The Dandy Warhols on once being named David Bowie’s favourite band

A Scottish regional accent has been named the hardest in the world to emulate by language experts.

Yungblud has spoken to NME to give the exclusive lowdown on his “positive” new Britpop-inspired album – which he compared to the likes of Oasis, The Verve, Primal Scream, My Chemical Romance, David Bowie and Madonna. Watch our video interview with the artist below.The pop-punk provocateur was speaking to NME to launch his new festival, BludFest – set to take place in Milton Keynes this August.

2 min read In 2023 Good Arts, Good Mental Health’s 5-day Arts Challenge was a pre-campaign that incorporated knowledge the project had developed and tested during the previous year. The arts challenge was […]

Kendal Calling has announced some more acts for its 2024 festival line-up, including Sugababes, Feeder and The Snuts – check out the full list of new additions below.They join the previously announced headliners: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Paolo Nutini, The Streets, Paul Heaton & Rianne Downey and Keane.Other acts on the bill include Pale Waves, Declan McKenna, Peace, The Lottery Winners, The Reytons, CMAT, The Snuts, Kate Nash, The Pigeon Detectives, Katy B and Glasvegas.The event is due to take place at Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District between August 1-4.

Two towns in Greater Manchester have been named amongst the 'best areas to live' in the UK in 2024. The Sunday Times has once again released its annual guide of the Best Places to Live, now in its 12th year running, with each location carefully chosen by their expert panel.

Music has a way of worming its way into the listener’s heart. Without any effort on the listener’s part, a song can become inextricably linked to an emotion, place, person, or period.

A Scottish farm experience has been named among the best Easter days out in the UK.

David Bowie, Boy George and more. News of his death broke last night (March 10).“The Blitz Club may have lasted only a short time, but the Blitz Kids, as we were then, had friends and careers that have lasted a lifetime.

Kirsten Dunst addressed the extended break that she took from Hollywood.

“Me and Mr. Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spider from Mars,” Suzi Ronson, now aged in her 70s, reveals she had a tryst with the “Changes” crooner while he was married to his first wife, Angie Barnett. Ronson was just 22 and working at a hair salon in Kent, England in 1971 when she met Bowie and Barnett, who had wed the previous year.

Louis Walsh has made a return to our screens in the new series of Celebrity Big Brother. The Irish music manager and talent show judge has kept a low profile in recent years, mainly concentrating on his career in Ireland and work behind the scenes.

Kaiser Chiefs have doubled down on their claim that they once turned down lyrics suggested to them by David Bowie.The Leeds band first spoke about their interaction with the rock icon in an interview with News of the World back in 2011, when drummer Nick Hodgson noted that they were able to contact Bowie through a mutual colleague, the legendary producer Tony Visconti.Visconti had co-produced their album ‘The Future is Medieval’, released in the same year, and was on close terms with Bowie, having collaborated on over ten of his albums, including classics such as ‘Low’, ‘Heroes’ and ‘Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)’.“Tony texted David asking for his suggestions to finish off a verse [on ‘Man On Mars’] and he came up with a couple of lines,” Hodgson recalled. “I’m such a big Bowie fan I can’t believe I’m saying this, but they just weren’t right, so I’ve missed out on a Hodgson/Bowie writing credit.

Filmmaker Johan Renck’s moody new existential relationship astronaut movie with Adam Sandler, “Spaceman,” debuts today on Netflix. It’s the filmmaker’s first feature in 16 years, following 2008’s “Downloading Nancy,” but it’s not like he’s been away. After a career started in music videos—famous clips for artists like Madonna, Beyonce, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, and more—Renck has spent the better part of the last decade in the world of television (before that, in the late 90s and early aughts he was a singer-songwriter using the moniker Stakka Bo).

Katharine McPhee and David Foster‘s son Rennie, who just turned three, has officially made his stage debut!

A crocodile and a wild cat are among the ‘dangerous’ animals being privately kept in Greater Manchester, it has been revealed.

Pet Shop Boys have covered David Bowie’s ‘All the Young Dudes’ in a performance for BBC Radio 2 – check out the video below. The duo played a session at Maida Vale Studios on Friday (February 23) with the BBC Concert Orchestra for the station, also playing their new single ‘Loneliness’ and their 1988 classic ‘Left to My Own Devices’. The 80s synth pop legends recently announced the details of their new album ‘Nonetheless’, and shared lead single ‘Loneliness’.

Jessica Mulroney is back on Canada’s social scene following her fallout with ex-best friend Meghan Markle.The Duchess of Sussex, 42, purportedly froze out the Canadian stylist, 43, after she was accused of exhibiting “white privilege” back in 2020 amid widespread Black Lives Matter marches. The scandal is said to have caused a rift between the pals, who had been close since 2011. Mulroney subsequently spent several years out of the spotlight, but has begun to more reassert herself more publicly in recent months.

Ellise Shafer Amanda Seyfried reflected on being cast as a mother at the Berlin Film Festival press conference for her new film “Seven Veils,” saying that “it seems like once I popped out a baby, I was just playing mothers.” However, the mom of two does feel the roles she’s been given have “become way richer.” In “Seven Veils,” Seyfried plays Jeanine, a theater director who is forced to deal with repressed trauma as she prepares a production of the opera “Salome.” When asked if she related to the character, Seyfried said she sympathized with Jeanine’s struggles as a mother. “In my career, it’s still a bit new to play a mother.

The Beatles will be the subjects of four brand new movies!

Mubi has snapped up rights across multiple territories on Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger, the Martin Scorsese-narrated doc set to debut this week at the Berlin Film Festival.