87 m. ago London music concerts this week: Hot Chip, Vybz Kartel and Post Malone

Maddy Mussen rounds up the hottest music nights in London this week

Culture

1 hour ago Taylor Swift’s Eras tour helps fuel UK consumer spending on live music to record £6.7bn high

Report from Live shows spending £2bn higher than before Covid-19 shutdowns, although grassroots venues are still closing at an increasing rateUK consumer spending on live music events reached a record-breaking total of £6.68bn in 2024, up 9.5% on the previous year, fuelled in part by Taylor Swift’s blockbuster Eras tour.The report from Live (Live music Industry Venues and Entertainment), the recently formed body advocating for the British music industry’s interests before government, signals a full-bodied return from the effects of Covid-19. The figures are 28.2% higher than in 2022, when live music more or less resumed after the pandemic, and more than £2bn more than in 2019, the last fully functioning year for live music prior to the shutdown. Continue reading...

Economics

2 h. ago UK's first nightclub where you can 'skip the overpriced bar' to launch in Manchester

'It’s very important that anyone can come to a club'

Politics

2 h. ago Ed Sheeran confirms UK and Europe 2025 arena shows including huge Co

Ed Sheeran will play Paris, Munich, Coventry, Manchester and Dublin in 2025

Politics

2 h. ago Back to school season ushers in hunger for broadening musical horizons with 82 per cent of Scottish children interested in learning a musical instrument

New research from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) reveals that the public’s appetite to discover orchestral music has hit a record high - and, among school children in Scotland, the new academic year starts with a record number of children wanting to learn a musical instrument.

Culture

3 h. ago BREAKING: Ed Sheeran announces huge arena tour – with just two UK dates

Ed Sheeran has announced he's hitting the road again with his latest album, Play, but the British icon will only play two dates in his home country

Politics

3 h. ago Jack Osbourne hits back with sweary rant at Roger Waters after harsh Ozzy comments

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has admitted he 'couldn't care less' about the late Ozzy Osbourne's music or the music he made with Black Sabbath.

Events

3 h. ago Sabrina Carpenter strips to sheer lingerie as she poses cheekily in bald cap

Sabrina Carpenter has been taking the world by storm her her new music dropping and her sensational style - but this time she'd posed for the camera in a bald cap. Bizarre, right?!

Politics

3 h. ago Springholm basks in sunshine as village comes together for Springholm Show

The event, which followed the popular gala and race night earlier in the summer, proved to be a day of colour, music, laughter, and community spirit.

Politics

3 h. ago Novak Djokovic’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ celebration dance at US Open explained

Novak Djokovic has celebrated beating Taylor Fritz in the US Open quarterfinals with some dance moves to music from the hit movie KPop Demon Hunters that were taught to him by his daughter, Tara

Culture

4 h. ago Jack Osbourne slams ‘pathetic’ Roger Waters for disparaging Ozzy remarks

Pink Floyd musician drew the ire of the Black Sabbath frontman’s son, after he made a series of dismissive comments about the late rocker

Politics

4 h. ago Sting faces £1.5m lawsuit from former The Police bandmates over royalties

Guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland claim they never got songwriting credit

Economics

4 h. ago This is the type of music you should play to help with car sickness

Soft and joyful music produced the best recovery effects, while sad music was less effective than doing nothing at all

Politics

5 h. ago Pop band Only the Poets announce Brixton Academy show with £1 tickets

Group wanted to make sure show was ‘open to everyone’ amid cost-of-living crisis and skyrocketing prices for in-demand tours

Economics

5 h. ago Woman, 28, 'picking music for her funeral' a year after 'perfect' wedding

'She's communicating with a whiteboard and keeps writing 'I'm 28, I don't want to die'

Politics

7 h. ago In Yemen as in Gaza, bombs and starvation are stealing the lives of our children | Elham Al

As a mother living in Sana’a, I’ve seen how war devastates hopes, dreams and futures, and I share the desperation of Gaza’s mothers“Mom, why are they bombing us?” my oldest daughter asked me in 2019, as the Saudi coalition committed crimes with US weapons. Why? This is the eternal question.When the western-backed, Saudi-led military campaign began in March 2015, I started compiling a mental list of all the ways the war was scorching the concept of childhood in Yemen. How war takes parents away from their children, and our children away from us. How war, not time alone, ages our children. Continue reading...

Events

7 h. ago Novak Djokovic does a 'KPop Demon Hunters' dance at the US Open to celebrate his daughter's birthday

Novak Djokovic has celebrated beating Taylor Fritz in the U.S. Open quarterfinals with some dance moves to music from the hit movie “KPop Demon Hunters” that were taught to him by his daughter, Tara

Culture

12 h. ago New blow for Prince Harry revealed as ANOTHER key staff member quits. Shock departure revealed by RICHARD EDEN

Harry launched Travalyst in 2019 to make tourism more environmentally friendly. However, he and Meghan soon faced accusations of hypocrisy because of their use of gas-guzzling private jets.

Politics

12 h. ago US House committee releases more than 33,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files

Files appear to contain information already in public domain as calls grow for release of all pertinent documents The US House of Representatives oversight committee on Tuesday released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from the department of justice.The release comes as the Trump administration has been embroiled in months of controversy over its decision not to release additional files in the case. Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and was alleged to have abused hundreds of girls. Continue reading...

Politics

13 h. ago Gorillaz bring out De La Soul while playing Plastic Beach in full

Last Saturday saw the band play their acclaimed second album Demon Days in full.

Politics