55 h. ago Sebastian Tounekti declares Celtic will go 'all in' on transfer as Hammarby release deal timeline

The clock is ticking for the Hoops to bring in the wide man from the Swedish side before the window slams shut

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8 d. ago Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing review – candy

A garbled story of metaverse musicians based on a mobile game leaves its audience little to grasp hold ofEven by the standards of franchise anime that caters to the faithful and drops newcomers in blind, this is particularly incomprehensible. Based on the mobile game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!, it features a barely characterised blur of wannabe musicians and actors who ascribe Manhattan Project importance to writing syrupy J-pop. As they interact with virtual counterparts in metaverses called “Sekai” created from users’ emotions, the film is like The Matrix if Neo had huffed a nitrous oxide canister before having every edition of Pop Idol downloaded into his cranium.One of the virtual pop stars, a rogue version of Hatsune Miku (voiced by Saki Fuijta), keeps invading high-school kids’ mobile phones and flatscreens, begging for help. Apparently issuing from a Sekai created by the emo angst of everyone about to give up on their creative ambitions, she is hoping to connect with these...

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1 week ago Bands boycott music festival after Irish group was hauled off stage following pro

The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Portsmouth music festival following Friday's incident.

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1 week ago Irish band are hauled off stage at UK festival after starting pro

An Irish folk music band were pulled off stage at a UK festival after starting a pro-Palestine chant.

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1 week ago Rutherglen woman clocks in to help bring 9 to 5: The Musical to the stage

Michelle Lynch is vice-president of one of Glasgow’s most beloved amateur theatre groups, The Minerva Club.

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1 week ago The Rocky Horror Picture Show review – the campfest that became a cultural colossus

As the all-singing, all-conquering horror-schlocker celebrates its 50th birthday, the genuine one-off retains all its raucous, raunchy, riotous joyThe Rocky Horror Picture Show is now 50 years old, a B-picture horror-schlocker campfest extravaganza based on Richard O’Brien’s original stage musical from 1973; it has carried on as an international theatrical touring phenomenon ever since. That live show, with the vital element of regular audience participation and dress-up, may in fact now have a bit more energy and point than the movie itself, which (whisper it) perhaps suffers a few longueurs.The undoubted star is the sonorous and feline Tim Curry playing Dr Frank-N-Furter, a vampirically queer alien sex god, proselytising here on Earth for borderless pleasure and describing himself as a “sweet transvestite transsexual from Transylvania”. Dr Furter toys with the affections of the many followers and servants at his giant castle in middle America, including his butler Riff-Raff (playe...

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1 week ago Kilmarnock sisters will share the stage at The King’s Theatre new production Shrek the Musical

For Niamh and Freya Lee, October will mark not just another show, but a shared milestone in their young careers

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2 w. ago ‘I got a nosebleed in minutes!’ How the Wedding Present’s indie banger classics inspired a musical

They lit up the 80s and 90s with abrasive tracks that were like kitchen-sink dramas. But can the Wedding Present’s acerbic songs work on stage? We meet the team making it happen – and the ‘rock god’ who penned the hitsIn 2009, Matt Aston was watching the Wedding Present frontman David Gedge perform a “bizarre and brilliant” gig with the BBC Big Band when he was struck by a notion: that the combination of the singer’s conversational lyrics and brassy, orchestrated new arrangements felt a bit like, well, watching a musical.“I parked the idea,” says Aston, a theatre director and writer. “Then some time later, I saw David’s other band Cinerama with a 16-piece orchestra and thought, ‘This could be musical theatre!’” Aston had had a few drinks and remembers sitting afterwards, trying to convince his mate – screenwriter and playwright William Ivory, who hadn’t been drinking – that this wasn’t the daftest idea ever. “Billy said, ‘You can’t make a musical out of Wedding Present lyrics. It’s ...

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2 w. ago Global music icon announced as huge headliner for Manchester Pride

This year's event will feature some new additions and tweaks to previous years, with the inclusion of new stage areas which will host some of the biggest names in music

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2 w. ago Jack Savoretti Kelvingrove Bandstand Stage Times: Glasgow set times, support, weather forecast, tickets, setlist

The singer is playing a sold out gig in Glasgow this week.

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2 w. ago ‘I have to believe I deserve to be here’: ‘Tesco TikToker’ Hannah Lowther on her path to West End stardom

The up-and-coming musical theatre star’s online audience of 1.2 million has been crucial in scoring her major roles. Her career is part of a shift in the industry towards performers with social media clout – but not everyone is happyIf you’re on TikTok, you’ll probably recognise Hannah Lowther. Known affectionately as the “Tesco TikToker”, she found viral fame during lockdown by filming herself singing and dancing in the aisles of the supermarket during her shifts there.“I got 10,000 views on a video and I thought: OK, that’s it, I’m famous, and I just never let it go,” the 27-year-old laughs. Since then, Lowther has built an audience of 1.2 million followers and leveraged her social media presence into a starry stage career, landing roles in West End musicals including Heathers and Six. “At the back of my mind, I was thinking: You know what? Maybe this could help me one day.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Billy Ocean Glasgow Kelvingrove Bandstand Stage Times: Gig set times, support, weather forecast, tickets, setlist

One of the world’s biggest singing stars is in Scotland this week.

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3 w. ago North Koreans ‘worked like slaves’ to make up for Russian losses in Ukraine – report

Defectors describe 18-hour shifts, violence from managers and round-the-clock surveillance as Moscow bypasses UN ban to bring in labourers

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3 w. ago Stiff Little Fingers Kelvingrove Bandstand Stage Times: Glasgow gig set times, support, weather forecast, tickets, setlist

A legendary punk band are playing Glasgow this week.

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3 w. ago Music icon stops concert to shame parent for 'irresponsible' act in front of crowd of 26,000 fans

The music icon, 31, took to the stage at Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City last week for his + Pretty + Dirty World Tour.

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3 w. ago Tim Minchin looks back: ‘Entertainers say we want to change the world, but really we just enjoy being clapped’

The comedian on his sickly childhood, what made him leave his home town and his Matilda-induced anxietyBorn in 1975 in Northampton and raised in Perth, Australia, Tim Minchin is a musician, comedian, actor, writer and director. Starting out in musical theatre, he turned to comedy in 2003, winning the 2005 Perrier best newcomer at the fringe. In 2008, the Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned him to write music and lyrics for a stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda – it has since won seven Olivier awards and four Tonys. He is married with two children and lives in Sydney. His new album, Tim Minchin Time Machine, is out now. Matilda the Musical is playing in the UK and Ireland.As photos were so rare in the 80s, compared with now, there’s a formality to my physicality here. I look proud, but as I didn’t like primary school, I would have been unhappy that it was time to go to class. I found the whole school experience very scary. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Liam Scales urges Celtic transfer calm as defender insists he's seen enough to know one thing already

Brendan Rodgers is desperate to bring in attacking reinforcements with the clock ticking on the Champions League play-off deadline.

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3 w. ago Man gets up on stage for impromptu performance with band, then people realise who it is

An unexpected appearance from a legendary performer who has won Grammy Awards and Oscars has stunned members of the public, who were thrilled when they realised who it was

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