Download boss approached “21 bands” to headline 2024 festival in “hardest year” for line-up

After a decade away, last week, Girls Aloud finally announced their reunion. The tour, known as the Girls Aloud Show will see the biggest-selling girl group of the 21st century play 15 dates across the UK and Ireland next May and June 2024.

Metallica, The Prodigy, Avenged Sevenfold and more join the huge line-up.The headliners top the bill alongside the previously announced Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age, Royal Blood and Megadeth.Other new additions to the line-up include Machine Head, Steel Panther, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Suicidal Tendencies, Saxon, Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor, Enter Shikari, Body Count, Tom Morello and many more.The rock and metal festival is due to take place from June 27-30, 2024 in Clisson, France, where The Offspring, Simple Plan, Hot Milk, Wargasm, Dropkick Murphys, Babymetal, Nova Twins, The Interrupters and many more will play across six stages.Four-day passes for the festival are currently sold out, but one-day passes will be announced in early 2024 from here.Check out the full line-up below.

Stefflon Don has been confirmed as the headliner of Limitless Live 2024, which is set to take place April 13.Taking place at London’s iconic Roundhouse, Limitless Live is the UK’s largest free music event and will see a variety of artists take to stage alongside Stefflon Don.“It’s incredible to be part of Limitless Live. The initiative aims to make music more accessible to underrepresented young people who are facing increasing challenges in their lives,” said Don in a statement.

Taylor Swift’ ‘Eras’ tour shows.Swift will bring her world tour to the UK next summer, which includes three shows at Wembley Stadium in June and three in August. Earlier this month, she added two extra shows to the August run, raising the total number of Wembley dates to eight.All In, meanwhile, is set to take place on August 25 – just a few days after Swift’s final Wembley date – and the organisation’s president Tony Khan has told the Daily Mail that those shows were made possible because AEW agreed to speed up the installation of their set.“The load-in is a very different schedule than what we had last year,” Khan said.

Primavera Sound has revealed its festival day splits for its 2024 line-up along with its headliner schedule.On Tuesday, November 21, the festival announced a handful of headliners which included Lana Del Rey, Pulp, The National, FKA Twigs, SZA, Disclosure, Justice, Mitski, Phoenix, PJ Harvey and Vampire Weekend. Today (November 27), the festival has shared the day splits for the line-up and when each headliner will perform.

The family of a sexual abuse victim who waited six years for her case to come to court have called for a national register of people awaiting trial for sexual offences.

Reading & Leeds Festivals have announced the day splits for their 2024 headline acts, detailing which artists will be playing when.On Thursday (November 23), the festival announced its six headliners that will top the bill at Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds over the Bank Holiday Weekend from August 21-25 next year.Now, they have confirmed that Liam Gallagher, Catfish & The Bottlemen and Skrillex will play on Friday at Leeds and Sunday at Reading.SUNDAY AT READING/ FRIDAY AT LEEDS

Just when you thought the Dingles have had enough to deal with in 2023, the drama for the clan is set to continue in the New Year in Emmerdale. This year, the ITV soap's famous family has faced plenty of trials and tribulations, recently seeing the return of Aaron and the shocking death of Craig Reed after her raped Lydia.

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When We Were Young Festival have announced that their 2024 edition will now run for an extra day, with the same bands all set to play again on Sunday October 20.The Las Vegas emo bash unveiled its lineup for next year earlier this month, with My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Jimmy Eat World topping the bill on October 19. The original tickets sold out on November 17.Now, due to what the festival describes as “overwhelming demand”, they have added the second date.

Glastonbury 2024 have sold-out in under an hour, organisers have announced.Fans have been reacting online after trying to secure tickets to next year’s festival, which is due to take place at Worthy Farm between June 26-30.It comes after ticket sales were initially pushed back after organisers confirmed on social media that both sales had been delayed by two weeks following issues with some voter registrations.As announced back in September, coach and ticket packages had been due to go on sale at 6pm GMT on November 2 ahead of a general sale at 9am GMT on November 5.Coach and ticket packages went on sale instead at 6pm GMT on Thursday (November 16) and sold out in 25 minutes, with the general sale following today (November 19) at 9am GMT.Those who didn’t manage to get a ticket today can try again in next spring’s resale, details of which will be announced in due course.Glastonbury tweeted: “Tickets for Glastonbury 2024 have now Sold Out. Our thanks to everyone who bought one and we’re sorry to those of you who missed out, on a morning when demand greatly exceeded supply.“There will be a re-sale of any cancelled or returned tickets in spring 2024.”Check out some of the reaction to fans and the Glastonbury ticket sale here:Tickets for Glastonbury 2024 have now Sold Out.

Caroline Brew editor Oscar-winning filmmaker Carol Dysinger’s “One Bullet” will kick off the 30th edition of Slamdance, which will run from Jan. 19-25 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. The festival will also take place virtually from Jan.

Thomas Cashman - who murdered schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel - is set to launch an appeal against his conviction. Cashman had previously been found guilty of murdering nine-year-old Olivia at her home in Liverpool in August 2022.

EXCLUSIVE: Stephanie Beatriz and Costa Ronin are fronting a sci-fi series for online storytelling platform StoryCo, with Halo showrunner Kyle Killen attached.

The Crown is set to hit our screens once again on Thursday (November 16) and will focus on the life and reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II. It’s the final series of the popular royal-based drama show, and will include key events like the early stage of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s relationship, as well as the death of William’s mum, Princess Diana, reigniting everyone’s love of the late Princess of Wales.

My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Jimmy Eat World are among a host of acts that look set to play a series of classic albums at When We Were Young 2024.A tweet from Live Nation shared the announcement earlier this afternoon (November 13) on X before it was swiftly deleted.But many fans have reposted the line-up and which albums each band will play at the emo bash in Las Vegas on October 24, 2024.Among the classic albums announced to be performed live are MCR’s classic 2006 album ‘The Black Parade’, Jimmy Eat World’s ‘Bleed American’, The Distillers’ ‘Coral Fang’, A Day To Remember’s ‘Homesick’ and Dashboard Confessional’s ‘Dusk And Summer’. Fall Out Boy will also play a classic album live but it has been confirmed which one as yet.

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Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz has spoken to NME about the band stepping up to headlining Download Festival 2024 for the first time – as well as celebrating “weirdness” on their current tour.The band were announced to be topping the bill at the legendary rock festival last night, alongside Queens Of The Stone Age and Avenged Sevenfold. Speaking backstage in Germany, Wentz told NME that he wasn’t feeling pressured about the slot.“So many of the bands who have headlined Download before have been such a big influence on us,” he explained.

Queens of the Stone Age, Avenged Sevenfold and Fall Out Boy will headline Download Festival 2024.The festival will return to Donnington Park for its 21st edition from June 14-16, 2024. General tickets will be on sale from 9pm on November 9.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Rita Wilson and more stars performed as a tribute to U.S. veterans and their families at the New York Comedy Festival and Bob Woodruff Foundation’s Stand Up for Heroes event Monday. Held at David Geffen Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the night included performances from musicians and comics, including Stewart, Springsteen, Wilson, Josh Groban, John Mellencamp, Tracy Morgan, The War and Treaty, Jimmy Carr, Ronny Chieng and Shane Gillis.