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The legendary Irish rebel band tell NME about their final London gig this summer, being pals with Oasis and their impact on the current boom in Irish music
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After playing a surprise gig at The Faltering Fullback in London last night (April 28), The Wolfe Tones‘ frontman Brian Warfield has spoken to NME about their upcoming final shows and long-lasting legacy. Check out footage from the show above and our interview with the band below.
The legendary Irish rebel band have chosen to commemorate their 60th anniversary as a band by formally calling an end to their career with a run of final concerts.
Their final ever shows will take place in Dublin’s sold out 3Arena on October 11 and 12, and before that they will play to their biggest ever audience at London’s Finsbury Park on July 5 – you can get your tickets for that here.
They warmed up for those huge shows with a surprise intimate performance in Finsbury Park pub The Faltering Fullback last night, when NME caught up with frontman Brian Warfield to discuss coming to terms with the end of the band, their legacy to “the Irish diaspora” and their impact on the current boom in Irish guitar music.
NME: Hello Brian – 60 years of the band you formed as a teenager are coming to an end. Have you come to terms with it?
Brian Warfield: “Yeah, we more or less have. I think this retirement is the only thing we’ve ever planned, and there’s been a wonderful response all over Ireland, and all over England as well. We’ll always have a huge crowd, but we just can’t go on forever. We haven’t shut the door; something might come up that we can do as a one-off in the future, but at the moment, that’s the plan.
“It’s been a long time, 60 years on the road. It started back in 1964, and we got a contract with Fontana Records, and we were very, very excited about the fact that we got a quarter-page in the NME. It was very special that we had that, seeing us there with all the pop stars and everything else. I think we got as far as about Number 70 on the NME charts! We were over the moon.”
You’ve obviously seen a lot of changes in that time. Have audiences changed over the years?
“Actually, no. Funnily enough, we have been very lucky that we’ve carried the young people of each generation with us. It was very important for the young people of Ireland that they had something with the Irish spirit and an Irish story that they could relate to. It wasn’t just pop songs or pop music, it was a story with a message and with historic content.
“We tried to make Irish people proud, both in Ireland and across the diaspora in England, Scotland, Wales, America, Australia, New Zealand and across Europe. We’ve really had a wonderful time, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of people. I think we’re very special to the Irish diaspora and they’re very special to us.”
You’ve got one last chance to perform in London coming up on July 5 in Finsbury Park. How special will that night be for you?
“It’s going to be really, really special. I think it’s going to be the biggest crowd ever at an Irish festival, we’ve had traction on the website of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people wanting to get there. You know, there are probably 6million Irish in Britain, and they love the music and they love the craic. They’re all gonna be there.”
Do you think Irish rebel music resonates with people now in the same way that it did when you started out?
“It’s much more acceptable now than it was. We went through The Troubles in Ireland, which were very hurtful to the Irish people and to Irish communities abroad. I suppose a lot of things were taken out against the Irish community – people would say, ‘Oh, they’re Irish, they’re bloody bombers’ or whatever, you know? There was a lot of demonisation of Irish communities, and the only people speaking up for them at the time was The Wolfe Tones.
“That was very special to us, because we didn’t like to see the Irish people hurting, no matter where they were. During the time of the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six and all that, we did a show in the Hackney Town Hall to highlight the fact that these people were innocent of the crimes they were accused of. No-one wanted to listen at that stage. One of those jailed once told us, ‘You wouldn’t realise, Brian, what it meant to us in prison when someone came out with a song supporting us. It gave us light at the end of the tunnel, it gave a hope that we would at last be exonerated from something that we didn’t have anything to do with’.”
Irish music is going through a real boom period at the moment, with the likes of Fontaines D.C., Kneecap, The Murder Capital and The Mary Wallopers. A lot of bands have cited you as an inspiration. Do you see the legacy that you have left behind there?
“I do see it when I meet people from other groups who say things like, ‘If only for you guys, we wouldn’t be here’. They found that a group singing Irish music could be very successful in the world, so by watching us, they had hope for themselves to be able to sing the songs of Ireland and still have an element of success in the music industry. I think that was very important, because let’s put it this way, The Wolfe Tones were never played on radio in Ireland, the only way you could hear us was either by CD or else go to one of the shows. And that’s why the shows were very important, they gave people an idea of the spirit that Irish song has.”
Do you see the new bands as continuing your legacy?
“Yeah, Tere are so many new bands coming out at the moment, I can’t keep up with them all. There always have been great Irish bands in Ireland, and from London too – look at the way The Pogues came out of that scene, they used to open for us in The National [in Kilburn, London]. I suppose we’re responsible for a lot of music. The Gallaghers were great supporters of The Wolfe Tones back in the day in Manchester, when we used to go to the Carousel Ballroom and have it packed out with 2000 people.
“We must have been somewhat important to people, it makes you feel very good. We never knew that, of course, but it’s wonderful to hear them show appreciation. It’s all in the past, it’s coming to an end, but it makes you feel very humbled by the great praise that we get from other people.”
The Wolfe Tones play their last London show at Finsbury Park on July 5. Tickets are available here.
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The Dublin band will hit Europe before performing across the UK and Ireland later this year
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Fontaines D.C. have announced a 2024 European ‘ROMANCE’ tour. Find all the details below.
The Dublin band’s new dates come after they announced their 2024 ‘ROMANCE’ UK and Ireland tour in support of their fourth album of the same name, which is due for release on August 23 via XL Recordings (pre-order/pre-save here).
The European leg is due to kick on November 1 in at Sagres Campo Pequeno in Lisbon, followed by dates in Madrid, Berlin, Paris and more, before they wrapped up at AFAS Live in Amsterdam on November 16.
From there, the band will continue on to their remaining dates, which includes two nights at London’s Alexandra Palace.
Wunderhorse will be joining as special guests across the European dates.
Tickets for the European shows go on sale this Friday (May 3) at 9am BST/10am CET from here. Any remaining tickets for UK dates can be purchased here.
NOVEMBER
1 – Lisbon, Portugal, Sagres Campo Pequeno
2 – Madrid, Spain, WiZink Center
4 – Milan, Italy, Alcatraz
5 – Zurich, Switzerland, X-TRA
7 – Munich, Germany, Zenith
8 – Berlin, Germany, Verti Music Hall
9 – Frederiksberg, Denmark, K.B. Hallen
11 – Hamburg, Germany, Sporthalle
12 – Cologne, Germany, E-Werk
13 – Paris, France, Zénith De Paris
15 – Bruxelles, Belgium, Forest National
16 – Amsterdam, Netherlands, AFAS Live
Along with their headline tour, Fontaines D.C. are also scheduled to make appearances at Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, Pukkelpop and Sziget among other festivals across the season.
Their forthcoming new album has so far been previewed by new single ‘Starbuster’. In a five-star review of the track, NME said the song was “their most experimental work yet”, adding that they’d “taken a perfect left turn” to usher in the next chapter.
Elsewhere, last week footage resurfaced of a pre-fame Fontaines D.C. performing a cover of The Strokes‘ ‘Reptilia’ in 2014.
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The deal will see over 65,000 songs added to Blackstone’s music rights portfolio
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The bidding war for Hipgnosis Song Fund has escalated, as Blackstone has agreed to acquire the company for $1.6billion (£1.28b).
The deal will see Blackstone value the music rights investor at $1.30 (£1.04) per share, and has trumped a previous offer from Concord for the music rights of artists including Shakira, Ed Sheeran, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and more. The offer put forward by Concord was $1.25 per share (£1).
Blackstone has already acquired the rights to songs by Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake, and this current deal will see more than 65,000 more tracks added to its catalogue.
As highlighted by Reuters, Blackstone has also invested in U.S. performance rights organisation SESAC – whose affiliates include rock veteran Bob Dylan and 16-time Grammy winner Adele.
Its offer of $1.6billion was made today (April 29), and comes just days after Concord outbid the firm by 10 cents, and won Hipgnosis’s board backing for the deal. Hipgnosis has since withdrawn its recommendation for the offer and followed through with the offer from Blackstone.
“We are delighted that, following competitive interests in acquiring Hipgnosis, our investors now have a chance to immediately realise their holding at an increased premium,” said Hipgnosis Chairman Robert Naylor in a new statement (via Reuters).
Blackstone is a majority shareholder in Hipgnosis’ investment adviser, HSM. The adviser manages artists and songwriters for the fund, as well as holding a call option to make a higher offer for Hipgnosis’ portfolio if their advisory agreement were to be terminated.
The news of a deal comes after the music fund – set up and launched by Chic legend Nile Rodgers and Merck Mercuriadis (former manager of Elton John and Beyoncé) – was mired by financial troubles last year. These included concerns around valuations, board and legal battles and a shareholder revolt against a catalogue sale deal.
Last December, Hipgnosis was set to share its half-year results, but said it was delaying the publication of the results due to concerns that music catalogues and songs are not being valued high enough.
In March, it was reported that the Songs Fund hit a record low, as a review estimated the fair value of its catalogue at between £1.8billion and just over £2billion. The report – carried out by its lead adviser Shot Tower – showed that the value had declined by at least a fifth on that reported by Hipgnosis in September 2023.
The stock hitting a record low also comes after reports emerged that the brand spent $1billion (£720m) on acquiring artists’ back catalogues in 2021. These included purchasing the catalogues of artists including Lindsey Buckingham and Blondie, as well as Jimmy Iovine’s worldwide producer royalties and half of Neil Young’s songs in a deal estimated at $150million (£110million).
Shakira also sold all 145 of her songs to Hipgnosis, including ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, ‘She Wolf’ and ‘Whenever, Wherever’, all part of the deal.
At the time, Mercuriadis said that cultural importance is key when it comes to the artists whose back catalogues they have acquired.
“So, with over £1bn invested, we only own 57,000 songs. But 10,000 of them are Top 10 songs, almost 3,000 of them are No.1 songs. So it’s a very small catalogue, relative to Universal, Warner or Sony. But the ratio of success within that catalogue is very high, there are very few songs that are not successes.”
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A spokesperson said the couple had “amicably divorced” after more than a decade together
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U2‘s Adam Clayton has announced his divorce from wife Mariana Teixeira de Carvalho after 10 years of marriage.
A spokesperson for the couple confirmed the news to the Sunday World yesterday (April 29), who said they had parted on good terms and were “amicably divorced”.
They will continue to co-parent their six-year-old daughter Alba together. Clayton is also father to a son, born in 2010, from a previous relationship.
In a statement, their spokesperson said: “After more than 10 years of marriage, musician Adam Clayton and lawyer Mariana Teixeira de Carvalho have amicably divorced.
“Both will continue to be fully involved in the care of their daughter and they request that the family’s privacy be respected.”
The couple met in de Carvalho’s home country of Brazil before marrying in September 2013 at a Dublin registry office after four years together. They hosted another celebration in Mandelieu-la-Napoule near to Cannes a few days later where Clayton’s U2 bandmates – Bono, The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr. were in attendance.
In 2017, they announced the birth of their daughter with a notice in The Irish Times that read (via Daily Mail): “Adam and Mariana Clayton are delighted to announce the birth of their beautiful baby girl Alba.”
The Irish musician was previously briefly engaged to supermodel Naomi Campbell in 1994. He was also engaged in 2006 to Suzie Smith, former assistant to U2’s manager Paul McGuinness, before they split the following year.
U2 recently wrapped up their huge residency at the Las Vegas Sphere. In a five-star review from the opening night of the residency, NME said the show “truly takes your breath away”.
“They pull off a dazzling series of technological tricks right from the outset as whirring drones whizz past the audience while everything from giant helicopters, falling letters, widescreen desert landscapes and even a projection of the Sphere itself come hurtling towards the audience.”
The band recently shared a clip of them performing ‘Beautiful Day’ for the final time at their Las Vegas residency at the Sphere.
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The track has quickly become a fan favourite since its release last week
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American hardcore outfit Knocked Loose have brought out Poppy to perform ‘Suffocate’ at Sick New World – watch fan-shot footage of the performance below.
Last week, Knocked Loose released a new song, ‘Suffocate’ featuring Poppy. The track marks the third single from the hardcore band’s upcoming third album ‘You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To’, which is due for release on May 10 via Pure Noise.
This marks the first time that ‘Suffocate’ has been performed live, as Poppy joined the band onstage in Las Vegas halfway through the track. Watch the performance below.
Elsewhere during their set, Knocked Loose performed a tight career-spanning set that consisted of hits such as ‘Counting Worms’, ‘Everything Is Quiet Now’ and ‘Billy No Mates’.
Prior to releasing ‘Suffocate’, Knocked Loose released the lead single ‘Blinding Faith’ in February to accompany the album’s reveal, followed by ‘Don’t Reach For Me’ in March.
On the Poppy front, ‘Suffocate’ comes after she collaborated with Bad Omens on ‘V.A.N.’ earlier this year. The track marked her first release since dropping her latest album ‘Zig’ in October last year.
NME caught up with Poppy to chat about the album, during which she spoke about the importance of mystery in her music: “I prefer to let people interpret them. I feel like they change meaning over time and sometimes it’s a little bit too personal – not with ‘Motorbike’, that one’s not as close [to me]. But I feel like sometimes it gets a little bit washed out if you over-explain what a song is about to you. Because once it’s out there, it belongs to them, whoever they are.”
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The rock legends performed fan favourite hits along with tracks from new album ‘Hackney Diamonds’
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The Rolling Stones kicked off their 2024 ‘Hackney Diamonds’ tour in Houston last night (April 28) – check out the full setlist, footage and pictures below.
The legendary rockers – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – opened the first night of their 2024 North American tour at NRG Stadium with hits like ‘Start Me Up’, ‘Paint It Black’ and ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’.
There was a live debut for ‘Hackney Diamonds’ song ‘Mess It Up’, along with a performance of ‘Little T&A’ for the first time since 2016.
Early in the set, the band also performed fan-favourite deep cut ‘Out of Time’ live for the first time in the US.
“Thank you Houston! You were an amazing audience for opening night!” shared the band on Instagram this morning (April 29).
The concert kicked off a 16-date North American tour in support of their latest album, which will continue on to cities like Las Vegas, Orlando, Chicago Los Angeles and more throughout May, June and July.
‘Start Me Up’
‘Get Off of My Cloud’
‘Rocks Off’
‘Out of Time’
‘Angry’
‘Beast of Burden’
‘Mess It Up’
‘Tumbling Dice’
‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’
‘Little T&A’
‘Sympathy for the Devil’
‘Gimme Shelter’
‘Honky Tonk Women’
‘Miss You’
‘Paint It Black’
‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’
‘Sweet Sounds of Heaven’
‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’
Check out fan-shot footage and photos from the set below.
Mick Jagger says he thinks they’ve never played this song in the US #rollingstones #hackneydiamondstour pic.twitter.com/29ppIPvf4r
— Joey Guerra
(@joeyguerra) April 29, 2024
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— Florida Pete
(@pbyrond) April 29, 2024
The Rolling Stones Paint It Black from Houston pic.twitter.com/3ZxTQv73W7
— Florida Pete
(@pbyrond) April 29, 2024
Gary Clark Jr. opened for The Rolling Stones in Houston last night, with a host of support acts due to open the remaining nights of the tour including The Pretty Reckless, Joe Bonamassa, The Linda Lindas and more.
Check out the full dates for the US ‘Hackney Diamonds’ tour and purchase any last minute tickets here.
Reviewing ‘Hackney Diamonds’ in October – their first studio album of new material since 2005’s ‘A Bigger Bang’ – NME described the record as an “absolute barnstormer”.
The four-star write-up added: “But if ‘Hackney Diamonds’ does round off the most successful career in rock music ever, it wouldn’t be a bad place to leave it. A natural end, but definitely not a normal one.”
Ronnie Woods recently spoke to NME about the “explosive” new songs and how they would translate live. “I have complete faith. We could play the whole album, you know what I mean? But [Mick and Keith] will go, ‘Oh no Ron, that’s so ambitious’. We’re not gonna forget the back catalogue,” he shared.
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“Well, I guess this is growing up”
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Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have shared a new Sunday Lunch video, during which they cover Blink-182‘s ‘Dammit’ – watch the spirited cover below.
On Sunday (April 28), Willcox and Fripp shared the latest of their Sunday Lunch videos, for which they began recording and posting covers of popular songs in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 lockdowns and have been running with ever since due to its popularity.
For their latest cover, Fripp and Willcox have taken on Blink-182’s ‘Dammit’, beginning with a false start. After putting on a spirited performance, Toyah calls it an “elderly edition” of Sunday Lunch, causing her spouse to erupt in laughter.
Watch Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp’s cover of ‘Dammit’ below.
The pair’s recent covers include the Beastie Boys classic ‘Fight For Your Right’, Michael Jackson’s ‘Give In To Me’, Bon Jovi’s ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’, The Black Keys’ ‘Lonely Boy’, and Richard Berry’s ‘Have Love, Will Travel’.
Later this year, Fripp and Toyah Willcox are set to embark on a string of string of live dates during the holidays following the success of their Sunday Lunch YouTube series and their critically acclaimed Tour of ’23.
The couple will kick off the shows on December 16 at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh. From there, they will make their way to Sunderland, Bath, and London before wrapping up the dates on December 22 at the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton. Tickets are on sale now. Visit here to purchase tickets.
Last year, the pair brought their viral lockdown concept to the live stage at Glastonbury, where they performed David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’. They also looked back at the success of their series backstage with NME, sharing that the response “did surprise us”.
Meanwhile, there’s even a possibility that the Sunday Lunch series could be turned into a movie (or two), sharing in September that the weekly uploads had caught the eye of a “big production company”.
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“Well, I guess this is growing up”
The post Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Blink-182’s ‘Dammit’ in new Sunday Lunch video appeared first on NME.
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have shared a new Sunday Lunch video, during which they cover Blink-182‘s ‘Dammit’ – watch the spirited cover below.
On Sunday (April 28), Willcox and Fripp shared the latest of their Sunday Lunch videos, for which they began recording and posting covers of popular songs in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 lockdowns and have been running with ever since due to its popularity.
For their latest cover, Fripp and Willcox have taken on Blink-182’s ‘Dammit’, beginning with a false start. After putting on a spirited performance, Toyah calls it an “elderly edition” of Sunday Lunch, causing her spouse to erupt in laughter.
Watch Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp’s cover of ‘Dammit’ below.
The pair’s recent covers include the Beastie Boys classic ‘Fight For Your Right’, Michael Jackson’s ‘Give In To Me’, Bon Jovi’s ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’, The Black Keys’ ‘Lonely Boy’, and Richard Berry’s ‘Have Love, Will Travel’.
Later this year, Fripp and Toyah Willcox are set to embark on a string of string of live dates during the holidays following the success of their Sunday Lunch YouTube series and their critically acclaimed Tour of ’23.
The couple will kick off the shows on December 16 at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh. From there, they will make their way to Sunderland, Bath, and London before wrapping up the dates on December 22 at the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton. Tickets are on sale now. Visit here to purchase tickets.
Last year, the pair brought their viral lockdown concept to the live stage at Glastonbury, where they performed David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’. They also looked back at the success of their series backstage with NME, sharing that the response “did surprise us”.
Meanwhile, there’s even a possibility that the Sunday Lunch series could be turned into a movie (or two), sharing in September that the weekly uploads had caught the eye of a “big production company”.
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