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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced South American, UK, European and North American tour dates for next year – see the list of dates below.Yesterday (November 7), King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard took to social media to announce the upcoming 2024 tour, which will see the six-piece perform 58 concerts across South America, Europe and North America, beginning in March and ending in November.Announcing 58 new shows for 2024 WOO!Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Colombia, Belgium, Germany, Czechia, Austria,…Posted by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on Tuesday, November 7, 2023Tickets to all of King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard’s announced tour dates go on public sale on Friday (November 10) with pre-sales going live today (November 8) at 9am GMT via the band’s official website.The band most recently released their 25th studio album, ‘The Silver Chord’, last month.

The Last Dinner Party have announced a European headline tour for 2024 – find all the details below.The London band and NME 100 alumni are set to hit the road early next year in support of their debut album ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’, which is out on February 2.They’ll kick off the run of dates in Berlin on February 16 before making stop-offs in Cologne (17), Amsterdam (19), Paris (20), Brussels (21) Zurich (23), Milan (25) and Vienna (26).Tickets go on general sale 10am CET/ 9am GMT next Monday (November 13) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale at the same time this Friday (November 10) by pre-ordering The Last Dinner Party’s album here before 3pm CET/ 2pm GMT on Thursday (November 9).Writing on social media to confirm the upcoming gigs, The Last Dinner Party said: “Europe…we promised we’d come back for you. We’re setting sail at the gateway of 2024 on our headline tour to peddle our musical wares far and wide ⚓️.”Pre-order our debut album ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’ from eligible stores before Thursday 9th November at 3pm CET for pre-sale access.Pre-sale begins Friday 10th November at 10am CET.

Seven years after her skillful debut Park, which played Toronto and San Sebastian, where it won the New Directors Award, Greek filmmaker Sofia Exarchou has returned with her sophomore outing. 

Christopher Vourlias XYZ Films has acquired North American sales rights to the horror-thriller “Deus Irae,” the debut feature of Argentine filmmaker Pedro Cristiani, and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming AFM. Variety has been given exclusive access to the film’s bone-chilling trailer (see below).

Underworld have announced a series of UK and EU tour dates for next year. Find ticket details below.The British electronic duo – comprised of Rick Smith and Karl Hyde – will hit the road throughout 2024 for a series of live performances, including three shows in the UK.The announcement comes in light of their recently released hypnotic single ‘Denver Luna’, which arrived earlier this year and also came in an Acapella format.

Griff has announced details of a new tour, set to take place across the UK and Europe next year. Find ticket information below.The new tour dates arrive on the heels of the singer’s newly released EP, ‘vert1go vol.1’, which arrived last Friday (October 20) via Warner.It also comes after the 22-year-old completed her recent intimate shows to celebrate the new release, which took place in London, Berlin and Paris earlier this month.Set to kick off next spring, the dates will start at the Debaser Strand venue in Stockholm on March 10, before continuing the following day with a show at the Parkteateret in Oslo.

Victor Lindelof communicated the Sweden team's desire for their game against Belgium to be abandoned to UEFA on Monday night following a terrorist attack in Brussels which saw two people shot dead.

The UK Foreign Office has issued fresh travel guidance for Belgium after two Swedish football fans were fatally shot in the street in Brussels on Monday. Police have since shot dead a suspected Tunisuan extremist accused of killing the two Swedes.

Mitski has shared details of an upcoming tour of the UK and Europe in 2024 – find ticket details below.The new live shows come in support of the American artist’s latest album ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’. Released via Dead Oceans, the LP marks her seventh studio album and hears the singer return to more analogue and organic roots.Since the release Mitski has gone on to play various acoustic performances of the record in cities across North America, the UK and Europe.

Two people were shot dead by a lone gunman in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Monday evening in a developing situation, according to local media reports.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Tallinn Black Nights, one of the biggest film festivals in Northern Europe, has revealed the full lineup of its Official Selection Competition, with films by Emma Dante, Călin Peter Netzer, Gust Van den Berghe and Rezo Gigineishvili in the running. There are seven international premieres and 13 world premieres. The festival’s 27th edition runs Nov.

Bar Italia have shared their latest single ‘Jelsy’ and have announced an art exhibition set to take place in London.‘Jelsy’ is the second track to be released from the band’s upcoming LP ‘The Twits’. It follows the lead single ‘My Little Tony’. The track features the band’s – comprised of Nina Cristante, Sam Fenton and Jezmi Fehmi – three-way vocal dynamic and comes with a black-and-white video of the band performing the song in a bar while drinking.Along with the release of ‘Jelsy’ the band have announced that they will be hosting an art exhibit titled ‘Drawings By Bar Italia’ in London’s Frieze Gallery on October 27.

Ben Croll Brussels-based co-production and financing powerhouse Umedia — the backer of recent festival sensation “How to Have Sex” and French Oscar submission “The Taste of Things” — is branching out. Complimenting co-production, tax shelter fundraising and VFX services through subsidiary UFX Studios, Umedia has now launched a development branch to bring in-house productions to the screen.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in traffic lights in Manchester in a UK first, it's been announced. Google has revealed a trial is now underway designed to reduce so-called 'stop-go' emissions and improve the flow of traffic across the city.

Madison Beer has announced her 2024 ‘Spinnin’ world tour that is set to kick off early next year in support of her LP ‘Silence Between Songs‘.The 52-date tour is set to commence on February 24, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden. From there, the pop singer will make her way through Europe, making stops in major cities such as Oslo, Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Cologne, Warsaw, Munich, Vienna, Prague, Zurich, Milan, Barcelona and Madrid. Beer will then head to the UK In March with shows in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and London.Her US dates will kick off in mid April in Minneapolis.

Marco Chimenz, Co-CEO of Italy’s Cattleya the prominent ITV-owned outfit behind “Gomorrah” and “ZeroZeroZero,” will be leaving the company in January to join pan-European powerhouse Federation Studios. At Federation Chimenz will serve as group co-managing director of the expanding production and distribution studio that currently comprises 35 production companies, working closely with founder and CEO Pascal Breton and Federation co-director Lionel Uzan.

The Gaslight Anthem have shared news of a 2024 UK and European tour as well as a headline slot at next year’s 2000Trees festival – find ticket info and more below.The New Jersey rockers will head to cities including Stockholm, Brussels, Dublin, Manchester and Glasgow from March 2024, with two stops at London’s Roundhouse venue (March 25-26). Emily Wolfe supports the band for the spring shows.Later that summer the band play Nottingham’s Rock City (July 10) ahead of their headline show at Cheltenham’s 2000trees festival (July 11).Tickets for the 2024 UK and European tour go on sale this Friday (October 6) at 10am BST here.

Beartooth have announced details of an upcoming UK and European tour set to take place next autumn. Find a full list of upcoming shows and ticket details below.Kicking off in October next year, the tour will see the American rockers launch the dates with six shows across Germany before making stops in Vienna, France and Belgium.

Yard Act have confirmed details of a huge UK and European tour to take place in 2024 – see the dates below and buy tickets here.The Leeds band returned this summer with new single ‘The Trench Coat Museum’ and promises of a follow-up to their Mercury Prize-nominated 2022 debut album ‘The Overload’.The new tour will begin in March next year with 11 UK and Irish dates ending at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith.Then, they will head to the continent for a series of gigs that begin in Nantes on April 4 and wrap up on April 28 in Brussels.Pre-sale tickets for the tour will go on sale here from 10am BST on Wednesday (September 27), with a general sale beginning at the same time on Friday (September 29).Buy your tickets here and see the full list of Yard Act tour dates below.MARCH 202413 – Norwich, UEA14 – Nottingham, Rock City15 – Glasgow, O2 Academy16 – Manchester, O2 Apollo17 – Newcastle, Northumbria University19 – Belfast, Mandela Hall20 – Dublin, Vicar Street22 – Liverpool, Invisible Wind Factory23 – Bristol, O2 Academy25 – Brighton, Dome27 – London, Eventim ApolloAPRIL 20244 – Nantes, Stereolux5 – Paris, Cabaret Sauvage6 – Bordeaux, Rock School Barbey8 – Lisbon, Lav9 – Madrid, Mon11 – Barcelona, La 212 – Lyon, Le Transbordeur13 – Bologna, Locomotiv Club14 – Milan, Santeria Toscana 3116 – Zurich, Mascotte17 – Munich, Muffathalle18 – Berlin, Festsaal Kreuzberg20 – Stockholm, Slaktkyrkan24 – Hamburg, Uebel & Gefährlich25 – Amsterdam, Paradiso26 – Nijmegen, Doornrosie27 – Cologne, Kantine28 – Brussels, Les Nuits BotaniqueYard Act spoke about their second album in an interview with NME earlier this year, with frontman James Smith saying it concerns “getting everything you ever wanted and realising that the misery and

PJ Harvey played her first gig in six years in Dublin last night (September 23) – check out the setlist and footage below.The artist started the evening by playing her new album, ‘I Inside The Old Year Dying’, in full before digging further into her back catalogue, dusting off a few songs she hadn’t played live in some time.Harvey performed ‘Angelene’, from her 1998 LP ‘Is This Desire?’, for the first time since 2012, while ‘The Desperate Kingdom Of Love’, ‘Dress’ and ‘Man-Size’ also got their first live airings for a decade.The artist wrapped up the show with classics ‘Down By The Water’ and ‘To Bring You My Love’ before returning for an encore of ‘C’mon Billy’ and ‘White Chalk’.The setlist for PJ Harvey’s Dublin show is as follows:‘Prayer At The Gate’‘Autumn Term’‘Lwonesome Tonight’‘Seem An I’‘The Nether-edge’‘I Inside The Old Year Dying’‘All Souls’‘A Child’s Question, August’‘I Inside The Old I Dying’‘August’‘A Child’s Question, July’‘A Noiseless Noise’‘The Color Of The Earth’‘The Glorious Land’‘The Words That Maketh Murder’‘Angelene’‘Send His Love To Me’‘The Garden’‘The Desperate Kingdom Of Love’‘Man-Size’‘Dress’‘Down By The Water’‘To Bring You My Love’‘C’mon Billy’‘White Chalk’Harvey is on tour across the UK and Europe until the end of October – you can check out the dates below and purchase tickets here.SEPTEMBER25 – Barrowland, Glasgow26 – Barrowland, Glasgow28 – Roundhouse, London29 – Roundhouse, LondonOCTOBER2 – Albert Hall, Manchester3 – Albert Hall, Manchester6 – Paradiso, Amsterdam7 – Paradiso, Amsterdam9 – Cirque Royal, Brussels10 – Cirque Royal, Brussels12 – Olympia, Paris13 – Olympia, Paris15 – Volkshaus, Zurich16 – Volkshaus, Zurich18 – Velký sál Lucerna, Prague19 – Velký sál Lucerna, Prague21 –

Dylan has returned with new single ‘Rebel Child’, which she’s called “my own anthem” and a “main character moment”.The track follows the singer’s recent song ‘Liar Liar’, featuring vocals from Bastille frontman Dan Smith, and comes after she announced rescheduled UK and European tour dates for 2024.Of ‘Rebel Child’, Dylan said in a statement: “First off, I LOVE this song. I basically wanted my own theme tune – my main character moment.

As Yahoo News reports, the artist was also part of a provocative artist scene alongside singer Grand Jojo and The Sex Life of the Belgians director Jan Bucquoy. Deprijck went on to create his own surreal works which included an underpants museum in Lessines.‘Ca Plane Pour Moi’, known as ‘Everything’s Going Well For Me’ when translated from French, became a smash hit in 1977 for the Belgian artist Plastic Bertrand.

Dylan has rescheduled all of the UK, US and European dates of her ‘Rebel Child’ tour to early 2024.Originally set to kick off on October 27 at Vicar Street in Dublin, Dylan’s UK and European leg of the tour will now begin on January 31 in Munich, Germany. From there, the musician will make stops in London, Glasgow, Dublin, Leeds, Cambridge, Oxford, Cardiff and Bournemouth between February 15 and 25.The North American leg of the tour will now kick off on April 3.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has revealed a raft of deals for key territories for Ramata-Toulaye Sy‘s feature film debut, “Banel & Adama,” which played in competition in Cannes and makes its North American premiere in Toronto. Variety reviewed it as “a dreamlike debut” in May. The film just won the Melbourne International Film Festival’s top prize, the Bright Horizons Award.

While Manchester basks in an early autumn heatwave, many holidaymakers will have already made plans to escape for guaranteed sunshine this week.

Tunisia has picked Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters, which debuted in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars. 

Xavier Giannoli is one of those rare French directors who has a stronger relationship with the Venice Film Festival than Cannes back home.

Bakar caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2023, to tell us about his love of Foals and going “back to his true indie rock roots” on new album ‘Halo’. Watch our full video interview above.The London singer-songwriter spoke to us just after he’d made his main stage debut at R&L, but the fourth time he’d played at the hallowed festival overall.“It always feels like a home festival,” Bakar told NME. “I like it in the summer when you go and do all these festivals in Europe and America, and come back to a good, nice home reception.“I still feel like we’re in our infancy here because it’s like they made us do the rounds to get the main stage.

With just one week left of the school holidays many people will be using this bank holiday to jet off abroad. If you are flying to your destination then it’s important to check the status of your flight on the day.

Billie Eilish is flying just like everybody else.