The NYC band are due to hit the road this November in support of their fifth album ‘Only God Was Above Us’, which was released on April 5.
Ezra Koenig and co. were already scheduled to play two nights at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on December 4 and 5, as well as a show at the O2 Academy Brixton on December 10.
Now, they’ve confirmed a second appearance at the O2 Academy Brixton on December 11. Tickets for the additional date go on general sale at 9:30am BST this Friday (April 26) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.
Fans can access an O2 Priority pre-sale or a past booker pre-sale at the same time tomorrow (Wednesday 24) and Thursday (25), respectively. Visit here for more information.
Vampire Weekend’s 2024 UK and Ireland headline dates are:
NOVEMBER 29 – 3Arena, Dublin
DECEMBER 01 – O2 Apollo, Manchester 02 – O2 Apollo, Manchester 04 – Eventim Apollo, London 05 – Eventim Apollo, London 06 – The Halls, Wolverhampton 08 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow 10 – O2 Academy Brixton, London 11 – O2 Academy Brixton, London (new date)
In a four-star review of ‘Only God Was Above Us’, NME wrote: “It’s an ambitious concoction of sounds that don’t seem to exist in the same realm, yet intertwine naturally beneath Koenig’s increasingly sullen vocals.”
Luke Bryan fell over on stage after slipping on a fan’s mobile phone during a recent live show – watch the footage below.
The singer-songwriter and American Idol judge was performing at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada as part of the Coast City Country Festival last Saturday (April 20) when he took a tumble.
Bryan was seemingly unhurt, quickly lifting both arms into the air and laughing as he sat up. He then picked up the smartphone he had appeared to slip on and showed it to the audience.
“Hold on! Did anybody get that?” the musician asked. After checking his elbow for any injuries, Bryan threw the device back to a fan near the front. “It’s OK. Hey – my lawyer will be calling,” he joked while pointing at the culprit.
The singer went on to ask an audience member if he could watch their footage of his fall. When they agreed, Bryan held up the phone so the clip could be displayed on the venue’s big screens.
NEW: Country star Luke Bryan slips and falls during performance & then tells his production crew to put the fall on the big screen so he could watch a replay of it.
Well played.
Bryan, who appeared to be okay besides a bruise on his elbow, slipped on someone's smart phone… pic.twitter.com/2xFwIM8EIv
“There we go… there it is!” he responded as the video played out. He said he hoped the fall would give him a viral moment online, adding: “This is viral, alright? This is viral!”
According to US Weekly, Bryan even encouraged his fans to use a hashtag referencing his song ‘Love You, Miss You, Mean It’ when sharing the clip on social media. Check out the video in the post above.
Bryan is currently out on his 2024 ‘Mind Of A Country Boy Tour’. He’ll conclude the stint on Thursday (April 25) before the next part of the run kicks off in June.
His seventh and most recent album, ‘Born Here Live Here Die Here’, was released in 2020.
General weekend tickets went on sale last year. Now, organisers have put a limited amount of day tickets online for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You can buy yours here, along with any remaining weekend passes.
Standard day tickets are priced at £124.00 for adults and £58.00 for children. General weekend/camping passes cost £300 for adults and £113 for children. Under 16s must be accompanied by an 18+ ticketholder.
“Is it just going to be same-old-same-old?” said Homme. “You always have to give it your all and changing it every night is what we’re about, so it’s always going to be something different. I don’t think there’s any reason to trip out.”
He added: “And if you see someone with a sign that says, ‘Do this goddamn tune’ then it feels nice to just be able to react in the moment. We come bearing gifts, and we want to give everything away.”
You can revisit the full video interview for NME‘s ‘In Conversation’ series above.
Queens Of The Stone Age released their eighth and latest studio album, ‘In Times New Roman’, last June.
Last year’s edition of Download Festival saw Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon and Metallica take to the stage, with the latter playing two completely different sets across two nights.
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson opened for Kid Rock at two of the artist’s recent live shows – watch the footage below.
The singer-songwriter played two nights at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, Louisiana on April 5 and 6 as part of his current ‘Rock The Country’ tour with Jason Aldean.
Ahead of the headline sets, former Fox News presenter Carlson delivered a speech during an unexpected support slot at the venue (via Loudwire).
“You may be asking, what am I doing here?” said Carlson, who was standing behind a podium that displayed the message ‘United States Of ‘Merica – Kid Rock’. “And y’know? I don’t really know.”
He went on to tell the crowd that he ended up participating in the show after inviting Rock to his house for dinner a few months prior. “And he said, ‘You should come and open for me on my summer tour’,” Carlson recalled of the pair’s conversation.
“And I said, ‘I’m honoured, of course. But I don’t play an instrument. Actually, I’m an unemployed talk show host. So what would I do at your show?’ And he said, ‘You will figure it out, and you will like it!'”
Carlson explained that he initially had “no idea” what he was going to talk about at the gig. “I woke up this morning and I went on the internet. Familiar?” he continued. “And I read all these stories and I thought to myself, ‘This is the most depressing thing that’s happened to me in a long time’.”
He added: “This country is fucked up! That’s what I thought. I did think that, which is a sad thing to think […] But then I got here and I walked through the crowd, and I thought, ‘No. No, it’s not!”
Carlson explained: “The country they tell me about on the internet is fucked up. The country that I experience when I walk through this crowd, or when I wake up in my town of 100 people in a rural area, is a beautiful country filled with beautiful people.”
He then spoke about an encounter with a Trump supporter at the show before his speech: “She said, ‘I love you’. And I said, ‘I love you too’. And I meant it. And I thought, ‘That’s the America that I know’.
“[A] little weird, slightly crazy, full of love and beautiful. And that describes the man I’m here to introduce. Yes, it does. If you could take one person out of this nation of 350million people and present it to the rest of the world and say, ‘What’s a real American look like?’
“I would say, ‘That American would be both disobedient, but decent. That American would both give you the finger and burst out laughing at the same time’. That’s right!”
Carlson said: “Can you put a price on living free in the last free country? So let me tell you, my fellow Americans, what we’ve got. All gathered here tonight are free people united by our love of country and under God.
“And in the name of that country and that God, we’re here to celebrate a party that will not stop. And so, as I know you can, please be as noisy and disobedient as possible for Kid fucking Rock.”
Last December, Carlson interviewed Rock for his Tucker Carlson Network on YouTube. During the chat, the artist opened up about his friendship with former US President Donald Trump – calling him the “toughest son of a bitch I know” (via Newsweek).
“I can relate to him in a lot of ways,” he said at the time.
In 2017 Rock hinted that he would be running for US Senate in Michigan, but later confirmed that he would not be doing so. He told The Guardian in 2015: “I am definitely a Republican on fiscal issues and the military, but I lean to the middle on social issues.”
The Fleetwood Mac legend is due to play a solo headline set at the concert series on Friday, July 12. It comes as part of her 2024 UK and Ireland tour, which kicks off in Dublin earlier that month.
Today (April 23), it’s been confirmed that Brandi Carlile will support Nicks at Hyde Park this summer. Also on the bill are Anna Calvi and Paris Paloma, with “many more” acts still to be announced.
Writing on social media, Carlile said: “When @stevienicks asks, you get on the plane. London, it’s been too long. I cannot wait to see your sunburns at @bsthydepark this summer. Who’s coming?… apart from my mother-in-law and all of Catherine’s friends?”
Paloma wrote: “I’m beyond excited to be supporting @stevienicks at @bsthydepark this summer as well as @brandicarlile and @annacalvi This is an absolute dream come true and I still can’t quite believe it, what LEGENDS. Can’t wait to see you there .”
See those posts below.
Earlier this year, both Nicks and Carlile contributed to Dolly Parton‘s star-studded album ‘Rockstar’ alongside the likes of Paul McCartney, Debbie Harry and Elton John. Carlile has also previously spoken about Fleetwood Mac’s influence on her music.
She explained in 2015 (via Scene): “I always really liked Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks in particular. I have a penchant for their drama. I live in a band that is also my family. Things can get really strange and I love that about bands.”
In a statement in February about her upcoming BST show, Nicks said: “Anything that draws me back to London – and therefore to England – fills my heart with joy. And to be able to visit and make music… is always a dream come true.”
Madonna is being sued again over late starts to her live shows, with ticketholders in Washington D.C. accusing her of showing “total disrespect for her fans”.
The federal class action lawsuit was filed in D.C. federal court last Friday (April 19), according to Billboard. Three fans claim that the singer broke the law by arriving on stage two hours late at a pair of gigs at the Capital One Arena in December 2023.
The complaint, which also names entertainment giant Live Nation as a defendant, claims that the delayed starts to the ‘Celebration Tour’ concerts constitute “a wanton exercise in false advertising”.
Lawyers for the fans wrote: “Forcing consumers to wait hours for her performance in a hot, uncomfortable arena is demonstrative of Madonna’s arrogant and total disrespect for her fans.
“In essence, Madonna and Live Nation are a consumer’s worst nightmare.”
They added: “This complaint is not about unhappy fans who don’t want to stay up late, but instead, reasonable, responsible people who had commitments to babysitters, work, getting their vehicles out of parking lots that closed at 12:00 midnight, and realising that public transportation would no longer be operating.”
The suit is a proposed class action that aims to represent all ticketholders who experienced similar problems from the late starts.
In the case, the three fans – Elizabeth Halper-Asefi, Mary Conoboy, and Nestor Monte, Jr. – claim that Madonna did not take to the stage until 10:40pm, despite a scheduled start time of 8:30pm.
According to the suit, the Queen Of Pop told those in attendance: “I am sorry I am late… no, I am not sorry, it’s who I am… I’m always late.”
The star and Live Nation’s lawyers argued that “no reasonable concertgoers – and certainly no Madonna fan – would expect the headline act at a major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time”.
Additionally, they said fans could not take legal action over something they knew about when they purchased their tickets.
Lawyers for the new D.C. case called that argument “absurd”, writing: “In fact, reasonable consumers have seen that concerts featuring Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen, whose tours are also promoted by Live Nation, do start on the time indicated on the ticket and have similar experiences attending Broadway theatre, NFL football and Major League baseball games.”
The suit also claims that the arena was “uncomfortably hot”, and that Madonna herself had insisted on the high temperature. Fans are said to have chanted “A.C” at the star, but she allegedly responded: “Fuck you! I’m cold!… If you’re hot, take your fucking clothes off!”
Elsewhere, the new case accuses Madonna of lip-synching some parts of her D.C. performances – which it says is another case of false advertising: “Had plaintiffs and other class members known that […] the performer would be lip-synching, they would not have purchased their tickets.”
Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams has said she is “so ready” for the band’s upcoming support slots with Taylor Swift, while praising the singer’s new album.
Yesterday (April 22) Williams took to Instagram Stories to share various albums she had been listening to lately, including Swift’s 11th studio effort ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.
Williams continued: “Every one of us knows this kind of grief! It’s so impressive to me how specific and colourful Taylor’s words get without ever losing the universal thread.”
The singer concluded by saying she was “so ready to be tour-mates” with Swift once again. You can see a screenshot of the post below.
“To be able to play with an artist like her for me represents how long we’ve been at this, and how much shit we’ve seen,” she explained. “Now, it’s time to have a fun summer.”
During an appearance on The Adam Carolla Show last November, the singer’s wife and manager Sharon called for him to be considered for a Rock Hall induction as a soloist. “They know that Ozzy deserves to be there,” she said (via Billboard).
“They know he’s been a solo artist. You’ve gotta be doing it for 24 years. He’s been 43 years as a solo artist. He sold nearly a hundred million albums as a solo artist. So where is he? Induct him!”
She went on to say that she and Ozzy had attended a dinner for the 2023 Rock Hall inductees: “And people were saying to Ozzy, ‘Oh, you’ve been inducted in’, and we were like, ‘No, actually. We were just invited for the food, so we’re here’. That’s as near as we’ve got, but no.”
But Sharon said she would “never beg” for Ozzy to be inducted, adding: “And I will never ask for favours. I’ve never asked anyone for a favour. So, my thing is fuck you if you don’t realise that somebody really deserves to be here. And you don’t recognise that? Then, see ya!”
Taking to social media yesterday, Sharon said: “Thank you to all of you who voted!! This means the world to Ozzy!!! .” See that post below.
Responding to his eventual nomination earlier this year, Ozzy wrote: I’m deeply honored to receive this news from the @RockHall. To be one of the few musicians who’s being considered for a second entry, now as a solo artist, is something I could never have imagined.
“After 44 years as a solo artist the fact that I can continue to record music and receive this recognition is something I am incredibly proud of.”
The Specials‘ Lynval Golding delivered a speech about No Doubt backstage at Coachella 2024 ahead of the band’s reunion show at the festival – watch it below.
Prior to the career-spanning, 16-song set, Golding gave an encouraging message to the camera about Stefani and co’s long-awaited return. “I can tell you one thing, right,” the musician began. “I know exactly how they’re feeling right now.”
He continued by explaining that it had previously taken him five years to get The Specials back together, adding: “And my God, what an emotional time that was. When we hit the stage that first night, it was incredible.
“So I know when these guys go on the tears are gonna be falling through happiness and joy and love. And I just wish them so well – it’s gonna be a killer night. The guys… wow! What can I say? So pleased to be here tonight celebrating with them.”
Golding signed off by sending his “love and respect” to No Doubt – whose material blends ska with rock, punk, reggae and pop. The clip goes on to show the band making their way from the backstage area to the Coachella main stage.
In the caption, they wrote: “Our first gig together in 9 years! Legend @lynvalgolding of @thespecials shares some profound and heartfelt words before we hit the stage at @coachella Weekend One.” See the post above.
“Well, I don’t have a crystal ball,” she explained. “Most things have surprised me in life. One of the things I’ve learned is to be present in the moment and try to absorb what’s happening around me instead of looking ahead.”
The 58th edition of the prestigious Swiss event is due to take place on the Lake Geneva shoreline between July 5-20. Tickets go on general sale at 11am BST tomorrow (Friday, April 19) – you’ll be able to buy yours here.
Artists for the stage’s opening day are yet to be confirmed.
The Casino Stage programme, meanwhile, “blurs the lines between jazz, afrobeats, pop and rap”. A description adds: “Steeped in musical history, this intimate setting has also proved the ideal stage for established artists to present special, unique projects.”
Additionally, former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason will bring his Saucerful Of Secrets project to the Casino Stage on July 13.
Montreux Jazz Festival 2024 line-up. CREDIT: Press
“On 21 November 1970, hippies from all over Europe gathered for Pink Floyd’s concert at the Casino,” a press release reads. “More than 50 years later, Nick Mason’s comeback echoes that moment with a performance of the same material.”
It adds: “With his Saucerful of Secrets project, the Floyd drummer and co-founder will focus on the band’s founding years, from 1967 to 1972, including the Syd Barrett period and cult hits such as ‘Atom Heart Mother’ and ‘Echoes’.
Montreux Jazz Festival 2024 will also boast 11 free stages, including the Lake House. The free programme is set to be announced in full on June 5.
This year’s festival will feature a brand-new layout in the town of Montreux as a result of ongoing construction work on the Music & Convention Centre, which typically hosts the event’s main stages.
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