EXCLUSIVE: Ilfenesh Hadera (Godfather of Harlem) has been tapped to star opposite Denzel Washington in Apple and A24‘s High and Low, an English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller, from filmmaker Spike Lee.
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NME about the highs and lows of playing live in the current climate, and shared advice for rising acts about taking to the stage.The event, showcasing unsigned music across the capital, is set to return for its second year tomorrow (Wednesday, February 28) as a core element of the ILMC. With over 1,000 agents, promoters and live music professionals in town, ILMC offers a platform for artists to perform in front of a potentially career-changing crowd.Across five intimate venues across Soho – The 100 Club, 21Soho, The Lower Third, Phoenix Arts Club and The Spice of Life – London Calling boasts a stacked line-up of August Charles, b1no*, Babymorocco, Backroad Gee, Emilia Tarrant, Forgetting The Future, freekind, Gia Ford, Hyphen, Lala Hayden, Luna Morgenstern, LYVIA, MAVICA, Noah and the Loners, Nxdia, The New Eves and YIIGAA.With the ILMC hosting talks, workshops, mentor sessions, special events and more during based around the business and culture of touring, festival and live entertainment, three of the acts appearing at London Calling caught up with NME to share some insight about their life on the road.Taking to the stage at the Phoenix Arts Club, Lala Hayden said that she was looking forward to the next step of her “surreal” journey after taking an “indefinite break” as frontwoman of previous band Anteros.
“I put an EP out last year and thought that would be it, but then slowly stuff has been falling into place,” Hayden told NME. “We’ll be putting more new music out this year and now we’re booking more festivals and shows.
EXCLUSIVE: Ilfenesh Hadera (Godfather of Harlem) has been tapped to star opposite Denzel Washington in Apple and A24‘s High and Low, an English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller, from filmmaker Spike Lee.
Christmas and Valentine’s Day, but a mini marathon can be had — possibly as a pregame activity — with these shows.For a show all about drinking, it would be criminal not to have a St. Patrick’s Day episode. To capitalize on the holiday, Dennis Reynolds (Glenn Howerton) comes up with the idea to take Paddy’s on the road in the form of a wagon — leading Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie Kelly (Charlie Kelly), Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) and Dee Reynolds (Kaitlin Olson) to quickly lose interest.
A family from the UK are now living mortgage-free after selling their house and moving to Bulgaria. Laura Phoenix, 33, and her husband Anthony, 32, wanted to buy a rural home but couldn't afford the soaring house prices and cost of living in the UK.
The Temptations and The Four Tops have concerts lined up at venues all over North America as part of their ongoing 2024 tour.That includes a handful of shows in New York and New Jersey.First up, the Motown legends will swing into Schenectady, NY’s Proctors Theatre on Thursday, April 25.After that, they’re slated to drop by Westbury, NY’s NYCB Theatre on April 28, Red Bank, NJ’s Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre on May 5, and Staten Island’s St. George Theatre on May 10.The co-headliners will close their Northeast run with back-to-back gigs at Collingswood, NJ’s Scottish Rite Auditorium on Saturday, May 11, and Sunday, May 12.If you want to catch the groups and their timeless hits live, tickets are available for all 24 upcoming concerts on their 2024 tour itinerary.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find was $42 before fees on Vivid Seats.Other shows have tickets going anywhere from $49 to $214 before fees.Still, it’s hard to put a price on a night where you’ll sing along to “My Girl,” “Baby I Need Your Loving” and so many more live with the groups that made them famous.Wondering how much tickets cost for the concert closest to you?Keep scrollin’, “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” fans.We’ve got everything you need to know and more about The Temptations and The Four Tops 2024 tour below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues, and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or
Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville has called out the Glazers for their 'negligence' in allowing Manchester United's Old Trafford to deteriorate to the state it is in today.
Karl Wallinger, the multi-instrumentalist and solo force behind the band World Party and former member of The Waterboys, has died.Wallinger, 66, passed away Sunday, his publicist said. No cause of death was announced.Wallinger had worked as musical director for a production of “The Rocky Horror Show” in London’s West End when he was recruited on keyboards for The Waterboys in 1983, playing synthesizer and singing backup vocals on their most commercially successful song, “The Whole of the Moon.”Waterboys founder Mike Scott called him “one of the finest musicians I’ve ever known” in a post Monday on X, formerly Twitter. “Travel on well my old friend,” he said.Creative differences with Scott led Wallinger to go his own way in 1985 to start World Party, where he created a sound infused with influences of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Sly Stone.“It just became obvious that it wasn’t going to go anywhere than where it’s gone,” Wallinger told Penny Black Music in 2022 interview.
Prince William isn’t pulling back from royal duties despite the scandal surrounding Princess Catherine!
2024 Oscars were hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday, March 10, airing on ABC (in the new earlier time slot of 7 p.m.). The Christopher Nolan flick starring Cillian Murphy was this year’s frontrunner, with a staggering 13 nominations — including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., respectively. The Best Actor race was a battle between Murphy, Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”), Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”), Colman Domingo (“Rustin”) and Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”).Murphy took home the expected win, and Nolan and Downey Jr.
Killers of the Flower Moon, The Holdovers, Past Lives and Barbie were among the film winners are the 39th Artios Awards, which the Casting Society handed out Thursday in three ceremonies spanning two continents. See the full winners list below.
The National, Jorja Smith and Róisín Murphy set to headline.The three-day event is due to take place at the Curraghmore estate in County Waterford, Ireland between August 1-4. Tickets go on sale at 9am next Monday (March 11) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.“We welcome music lovers, mavericks, creators, families and curious minds alike for a weekend of exploration, escapism, and togetherness,” reads an official description of the festival.Today (March 7) organisers have shared the first 50 names for All Together Now 2024.
Young Fathers have spoken to NME about the huge response to their fourth album ‘Heavy Heavy’, and revealed that they are already in the process of making new music. Watch our interview above.The trio – comprised of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham Hastings – spoke to NME on the red carpet of the 2024 BRIT Awards on Saturday night (March 2).
Zack Sharf Digital News Director It sounds like Daniel Day-Lewis is serious about his retirement from acting and won’t be returning, at least according to his longtime director Jim Sheridan. The Irish filmmaker directed three of Day-Lewis’ most prominent films: “My Left Foot” (1989), “In the Name of the Father” (1993) and “The Boxer” (1997). Day-Lewis won the Oscar for best actor with “My Left Foot” and was also nominated for “In the Name of the Father.” “He says he’s done.
This year brought another leap year – along with an age-old tradition allowing women to propose to their partners.
Oceans Calling Festival will slide into Ocean City, MD and bring in some of the biggest names in music to celebrate the end of summer.Just a few of the major icons on the bill include Blink-182, The Killers, Dave Matthews Band, 311 and The Offspring.They’ll be joined by The Beach Boys, Counting Crows, Barenaked Ladies, Boyz II Men and Blues Traveler.But wait! There’s more!“American Pie” star Jason Biggs is hosting the festivities and celebrity chefs Robert Irvine, Amanda Freitag and Marc Murphy will be on hand, too.Clearly, there’s a lot to be excited about this year.And if you want to grab your single or multi-day passes early, they can be scooped up as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Thursday, Feb.
The fashion brand Karen Millen brings back a stirring sense of nostalgia for me. At 17, I had my first retail job and I remember visiting the nearby store. I was captivated by the figure-hugging pencil dresses I couldn’t afford, I aspired to be that girl.
Coronation Street fans have said there should have been a 'warning' to them over Tim and Sally Metcalfe's latest scenes as they pair got talking about the weather - but it's not what you'd think - as they also compared them to a legendary soap couple.
The BBC’s hit legal drama The Split is getting a brand new spin-off show set in Manchester.
Justin Timberlake made the difficult decision to cancel a show he was supposed to deliver on Friday evening (February 23) in London, England.
Marta Balaga Amsterdam-based Big Blue is set to produce the upcoming series “Kiss My Feet,” alongside Finnish company Helsinki-filmi. Selected for Series Mania’s Forum Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, the six-episode drama is created by Daan Gielis and Mark Van De Grift, loosely based on their own experiences. In the show, successful marketer Max finds himself in a spiritual community in Finland, trying to help out his brother Lucas – apparently, his mysterious guru is interested in building an international brand.
Carole Horst Highland Film Group shared a first look at “London Calling,” an action-comedy that reunites director Allan Ungar with star Josh Duhamel after the success of the action heist thriller “Bandit.” Film also stars Jeremy Ray Taylor (“It,” “and “It: Chapter Two”), Rick Hoffman (“Billions,” “Suits”) and Aidan Gillen (“Game of Thrones”) Written by Omer Levin Menekse and Quinn Wolfe, “London Calling” sees mediocre hit man Tommy Ward (Duhamel) go on the run and get stuck in L.A. after mistakenly killing a relative of London’s biggest crime boss (Gillen).