Brit Beat: U.K. Festivals Roar Back as 200,000 Attend Reading and Leeds; Is Simon Cowell Reviving ‘The X Factor’?

Manchester United fans have backed Daniel James to be a success under Marcelo Bielsa this season, despite a largely uneventful full debut against Newcastle United.

Liam Gallagher has closed the first night of the Isle of Wight festival with a set packed full of his solo hits, alongside some Oasis classics.Gallagher played a number of Oasis classics including ‘Rock N Roll Star’ and ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’ between solo hits ‘Wall of Glass’ and ‘Shockwave’.The encore was made up of ‘Supersonic’, ‘Acquiesce’, ‘Roll With It’ and ‘Live Forever’.You can see some footage, reaction and images of the set below:Isle of Wight c’mon you know LFUKING x— Liam Gallagher

Oasis Knebworth 1996 has told NME that he thinks the band will get back together one day.They famously split after a bust up in Paris back in 2009 and Liam and Noel Gallagher have constantly been involved in ongoing spats ever since.But ahead of the release of the new documentary, which is released in cinemas on September 23, when asked if he ever thought the band would get back together, director Jake Scott said: “Yeah. I’d love to think so.

Grado has offered Liam Gallagher hot front row seats for his next wrestling matches after meeting him at an airport. Grado, who is currently breakfast presenter on Go Radio and has been filming for the new series of Two Doors Down, admitted he was a huge Gallagher fan and had even met him once at an aiport in London.

Glasgow Green this weekend for TRNSMT 2021. The Courteeners, Liam Gallagher, The Chemical Brothers and Primal Scream are among a number of acts that make up this year’s star-studded line-up.

TRNSMT Festival 2021 is set to take place this weekend, and the weather isn’t looking great.The Scottish festival was rescheduled from July following concerns around the coronavirus pandemic, and will be headlined by Liam Gallagher, Courteeners and The Chemical Brothers.The three-day event at Glasgow Green will also see performances from the likes of Sam Fender, AJ Tracey, Little Simz, Becky Hill and Declan McKenna – but not a whole lot of sunshine.Apart from a brief spell on the Friday

R. Kelly paid $200,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who accused him of giving her herpes two decades ago without disclosing he had it, the woman testified on Friday at the R&B singer's sex-trafficking trial.

NEW YORK -- R. Kelly paid $200,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who accused him of giving her herpes two decades ago without disclosing he had it, the woman testified on Friday at the R&B singer's sex-trafficking trial.The woman — testifying during the trial's third week without using her full real name — told a New York City jury she was 27 when she met Kelly through a mutual friend in 2001.

TRNSMT. The last time TRNSMT took place was in 2019 and many of us are keen to get back to Glasgow Green to watch all our favourite acts from The Courteeners, Liam Gallagher and Snow Patrol.

Liam Gallagher says his voice for Glasgow's TRNSMT festival will be 'biblical' as he looks forward to the event. Liam will join other headliners Courteneers and The Chemical Brothers at the Scottish festival in Glasgow Green next week and took to Twitter to have chat with fans about it following his appearance at Reading festival this week.

Whatever puts players in charge of a cargo ship sailing down the Suez Canal in reference to the famous canal blocking.The meme of the event sprung up around March when a real cargo-ship got stuck in the Suez Canal, taking days to dislodge and garnering media and internet attention.

Liam Gallagher took photos with members of the Reading Festival crowd this weekend to use on his new album cover.Gallagher headlined the Main Stage East at Reading on Sunday night (August 29) following a bill-topping set at Leeds Festival on Friday (August 27).TikTok user @samuelhannam22 posted a video on the social media platform after the festival that showed them and other festival-goers having their photos taken with the star by an official photographer.“So I met Liam Gallagher at Reading

Reading & Leeds boss Melvin Benn has told NME that three of the six headliners for 2022’s event have been booked, as well as hinting at what the line-up could look like and reflecting on safely putting on a festival in the time of COVID-19.This weekend saw R+L 2021 headlined by Liam Gallagher, Post Malone, Stormzy, Disclosure, Biffy Clyro and Catfish + The Bottlemen, with other huge performances from the likes of Slowthai, Wolf Alice, Gerry Cinnamon, Sigrid, Baebadoobee, Yungblud, AJ Tracey,

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentIn the run up to Series Mania, European network Arte and German public broadcaster NDR have boarded “Helsinki Syndrome,” a contemporary Nordic Noir thriller series headlined by “Vikings” star Peter Franzén and created by Mikko Oikkonen (“Bordertown”). “Helsinki Syndrome” is the first series jointly produced by Beta Film and leading Finnish production banner Fisher King which is part of the Beta Nordic Entertainment Group.

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Liam Gallagher dedicated ‘Live Forever’ to late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts at Leeds Festival last night (August 27) – watch footage below.Watts, who has appeared on every album in the legendary band’s discography to date, sadly died aged 80 earlier this week, prompting tributes to pour in from across the music world.During his headline set at the festival, Gallagher took time to remember Watts, telling the crowd: “He’s probably having a great time up there somewhere.”Then, as Liam and