Arlo Parks and Holly Humberstone lead The Great Escape 2021 line-up

The BBC has revealed its annual Sound Of longlist. The 2021 list, which aims to highlight the new and rising artists expected to shape the upcoming year, includes Midlands rapper Pa Salieu, Norwegian bedroom pop artist girl in red, the Missy Elliot-endorsed Bree Runway, and indie band The Lathums.

direct to your inboxResidents in south Manchester took to the streets this weekend to highlight a need for more traffic control measures on a residential lane regularly used by speeding cars.More than 100 people lined the pavements of Matthews Lane in Levenshulme on Sunday afternoon (December 6) as part of a campaign organised by community union ACORN.Local residents say the street is regularly used as a ‘racetrack’ and urgently requires new traffic measures.

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Arlo Parks as it ambassador for 2021.Next year’s edition of the annual, seven-day celebration of independent music venues around the UK is set to take place next year from January 25 to 31.The initiative, which invites a host of exciting artists to play exclusive shows up and down the country in celebration of independent venues and their communities, provides a huge spotlight on the grassroots ecosystem within the live music sector.So far this year, 64 venues from 37 different villages, towns

alums Memphis Garrett and Christmas Abbott are officially dating after competing in season 22 of the CBS reality show. Christmas confirmed their relationship and made it Instagram official by posting a number of photos of the two together on her social media page on Tuesday.«Love is not found, it’s built.

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Big Brother: All Stars alum Christmas Abbott and Memphis Garrett are dating less than two months after competing on the show, Us Weekly can confirm.Abbott exclusively told Us on Tuesday, December 1, that the pair “just started dating” after forming a friendship on the show earlier this year.

Arlo Parks, James Blake and Beabadoobee have released new festive covers on Apple Music.The three artists’ renditions come as part of the streaming platform’s Christmas singles series, which was launched yesterday (November 30).Parks took on Wham!‘s ‘Last Christmas’, reimagining the 1986 hit as a minimal, soulful number.

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Garrett Yrigoyen and girlfriend Alex Farrar headed to Idaho for the holiday weekend. “Grateful for this turkey,” Farrar wrote via Instagram Story on a photo of the pair, tagging their location as Meridian, Idaho.Yrigoyen, 31, and Farrar, 28, went Instagram official on October 31, when Yrigoyen posted pics of the duo holding pumpkins.

Glass Animals and Arlo Parks have linked up once again – this time for a live performance of ‘Tangerine’ on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge.The song originally appeared without Parks on Glass Animals’ latest album, ‘Dreamland’, which dropped in August.Parks then teamed up with Glass Animals for a new rendition of the song, which premiered during the Oxford band’s ‘Live In The Internet’ livestream gig in October.

Blur have announced that they will release a limited edition split vinyl of ‘The Great Escape’ to mark the 25th anniversary of the seminal album.The band’s fourth record arrived in September 1995 to widespread acclaim, featuring tracks such as ‘The Universal’, ‘Charmless Man’ and ‘Country House’.Announcing the new vinyl release on Twitter today (November 26), the band shared a video of the coloured blue and white vinyl alongside the classic back cover – which sees the band posing as suited city

EDUCATION & EVENTSMentoring network The Cat’s Mother has partnered with collecting society PPL to host a series of events to support young women entering the music industry.

Arlo Parks has shared a new single – watch the lyric video for the intimate ‘Caroline’ below.It’s the latest preview of the singer’s debut album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’, which is set to land on January 29, 2021 via Transgressive.“’Caroline’ is an exercise in people watching and seeing situations unfold without context,” Parks said of the new song.“It’s an exploration of how something once full of healthy passion can dissolve in an instant.”Watch the new ‘Caroline’ lyric video below.The new song

coronavirus permitting.The festival announced the first acts for next year’s edition in the form of sixteen artists the festival declared “The Music of Tomorrow”.They include Alfie Templeman, KennyHoopla, Holly Humberstone, Baby Queen, Thomas Headon and more.It's time!! Absolutely buzzing to announce 16 of our favourite breakthrough artists who will be joining us at Barn next summer! The music of tomorrow.All weekend tickets are now BACK ON SALE now from https://t.co/9JpdHa3nCS, so go grab

The Great Escape has announced the first 50 acts that will play its 2021 edition next May. Details have also been announced about The Road To The Great Escape, special showcasing events taking place in Dublin and Glasgow in the week ahead of the main festival in Brighton.Among the artists set to play what will be a belated fifteenth anniversary edition of the showcase festival are Arlo Parks, Holly Humberstone, Berwyn, Pa Salieuand AMA, 220 Kid and Bree Runway.

the New York Times reported. Her husband, John Simpers, said she reportedly got infected recently at a large theater gathering in Branson, Missouri, at which most attendees were maskless.“She had a non-life-threatening Leukemia, so that was the big problem when she got COVID,” Simpers told KTVI Fox 2 in St.