9 h. ago Ed Sheeran gets cosy with Bridgerton's Phoebe Dynevor in sweet music video tribute to Cherry

The global superstar filmed a cosy music video with this Bridgerton star for new song Camera ahead of the release of his highly anticipated album Play, which has been released today

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11 h. ago Self Esteem to star as raging rock star in revival of David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles

Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a ‘landmark’ 50th anniversary production in London in MarchFifty years after Helen Mirren originated the role, Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem is to play a raging rock star in a West End revival of Teeth ’n’ Smiles by David Hare.It will take Taylor back to the Duke of York’s theatre, where she performed a four-night “theatrical presentation” of her third album, A Complicated Woman, in April. In Hare’s 1975 play she takes the lead role of a singer, Maggie, in an imploding band who put on a concert for a Cambridge University May ball at the end of the 1960s. The mood is summed up by the band’s closing number, Last Orders on the Titanic. Taylor will contribute additional music and lyrics to original song by the brothers Nick and Tony Bicât respectively. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Has Ed Sheeran been using Chat GPT to write his cheesy lyrics? TIM DE LISLE gives a limp 2 stars to new album Play

Now Sheeran has a new album, Play. First, the good news: it's better than Autumn Variations. It's brisk and buoyant, which is impressive as he calls it 'a direct response to the darkest period of my life'.

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23 h. ago If this is Ed Sheeran's UK swansong, then he's heading to America with a bang... ADRIAN THRILLS reviews his new album Play

Change is clearly in the air - and the sense of flux extends to his eighth album, Play, touted as a return to 'big pop' after 2023's folky detours.

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4 d. ago What to Stream: Ed Sheeran, 'Only Murders in the Building,' Charlie Sheen doc and Borderlands 4

“Only Murders in the Building” returning for its fifth season on Hulu and Ed Sheeran coming back with the new pop album “Play” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

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9 d. 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

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1 week 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.

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1 week ago Gorillaz joined by special guests as they play Demon Days album in full

The band are playing four shows at the Copper Box Arena on east London’s Olympic Park.

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1 week ago Watch Gorillaz play debut album in full as they kick off London residency

Watch Gorillaz play debut album in full as they kick off London residency  NME

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2 w. ago Suede play new album 'Antidepressants' in full alongside fan favourites and rarities at London's Southbank Centre

Suede play new album 'Antidepressants' in full alongside fan favourites and rarities at London's Southbank Centre  NME

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3 w. ago Do you remember the first time? Why Britpop nostalgia just won’t go away

Whether it’s Robbie Williams’ new album, a Blur v Oasis play or Britpop romance novels, Alex James and others explain why we’re all still in thrall to the m ad-fer-it 90sIt is a Tuesday evening, and in the suitably 1990s environs of Soho’s Groucho Club, Robbie Williams, resplendent in pair of dungarees, is in the process of launching his new album. It’s called Britpop, features some songs co-written with Gaz Coombes of Supergrass, and is, he attests, “the album that I wanted to write and release after I left Take That in 1995”. This was the brief period where he attempted to establish himself as an adjunct to the mid-90s wave of hugely successful UK alt-rock, releasing a string of audibly Oasis-influenced solo singles, palling around Glastonbury with the Gallaghers and temporarily employing one of the band’s inner circle, Creation Records’ former managing director Tim Abbot, as his manager. “I’ve been musically aimless for a little while,” Williams said to the assembled press. “I’ve...

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