An MP accused of putting people at risk by travelling between Glasgow and London by train with coronavirus symptoms did not tell NHS Test and Protect officials she went into Parliament, a court has heard.
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Poster Paints, the Scottish indie-pop duo made up of vocalist Carla J Easton of TeenCanteen and Frightened Rabbit‘s Simon Liddell, have announced their debut album.The pair first met through Eugene Kelly of The Vaselines, for whom Easton has played keyboards. They shared their melodic, shoegaze-tinged single ‘Never Saw It Coming’ in 2021, which followed debut single ‘Number 1’.
Poster Paints then released a surprise EP titled ‘Blood Orange’ in 2022.The self-titled debut album is due out on October 14 via Ernest Jenning Record Co. / Olive Grove Records.
Alongside the album announcement, the duo have shared lead single ‘Falling Hard’, which arrives with a visual directed by Austin Temby.Speaking of the new single, Easton said: “This song was a bit of a writing experiment. Si sent me the track which is 3 minutes of summer guitar pop.“I had recently been doing a lot of free writing in the morning (where you write non-stop without thinking and the only rule is to fill 3 pages of your notebook – also called ‘Morning Pages’) and had ended up down a route recalling an ill-fated attempt to get what I want one hot Summer and subsequently falling from grace, splitting my shin open in the process.
But I never gave up. It’s a relentless 3 minutes of chasing dreams born from the uncensored pages of my notebook.”After the release of their debut single, Poster Paints announced that they would be supporting Teenage Fanclub on a run of Scottish shows.
These were followed by their own debut headline gigs, plus support slots with Belle & Sebastian and Admiral Fallow.“The project started as an accident before the pandemic kicked off,” Easton said of their beginnings. “Si had sent me an instrumental for a piece he had scored for a short film
.An MP accused of putting people at risk by travelling between Glasgow and London by train with coronavirus symptoms did not tell NHS Test and Protect officials she went into Parliament, a court has heard.
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Lewis Capaldi has said he is yet to finish work on his second album because he is “horribly lazy”.The Scottish singer-songwriter made his live return this summer, headlining festivals such as Parklife, TRNSMT and Isle Of Wight Festival. However, Capaldi hasn’t yet debuted any new material at the shows.Speaking to the crowd early into his bill-topping set at Latitude 2022 last night (July 22), the star explained (via BBC News): “I just want to say now, I have no new music to play you.“I rescheduled a lot of shows last year because I was like, ‘Guys, I need to finish my new album’.
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Zack Sharf David Harbour was trained in “classical American method acting,” but he no longer believes in the process or uses it during filming. While he’s best known these days for playing Jim Hopper on Netflix’s blockbuster series “Stranger Things,” Harbour got his start in the theater and in film courtesy of character actor roles in the likes of “Brokeback Mountain” and “Revolutionary Road.”“When I was younger — it’s so embarrassing — but I remember playing that famous Scottish King,” Harbour told GQ magazine.
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