am I? The audacity for each of us – [one of Black Sabbath] that includes on a Robbie Williams tune. God bless him for doing that, and God bless me for my audacity!”
As for the remainder of Williams’ ‘BRITPOP’ album, he’s stated he got down to create the album he needed to put in writing after leaving Take That in 1995. “I’ve labored with a few of my heroes on this album; it’s uncooked, there are extra guitars and it’s an album that’s much more upbeat and anthemic than common. There’s some ‘Brit’ in there and there’s actually some ‘pop’ too – I’m immensely happy with this as a physique of labor.”
The brand new album’s cowl art work nods to one in all Robbie’s most iconic appears, the purple tracksuit worn to Glastonbury Pageant in 1995 when he partied with Oasis on the peak of the Britpop period. In one other name again to that period, Williams is notably happening tour similtaneously the Gallagher brothers’ return.
Reflecting on whether or not ‘BRITPOP’ will recapture the hedonism of the ‘90s, he stated to NME on the Ivor Novello Awards: “If hedonism is Jaffa Cake-based or Cadbury’s Fruit And Nut, then I’m in. Every little thing else I’ve obtained to park till I die. If I don’t park it, it’ll kill me.”
Elaborating on his guitar-heavy new sound, he continued: “I used to be taking part in it protected and I’ve not been driving my very own automotive. I’ve not had my fingers on the wheel by way of second-thinking myself and guessing what individuals like. I simply needed to do one thing that I like.”
Since saying ‘BRITPOP’ and releasing ‘Rocket’, Williams has debuted the punchy rock monitor on the Scottish Fuel Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Saturday (Might 31) to kick off his stadium tour. Williams is continuous the ‘BRITPOP’ UK tour over the approaching weeks, and you could find any remaining tickets here.
As for Tony Iommi, he’s gearing up for Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s final-ever present subsequent month. In February, the legendary metallic band introduced that they are going to play their final ever present at their beloved Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5.
Talking to NME again in February, Iommi and Sharon Osbourne teased what to anticipate from Sabbath’s closing live performance, whereas additionally offering an replace on Ozzy’s well being.
“He’s actually nice. He’s obtained Parkinson’s, which everyone knows, however he’s nice and it doesn’t have an effect on his voice,” stated Sharon. Iommi added: “This may do him good, to do that present. It actually will. That’s what it’s all about: he needs to get out and do one thing.”
Osbourne beforehand acknowledged that he would solely be taking part in “little bits and items” with Black Sabbath on the closing reunion gig. The frontman has since returned to the fitness center so as to put together for the efficiency.
The live performance will elevate funds for 3 charities: Remedy Parkinson’s, Birmingham Youngsters’s Hospital and the Birmingham-based Acorns Youngsters’s Hospice – a Youngsters’s Hospice supported by Aston Villa Soccer Membership.
Legendary jazz drummer Al Foster has died, aged 82.
Foster’s loss of life was first introduced by his daughter Kierra on social media over the weekend. She shared a video of Al performing simply 4 months in the past. In an announcement to NPR, Foster’s longtime companion Bonnie Rose Steinberg confirmed that Al died following a “severe sickness”.
Born in 1943 – actual identify Aloysius Tyrone Foster – the legendary jazz drummer was impressed by bebop drummer Max Roach in his earlier days, and first labored with Blue Mitchell as a studio musician on ‘The Factor To Do’. In 1968, Foster carried out one gig with Sonny Rollins.
Foster received his large break in 1972, when he was employed as Miles Davis‘ drummer, and remained with him till the latter’s short-lived retirement in 1975. In these years, Davis carried out on the dwell albums ‘In Live performance’, ‘Agharta’ and ‘Darkish Magus’, in addition to Davis’ two 1974 albums ‘On The Nook’ and ‘Large Enjoyable’. Davis named an prolonged jam ‘Mr. Foster’ on ‘On The Nook’ in honour of the drummer.
A number of years later, Sonny Rollins would as soon as once more rent Al Foster, bringing him on tour in Europe, and later stated ‘Harlem Boys’ off his 1979 album ‘Don’t Ask’ was impressed by his shared experiences with Foster rising up.
All through the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, Foster additionally carried out with the likes of Hancock, Horace Silver and McCoy Tyner. In 1978, he shaped the all-star supergroup Milestones Jazzstars alongside Rollins, Ron Carter and Tyner.
In 1981, Miles Davis made his comeback with the album ‘The Man with the Horn’, as soon as once more that includes Al Foster on the equipment. Foster turned the one musician to carry out with Davis earlier than his retirement and after his return. Upon leaving Davis’ band within the Eighties, Foster would discover himself touring and recording with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Kenny Barron, Joanne Brackeen, Larry Willis, Tommy Flanagan and extra.
Within the last stretch of his life and profession, Al Foster held a longstanding performing residency on the common Higher West Aspect jazz membership Smoke, and likewise continued composing. He launched his final album ‘Reflections’ in 2022.
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