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Don Broco are heading towards their first ever UK Number 1 album this Friday with Amazing Things.
The Bedford rock band originally released their fourth album in October 2021 but following its release on vinyl, CD and cassette, Amazing Things could fly all the way to Number 1 this week, having not reached the Top 40 on its original release.
Don Broco have picked up two Top 10 albums so far, Automatic (Number 6) and Technology (Number 5) plus their debut album Priorities peaked at Number 25. See Don Broco’s Official Chart history in full here.
Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Jamie Webster could also be up for a career-best chart position this week, with his second album Moments currently tracking to debut at Number 2. His previous album, We Get By peaked at Number 6 and was the first-ever Number 1 on the Official Folk Albums Chart.
Blackpool rockers Jethro Tull are heading for their seventh UK Top 10 album and first since 1972 this week. The Zealot Gene, the band’s 22nd studio album and first of original material since 1999, is eyeing up Number 4.
There could be three further new entries in the Top 10 this Friday too. Llanelli band Scarlet Rebels could earn their first-ever Top 40 entry with See Through Blue (6), former Mansun frontman Paul Draper’s second album Cult Leader Tactics (8) could be his first solo Top 10, and Big Big Train’s Welcome To The Planet (10) could become their highest-charting album to date.
Meanwhile outside the Top 10, indie icon Jamie T’s influential debut album Panic Prevention is heading for Number 11 following a 15th anniversary re-release. It originally peaked at Number 4 in 2007.
Eels’ 14th studio album Extreme Witchcraft is cruising towards a Number 12 debut, while Scottish indie-pop duo
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Iron Maiden will release an ultra-limited pressing of the record on a commemorative white cassette.The tape is due out on March 18 via Parlophone in the UK, and March 25 via BMG in the US. Depending on where you’re based, the tape will land either a few days shy of, or a few days past, the album’s actual birthday – it first hit UK shelves on March 22, 1982.UK pre-orders are available now from Iron Maiden’s webstore.
Crown Princess Victoria and her husband Prince Daniel have released a rare statement in response to the rumors that they’re getting a divorce.
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American and UK/IRE rights to the political comedy The Hater, from writer-director Joey Ally (Uproot, Are You Still Singing), in which she stars alongside Bruce Dern (Nebraska, The Hateful Eight), Meredith Hagner (Search Party, Palm Springs), D’Angelo Lacy (aka musical artist Black Gatsby), Ian Harding (Pretty Little Liars, Ford v Ferrari), Ali Larter (The Last Victim, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter), and Nora Dunn (Together Together, The Lost Husband). The independent distributor has slated it for a day-and-date release on March 18.
The Fall veteran Brix Smith has revealed plans to release a solo album called ‘Valley Of The Dolls’, as well as sharing details of an all-female live supergroup featuring members of My Bloody Valentine.The punk legend, known for her work with The Fall as well as her own band The Extricated among others, was speaking at the AIF Festival Congress 2022 in Bristol earlier this week to discuss her work as as President of The F-List For Music – a not-for-profit organisation set up to help female musicians gain greater representation and professional opportunities in the UK music industry.Towards the end of her talk, Smith shared information about an upcoming record made with Killing Joke bassist and esteemed producer Youth.“Nobody knows about this in public, so hello – get ready,” she began. “During lockdown I was put together by a manager to write.
Bolton Wanderers boss Ian Evatt has made four changes to his side to take on Burton Albion this evening.
Bolton Wanderers are aiming to make it eight games unbeaten in League One when they take on Burton Albion this evening.
Frank Turner is on course to achieve his first Number One album this week.According to The Official Charts Company, ‘FTHC’, which stands for Frank Turner Hardcore – is currently leading the charts with more than double the sales of his closest competition, Alt-J’s ‘The Dream‘.It would be Turner’s highest-charting album to date following on from ‘Tape Deck Heart‘, which recached Number Two in 2013.Others looking to claim their highest UK albums chart entry include Slash and Myles Kennedy.Their latest collaboration ‘4’ is set to chart at Number Three, while James Morrison’s ‘Greatest Hits’ collection is on track to enter the charts at Number Five.Elsewhere in the charts, Viola Beach’s self-titled debut album is set to re-enter the chart at Number Seven, following a special vinyl release.The posthumously-released album debuted at Number One in August 2016 after the group suffered a fatal incident alongside their manager in February of that year. Last month, Turner shared his new single ‘A Wave Across A Bay’, written as a tribute to the late Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison.The track has been released with the blessing of Scott’s younger brother Grant, and was first performed by Turner back in 2020 during a set of Frightened Rabbit covers.“I still miss my friend Scott every day,” Turner said about the single.
Tim Burgess has announced that he’ll be hosting a special 25th anniversary listening party tonight (February 10) for Blur‘s self-titled 1997 album.The Charlatans’ frontman has been hosting listening parties for a multitude of albums on Twitter since the UK went into its first coronavirus lockdown back in early 2020.This afternoon he announced that Blur members Alex James and Dave Rowntree, as well as producer Stephen Street will be joining him and his followers tonight for a listening party to celebrate the band’s fifth album turning 25.‘Blur’ was originally released on February 10, 1997, and featured the singles ‘Beetlebum’, ‘On Your Own’, ‘M.O.R.’, and the iconic anthem ‘Song 2’.
Jurassic World Dominion has landed, and shows how humans have come to live in fear alongside dinosaurs all over the world.Dominion, which is the third installment in the Jurassic World trilogy and the finale to the entire Jurassic Park saga to date, arrives in UK and US cinemas on June 10.In the first official trailer, we see events unfolding four years after the conclusion to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Since the establishment of a neo-Jurassic age at the end of that film – a world in which humans and dinosaurs co-exist – it’s clear that the plan has backfired and humans become dinosaurs’ prey and playthings.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard star as dino-whisperer Owen Grady and ex Jurassic Park operations manager Claire Dearing respectively.
Blumhouse Productions’ adaptation of the Stephen King novel “Firestarter” has gotten a release date. The film will hit theaters and Peacock in early May.Starring Zac Efron and Sydney Lemmon as parents Andy and Vicky, the story follows them on the run as they attempt to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) from the government.
Sunflower Bean have announced details of their third album ‘Headful of Sugar’ – you can listen to their new track ‘Who Put You Up To This?’ below.The New York trio will release the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Twentytwo in Blue’ on May 6 via Lucky Number. You can pre-order/pre-save it from here.“We wanted to write about the lived experience of late capitalism, how it feels every day, the mundanity of not knowing where every construct is supposed to ultimately lead you,” vocalist Nick Kivlen said about the new Sunflower Bean record, which was produced and mixed by Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Jacob Portrait.“The message is in the title: this is about fast pleasures, the sugar of life, the joy that comes with letting go of everything you thought mattered.”Sunflower Bean have today (February 8) shared the Josefine Cardoni-directed video for their new single ‘Who Put You Up To This?’.“Are you satisfied? Who put you up to do things that you do? Was it your own choice?” the band asked in a statement about the track.“Questioning your life is the first step to taking the agency to change it.
Give Me The Future by Bastille could become Dan Smith and co.’s third UK Number 1 album this week, as it leads an all-new midweek Top 5.
Billy Bragg has praised a new academic project to catalogue the history of the English protest song from 1600 to the present day, saying that songs “can’t change the world” but can “bring people together”.A website catalogue of about 750 songs in the Our Subversive Voice project has been produced, presented alongside interviews with key songwriters.The University of East Anglia (UEA) project includes Royalist songs from the English Civil War up to modern entries like Grace Petrie‘s 2016 song ‘I Wish The Guardian Believed That I Exist’.Bragg himself has two of his songs in the catalogue – ‘Between The Wars’ and ‘It Says Here’, among tracks the artist has previously covered including Florence Reece’s ‘Which Side Are You On?’ – and told the BBC that the project was important to show the political tradition of songs in England.“People think political pop music was something invented in the 1970s, but traditionally song has been used to get messages out, without them being edited by the government or establishment,” he said.“When I took part in the miners’ strike in the 1980s, I was a little punk rocker guy… the folk singers were already there and their repertoire was more radical than mine and much of it had been written in the 19th Century.”Asked about the impact of protest songs, Bragg said: “It can change some things, but it can’t change the world. What it does is it brings people together in solidarity – for example to raise money for a cause.
Don Broco have scored their first UK Number One album with new LP ‘Amazing Things’.The Bedford rock band’s new record, which arrived last week (January 28), debuted in the top spot just 1,500 copies ahead of The Weeknd, whose latest album, ‘Dawn FM’, landed at Number Two following its release in physical formats.“Wow, our first ever Official Charts UK Number One album!” Don Broco said upon receiving news of his achievement. “Thank you so much to our fans for supporting us this week; we honestly couldn’t have done it without you.
Don Broco have scored their first ever Official Albums Chart Number 1 with Amazing Things, beating off stiff competition from The Weeknd’s Dawn FM.
Former Manchester United defender Steve Bruce is set to replace Valerian Ismael as West Brom manager after he was sacked, according to reports.
Coronavirus infection rates have fallen in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, according to the latest figures.
died in September. “Elizabeth” will be released by A24 in the U.S. Signature Entertainment will release the documentary in the U.K.