Adele announces Kacey Musgraves, Nilüfer Yanya, Gabrielle and more as openers for London shows

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe story of women in country music is being written anew every day, but it needs its actual scriveners, too, to keep a record of what progress is or isn’t being made in a genre that sometimes has wavered between nourishing and ignoring its queens. That role has been well-filled in recent years by music journalist Marissa R.

Adele gave a personal look inside of her relationship with Rich Paul. During the latest episode of BBC Sounds' s, the 34-year-old shared the key piece of advice she gets from the sports agent that pushes her out of her comfort zone. While speaking with host Lauren Laverne, the “Water Under The Bridge” singer shared that she would spend years out of the spotlight, mastering how to be seen if she wants.

Two Adele fans got the surprise of their lives on Saturday.

Adele has opened up about being forced to postpone her Weekends With Adele Las Vegas residency earlier this year.The singer was due to start the residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on January 21, marking her first shows since 2017, and it was scheduled to extend through to April. She announced the postponement a day before the residency’s planned opening night with a video, saying the show was simply not ready.“We’ve tried absolutely everything we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you, but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVID,” she explained at the time.In February, while appearing on The Graham Norton Show, she discussed how delays relating to COVID and equipment had meant that, if the gigs were to have taken place as scheduled, it “would have been a really half-arsed show, and I can’t do that”.Now, in a new interview with Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4, Adele elaborated on the last-minute postponement.

Adele is defending her decision to postpone her highly anticipated Las Vegas residency. In a new interview on BBC Radio 4 Sunday, the «Easy On Me» singer shared that she stands by her last-minute choice to call off her Sin City shows, despite being frightened to let her fans down.«I definitely felt everyone's disappointment, and I was devastated, and I was frightened about letting them down,» Adele told BBC's Lauren Laverne. «I thought I could pull it together and make it work, and I couldn't, and I stand by that decision.»At the end of the day, Adele said the show simply wasn't «good enough,» a sentiment she shared when initially postponing the residency back in January, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, a lack of time and delivery delays as factors that played a part in making the decision.«You can't buy me, you can't buy me for nothing,» she added.

Adele has given her first public concert in five years at London’s Hyde Park, performing at the venue over the weekend.The shows — which took place on Friday July 1 and Saturday July 2 as part of BST Hyde Park — were the singer’s first ticketed performances since her 2017 shows at Wembley Stadium.Adele performed a number of classics during her two-hour set, including ‘Hello’, ‘Someone Like You’, ‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover)’ and ‘Rumour Has It’, as well as ‘Easy On Me’ and ‘Oh My God’ from her latest album ’30’. Find footage of the performances and the full set list below:‘Hello’‘I Drink Wine’‘I’ll Be Waiting’‘Rumour Has It’‘Water Under The Bridge’‘One And Only’‘Skyfall’‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover)’‘Easy On Me’ ‘All I Ask’ ‘Make You Feel My Love’ (Bob Dylan cover) ‘Someone Like You’ ‘Oh My God’ ‘Set Fire To The Rain’ ‘Hold On’ ‘Rolling In The Deep’ ‘When We Were Young’ ‘Love Is A Game’ The shows held an estimated 65,000 people each, with support acts playing throughout the day.

Hello from the other side! Adele is back! 

Adele is back on stage!

Adele is back on the big stage. During her performance at London’s BTS Hyde Park Festival, Adele stopped her show four times to make sure fans were getting the aid they required.  In a clip seen on Twitter, Adele instructs her band to stop playing and approaches the front of the stage to point out the fans who needed help to security. Adele was brought to tears during her performance at London's Hyde Park Festival on Friday.

Adele was applauded at her concert on Friday 1 July after halting her performance to attend to a concert-goer in distress.The Someone Like You hitmaker had just begun singing Skyfall to a 65,000 strong crowd at the BST Festival in Hyde Park, London, when he exclaimed: “Stop stop stop!” Altering security to the situation, Adele – who turned 34 in May– asked the crowd if they were in need of help. “Right in the middle there, can you see where they’re all waving?” she asked as she pointed security personnel in the right direction. Walking to the end of the stage, Adele continued to check if they were able to get to the person who needed help as she reassured them: “They’re coming, they’re coming.They’re coming right through now.” “Make room.

Singing sensation Adele wowed fans in her Hyde Park performance in London on Friday and celebs were out to in force to see the show including Hollywood star Tom Cruise and TV presenter Lorraine Kelly. Hollywood favourite Tom, 59, was among the A-listers to head to London to watch Adele in action.The movie star showed off his incredible physique in a fitted black shirt and dark jeans and finished the outfit with a black suede jacket.The Top Gun actor was all smiles for the camera as he milled through the busy Hyde Park in London ahead of the show.

Adele makes her UK live return with a pair of concerts for British Summer Time Hyde Park in London tonight and tomorrow (July 1-2). Check out the official stage times below.The singer, who released her fourth album ’30’ last November, will be supported by an all-female bill at her first ticketed shows in more than five years.

Adele is ready to hit the stage and she's sharing some BTS snaps to get fans hyped ahead of her London concert this weekend. The «Easy on Me» singer took to Instagram and posted some stripped-down photos of herself belting out the hits at rehearsal, as she and her backup singers prepare for a two-night stint in London's Hyde Park.«Who’s ready for tomorrow!?» Adele captioned the snaps.A post shared by Adele (@adele)Adele's Hyde Park shows will mark her first since her stunning performance of «I Drink Wine» at the 2022 Brit Awards in February. The 34-year-old musician, who was set to start her highly anticipated Las Vegas residency later that month, was forced to postpone it due to multiple factors, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.«Hey, listen, I'm so sorry but my show ain't ready. We've tried absolutely everything we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you,» Adele emotionally shared in a video.

Hello from the other side! Adele is back! 

The Cribs have announced plans to perform their first three studio albums in full at a trio of shows on the same day in London next month.The Jarmans announced last month that they would be re-releasing their first albums – 2004 debut ‘The Cribs’, 2005 follow-up ‘The New Fellas’ and 2007’s ‘Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever’ – on July 29.Two days later on July 31, the band will play all three albums in their entirety, each one at a separate show at the Kingston-upon-Thames venue Pryzm.Tickets for the shows are on sale today (June 29), with tickets for ‘The Cribs’ available at 10am BST, ‘The New Fellas’ at 11am and ‘Men’s Needs…’ at midday.Find tickets here.To celebrate the release of our re-issues, we will be PLAYING OUR FIRST 3 ALBUMS IN FULL for our friends Banquet Records…Posted by The Cribs on Tuesday, June 28, 2022The new reissues follow the Wakefield trio’s recent ‘Sonic Blew Singles Club’ series, which saw them release the tracks ‘Things Could Be Better’, ‘Yellow Venus’, ‘Sucked Sweet’, ‘The Day I Got Lost Again’ and ‘Swinging At Shadows’. The band’s last full-length album came in the form of 2020’s ‘Night Network’.Earlier this year, the band supported Modest Mouse on a US headline tour.

Andy Murray's wife Kim shared her support to Dame Deborah James on the first day of Wimbledon as she donned her charity T-shirt. 'Bo welbabe' Deborah, 40, is sadly dying of bowel cancer after announcing back in May that her body “isn’t playing ball” anymore and being moved into end-of-life care. Since then, she's been living to the fullest – raising money for Cancer Research UK, coming out with a book and creating her own clothing line with In The Style.

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More than 5,000 miles from her Las Vegas disaster in the residency that never was, Adele is making amends with a special two-day concert spectacular.