Stefanos Tsitsipas stormed into the third round at Indian Wells for the first time in his career on Sunday, as the second seed beat Spaniard Pedro Martinez 6-2 6-4 under lights to set up a clash with Fabio Fognini. The Greek broke serve to take a 2-0 lead in the opening set which he claimed […]
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Lewis Hamilton said he was not furious with his team after their pit strategy cost him a podium finish at Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix, saying his anger over the radio came from the heat of the moment while jostling for position. The seven-time world champion, who started 11th on the grid due to engine penalties, […]
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Bryan Adams has shared details of UK tour in support of his new album ‘So Happy It Hurts’, which is due for release in March.
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The dates take in some previously announced UK shows for summer 2022 which include a closing show at Cardiff Castle on July 11. The Canadian musician will now play an extra 12 dates that kick off in May at the Brighton Centre on Friday 13.
Tickets for the 12 new shows go on sale this Friday (October 15) at 9am BST here.
Bryan Adams performing live. Credit: Press.
Bryan Adams UK tour dates 2022:
MAY
Friday 13 – Brighton, Brighton Centre
Saturday 14 – Birmingham, Utilita Arena
Sunday 15 – Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena
Tuesday 17 – Manchester, AO Arena
Wednesday 18 – Liverpool, M&S Bank Arena
Friday 20 – Newcastle, Utilita Arena
Sunday 22 – Aberdeen, P&J Live Arena
Monday 23 – Glasgow, SSE Arena
Wednesday 25 – Hull, Bonus Arena
Thursday 26 – London, The O2 Arena
JUNE
Wednesday 29 – Cornwall, Eden Sessions
JULY
Friday 1 – Scarborough, Open Air Theatre
Saturday 2 – Widnes, Halton Stadium
Sunday 3 – Telford, QE2 Arena
Tuesday 5 –Durham, Emirates Riverside
Wednesday 6 – Kelso, Floors Castle
Friday 8 – Norwich, Blickling Estate
Saturday 9 – Cornbury Music Festival
Sunday 10 – Leeds, Harewood House
Monday 11 – Cardiff, Cardiff Castle
The news follows concert delays owing to the coronavirus pandemic. In May, Adams rescheduled a number of the outdoor UK gigs and cancelled some including at Exeter’s Powderham Arena and Canterbury’s Spitfire Showground.
Previously, Adams had also moved a series of indoor shows in Aberdeen and Hull as well as his residency at London’s Royal Albert Hall to May 2022. Some details have since changed, including his London show, which is now happening at The O2 Arena.
‘So Happy It Hurts’ will be the veteran rock star’s 15th studio album to date. it follows 2019’s ‘Shine A Light’.
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Bury Tomorrow frontman Dani Winter-Bates has presented a new short film made with Coronation Street to examine hate crimes.
Coronation Street aired a recent storyline in which a goth called Nina Lucas was targeted by a gang who branded her a “freak” and beat her boyfriend Seb Franklin to death. The writing team worked closely with the Sophie Lancaster Foundation to deal sensitively with the issue after the real-life murder in 2007 of a young woman in similar circumstances.
Winter-Bates connected with Coronation Street after programme makers followed him on social media and the parties began talking about wanting to explore hate and discrimination against sub cultures.
The singer, who has fronted the metalcore band Bury Tomorrow since 2006, said he was attacked badly at a bus stop when he was 15 for the way he looked, which led him to shave his hair afterwards in an attempt to erase his identity. His attacker was later jailed for ABH.
He told Metro of working on Inside Stories, which sees him chat to the cast of the Coronation Street storyline: “I just respect how they’re handling social media at the moment there’s not negligence and like, ‘Oh here’s a storyline.’ They’re really active in monitoring the discussions and knowing what is not acceptable and I love and accept that and it drove me to want to be a part of it.”
It meant that Winter-Bates, who is a mental health advocate as well as an NHS worker, was more than happy to helm the project that he created the premise for, presented and also submitted spoken word segments for.
He added to Metro that he was keen to highlight that Inside Stories is aimed at those with a lack of understanding towards sub culture discrimination, and to those who might harbour a bigotry that could lead to violence.
“It’s about fundamentally understanding the power of dialogue,” he said. “It is so so important and being able to have uncomfortable conversations is the only way we can grow and certainly the only way you can reduce stigma, so the more we can talk about deeper, the better.
“It’s a way of exploring difficult journeys and also it’s a way of looking at, maybe people who are viewing it, to say you know if you’ve done this in the past, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to do that in the future.”
Viewers can head here for advice and guidance about hate crimes.
In other news, Bury Tomorrow have been confirmed for Bloodstock Open Air 2022.
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MANILA, Philippines — Rebisco-Philippines suffered a heartbreaking loss to Diamond Food, 34-36, 26-24, 28-26, 19-25, 12-15, in the 2021 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship Monday at Terminal Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. With the loss, the Filipinos wrapped up pool play with a 0-4 record and will play in the classification phase for ninth to […]
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The Turkish Grand Prix may have been a dull, processional race but it was also a taut game of worn-tire poker and after it ended, the players continued to try to bluff each other. With six of the 21 rounds to race, Max Verstappen of Red Bull has retaken the lead in the drivers’ championship […]
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Morrissey had kind words for Blossoms and Rick Astley‘s joint shows covering old The Smiths classics.
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The singer, who fronted the band between 1982 and 1987, said that he was grateful for the acts’ tributes to his former band. Blossoms and Rick Astley performed the renditions at Manchester’s Albert Hall on Friday (October 8) and at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on Saturday (October 9).
Morrissey wrote on his website: “My sincere thanks to Rick and the Blossoms for their recent recentness. Anything that generates interest in that tired old Smiths warhorse is testimony to the wallop it packed. THANK YOU!”
Blossoms’ Tom Ogden Credit: Tracey Welch
With the message was a photo, presumably taken by Morrissey, of Blossoms and Astley bowing to the audience at the end of one of the concerts.
NME’s Alex Hoban reviewed Friday’s show in London, writing that it was the “best Smiths gig since December 12, 1986” when Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr last took the stage together.
“While Morrissey solo shows these days feel evermore ‘Please, Please, Please….’ tonight it’s Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, as we finally get what we want this time: Manchester’s finest and an ’80s icon. No drama, no baggage, no problematic behaviour. Just the romance, wit and original spirit of these wonderful songs given the undiluted outings they deserve, with gladioli in abundance,” he wrote.
“There are only two people on the planet that could do this better, but until they patch things up, Blossoms, Rick Astley, and a couple of thousand loving fans, all singing in unison, is today the most perfect version of The Smiths you could possibly ask for.”
Meanwhile, earlier this month Morrissey appeared to rank all of his solo and Smiths albums from best to worst on his website.
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Blondie have released a new festive three-track EP featuring ‘Yuletide Throwdown’, a rare track that was co-written with hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy. Check out Cut Chemist’s new remix of the title track below, along with our interview with Blondie’s founding guitarist Chris Stein.
Blondie famously gave a shout-out to Fab 5 Freddy (real name Fred Brathwaite) on their 1980 song ‘Rapture’, with frontwoman Debbie Harry commencing its rap section with “Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody’s fly”. Freddy later appeared in the song’s accompanying video.
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Blondie and Freddy then linked up in 1981 to record ‘Yuletide Throwdown’, with Harry and Freddy rapping Christmas-themed lyrics over the original backing track for ‘Rapture’.
The festive track was only released on a special flexi-disc that was given away by the UK music magazine Flexipop in 1981, but it was recently rediscovered by Blondie when they raided their personal archives for a new box set which is set for release in August 2022.
In a statement about the rare song, Harry said: “It has been an impossible amount of time since I believed in Santa Claus, but I could very well believe again if he was Freddy Brathwaite!! Some of my best times have been making music with Chris Stein and Freddy B.”
Freddy added of ‘Yuletide Throwdown’: “In the beginning of my journey into pop culture, Chris and Debbie were among the first to take me and my ideas about hip hop culture seriously and were like mentors to me shining a light along the road and assisting my quest.
“I’m happy after all this time the world can now hear this fun holiday tune we did way back then!”
To celebrate the arrival of ‘Yuletide Throwdown’, NME caught up with Stein from his New York home to talk about collaborating with Fab 5 Freddy, working on new Blondie music and why he may no longer be able to tour.
Debbie Harry and Fab 5 Freddy (Picture: Press)
Chris Stein: “The first time we recorded the basic track for ‘Rapture’ we decided it was too slow, so we sped it up and that’s the final version we released. I had the master tapes and took a copy of the tape of the first version home, overdubbed on top of it and put Debbie and Freddy’s vocals on it. It was originally for Flexipop magazine, and it came out with other Christmas tracks I’d produced by the bands The Brattles and Snuky Tate.”
“They were in our home studio in the basement. Freddy just went for it. I still see him frequently, but the main thing I remember is that Freddy took us to our first rap event in 1977/78, so that was very exciting. It was the first time I’d seen something like that.”
“I don’t remember much resistance to ‘Rapture’. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen with it. I’m always optimistic, but the only song we ever recorded that I ever knew 100 per cent was going to be a hit was ‘The Tide Is High’. With all of our other songs, I was never positive. We never knew what was going to happen. ‘Parallel Lines’ was floating around the charts for around six months before ‘Heart of Glass’ was released, and then it went up.”
“When we did a little bit of work with the guys from Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang [they collaborated on Blondie’s 1999 single ‘No Exit’], those guys told us that it was the first rap song they ever heard, which was awesome. In 1998, XXL magazine recreated the famous 1950s photo of jazz musicians on a stoop in Harlem, but they did it with 177 rap people from that time. We were in that photo, and it was exciting to be accepted and asked to do it.”
“I’m not positive what’s going to be in it, but there’s a ‘Sunday Girl’ demo, I think. We used to cover The Doors’ ‘Moonlight Drive’, so we did an unfinished version of that in the studio for our second album [1978’s ‘Plastic Letters’] which sounds pretty great, so it’ll be stuff like that.”
“We were going to meet this week to try to go over some material, but it’s difficult with the logistics now because of the fucking plague and getting everybody together to do it. Debbie and I agree we can’t do it remotely: we’ve got to get everybody in the same place, so it’s tricky. We’re definitely working with producer John Congleton again because he’s great. Everybody’s close to him at this point. He has a great bedside manner, as it were. It’s all new songs and we have three cover versions, but I’m not going to say what they are because I’m not sure if they’ll reach fruition.”
Blondie’s Chris Stein (Picture: Press)
“We’ve been talking to a couple of people, but I don’t know yet. We wanted to get [Robert] Fripp on the last record [‘Pollinator’] and he was down for it, but our guitarist Tommy [Kessler] ended up doing the parts where we would have put Fripp. So maybe we can get him later on in this next project. We used to work with him all the time back in the old days.”
“I don’t know if I’m going to be participating in touring going forward. I just have some heart bullshit. I take medicine for it that’s a little fatiguing. It’s an irregular heartbeat. It’s not super-serious, but it’s just tiring and I don’t have the stamina I did when I was 30 or 40. So I mainly deal with the recording at this point. I was actually sitting down for the last couple of tours: I figured if BB King could do it, I could! We’ll see.”
“I wrote a memoir, which took about a year. I wrote the whole thing myself, which was interesting and challenging. It covers my whole life, and the whole book is nuts. It surprises me how much crazy shit I did! Apart from my memoir, I’ve got a photobook documenting the period where we were working with H.R. Giger that I’m working on. I shot a lot of photos, so we’re trying to get that in book form.”
Blondie’s ‘Yuletide Throwdown’ EP is out now, while a limited edition 12″ vinyl version in both magenta and black – which can be pre-ordered here – will arrive on November 5.
Last week Blondie postponed their ‘Against All Odds’ UK tour until next spring and confirmed that Johnny Marr will be supporting them on all of the rescheduled dates.
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New research that will explore mental health interventions for young people affected by racism as well as ways to level the playing field for POC musicians across genres has been launched.
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The initiative, funded through Sony Music’s Social Justice Fund, sees mental health charity, Mind and race equality think tank The Runnymede Trust partner with Sony Music UK to deliver important new findings.
Sony Music UK and Mind’s ‘Young People and Racial Trauma’ will investigate the best mental health interventions for young people affected by racism. Per a press release, the new project will “seek to understand the best blueprint for interventions and support, given statistics show that people from racialised groups may be more likely to experience mental health problems but less likely to receive appropriate mental health support”.
And Sony Music’s work with The Runnymead Trust will deliver “ground-breaking research exploring structural barriers that may prevent black, brown and ethnically diverse artists from starting or succeeding within genres where such artists are less represented”.
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In June 2020 Sony Music Group launched the Global Social Justice Fund (SJF) to address racial injustice worldwide.
The UK arm of the Social Justice Fund has awarded more than $1million (£734,43) in funding across 16 beneficiaries since its founding.
Charlotte Edgeworth Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Social Impact for Sony Music UK said: “Sony Music UK has been working with Mind for several years, delivering training and offering support for both employees and artists. This grant signifies a deepening of this important relationship, built on our dedication to improving mental health support for people experiencing the trauma of racism.”
Marcel Vige, Head of Equity at Mind, said: “We are thankful for this grant which will allow research into how we can better support the mental health of young people who experience racism. Racism, in any of its forms, affects our mental health, whether direct racial abuse, embedded or institutional bias, or wider systems of oppression. It can affect the way we feel about ourselves and how safe we feel. And it can contribute to particular mental health problems, including depression and anxiety.
“It’s so important that the UK invests in mental health support for people who experience racism, whilst also working to tackle racism at every level. Mind is committed to being an unflinching advocate for racial justice and mental health, as part of our ambition to become an anti-racist organisation.”
Additionally, the charity OnSide will be supported through music mentoring programmes funded in three London Youth Zones: Croydon, Barnet and Barking and Dagenham. The charity seeks to help marginalised young people living in some of the capital’s most deprived and underinvested communities.
YOUNG MINDS – The voice for young people’s health and wellbeing
MIND – For mental health support, advice and awareness
CALM – The Campaign Against Living Miserably for young men
Time To Change – Let’s end mental health discrimination
The Samaritans – Confidential support 24 hours a day
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Sigrid has performed her latest single, ‘Burning Bridges’, with backing from Germany’s RTO Ehrenfeld on ZDF Magazin Royale.
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The Norwegian pop star, who is readying the release of her second album, enlisted the band to perform the song live on the German talk show, which is hosted by Jan Böhmermann.
Although the recording of the single is already packed with bold guitars, beats and strings, RTO Ehrenfeld helped bring the song further to life on the show broadcast last week.
Watch Sigrid and RTO Ehrenfeld perform ‘Burning Bridges’ below:
In other news, Sigrid spoke recently about the huge influence that Nirvana’s 1991 album ‘Nevermind’ had on her.
“‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was the first song I ever covered when I was in seventh grade,” Sigrid told NME. “Growing up, my brother was a huge rock fan and I listened to everything that my siblings were listening to. I was very shy growing up – I was the little girl playing piano.
“For one school play, I played ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ with a backing band of my classmates and everyone was shocked, like, ‘Where did that come from?’ It was great. I think that playing that rock song in front of 20 kids at school gave me a new confidence. From then on, I wasn’t just that piano girl. I showed another energy that I had.”
Sigrid has also been confirmed to play next year’s TRNSMT festival.
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Bobby Gillespie has spoken about his upbringing in a Glasgow tenement, saying that he constantly felt “like a failure” at school age.
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The Primal Scream frontman said in a new interview with Scottish Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh that he felt inhibited and disillusioned with the world at an early age thanks to judgements about his socio-economic standing.
He told Welsh in an interview published by The Guardian to promote his new memoir, Tenement Kid: “For the first 10 years of my life, I lived in a Glasgow tenement: me, my brother and my parents, sharing the same bedroom, that stuff stays with you. Kids like me were judged to be stupid because the educational structures designated us as such. We were set up to be labourers, or unemployed, on the scrapheap. I wanted to learn, but I wasn’t given anything to learn, and I didn’t know how to ask. I remember feeling like a failure at that age.”
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He went on to speak about punk rock becoming his saviour after not achieving anything at school. “I wanted to include stuff in the book that was outside rock’n’roll, but that helped shape me. For me, the late 70s/early 80s were a cultural revolution. Sex Pistols, the Clash… my cultural education came from reading music papers of that time. Malcolm McLaren talking about the Situationists. Tony Wilson, Factory Records – there’d be a Factory band called the Durutti Column, and you’d find out that it referenced a Spanish anarchist who fought against Franco. All these cultural markers.
He continued: “Punk was more of a state of mind than a dress code. Before Primal Scream, I was around people like Siouxsie and the Banshees and New Order, seeing how they treated either bands I was in, like the Wake, or my friends’ band, Altered Images. Just watching them work, it was heaven. We worshipped these people, truly.”
Elsewhere in the interview he said that writing the memoir was a welcome shake-up, suggesting that fans could see more deviations from his normal Primal Scream routine. “With this book, at first, I was, no, no, no, but a seed was planted. At the beginning of last year, I didn’t want to make another rock’n’roll record, I’ve done enough of them.
“I thought, I’m ready to write a book, that’s going to be my project for this year. I wanted to give a good account of myself and my family. I wanted to do something a bit different, something creative, challenging, something I’ve never done before.”
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The Wanted’s Tom Parker has shared an update on his condition following his cancer diagnosis, saying that he is “feeling very positive”.
Last October Parker revealed that he had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, saying that he and his partner were “absolutely devastated” but “are gonna fight this all the way”.
A new documentary about the band and Parker’s struggles aired on Channel 4 last night (October 10) and Parker spoke on This Morning about his progress with the condition.
Revealing that he has undergone 30 rounds of chemotherapy and 30 radiotherapy sessions, Parker said: “It’s been pretty full on. Chemo was very, very tough and [radiotherapy] is probably the hardest part.”
“I feel a lot more confident and a lot more in control of my emotions,” he added. “If I did do this five months ago, I’d be a crying mess to be honest. I’m feeling very positive.”
Back in January Parker revealed that the size of his inoperable tumour has reduced significantly.
Giving the update via Instagram, Parker wrote: “SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION – These are the words I received today and I can’t stop saying them over and over again.
“I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.”
“To everyone on here — your love, light and positivity have inspired me,” he added. “Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength. This journey is a rollercoaster that’s for sure.”
Tom Parker: Inside My Head is able to watch in full via All 4.
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