5 h. ago Amy Macdonald to perform surprise free pop up set in Glasgow to mark new album tour dates

The chart-topping Scots singer’s new single Is This What You’ve Been Waiting For? premiered on BBC Radio 2’s Scott Mills show this morning.

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5 d. ago The biggest musical tours still to come to the UK throughout 2025

What’s still to come from the world of music as we reach the sunnier seasons in 2025?

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7 d. ago BBC Gladiators Live 2025 UK tour dates, venues, tickets and presale information

Gladiators Live will take over arenas across the UK starting this November, with the likes of Jet, Wolf, and Saracen set to appear in the flesh during the action-packed shows.

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7 d. ago The Kooks: beloved indie group announce huge six date arena tour for 2025

Not content with festival appearances this year, The Kooks are set for an arena tour later this year

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7 d. ago The Kooks announce UK 2025 arena tour including Manchester Co

The British indie icons will head out on their ‘Never/Know’ tour in October with six dates across the UK

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7 d. ago Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah

Hannah’s second feature about her husband follows him on tour, but the offstage footage is rather less compelling than the musicDaryl Hannah has made another film (after Paradox in 2018) about her musician husband Neil Young; this one is about his recent 15-date solo tour of outdoor arenas on the US west coast. It works best when the living legend is on stage, cheerfully and unselfconsciously performing just like it’s 1972 and regaling the whooping audience with his comments: “Steve Stills gave me this guitar – I wrote a lot of songs on this sucker!”; “I’m so happy I was here before AI was born!” He really is utterly open and unpretentious.But the movie itself tests the fanbase loyalty to the limits by being pointlessly and uninterestingly shot in arthouse black-and-white (though it exasperatingly bleeds out into colour over the closing credits) and by including an awful lot of material on the tour bus which is – how to put this? – not very interesting. Neil likes to ride up front w...

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8 d. ago The love that dare not speak its name: why I’m coming out as a gay man who loves Taylor Swift | Joe Stone

She is tragically mainstream, allergic to ‘serving’ on the red carpet and certainly hasn’t thrived against the odds. It’s the antithesis of gay culture – so why do I love her?As a self-evidently gay man, I’ve generally been spared the awkwardness of coming out. That was, until I became a Swiftie. In recent years I have become adept at gauging the temperature of a room before revealing my predilection. Is this a safe space? Will I be sidelined or treated as a pervert because of who I choose to love? Should I lie, or just be evasive? I want to live authentically, but at what cost?Taylor Swift is at once the closest thing we have to a monoculture and the most divisive pop star of modern times. As a self-identified Swiftie, I believe her gift lies in the ability to take hyper-specific experiences and render them universal. I’ve never performed a 149-date world tour while reeling from the heartbreak of having been ghosted by Matty Healy of the 1975, but listening to I Can Do It With a Br...

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8 d. ago Iconic rock band will only return to Glastonbury Festival in 'life or death' situation

It comes after the band announced a six-date UK tour including one night at Manchester Co-Op Live

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1 week ago Katy Perry's daughter Daisy, 4, given special job on 'gruelling' world tour

With an 84-date world tour filling up most of her 2025, Katy Perry reflected on how much she adores her little girl, and how she plans to master the tricky balance of parenting and performing

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1 week ago Primark's new 'Mamma Mia' summer homeware collection has shoppers 'obsessed'

Mamma Mia fans love Primark's new summer-ready homeware collection that looks like it's straight off a film set

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1 week ago Pulp announce their first album in 24 years: ‘We hope you enjoy the music’

Britpop legends will support the album with a summer arena tour concluding in their hometown of Sheffield

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2 w. ago Mac DeMarco announces six UK tour dates as part of European Tour

The Canadian performer has also suggest a new album is imminent in 2025

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2 w. ago The Winner (Strand Palace Hotel) Takes It All With Their Mamma Mia! Themed Afternoon Tea

The Winner (Strand Palace Hotel) Takes It All With Their Mamma Mia! Themed Afternoon Tea - Our Review  Seen in The City

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2 w. ago ‘The fighter still remains’: Paul Simon kicks off comeback tour in New Orleans

The 83-year-old played his first date of an intimate 20-city tour after quitting live performances back in 2018Paul Simon largely avoided mention of the health problems that had kept him off the road for the previous seven years when the storied singer-songwriter kicked off his return – and evident farewell – tour in New Orleans on Friday.Yet, having strummed and crooned his way through some of his catalogue’s more discreet entries, and having reached a part where he treated the audience to a closing salvo of three of his mega hits, Simon made apparent reference to those issues by letting some lyrics from The Boxer hang in the air. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago FKA Twigs pulls out of Coachella last minute as angry fans brand her 'unprofessional'

Singer songwriter FKA Twigs announced the news on social media, as the Cellophane songstress shared a statement to cancel her Coachella appearance and some tour dates

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2 w. ago Brooklyn Beckham reveals which iconic song his mother Victoria was listening to while giving birth to him

The aspiring chef, 26, sent older and younger fans into frenzy after telling the Spice Girl icon, 50, was blasting out to an Abba's song from their 1999 musical Mamma Mia!.

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2 w. ago The Masked Singer star 'absolutely gutted' to cancel show over health setback

Gabrielle, known for hits such as Dreams, admitted she had no choice but to cancel a tour date in Newcastle as she 'wouldn't be able' to put on a good enough show due to illness

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2 w. ago Muriel’s Wedding review – Toni Collette is outstanding in the film that brought Abba back

Brilliantly led by Collette, PJ Hogan’s 1994 story of a lovable loser was the feelgood sensation that rescued the band’s reputation – how can you resist it?When writer-director PJ Hogan made Muriel’s Wedding in 1994, he surely knew he had struck feelgood-movie gold. But maybe he didn’t realise he had personally authored a pivotal moment in Abbamania’s global history: the momentous transitional phase between the band being taboo-naff and being world-conqueringly beloved. (Maybe Mr Hogan should be getting a cut of the Mamma Mia! musicals and the Abba Voyage live show.) Hogan also gave us our first real view of Toni Collette who started the way she meant to go on: being outstanding in everything she is in.But back in 1994, it was still appropriate that a loser – albeit a lovable loser – could be depicted as an Abba fan; but this movie gets something right that the endless pedantic jukebox musicals that came later get wrong. This crucial pro-Abba film is not itself obsessed with Abba an...

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3 w. ago Coldplay 2025 tickets and the cheapest tour dates available now

Coldplay will embark on their enormous Music Of The Spheres tour this summer, which will see the band play 10 shows at London's Wembley Stadium, as well as two dates in Hull.

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3 w. ago Bastille tickets and how to buy access to Utilita Arena gig for 2025 tour

Bastille's From All Sides tour will see them play their biggest shows to date - here's how you can get tickets to see them live in 2025 through resale websites after general onsale came to an end.

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