Category: Music

A guaranteed electric atmosphere, a production like no other and three hours of incredible performance, this is exactly what to expect if you’re looking at getting tickets to Coldplay’s 2025 UK tour. From someone who was lucky enough to go to their 2023 Music of the Sphere’s show in Manchester, you won’t regret adding a London Wembley or Hull show to your list. With the matching tour namesake in tow, Coldplay will be back in the UK with an unmatched 10-show run at London’s Wembley Stadium, as well as two highlight shows in Hull (a location puzzling to some, but ... Read more

Aside from being a music icon, Elvis Presley was also a movie star who was a big fan of Hollywood films. According to his ex-wife Priscilla Presley, some of his favourite movies included It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, Mr Skeffington, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Wuthering Heights and Fredric March’s Les Misérables. Writing in her autobiography Elvis and Me, she also noted: “We cried ourselves to sleep over The Way of All Flesh, which concerns a banker who plans to carry a large sum of money out of state, only to discover upon awakening the following morning ... Read more

On September 5, 1946, a future music icon called Farrokh Bulsara was born in Zanzibar to his Parsi parents. Taking on the stage name of Freddie Mercury, he would go on to become one of the greatest singers in the history of rock as the frontman of Queen. Tragically, he died at just 45 in 1991 from complications of AIDS, which he was diagnosed with in 1987. Today would have been Freddie’s 78th birthday and his old pal and Queen bandmate Roger Taylor has paid tribute. The Queen drummer posted a number of black and white photos having fun with ... Read more

Aside from his rock music career as Queen guitarist and his doctorate in astrophysics, Sir Brian May is a passionate animal rights campaigner. His new documentary Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me airs on BBC Two this evening, documenting new scientific research into fighting bovine tuberculosis. The 77-year-old has worked with farmers to find a solution for effectively tackling the disease in cows that many believe is spread by badgers. As a result, hundreds of thousands of the animals have been culled in the last few decades. Backed by what he claims is new evidence, May strongly believes ... Read more

This year’s Reading & Leeds Festivals promise to be some of the biggest in history. On top of being massive in scale, 2024’s line-up is monolithic. With the likes of Blink 182, Fred Again and Lana Del Rey headlining, this is certainly going to be one to remember. On top of that, there are some extremely exciting acts dotted across the weekend, including Liam Gallagher, Neck Deep, Spiritbox, Fontaines, DC and many more. The massive weekender, taking place simultaneously in two British cities, begins Friday, August 23, 2024, and runs through to Sunday, August 25, 2024. And, although tickets were ... Read more

Before her sudden death last year, Lisa Marie Presley had been working on a “raw” and “vulnerable” autobiography with help from her daughter Riley Keough. The highly-anticipated work will delve into the late star’s childhood with her father Elvis Presley, who died when she was just nine, to her four failed marriages including to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage. No doubt her story will have plenty of highs too amid the difficulties of fame and the tragedy of her son Benjamin’s death at just 27. The upcoming book titled From Here To The Great Unknown is set to be published on ... Read more

Bob Dylan is finally coming back to the UK. It was just announced that this November, beginning on Friday 1st, the End of the Line singer will be hitting the UK’s biggest and best venues on his Rough and Rowdy Ways 2024 Tour. Not only will he be hitting Bournemouth, Liverpool and Edinburgh – as well as some other massive British cities – but Dylan will be finishing his tour in London with some extremely special shows. His final three gigs will take place at London’s Royal Albert Hall, from Tuesday, November 12, to Thursday, November 14. These shows promise ... Read more

Your eyes are not deceiving you: The Boss is finally returning to the UK. Later this month, Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band will finally be making their way to London to play two enormous shows at London’s Wembley Stadium. The exceptional 90,000-capacity venue has almost sold out over two nights as Springsteen descends onto the capital for the first time since 2023. Tickets were first released last year, and most of them sold out extremely quickly. But that doesn’t mean it’s hopeless for fans who have not yet grabbed tickets. You can still get involved this month when ... Read more

Last year, The Beatles topped the UK chart with their final song, Now and Then, featuring the recorded singing of John Lennon. Before that, the Fab Four hadn’t hit No 1 since 1969’s The Ballad of John and Yoko. And now a Paul McCartney Beatles classic could well hit the top spot in the UK singles chart this summer. Coral bookmakers have announced that Hey Jude has gone from 8-1 to 2-1 after being adopted by England football fans as their anthem for the 2024 Euros. McCartney wrote the 1968 single to comfort Julian Lennon, John Lennon’s eldest son after ... Read more

A “once in a generation” opportunity to revive Britain’s dying grassroots music venue scene must be seized by political parties vying to be elected at the forthcoming General Election to save the sector from extinction. The Music Venue Trust today (Tue) publishes a report urging leaders to “seize the moment” by adopting key demands of their ‘A Manifesto for Grassroots Music’, which sets out the urgent action steps needed to be taken in order to stem the current closure  rate of one venue a week. The report, which is being sent to every prospective MP across the country, emphasises the ... Read more