Category: Music

Wireless Festival is back for 2024, and it’s going to be the biggest year yet. The annual hip-hop event is taking place at Finsbury Park in London later on this year, and the 50,000 attendees are going to have a fantastic weekend with the newly announced headliners. Wireless 2024 will be attended by Nicki Minaj, 21 Savage, J Hus, Doja Cat and Future. As if that wasn’t enough, a huge amount of artists were also confirmed to join the line-up, including Sean Paul, Ragz Originale, Ruger and many more. This is the first announcement for the upcoming Wireless Festival 2024 ... Read more

Speaking to Guldemond is fascinating. It’s profoundly easy to open up to him. Before long, I felt as if I were the one being interviewed. We chit-chatted about our lives, and I was struck by how happy he was to delve into the fringes of his deepened psyche with a stranger. “Life is short and life is good,” he shrugged. “It’s awe-inspiring. You know, whether or not you’re going through a good or hard time… to be here is absolutely fascinating. And awe-inspiring.” Although Guldemond has been travelling the world and playing music to the masses for decades, he admitted ... Read more

In the last 18 months, there have been two major Elvis Presley movies released by Hollywood. Baz Luhrmann’s Graceland-approved Elvis movie received Oscar nominations after its 2022 release. Meanwhile, Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, based on the memoir of The King’s ex-wife, is also receiving awards buzz. Fans may be split in their opinions on both of the movies but now Elvis’ brother has given his verdict on the two films. Not everyone knows it, but The King was an identical twin. Tragically, Jesse Garon Presley was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before he the future star was. Yet, later in life, Elvis ... Read more

Shane MacGowan had an estate worth £4.3million when he died last month. The Pogues frontman, who would have turned 66 on Christmas Day, raked in most of his fortune in royalties from the band’s much-loved 1988 festive hit Fairytale of New York. The song made him £216,000 to £260,000 a year, according to Business Plus. His net worth included a flat in Dublin that he shared with wife Victoria Mary Clarke. This year Fairytale royalties are expected to be even higher after fans campaigned for it to become this year’s Christmas No1. It only reached No6 in the festive charts, ... Read more

During his two decades living at Graceland, Elvis Presley would celebrate Christmas with his inner circle and their families in a private party that fans can only imagine – until now. His cousin Billy Smith, who is one of the only people left alive who knew the real King, has previously shared incredible memories of what it was like to enjoy the holiday season with the star. In an unearthed interview, the last surviving original Memphis Mafia member and his wife Jo started off by describing the festive decorations all over the mansion. Billy said: “Golly. it was almost like ... Read more

Having toured Australia and Mexico City, Sir Paul McCartney’s Got Back world tour has now arrived in Brazil for eight huge stadium shows across the country. But ahead of those, The Beatles legend performed to just a few hundred lucky fans in Brasília’s Club do Choro last night. The intimate gig marked the 81-year-old’s first appearance in Brazil in almost five years, with it being his smallest-ever show in the Southern Hemisphere. Tickets sold out in just minutes for the mini concert which kicked off with A Hard Day’s Night, as captured in the official footage below. For almost two ... Read more

Sir Brian May is best known for being Queen’s guitarist but last year made his professional acting debut in CBBC’s Andy and the Band, as the Godfather of Rock. Speaking previously with Express.co.uk the 76-year-old said: “I actually got quite emotional just reading the script; I got quite kind of teary. So I thought, ‘No, I have to do this’. “The real-life band, Andy and the Odd Socks are all about anti-bullying, they’re all about recognising that every kid is different and we should all be proud of our differences. “And that’s why they’re called the Odd Socks; that’s why ... Read more

Today at 2pm GMT, the final song by The Beatles will be released worldwide. Now and Then was written and recorded as a demo by John Lennon on tape in his New York City apartment before his death in 1980. During the 1990s, the three surviving Beatles attempted to complete it as a song by the whole band. However, it proved particularly difficult as Lennon was hidden away on the tape recovered by Yoko Ono. In Peter Jackson’s accompanying mini-documentary, which debuts this evening, Sir Paul McCartney said: “On John’s demo tape the piano was a little hard to hear. ... Read more

Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers (Image: Getty) When he was ten, Jean-Jacques Burnel was beaten up on his way home by an older boy from a local secondary school. “He punched me again and again in front of my friends. He wasn’t going to stop. He was kneeling on me telling me to give up. I said, ‘No, no’,” the Stranglers bassist recalls. His ‘crime’ was to have French parents. When Burnel got home, his father Roger, a chef, put a cold steak on his bruises and told him, “Right, that’s it, you’re going to box.” Now 71 and a ... Read more

Download Festival 2023 was an enormous success, earlier this year. The monumental event was filled with four nights of show-stopping music, headlined by Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon, and two epic nights from Metallica. Planning has already begun for the next year’s weekend of fun, and we have all the latest information you need. Although Download Festival 2024 bosses have not yet released any details just yet, tickets are available for the festival right now. If you want to lock in your tickets for Download Festival 2024 right now, scroll down to choose from the various ticket options currently available – ... Read more