Locals who live in the flats famed for featuring on This Is England have spoken out about what it's really like to live there. Blackstock flats and Ironside Road in Sheffield appeared throughout three of the TV drama sequels from 2010 to 2015.
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In October 1993, Louise claimed her first-ever UK Top 10 single as a member of Eternal alongside Kéllé Bryan and Easther and Vernie Bennett. Since then, across a career spanning almost three decades, Louise has notched-up a further three Top 10 songs with the group, plus nine as a solo artist and three UK Top 10 albums to boot.
Now, it's time to celebrate.
This week, Louise releases her Greatest Hits; a compilation of the biggest tracks from her back catalogue, plus some reimagined Eternal favourites and four brand-new songs.
We catch-up with the singer-songwriter to talk longevity and looking ahead to 'brave' new beginnings.
"This is a real celebration of 30 years," Louise tells us.
"There’s a thread that runs throughout this whole album. Even as a young girl, when I started out doing this, you still put your stamp on the music you create."
Greatest Hits marries Louise's older material with four brand-new tracks; High Hopes, Right Now, Feel and Together Again, alongside 2022 single Super Magic.
"With these new songs, I didn’t want to sound like I was making a mini album," Louise tells us. "I wanted them to have little nods to what my career’s been. I think it’s definitely the route I want to carry on going down with my music; that slightly more [Jimmy] Jam and [Terry] Lewis kind of vibe. A bit electro, soul, old school R&B.
"High Hopes creates that Eternal feel for me, with the big gospel choir, but I actually really love Feel. It’s a very ‘Louise’ record. It’s a sound that sits with me comfortably, I love singing that record.
"It was important for those four records to sit amongst my back catalogue. They needed to fit in with everything I’ve done over the years. Feel sits with that One Kiss From Heaven vibe, 20 years
Locals who live in the flats famed for featuring on This Is England have spoken out about what it's really like to live there. Blackstock flats and Ironside Road in Sheffield appeared throughout three of the TV drama sequels from 2010 to 2015.
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Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is on the prowl overseas with $43.3M through Friday in 68 markets. This portends a $100M+ international box office debut, in line with projections. The domestic three-day is looking at $60M.
Film and television writers from around the world will be picketing and rallying Wednesday in support of the Writers Guild strike, which is now in its 39th day.
On 8 June, Paris saw fashionistas flocking to the SHEIN X Runway Show, where the global fashion, beauty, and lifestyle e-retailer revealed 78 stunning new looks by up-and-coming designers on the theme of ‘Endless Summer.’ The show also offered a glimpse of the very first collection from newcomer Amy Sala, winner of the third edition of the SHEIN X Challenge.The budding British designer beat over 2,400 hopefuls from across Europe to win €10,000 to support her design projects and the opportunity for her work to be showcased by SHEIN. Back in March, 25 finalists presented a panel of industry experts with three designs suitable for Spring/Summer 2023.
The weather just keeps on getting warmer in Greater Manchester, with temperatures forecast to hit 26C this weekend. Glorious sunshine and temperatures in the low 20s have brought people out and about in swathes for the past few weeks.
Vanity Fair posted on Instagram, asking that very important question: “Who was the worst man on ‘Sex and the City’?” The post featured a slideshow of many of the men featured on the show, including the girl gang’s past beaus Jack Berger (Ron Livingston), Mr. Big (Chris Noth), Aidan Shaw (John Corbett) and Trey MacDougal (Kyle MacLachlan).The post quickly gained the attention “SATC” viewers as well as several celebrity fans, who all chimed in with their opinions.“Big!!!! Ultimate time-wasting vill[ain] and then he kicked the bucket.
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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Disney’s perennial hit “Frozen” is saying “let it go” to its spot as the second-biggest animated film in history. Over the weekend, Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” hit $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office, enough to bump the original adventures of royal sisters Anna and Elsa ($1.28 billion) to the No. 3 spot. But the kingdom of Arendelle still reigns supreme in terms of all things computer-generated. The sequel “Frozen II” was even bigger than the original and stands as the highest-grossing animated movie of all-time with a mighty $1.45 billion. (Disney’s 2019 remake of “The Lion King,” which earned a staggering $1.65 billion, is technically computer-generated, but the studio has categorized the movie as live-action. Thus, it doesn’t have a place on the list of top-animated movies.)
The Charlatans have announced the dates for a major UK tour later this year with a huge gig in Manchester in December.