Tom Brittney is on his final episodes of Grantchester.
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Download Festival could be under threat if there is a repeat of this year’s traffic issues, the head of Leicestershire County Council has warned.The festival caused severe congestion on the roads around Donington Park in Leicestershire as fans arrived on June 7 and 8. Some of them said it took them up to seven hours to get on the site.Nick Rushton, the council leader, described the situation as “an absolute disaster” with the worst queues he’d seen in Download’s history.
However, he remained optimistic that the situation would improve next year “with a bit of controlling”.“Donington are pretty good operators but they really messed up big time this time,” Rushton told the BBC. “Something’s got to change for next year otherwise I’ll be pressing that the damn thing is cancelled.”This year, Download took place over four days to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
Next year, however, it is returning to its usual three-day format.Reports suggest the congestion also created issues for motorists who weren’t travelling to the festival. Rushton said that he knew of 600 people who had missed their flights from East Midlands Airport, across the road from Donington Park, due to the traffic.Live Nation Entertainment, the organisers of the festival, agreed the traffic congestion was “unprecedented and not acceptable”.
Per BBC, they have launched an investigation into what went wrong and how similar issues could be prevented.They have said they believed a higher attendance, an increased number of vehicles and issues over travel routes to car parks were the main contributing factors to the delays. They hope a return to Download’s usual format will help the problem, with the campsite opening two days before the bands start to “spread” the
.Tom Brittney is on his final episodes of Grantchester.
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A lot of people who go back in country music, be it the fans or even some who work in the industry in Nashville, refuse to call the CMA Music Festival anything other than “Fan Fair,” the name the annual event had in the far more humble ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. That’s the era when it took place out amid the pungent aromas of Nashville’s fairgrounds, not in and around a downtown stadium. Rather than resist that nostalgia for a quainter era, the CMA indulged it this year by selling vintage-looking T-shirts at merch booths — which, by the way, Country Music Association CEO Sarah Trahern says sold quite well. The festival is definitely embracing its past by including that former moniker in the title of a new documentary, “CMA Fest: 50 Years of Fan Fair,” premiering on Hulu today.
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admitted to dressing “inappropriately” for the summer weather in Paris, which reached a high of Fahrenheit on June 24. Ratajkowski arrived at the Loewe menswear fashion show dressed in her best Matrix cosplay: an oversized black leather duster jacket. What else, you ask? Well, nothing other than some black leather boots, a puffy green purse, and large oval sunglasses. “I'm naked underneath this,” she told one reporter in a posted by .This content can also be viewed on the site it from.When asked about how she dresses for hot weather, Ratajkowski replied, “inappropriately, obviously,” suggesting she was feeling a bit toasty despite her single-layered look.
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Glastonbury Festival on Friday, Foo Fighters took the Pyramid Stage for a surprise appearance that marked the band’s first appearance at the English extravaganza since 2017.It was also the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s first full show in the UK since the death of their beloved drummer, Taylor Hawkins, in 2022.Although there were rumors that the ChurnUps were actually the Foos, it wasn’t confirmed until a tweet about an hour before their set.“You guys knew it was us the whole time, didn’t you?” said Foo frontman Dave Grohl. “It’s nice to see your faces again.”And then Foo Fighters launched into an hour-long set that included hits such as “All My Life,” “Learn to Fly,” “The Pretender” and “Best Of You” as well as short covers of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” and the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.”“We’ve only got one hour so we gotta make sure we fit in all the songs we can,” said Grohl. The set included a slow, stripped-down version of “My Hero” that many felt was a tribute to Hawkins, who actually received an official dedication on “Everlong.”But he wasn’t the only dearly departed loved one that the Foo Fighters remembered at Glastonbury.
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