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Hercules And Love Affair singer Aérea Negrot has died, aged 43.The Venezuelan DJ and singer-songwriter joined the band in 2008 and contributed vocals on four tracks on their 2011 album ‘Blue Songs’.Her label, BPitch Control, who she signed and released her debut album ‘Arabxilla’ through in 2011 as well as multiple EPs, confirmed her passing on Instagram.“We’re beyond heartbroken over the passing of our treasured and brilliant Danielle,” the label wrote. “Her light, music and beautiful uplifting voice, her one-of-a-kind artistic approach and performance have touched every soul they have ever encountered.“We are forever grateful to have had the honour to cross our path with such a giving and talented human and artist.
We will all eternally miss you, our dearest Dani.”A post shared by BPitch (@bpitch.berlin)The cause of her death remains unknown. The artist – whose real name was Danielle Gallegos – was raised by a family of professional dancers and had previously been a classically trained dancer before working in music.When a knee injury halted her ballet career, she switched her focus to nightclubs, forming the group La Familia Felíz with Fata Kiefer and Milton Fermat, who released the track ‘La Disco’.According to a previous interview with Remezcla, Gallegos’s first performance as Aérea Negrot took place aged 17 in Amsterdam’s Central Station.She later secured a place at the prestigious London Centre of Contemporary Music before joining Andy Butler’s outfit.By that time Gallegos was already living in Berlin, where she resided until she died.Over the years she has also worked with the likes of Matias Aguayo, Miguel Toro, Billie Ray Martin, System of Survival, Massimiliano Paggliara and others.
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Angry West Lothian parents staged a protest this week demanding more help for children with additional support needs.
AFM will get picked up. But given the climate in Hollywood, many projects won’t officially hit the market until February at the European Film Market in Berlin.
Depeche Mode have announced the acts that will join them on the UK and European leg of their ‘Memento Mori’ tour in 2024.Announced on Instagram today (October 31), the band shared that there will be four different artists joining them across the 32 dates that take place between January and April 2024.Nadine Shah will support the band for the UK dates in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow, as well as in Dublin, Antwerp, Amsterdam and Copehagen. Humanist, Suzie Stapleton and Deeper will split the remaining dates as support acts.See the full list of dates with supports detailed below.Responding to the news, Nadine Shah posted on Instagram: “Ten years ago I opened for Depeche Mode around Germany. They’re my ride or die band.
Marta Balaga Visions du Réel winner Tomasz Wolski will focus on “A Year in the Life of the Country” next, Variety can reveal exclusively. The Polish helmer – whose latest film “In Ukraine,” co-directed with Piotr Pawlus, premiered in Berlin – is set to explore the turbulent period of martial law, imposed on Dec. 13, 1981 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski in Communist Poland after a wave of strikes.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor International sales agency the Playmaker has signed a deal with Blue Finch Film Releasing to distribute the one-shot horror film “Home Sweet Home — Where Evil Lives” in the U.K. and Ireland. Thomas Sieben’s film, which made its world premiere in August at FrightFest in London, has its market premiere at AFM.
Naman Ramachandran Lila Aviles‘ “Totem” has won the global feature award at the annual Jakarta Film Week. The film previously won awards at the Berlin, Hong Kong, Durban and Beijing film festivals. The direction award for best Indonesian feature film went to Jeremias Nyangoen’s directorial debut “Women of Rote Island.” The film bowed at Busan earlier in October.
Hunger Games” prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” has received an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA, which means that stars Zegler, Blyth, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage and Hunter Schafer are allowed to promote the film before it premieres in theaters on Nov. 17. It’s not clear why the agreement was granted so close to the film’s release date.
“The pandemic has finally passed, and cinema has returned to normal, but the way people think has changed dramatically,” Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou concluded when quizzed by Deadline about cinema post-Covid 19 during a brief chat at the Tokyo Film Festival (TIFF).
Mark Wright will see in the start of the festive period in Scotland after falling in love with the country.
Griff has announced details of a new tour, set to take place across the UK and Europe next year. Find ticket information below.The new tour dates arrive on the heels of the singer’s newly released EP, ‘vert1go vol.1’, which arrived last Friday (October 20) via Warner.It also comes after the 22-year-old completed her recent intimate shows to celebrate the new release, which took place in London, Berlin and Paris earlier this month.Set to kick off next spring, the dates will start at the Debaser Strand venue in Stockholm on March 10, before continuing the following day with a show at the Parkteateret in Oslo.
The Last Dinner Party made their Later…with Jools Holland debut by playing two songs – watch the videos below.The band played two of the three singles they have so far released, ‘Nothing Matters’ and ‘My Lady of Mercy’, both of which were produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence + the Machine, Foals).Alongside the band, the episode also featured performances from Johnny Marr, Take That, METTE, Frankie Archer and Skindred.The Last Dinner Party recently completed their UK tour, and they are now preparing to cross the Atlantic Ocean and make their way to the US.They will play five gigs there, with stops in New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Chicago. They will then make their way back to Europe as opening support for Hozier on his arena tour.Earlier this month, they also announced details of an “intimate variety show” that they will play at London’s Roundhouse on February 1, 2024, with support from Heartworms.Check out their full tour dates below and visit here for any remaining US tickets.In a five-star review of their live show in London in April, NME wrote: “The Last Dinner Party’s ability to go straight from something as potent and wrenching as slow-burning ballad ‘Mirror’ to hamming up the theatrics of ‘Lady Of Mercy’ is a hugely impressive skill: even this early on in their career, on stage, they prove to be masters of contrast.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Netflix has dropped a teaser for J.A. Bayona’s highly anticipated survival thriller “Society of the Snow,” which will represent Spain in the Oscars international feature film race. The film world premiered on closing night of the Venice Film Festival and is playing this week at the Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon.
Artists, scientists and conservationists are collaborating on two connected initiatives in Dumfries aimed at protecting Scotland’s threatened migratory birds.
Coronation Street's Ryan Connor - played by Ryan Prescott - hasn't had it easy in recent times.
21 Savage has shared details of new UK and European tour dates around his previously announced London show this autumn.The rapper has announced shows in Paris, Dusseldorf, Zurich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Manchester and Birmingham between November 14 and 24, 2023.Savage then wraps the tour at The O2 Arena in London on November 30.Tickets go on general sale this Friday (October 20) at 10am BST here. There is a pre-sale at the same link from 9am BST tomorrow (October 19).21 Savage UK and European tour 2023:NOVEMBERTuesday 14 – Paris, France, Zenith La Villette Thursday 16 – Dusseldorf, Germany, Mitsubishi Electric HALLEFriday 17 – Zurich, Switzerland, HalleSunday 19 – Berlin, Gemany, Max Schmelling Halle Tuesday 21 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands, AFAS LiveThursday 23 – Manchester, UK, Mayfield DepotFriday 24 – Birmingham, UK, ForumThursday 30 – London, UK, The O2 ArenaIn other news, the Atlanta-based star was recently declared a ‘lawful permanent resident’ of the US and can finally visit his birth nation of England.A four-year legal battle was sparked in 2019 when the rapper was arrested for immigrating to the US and overstaying his visa.According to his legal team, 21 Savage was originally born in London – emigrating to the US as a 7-year-old.
Mitski has shared details of an upcoming tour of the UK and Europe in 2024 – find ticket details below.The new live shows come in support of the American artist’s latest album ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’. Released via Dead Oceans, the LP marks her seventh studio album and hears the singer return to more analogue and organic roots.Since the release Mitski has gone on to play various acoustic performances of the record in cities across North America, the UK and Europe.
Marta Balaga Two is better than one. Amsterdam-based Skoop Media has closed a deal with Walter Presents on “Evilside” and “Sleepers” for the U.K., Ireland, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The platform will have exclusive VOD rights in these territories.
It’s been a tough week in the world, and that posed a difficult challenge for Bill Maher on his Real Time show on Friday. How do you conduct a show built on political comedy when the subject matter is so grim?
Greg Kurstin, Mura Masa, Danny L Harle, Count Baldor, Phil and Cash Cobain among others.Speaking of the LP in a press release, the singer said: “The record is about grief for a loss but being at peace with yourself in your aloneness. Journeying from hell into purgatory, but I’m ok with being there.”‘Heaven Knows’ is set for release on November 10 via Warner.