Simply Red are making a spectacular comeback with their first album since 2007, 'Big Love', coming this Summer via East West Records. The album will also mark the 30th anniversary since the release of the...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 23rd April 2015
All headliners for Wales' Festival No. 6 have now been announced, with Metronomy now heading the bill with Grace Jones and Belle & Sebastian. Further new acts have also been added to the line-up, while...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 23rd April 2015
It's been a long time since Alan Rickman made his directorial debut back in 1997, and so returning to the role (alongside acting in a major role as well) in 'A Little Chaos' presented a...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd April 2015
More acts have been announced for the ever growing line-up of London's Visions Festival, set to take place in August. With acts like Camera Obscura and The Antlers, this year is sure shaping up to...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 22nd April 2015
In what could be one of the most exciting pop team-ups of the year, Charli XCX and Bleachers have announced that they intend to hit the road together on a joint tour over the Summer,...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 22nd April 2015
In what could be one of the most chilling and uncomfortable true story thrillers in recent years, James Franco and Jonah Hill star in just that: 'True Story'. And the experience has helped them relate...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 22nd April 2015
Surfer Blood fans and just generally charitable folk, listen up. Guitarist Thomas Fekete has revealed that he is fighting for his life having been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that's spread to his...
News posted in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 21st April 2015
Gary Oldman stars alongside Tom Hardy in the Soviet thriller 'Child 44'; a film that was recently banned by Russia for its depictions of events during the era of Stalin. Oldman plays an army general,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 21st April 2015
Muse and Foo Fighters have been announced as headliners for upcoming free festival Radio 1's Big Weekend in Norwich. Tickets are already sold out but a whole bunch of stellar new acts have been added...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 20th April 2015
The first trailer for the DC crossover movie 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' has finally arrived - and it's difficult to tell who's most formidable, despite the fact that one superhero has earned his...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20th April 2015
Hot Chip have announced a full run of UK tour dates for October 2015 as they prepare to head out on their sold out European tour this May. The band will also be releasing their...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 20th April 2015
Whovians, get ready! 'Doctor Who' may be hitting the big screen for the first time in a brand new full-length movie according to new information released after the latest hack of Sony Pictures. But who...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20th April 2015
So, Live At Leeds is but two weeks away from bringing some of the country's best music veterans and up and coming stars to one of its greatest cities. But while you're there, you may...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 17th April 2015
It's now time to get excited for what looks to be one of the most visually stunning movies of the year as the first full trailer for George Clooney's 'Tomorrowland' arrives, bringing with it adventure,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 17th April 2015
The Polyphonic Spree will be celebrating their 15th anniversary with an eight day tour of the UK in September 2015, where they will be performing material from their debut album - 'The Beginning Stages of...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 16th April 2015
Paolo Nutini leads the latest wave of announcements for Lowlands 2015, alongside thirteen other acts. The festival is set to hit the Netherlands in August, and there's more than one hundred more acts yet to...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 16th April 2015
It was a crazy night for pop fans on Saturday night (April 11th 2015) as The Wanted's Nathan Sykes showed up for an impromptu performance with Meghan Trainor as she hit Birmingham's The Institute on...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 13th April 2015
Snaps from the set of George Clooney's upcoming thriller 'Money Monster' in New York gave a startling sneak peak into the movie's plot as we see the Academy Award winning actor strapped up in a...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 13th April 2015
The announcement of Faith No More playing Download Festival 2015 was an exciting one, but for those who won't be hitting Donington Park this Summer, you'll still get the chance to catch the rockers performing...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 13th April 2015
It's difficult to argue with the results of this year's MTV Movie Awards victors, who took home their much-deserved accolades on Sunday (April 12th 2015). The top prize of Movie Of The Year went to...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 13th April 2015
Folk lovers everywhere get ready for an exciting new release ahead of the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards as a new two-disc compilation CD featuring some of the nominees will hit shelves later this...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 10th April 2015
From the man who brought colour to Paris, Australia and fair Verona comes 'The Get Down'; a Netflix Original Series created by Baz Luhrmann which illustrates the lives of four teenagers living in the Bronx...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10th April 2015
Plain White T's have gone independent for the first time in more than a decade, releasing their self-funded seventh album 'American Nights' this year and finally experiencing full satisfaction in their music - because more...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 10th April 2015
Brian Wilson has just unveiled his hugely anticipated new solo album 'No Pier Pressure', and now opens up about the generational significance of the new material and what it means to be writing music at...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 10th April 2015
Sometimes looking good is less than easy, and that doesn't ring truer than for Australian pop duo The Veronicas who had a little trouble getting into their skin-tight, plastic stage costumes as they hit London...
News posted in Bizarre / Weird Wonderful on 10th April 2015
Remember those totally unusable instruments you were given for music class in elementary school? Well, it turns out, they're not so unusable after all - Jimmy Fallon enlists Madonna and The Roots and his collection...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 10th April 2015
If there's one thing Carly Rae Jepsen never expected to be doing, it's watching film legend Tom Hanks mime her lyrics on the set of a music video. But that's exactly what happened with her...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 9th April 2015
The BAFTA Television Award nominations for 2015 have finally been announced, including the usual entertainment favourites, some easily predictable names and a few surprises along the way that represent the very best of British television.James...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 8th April 2015
Noah And The Whale guitarist Fred Abbott has unveiled a free download of his new song 'Funny How Good It Feels', ahead of the release of his debut solo album 'Serious Poke' this Summer. What...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 8th April 2015
Forecastle Festival has finally completed its 2015 line-up and announced the full day-by-day schedule for the coming event, which is set to hit Louisville, Kentucky yet again in July. Plus, you'll very soon be able...
News posted in Music / Festivals on 8th April 2015
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
Ahead of the imminent release of his second solo album - Dekker, aka Brookln Dekker, took time out to let us know about the musical project he...
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