Lily Allen has mirrored on the “imply” feedback she made about Katy Perry‘s house flight, saying they stemmed from “internalised misogyny”.
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Earlier this month, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s house tourism firm Blue Origin despatched the ‘E.T.’ singer to house alongside an all-female crew – made up of TV host Gayle King, movie producer Kerianne Flynn, scientist Amanda Nguyen, entrepreneur Aisha Bowe and writer Lauren Sánchez.
The journey was roundly criticised, with actress Olivia Munn branding Perry “gluttonous”, Emily Ratajkowski saying she was equally “disgusted” by the house flight and Allen calling the mission “out of contact”, saying there was “no fucking purpose” for it.
Now, the ‘Smile’ singer has revised her feedback and provided an apology to Perry on the most recent episode of her Miss Me? podcast. “I’d really prefer to apologise for being imply about Katy Perry final week,” she instructed co-host Miquita Oliver (through Billboard).
“There was really no want for me to deliver her identify into it, and it was my very own internalized misogyny,” Allen added.
“I’ve been fascinated about it loads, and it was simply utterly pointless to pile on along with her. I disagree with what it was that they did, however she wasn’t the one person who did it. She was presumably probably the most well-known and the one which divides folks probably the most.”
It follows a rocky few weeks for Perry, who was as soon as once more topic to social media virality after followers mocked the lacklustre choreography seen on her ‘Lifetimes’ tour, which kicked off in Mexico Metropolis final week.
“Doing a lot however nothing on the similar time,” one viewer wrote after awkward footage emerged, whereas one other added: “What within the Star Wars??”
“It appeared so lifeless with such apathy, for opening evening…she appears so over it already,” one less-impressed viewer chimed in, whereas one other shared: “It appears just like the behind-the-scenes video earlier than they add the CGI”.
The tour’s graduation adopted the singer saying the cancellation of two exhibits in Guadalajara in Might because the venue they have been meant to happen in won’t be constructed in time.
Later within the yr, the ‘Firework’ singer is ready to tour the UK and Europe – you see the complete record of dates and get tickets right here.
Politicians have referred to as for Kneecap to be faraway from Glastonbury and TRNSMT‘s 2025 line-ups following a current counter-terror investigation.
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Requires the Irish trio to be faraway from upcoming competition dates come after it was revealed earlier this week that counter-terror police are assessing footage from a present that seems to point out a band member shouting “Up Hamas, up Hezbollah”, whereas additionally displaying a Hezbollah flag.
Each Hamas and Hezbollah are proscribed terror organisations, as listed by the UK government – it is usually an offence below the Terrorism Act 2000 to “invite assist for a proscribed organisation”. It was later revealed police are assessing a second video from one in all their gigs, which purportedly exhibits the group calling for the loss of life of Conservative MPs.
As reported by Sky News, the footage is believed to return from a present from November 2023 the place one of many West Belfast trio allegedly mentioned to the gang: “The one good Tory is a lifeless Tory. Kill your native MP.”
Up to now 10 years, two British MPs have been murdered: Labour’s Jo Cox in 2016 and Conservative David Amess in 2021.
The footage that has emerged from a Kneecap live performance clearly crosses the road from political expression to inciting violence.
The Jo Cox Basis – the charity shaped after Cox was tragically killed in her constituency – at this time shared a press release on X/Twitter condemning the band, writing that that they had “clearly” crossed a line “from political expression to inciting violence”.
Equally, the daughter of Conservative MP Amess has instructed the BBCshe was “gobsmacked on the stupidity of any person or a gaggle of individuals being within the public eye and saying such harmful, violent rhetoric”, including that the band ought to make apologies to her “and each different person who has been offended by this”.
Politicians have additionally begun to place stress on competition organisers forward of Kneecap’s summer season dates, which embody units at Large Awake Pageant, 2000 Bushes, TRNSMT and Glastonbury.
As we speak (April 28), Labour MP for Hemel Hempstead David Taylor shared a letter addressed to Michael Eavis, requesting the Worthy Farm competition take away them from the line-up. He wrote that if present stories have been correct, the band’s “actions and statements transcend the realm of legit political expression and into the harmful territory of inciting violence and selling extremism, in addition to extreme antisemitism”.
He continued to say it will be “deeply troubling” to see the competition platform a gaggle he claimed “advocate hatred and violence, particularly at a time when political and social tensions are already excessive”.
I’ve written to @glastonbury urging them to take away Kneecap primarily based on their alleged behaviour and the extensively reported footage.
Allegedly calling for the homicide of colleagues is abhorrent, I stand in solidarity with MPs from throughout the Home.
Likewise, Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has referred to as for Kneecap to be faraway from the line-up of Glasgow’s TRNSMT.
Talking on the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the SNP chief was requested whether or not the rap trio ought to carry out on the music competition as deliberate, and later instructed media (by way of The National): “The language that you’ve put to me is totally and completely unacceptable. There isn’t any means that’s acceptable. It’s past the pale.
“I feel it makes it extremely troublesome for a band like Kneecap to carry out at TRNSMT, as a result of I feel they’ve crossed a line. It might be unacceptable to me for the band to carry out on such a stage.”
NME has reached out to TRNSMT and Glastonbury organisers for remark.
In response to information of the counter-terrorism investigation, Kneecap shared a put up on X of a graphic which learn, “18 Months Of Genocide Footage Not Underneath Investigation By UK Counter-Terror Police”, with the caption “some information.”
Tory chief Kemi Badenoch additionally addressed the information, sharing the footage and telling her followers on X: “In authorities I blocked Kneecap getting taxpayer funding. Labour didn’t contest the authorized case the band introduced they usually walked away with £14,250 of OUR cash. Maybe now Labour see Kneecap brazenly glorifying evil terror teams, they’ll apologise for rolling over. However I doubt it.”
An anti-Tory sentiment additionally emerged of their controversial units at Coachella this month, the primary of which noticed them main the gang in a chant of “Maggie’s in a field”, referring to the late Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
The Coachella performances led to calls from Sharon Osbourne to revoke their working visas. The 2 units on the competition additionally reportedly left organisers “blindsided” on account of their overtly political nature, together with exhibiting pro-Palestine projections on the display behind them and inspiring the viewers to chant “Free, Free Palestine”.
KNEECAP STATEMENT:
Since our statements at Coachella — exposing the continuing genocide in opposition to the Palestinian individuals — we’ve got confronted a coordinated smear marketing campaign.
For over a 12 months, we’ve got used our exhibits to name out the British and Irish governments’ complicity in conflict crimes.… pic.twitter.com/mBojb5QBOP
Kneecap have since referred to as the controversy “a coordinated smear marketing campaign” in opposition to their efforts in “exposing the continuing genocide in opposition to the Palestinian individuals”.
“For over a 12 months, we’ve got used our exhibits to name out the British and Irish governments’ complicity in conflict crimes. The current assaults in opposition to us, largely emanating from the US, are primarily based on deliberate distortions and falsehoods,” they mentioned, including that they’re “taking motion in opposition to a number of of those malicious efforts”.
“The rationale Kneecap is being focused is straightforward — we’re telling the reality, and our viewers is rising,” the assertion learn. “These attacking us need to silence criticism of a mass slaughter. They weaponize false accusations of antisemitism to distract, confuse, and supply cowl for genocide,” mentioning “large numbers of Jewish individuals” who’re “outraged by this genocide simply as we’re”.
“What we care about is that governments of the nations we carry out in are enabling a few of the most horrific crimes of our lifetimes — and we won’t keep silent. No media spin will change this,” they wrote.
“Our solely concern is the Palestinian individuals — the 20,000 murdered kids and counting.”
They praised the audiences at their exhibits, saying that they “see by means of the lies” and “stand on the aspect of humanity and justice,” concluding: “And that offers us hope.”
Artwork Brut have shared their latest CD field set, ‘Set Sorry, That It Doesn’t Sound Like It’s Deliberate! Battling Devil, 2009 – 2020’.
Out now here by way of Edsel Data, the indie veteran’s newest launch marks the second and last field set in a two-part career-spanning compilation sequence, following 2024’s ‘A File Assortment, Decreased To A Mixtape’.
That includes 5 CDs price of fabric recorded between 2009 and 2020 – which vary from unreleased dwelling demos, rarities and B sides – frontman Eddie Argos mentioned the field set contained “plenty of treasures we’ve hoarded for years”. He added: “It is a field of incredible music, with a protracted essay about that incredible music by me, and also you’d be an fool to not seize a duplicate instantly.”
Compiled in direct collaboration with the band, the set spans a number of releases: ‘Artwork Brut vs Devil’ (2009), ‘Artwork Brut vs Devil Brutlegs and B Sides’, ‘Sensible! Tragic!’ (2011), ‘Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out!’ (2018), in addition to a bonus disc of ‘Brutlegs, Uncommon Stay Cuts and B Sides’.
Per a press launch, the five-CD fold-out is about in deluxe 7” packaging, accompanied by a 24-page illustrated zine with a liner be aware Argos, archival images, and an authentic signed Artwork Brut print.
Try the tracklistings beneath.
‘Sorry, That It Doesn’t Sound Like It’s Deliberate! Battling Devil, 2009 – 2020’ LP. CREDIT: Wall of Sound PR
The ‘Sorry, That It Doesn’t Sound Like It’s Deliberate! Battling Devil, 2009 – 2020’ tracklist is:
DISC ONE: Artwork Brut vs Devil
1) ‘Alcoholics Unanimous’ 2) ‘DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake’ 3) ‘The Passenger’ 4) ‘Am I Regular’ 5) ‘What A Rush’ 6) ‘Demons Out!’ 7) ‘Slap Sprint For No Money’ 8) ‘The Replacements’ 9) ‘Twist & Shout’ 10) ‘Summer season Job’ 11) ‘Mysterious Bruises’
DISC TWO: Artwork Brut Vs Devil Brutlegs and B Sides
1) ‘Simply Deserts’ 2) ‘Positively fifth Road’ 3) ‘Moved To L.A.’ 4) ‘Bizarre Science’ 5) ‘Catch’ (Treatment Cowl) 6) ‘The Worth You Pay For Ready’ 7) ‘Artwork Brut 0 Devil 1’ (Early Demo of Demons Out!) 8) ‘Artwork Brut vs Devil’ (One other Early Demo of Demons Out!) 9) ‘Science Fiction’ (Unique Residence Demo of Bizarre Science) 10) ‘Summer season Job’ (Early Demo) 11) ‘Tough of Love’ (Residence Demo of What A Rush) 12) ‘Am I Regular?’ (Early Demo) 13) ‘Public Transportation Please’ (Early Demo Of The Passenger) 14) ‘Day Off Work’ (Early Alcoholics Unanimous Demo) 15) ‘I May Stay Right here’ (early Demo of Moved to L.A.) 16) ‘Am I Regular?’ (Mikey B Brings The Drama) 17) ‘Rush Of Love’ (Mikey Brings The Drama) 18) ‘Richard, The place Is My File Deal’
1) ‘Hooray!’ 2) ‘I Hope You’re Very Pleased Collectively’ 3) ‘Good Morning Berlin’ 4) ‘She Kissed Me (And It Felt Like A Hit!)’ 5) ‘Schwarzfahrer’ 6) ‘Hospital’ 7) ‘Too Intelligent’ 8) ‘Kultfigur’ 9) ‘Veronica Falls’ 10) ‘Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out!’ 11) ‘Awkward Breakfast’ 12) ‘Your Enemies Are My Enemies Too’ 13) ‘Hooray!’ (Alternate Model) 14) ‘I Hope You’re Very Pleased Collectively’ (Residence Demo) 15) ‘Preserve It Juvenile’ (Unreleased Writing Session) 16) ‘Kultfigur’ (Demo) 17) ‘Veronica Falls’ (Demo Model) 18) ‘She Kissed Me And It Felt Like A Hit’ (Residence Demo)
DISC 5: Brutlegs , B Sides & Uncommon Stay Cuts
1) ‘Fashionable Artwork’ (Berlinische Model) 2) ‘Mein Kleiner Bruder’ (My Little Brother) 3) ‘Put up Soothing Out’ (early John Fortis Demo) 4) ‘The Nearest Exit Is Behind You’ 5) ‘Began Smoking Once more’ 6) ‘Let’s Get Drunk About It’ 7) ‘File Retailer Day’ 8) ‘Deal with Me With Care’ 9) ‘Properties Of Notion’ (We Are Scientists Cowl) 10) ‘The Nice Escape / Freebird’ (We Are Scientists / Lynyrd Skynrd Covers) 11) ‘Fashionable Artwork’ (Berlin Stay) 12) ‘Put up Soothing Out’ (Berlin Stay)
Sitting down with NME final 12 months, Argos touched on the band’s compilation field units, the assorted spats and breakthroughs of the indie sleaze years, and the way the band match into the style.
“I stood subsequent to that on the urinal, however I don’t suppose we have been a part of that actually,” Argos mentioned of the indie sleaze label. “I’m simply out of that image. I’m within the bar over the street. It was fairly careerist for lots of these individuals however it was thrilling to be in a band.
“We have been fairly a bizarre one actually. We have been singing about forming a band or about trendy artwork. I used to be obsessive about Jonathan Richman, we didn’t fairly slot in. We weren’t straight forward rocky sufficient to be like The Libertines guys and we weren’t artwork faculty sufficient to be with the Franz Ferdinand guys, so we have been type of within the center attempting to make associates with the Franz Ferdinand guys and working away from the Libertines guys.”
Joey Jordison‘s household has launched a fundraiser to launch VMIC’s debut album.
The late musician, who was Slipknot‘s authentic drummer, died in 2021. He was 46 years previous.
To have a good time what would have been his fiftieth birthday on Saturday (April 26), Jordison’s household introduced the fundraiser, which can see VMIC’s debut album launched.
The metallic band – accomplished by vocalist Kalen Chase, guitarists Jed Simon and Steve Marshall, bassist Kyle Konkiel and keyboardist Matthew Tarach – was shaped in 2015 after Jordison’s departure from Slipknot two years earlier.
They launched a number of singles after launching, and deliberate to share their first LP ‘Open Your Omen’ in 2019, however plans had been halted when the file’s producer Kato Khandwala died in a bike accident in 2018.
Joey Jordison (Photograph by Martin Philbey/Redferns)
Now although, the album is about to lastly be launched in September 2025, with a Kickstarter launching today (April 28) to lift the funds “wanted to launch the album”.
An announcement from Jordison’s household reads: “After years of working to safe the rights to the music, our household shall be releasing VIMIC’s extremely anticipated debut album, Open Your Omen independently to get the album into the arms of the followers which were asking for it for years.”
They go on to say: “Joey didn’t do something small. We wish to launch this album the way in which he would have needed; with the designs he was so actively concerned with creating for the CD, double LP, merch, and with the assist of his followers to make the largest splash we will upon launch.”
To be able to elevate funds, they’ve added “private objects” beforehand belonging to Jordison, to assist elevate prices for manufacturing and distributing the bodily album, advertising in addition to internet hosting “an evening to recollect as VIMIC reunites to carry out an occasion honouring Joey’s legacy. A night stuffed with iconic drummers on Joey’s drum package, particular visitors, and tales you’ve by no means heard.”
“Be part of us and unfold the phrase,” The assertion concludes. “Open Your Omen.”
Earlier this month, Jordinson’s household additionally shared his hand-drawn authentic Slipknot brand on an Instagram account launched to archive pictures of the drummer from numerous occasions in his life, in addition to some memorabilia from the teams he carried out with. It comes after the profile unveiling Slipknot‘s very first tribal ‘S’ design that was created by Jordison, final summer season.
Final September, Jordison’s property settled its lawsuit towards the band for profiting off his dying.
In different information, earlier this 12 months noticed former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg share footage of himself enjoying a few of the group’s tracks for the primary time since leaving the line-up in 2023.
Slipknot’s newest studio album was 2022’s ‘The Finish, So Far’. In a four-star overview, NME wrote: “Except for the blood, the gore, the theatrics and the noise, there’s clearly all the time been far more to the band’s capacity to shock and shock – and now it appears their subsequent left flip of an period may very well be their most daring but.”
In 2023, they surprise-released a brand new EP referred to as ‘Adderall’. On the finish of final 12 months, Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan spoke to NME about Slipknot’s twenty fifth anniversary tour, in addition to plans for brand new music and the long-mooted ‘misplaced’ album ‘Look Exterior Your Window’.
“Eloy [Casagrande, drummer] is within the band and there’s one thing occurring between the 9 of us proper now that could be very enjoyable. Loads is floating round and we most likely have a number of albums in us proper now,” he defined.
“As for a way issues really feel, I’m being fully sincere with you now, it’s like a cloud has left. No matter that cloud was… everyone participates to the cloud. It’s trying nice.”
Clown added: “It feels paying homage to how it began within the first place. It’s higher than I might ever need and I feel everybody would say it seems like time. It’s enjoyable, like the way it was once we had been youthful and writing music for ourselves. It’s all thumbs up.”
Slipknot are scheduled to play quite a few European festivals this summer season, together with Rock Im Park and Rock Am Ring, in addition to Inkcarceration Pageant within the US. They carried out a pair of raucous exhibits at The O2 in London final December as a part of their big twenty fifth anniversary tour.
Kehlani has addressed her elimination from an upcoming Cornell College live performance over her pro-Palestinian views.
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Final week (April 25), it was reported that the singer’s invitation to carry out at Cornell’s Could 7 Slope Day live performance was being rescinded after college students and the group raised considerations about her help for Palestine within the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Kehlani has now seemingly commented on her elimination from the Slope Day live performance, taking to social media over the weekend to deal with the matter. In a video – which was initially posted onto TikTok, the singer made clear her stance on the conflict, flanked by her Jewish-Palestinian greatest good friend and Jewish studio engineer.
She mentioned: “I’m being requested and referred to as to make clear and make an announcement but once more for the millionth time that I’m not antisemitic nor anti-Jew. I’m anti-genocide, I’m anti the actions of the Israeli authorities, I’m anti an extermination of a whole individuals, I’m anti the bombing of harmless kids, males ladies… that’s what I’m anti.”
Kehlani. Credit score: Dana Jacobs/Getty Photos
Kehlani went on so as to add that one among her first instances going public about her views on the matter at first of the battle was along with Jewish organisation Jewish Voices for Peace, as soon as once more reiterating that she’s not anti-Jew, she simply can’t help the killing of harmless individuals.
She wrote in her caption: “ITS BEEN OVER A YEAR. from day one it’s been clear. I do know you’ve seen Cornell College cancelled my present, and now there are makes an attempt at different cancellations on high of the cancellations I’ve already skilled over the previous 12 months.”
“If you wish to cancel me from alternative, stand on it being due to your zionism. Don’t make it anti-Jew. This can be a performed out sport. All this as a result of we wish individuals to cease dying.”
Her tackle comes after an electronic mail from Cornell College president Michael I. Kotlikoff to its college students was leaked to the media. In his electronic mail, Kotlikoff wrote that the reserving of the singer had “injected division and discord” at Cornell, on account of her making what have been felt to be “antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments.”
In response to Kotlikoff, the rescinding of Kehlani’s invite to carry out comes after college students and members of “the group” voiced their anger and confusion “that Slope Day would function a performer who has espoused antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments in performances, movies, and on social media.” His choice to cancel her efficiency was made after spending “days speaking privately with many college students”.
Kotlikoff famous that “whereas any artist has the fitting in our nation to precise hateful views,” her inclusion within the efficiency line-up “has compromised what is supposed to be an inclusive occasion”.
Kehlani has lengthy been vocal and public about her help of Palestine over time. In 2024, she launched a music vide for ‘Subsequent 2 U’, during which she appeared in entrance of Palestinian flags and wore a go well with stitched with keffiyeh scarf supplies. The video additionally included the phrases “lengthy reside the intifada”, which is commonly chanted at protests over the Gaza-Israel conflict.
READ MORE:Kneecap on the quilt – giving peace, protest and partying an opportunity
In related occasions, Irish rap trio and former NME The Cowl stars Kneecap have seen calls from the likes of Sharon Osbourne to have their working visas revoked within the US after their latest headline-making Coachella performances. Their two units on the competition additionally reportedly left organisers “blindsided” on account of their overtly political nature, together with exhibiting pro-Palestine projections on the display screen behind them and inspiring the viewers to chant “Free, Free Palestine”.
Kneecap have since referred to as the controversy “a coordinated smear marketing campaign” in opposition to their efforts in “exposing the continuing genocide in opposition to the Palestinian individuals”.
“For over a 12 months, we’ve got used our reveals to name out the British and Irish governments’ complicity in conflict crimes. The latest assaults in opposition to us, largely emanating from the US, are primarily based on deliberate distortions and falsehoods,” they mentioned, including that they’re “taking motion in opposition to a number of of those malicious efforts”.
Kneecap. Credit score: Joseph Bishop for NME
“The rationale Kneecap is being focused is straightforward — we’re telling the reality, and our viewers is rising,” the assertion learn. “These attacking us wish to silence criticism of a mass slaughter. They weaponize false accusations of antisemitism to distract, confuse, and supply cowl for genocide,” mentioning “huge numbers of Jewish individuals” who’re “outraged by this genocide simply as we’re”.
“What we care about is that governments of the international locations we carry out in are enabling among the most horrific crimes of our lifetimes — and we won’t keep silent. No media spin will change this,” they wrote. “Our solely concern is the Palestinian individuals — the 20,000 murdered kids and counting.”
The group are reportedly now within the strategy of securing a brand new sponsor for renewed US visas for his or her October tour after they have been dropped by their former sponsor and reserving agent Unbiased Artist Group (IAG) earlier this week. Their upcoming US tour continues to be scheduled to proceed on the time of writing.
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Dizzee Rascal has revealed that he used his spare time throughout lockdown to retrain to be a plasterer.
The Mercury-winning rapper informed Repair Radio that he “wanted to be taught to do stuff” in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and he took it upon himself to signal on for the In a position Expertise Building Coaching course in Dartford, the place he earned a Metropolis and Guilds Certificates in plastering.
“I did a plastering course for nonetheless lengthy,” he mentioned. “I forgot the best way to do it, I bought the certificates and every part.”
“Huge up In a position Expertise, it was depraved,” he added, noting that it took some time for his coursemates to recognise who he was. “In the direction of the tip, there was a pair dudes, I’ve been with them for weeks. They had been like, ‘Hey, oh my god, it’s you, hey man, he’s wealthy man, he’s well-known man. Proper on the finish is after they clocked it.”
On the finish of 2024, Dizzee returned to his day job, releasing the shock EP ‘I Invented Grime’, simply months after the discharge of his eighth studio album ‘Don’t Take It Private’. That file included verses from P Cash, BackRoad Gee, Not3s and D Double E, and boasted the lead single ‘What You Know About That’ with JME.
In different Dizzee Rascal information, the artist revealed earlier this yr that he was given the beat to Beyoncé‘s 2013 single ‘Partition’, however was pressured to offer it up as a result of he “couldn’t provide you with” something.
He was additionally introduced as one of many first names for the 2025 version of the Neighbourhood Weekender, showing alongside James and Stereophonics.
Dizzee celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of his hit album ‘Tongue N’ Cheek’ final yr, whereas he’s additionally remembered for his debut album ‘Boy In Da Nook’, which is extensively credited as bringing grime into the mainstream within the early ’00s. The rapper celebrated that file’s twentieth anniversary in a one-off gig at London’s The O2 in 2022, the place he carried out it in full.
Police are assessing a second video from a Kneecap gig, which purportedly reveals the group calling for the loss of life of Conservative MPs.
As reported by Sky News, the footage is believed to return from a present from November 2023 the place one of many West Belfast trio allegedly mentioned to the gang: “The one good Tory is a useless Tory. Kill your native MP.”
It follows the information from earlier this week that counter-terror police are assessing footage from a present at London’s O2 Kentish City in November 2024 that seems to indicate a band member shouting, “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”, whereas additionally displaying a Hezbollah flag.
Each Hamas and Hezbollah are proscribed terror organisations and it’s an offence below the Terrorism Act 2000 to “invite help for a proscribed organisation”.
Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap of Kneecap. CREDIT: Katja Ogrin/Redferns
Commenting on the second video, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police mentioned on Sunday (April 27): “We have been made conscious of a video on April 22, believed to be from an occasion in November 2024, and it has been referred to the counter-terrorism web referral unit for evaluation and to find out whether or not any additional police investigation could also be required.”
“We have now additionally been made conscious of one other video believed to be from an occasion in November 2023.” The evaluation of each clips is meant to “decide whether or not additional police investigation is required”.
NME has contacted the band’s representatives for remark.
In response to the information of the primary clip being assessed, Kneecap shared a publish on X of a graphic which learn, “18 Months Of Genocide Footage Not Beneath Investigation By UK Counter-Terror Police”, with the caption “some details.”
Kneecap have had run-ins with the Conservative Get together previously – final yr, they accused the then-government of making an attempt to “silence” them after their BPI funding was blocked.
The group alleged that the federal government had stopped the funding resulting from their provocative 2019 anti-DUP tour poster, which they claimed “pissed off the Tories”. Then, the courtroom dominated that the transfer was in reality unlawful, and Kneecap have obtained the £14,250 prize, which they distributed to 2 charities in Belfast.
Kneecap. Credit score: Joseph Bishop for NME
After the information of the primary police evaluation broke this week, Tory chief Kemi Badenoch additionally shared the live performance footage, telling her followers on X: “In authorities I blocked Kneecap getting taxpayer funding. Labour didn’t contest the authorized case the band introduced they usually walked away with £14,250 of OUR cash. Maybe now Labour see Kneecap brazenly glorifying evil terror teams, they may apologise for rolling over. However I doubt it.”
An anti-Tory sentiment additionally emerged of their controversial units at Coachella this month, the primary of which noticed them main the gang in a chant of “Maggie’s in a field”, referring to the late Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
The Coachella performances led to calls from Sharon Osbourne to revoke their working visas. The 2 units on the competition additionally reportedly left organisers “blindsided” resulting from their overtly political nature, together with exhibiting pro-Palestine projections on the display screen behind them and inspiring the viewers to chant “Free, Free Palestine”.
Kneecap have since known as the controversy “a coordinated smear marketing campaign” in opposition to their efforts in “exposing the continued genocide in opposition to the Palestinian individuals”.
“For over a yr, we’ve got used our reveals to name out the British and Irish governments’ complicity in struggle crimes. The current assaults in opposition to us, largely emanating from the US, are primarily based on deliberate distortions and falsehoods,” they mentioned, including that they’re “taking motion in opposition to a number of of those malicious efforts”.
“The rationale Kneecap is being focused is easy — we’re telling the reality, and our viewers is rising,” the assertion learn. “These attacking us wish to silence criticism of a mass slaughter. They weaponize false accusations of antisemitism to distract, confuse, and supply cowl for genocide,” citing “large numbers of Jewish individuals” who’re “outraged by this genocide simply as we’re”.
“What we care about is that governments of the international locations we carry out in are enabling a number of the most horrific crimes of our lifetimes — and we won’t keep silent. No media spin will change this,” they wrote.
“Our solely concern is the Palestinian individuals — the 20,000 murdered youngsters and counting.”
They praised the audiences at their reveals, saying that they “see by the lies” and “stand on the aspect of humanity and justice.”
“And that offers us hope,” they concluded.
DJ Provai from Kneecap at Coachella Competition at Empire Polo Membership on April 11, 2025 in Indio, California. (Picture by VALERIE MACON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
The group are reportedly now within the technique of securing a brand new sponsor for renewed US visas for his or her October tour after they have been dropped by their former sponsor and reserving agent Impartial Artist Group (IAG) earlier this week.
Kneecap have been on the quilt of NME in June 2024, the place they spoke about their dislike for violence. “Clearly I can’t converse for what occurred earlier than me,” mentioned Mo Chara, sharing his sympathy for what previous generations went by. “However we don’t help violence as that doesn’t make any sense any extra.”
Final yr, the band shared their ’10 guidelines to reside by’, which included: “Be outspoken, go away your mark and get up on your individuals. Get up for Palestine, and get up for oppressed individuals world wide.”
In line with this rule, in November, Bap raised over £30,000 for Gaza meals parcels by operating 10k a day on tour, the trio made headlines for refusing to take off their Palestine badges in an look on Eire’s Late Late Present, and organized a Gig for Gaza charity present alongside Primal Scream and Paul Weller.
Additionally in 2024, the band joined Large Assault, Nova Twins and extra in condemning the far-right riots throughout the UK following the Southport mass stabbings, and used their large set at Studying Competition 2024 to denounce anti-immigration riots and “that far-right shite”.
Two British MPs have been murdered previously 10 years – Labour’s Jo Cox in 2016 and Conservative David Amess in 2021.
Bruce Springsteen performed alongside a litany of music legends at an intimate occasion in New Jersey this weekend – watch footage under.
The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Middle organised an American Music Honors present at Monmouth College in West Lengthy Department, New Jersey on Saturday (April 26), the place an viewers of simply 700 received to witness the Boss jam alongside John Fogerty, Smokey Robinson, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, Darlene Love and Nora Guthrie.
Fogerty, Robinson and Morello had been receiving the American Music Honors on the occasion, in addition to Emmylou Harris and Joe Ely. Springsteen himself delivered speeches for Fogerty and Ely.
Springsteen and Fogerty went on to play the Creedence Clearwater Revival classics ‘Unhealthy Moon Rising’, ‘Proud Mary’ and ‘Lucky Son’, all of which you’ll be able to watch in fan-captured footage right here:
Springsteen and Motown legend Robinson then performed ‘Going To A Go-Go’ collectively, earlier than the Boss joined Browne for ‘Take It Simple’ and Morello for ‘The Ghost Of Tom Joad’ and ‘Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out’.
The night time drew to an in depth with all of the artists in attendance becoming a member of collectively on stage for a model of Woody Guthrie’s traditional ‘This Land Is Your Land’, the primary time Springsteen has performed the once-regular a part of his setlist since 2013.
Elsewhere, Springsteen is gearing as much as launch seven never-before-heard full albums – dubbed ‘Tracks II: The Misplaced Albums’ – on June 27. The gathering will comprise 83 songs which can “fill in wealthy chapters of Springsteen’s expansive profession timeline — whereas providing invaluable perception into his life and work as an artist.” The observe ‘Blind Spot’, shared earlier this month, is included.
On high of that, there may be additionally a companion set known as ‘Misplaced And Discovered: Alternatives From The Misplaced Albums’ that may characteristic 20 highlights from throughout the gathering. Discover the complete record of albums and their tracklists right here and visit here to pre-order.
In different Bruce Springsteen information, it was lately shared that the BBC have unveiled plans to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the legendary artist’s first UK live performance with a sequence of programmes.
The biopic of his life – particularly, the making of the 1982 album ‘Nebraska’ – can be due out earlier than the tip of the yr. It’s titled Ship Me From Nowhere and stars The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White within the central function.
Lana Del Rey was a visitor throughout Jelly Roll’s headline set at Stagecoach Competition this weekend – watch them duet on ‘Save Me’ under.
Jelly Roll topped the invoice on the Indio, California pageant on Saturday night time (April 26) and was joined by a substantial listing of company, together with Machine Gun Kelly, Alex Warren, Wiz Khalifa and Shaboozey.
It wasn’t till the closing tune of the set, nonetheless, that Del Rey made her look, duetting with Jelly Roll on his tune ‘Save Me’, initially launched on 2020 album ‘Self Medicated’.
“That is my favorite crooner of all time. Mrs. Lana Del Rey is with me tonight, y’all,” he mentioned to introduce her to the stage. Watch footage right here:
jelly roll introduced out lana and she or he appears to be like so stunning 😩 pic.twitter.com/75lrKMbJzH
Lana herself headlined the Friday night time at Stagecoach, the place she debuted ‘57.5’, a brand new tune from her upcoming album that included a line about kissing Morgan Wallen. Thus far, she has solely launched two tracks from her new country-inflected album: ‘Bluebird‘ and ‘Henry, Come On‘.
The upcoming album, which shall be her tenth, was introduced final yr, and was on the time titled ‘The Proper Individual Will Keep’, and earlier than that, ‘Lasso’. Marking the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd’, the report was earmarked for Could 21, however Del Rey has since warned followers the upcoming album is not going to “come on time” – and, every time it does, it’ll have a brand new title.
“I imply, you already know it’s not going to come back on time, proper?” the Grammy nominee mentioned in a since-deleted Instagram put up. “Like, ought to I even let you know that the identify modified once more?”
‘Henry, Come On’ additionally marked her first solo launch in two years, and follows final July’s collaboration with Quavo, ‘Powerful’. The singer spoke to NME in regards to the album final Could, and urged that the lyrics on the LP is perhaps lighter than her more moderen output.
“I’ve perhaps much less to say when it comes to any self-revealing issues like on ‘Tunnel’ or ‘Blue Bannisters’ or ‘Chemtrails Over The Nation Membership’, and simply extra melodic,” she mentioned. “Perhaps extra American Songbook model?”
Del Rey had beforehand mentioned the venture would arrive final October, later addressing the continued await the venture by saying she was following her instincts after feeling a “literal energetic pause”.
Elsewhere, the ‘Cherry’ artist is ready to embark on a UK and Eire stadium tour this summer time.
Following the announcement of big gigs in Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, Dublin and London and their subsequent sell-outs, big demand led to a second present within the UK capital being introduced.
‘Escapism’ by RAYE that includes 070 Shake has surpassed 1billion streams on Spotify.
READ MORE: RAYE: “I grew to become a ‘rent-a-verse’. Folks knew my songs, however they didn’t know me”
The musician was confirmed as having hit the milestone yesterday (April 27), two years after the observe’s preliminary launch. It’s the first music by both artist to succeed in the 1billion mark.
It comes after the music landed RAYE her first UK Quantity One single in 2023, which she advised NME was the “final validation” on the time, given the turbulent journey she’s been on inside the music business.
The observe comes from her 2023 breakthrough album ‘My twenty first Century Blues’, which has gone on to see the artist break information for her variety of wins on the 2024 BRIT Awards, carry out on the 97th Academy Awards earlier this 12 months, play on the principle phases at each Glastonbury and Studying, and rather more.
RAYE’s street to success has been rocky, with the multi-BRIT winner chatting with NME in 2022 about her label struggles, saying: “If you signal with a document label, technically they give you the results you want: you’re signing to an organization for them to work on your profession and take you to that subsequent stage.
“However as a girl, it simply doesn’t really feel like that. It feels such as you’re working for them. And you realize, a few of the issues I needed to put my physique via to even have the ability to that… it’s actually fairly unhappy.”
After calling out her former label Polydor for stopping her from releasing her debut album in 2021, RAYE parted methods with the label weeks later. She went on to launch her debut album independently in 2023, with NME calling it “daring, good and unapologetically her personal.”
Earlier this month, she revealed that she is engaged on new materials, however is feeling a way of stress given the large response to her final launch.
It comes after she advised followers in October that there can be “no second album any time quickly” after her writing books had been stolen alongside together with her automotive.
Going ahead, RAYE has various dwell exhibits deliberate for this summer season, together with a slot at Victoria Park in east London for All Factors East on Saturday, August 23. The Maccabees and Barry Can’t Swim have additionally been confirmed for subsequent 12 months’s pageant. Go to here for tickets.
She’s additionally up for 2 Ivor Novello awards for Greatest Track Musically and Lyrically with ‘Genesis’, and PRS for Music Most Carried out Work with ‘Prada’.
Earlier this 12 months, King Charles III shared his love of RAYE, and described the singer as “an excellent ambassador for British music”. The feedback got here as the royal shared a personally-curated playlist of his favorite songs on a one-off radio present final month, and recalled assembly the star.
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