Enter Shikari say Reading Festival set being cut “wasn’t an act of censorship”

EXCLUSIVE: This morning in Toronto, writer-director Allen Hughes and FX unveil the first of a five-part docuseries Dear Mama. This is an epic exploration of the life of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur and his late mom, Afeni Shakur, the former Black Panthers member. It is Hughes’ first trip back to TIFF since he and brother Albert came to unveil their Johnny Depp pic From Hell, only to see that title become all too apt when, on their media day 21 years ago, everything got canceled when two hijacked planes crashed into and took down the Twin Towers. At the behest of the estate of the Shakur family, Hughes, who aside from films like The Book of Eli directed the acclaimed docuseries The Defiant Ones on Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, spent years diving deep into the mythology of Tupac to answer why his art endures so long after he was shot dead at age 25. Much as he would have preferred to avoid it, Hughes had to confront his own provocative history with Tupac. After the Hughes Brothers hired Tupac for a supporting role in Menace II Society, they fired Shakur over disagreements about the part he wanted to play. Later, the hip-hop artist and his pals crossed paths with Hughes and his co-director Albert, and beat them badly enough that it led to a criminal conviction on Shakur for assault and battery., Here, Hughes discusses all, including the spiritual connection between Tupac and Marvin Gaye, whose life Allen Hughes takes on next in a narrative film for Warner Bros and Motown Records.

King Charles's time on the throne will be short-lived and he could be succeeded as monarch by Prince Harry, if one interpretation of Nostradamus's predictions are to be believed.

You Me At Six have released a new collaborative single with Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds – listen to ‘No Future? Yeah Right’ below.The joint track was premiered on Daniel P Carter’s ‘Rock Show’ on BBC Radio 1 last night (September 12).Reynolds had described the anthemic, synth-heavy song as “a belter” in a previous post on social media. The collaboration arrives with a red-filtered official video, which you can watch below.‘No Future? Yeah Right’ follows on from You Me At Six’s previous single ‘Deep Cuts’.

Erich Schwer has issued an apology. After an old photo of Gabby Windey's final suitor in Blackface resurfaced, the 29-year-old real estate analyst took to Instagram to address the controversy.«I wholeheartedly apologize for the insensitive photo of me in Blackface from my high school yearbook that has been circulating,» Erich wrote alongside a black square on Instagram.

You Me At Six have announced a new collaborative single with Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds.The song, titled ‘No Future? Yeah Right’, is set to arrive next Tuesday (September 13). Fans who pre-save/pre-add the track on streaming platforms can “unlock” a brief preview snippet.Posting underneath the announcement of the forthcoming team-up on Instagram, Reynolds wrote: “This is a belter, people.”‘No Future? Yeah Right’ will follow on from You Me At Six’s latest single ‘Deep Cuts’.

Lord Alan Sugar has reportedly parted company with The Apprentice 2017 winner Sarah Lynn.

The star power of the 2022 Toronto Film Festival continued to rise on Friday, as news broke that pop superstar Taylor Swift will be making an appearance at this year’s edition.

The 49th Telluride Film Festival opens Friday in a much-awaited edition that is set to feature world premieres of Searchlight’s Oscar hopeful Empire of Light from director Sam Mendes, starring Olivia Coleman and Colin Firth; Women Talking from director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara and Frances McDormand in the ensemble; Sebastian Lelio’s The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh; and Sony/Netflix’s sizzling new version of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover with Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell; among other films.

Slam Dunk Festival has confirmed the 2023 event will be headlined by Enter Shikari and The Offspring.Slam Dunk will be returning to Hatfield Park on 27 May and Leeds Temple Newsam on 28 May. Joining Enter Shikari and The Offspring will be Creeper, Billy Talent and Bowling For Soup.The festival has also confirmed exclusive reunions from The Academy Is and Kids In Glass Houses, who will celebrating the 15th anniversary of debut album ‘Smart Casual’.“Slam Dunk 2008 fell a day before Smart Casual was released and marked the start of a pretty unforgettable journey for our band,” said vocalist Aled Phillips.“It feels very fitting that 15 years later to the day we can come back and celebrate a special part of our career at Slam Dunk 2023.

Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2022, telling us about Pendulum’s remix of their 2007 song ‘Sorry You’re Not A Winner’ and giving an update on new music. Watch our video with Reynolds above.Earlier over the weekend (Saturday August 27), Reynolds joined Pendulum on-stage during their secret set at Reading.

This Morning returned to screens on Bank Holiday Monday (August 29) with two familiar faces back hosting the show. Vernon Kay and Rochelle Humes have now stepped in to front the ITV programme and will be taking the reins for the rest of the week.

Halsey closed out the west-side main stage at this year’s Reading Festival last night (August 28), delivering a stack of hits from across their four-album catalogue, declaring the UK to be their favourite region to perform in, and eliciting a rather unique chant from the packed-out crowd.The show was particularly notable for riding on the heels of Halsey’s turbulent appearance at Leeds Festival on Friday (August 27); during that set, they were forced to stop performing midway through their rendition of ‘Honey’ due to illness. They later revealed that they’d performed the set with “terrible food poisoning” and “felt like [they were] on Jupiter the whole time”.Halsey was in tip-top shape for their appearance at Reading, though.

The 1975 paid tribute to Rage Against The Machine during their headline set at Reading Festival tonight (August 28).Earlier this month, The 1975 were announced as the last-minute replacement for Rage Against The Machine’s headline appearance at Reading & Leeds 2022; the latter band were forced to pull out after frontman Zack de la Rocha suffered a leg injury on their North American tour.Closing out the third and final day of Reading earlier tonight, an interlude in The 1975’s performance saw frontman Matt Healy begin by asking the crowd if they enjoyed Saturday’s (August 27) headlining set from Arctic Monkeys.He then riled punters up, urging them to “get your Doctor Martens, and your fishnets and your vinyl… get it all out” before addressing their role as a replacement act, and apologising for the fact that Rage Against The Machine couldn’t appear.“We fucking love Rage Against The Machine,” Healy said. “Give it up for Rage Against The Machine. If we had the time, we would have done a cover of Rage Against The Machine.

Krept & Konan headlined the BBC 1Xtra stage on Saturday (August 27) – paying a loving tribute to their late friends and family.This marked the group’s first live performance since their Revenge Is Sweet tour,  with Krept telling the Reading crowd that they needed to “light this place up” with their phone torches in tribute before playing the emotive ‘Broski’ from their second album, ‘Revenge Is Sweet‘.“If you’ve ever lost someone, I need you to put your lights up,” he said ahead of the track inspired by the passing of the duo’s long-time friend and business partner, Nyasha “Nash” Chagonda. Chagonda took his own life days before the opening of the three’s restaurant, Crepes and Cones.

Lynks has announced that they will play a special secret set at Reading Festival 2022 this afternoon (August 28) – get all the details below.The 2022 edition of the festival concludes today with headline sets from The 1975 and Halsey, while secret sets from Pendulum, Don Broco and more have peppered the weekend.Taking to Twitter to confirm their appearance, Lynks confirmed that they will perform on the BBC Introducing Stage in Reading at 2.45pm this afternoon.Get all the details below.

Pendulum performed a surprise set at Reading Festival 2022 last night (August 27) and teamed up with Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds for a remix of ‘Sorry You’re Not A Winner’.Having teased the set throughout the week before an announcement, Pendulum took to the BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage following A.M.C ft Phantom’s early evening set after countdown appeared on video screens alongside the band’s logo. Arriving right on cue, the band started their first UK show as a full band since 2018, with 2020’s comeback single ‘Driver’.“We are Pendulum.

Bring Me The Horizon were joined by Ed Sheeran during their headline performance at Reading Festival tonight (August 27) – watch them play ‘Bad Habits’ below.The pair’s remix of Sheeran’s 2021 mega-hit was released in February of this year, and got its live debut at the 2022 BRIT Awards in the same month.Towards the end of Bring Me The Horizon’s 15-song set at Reading tonight, Sheeran joined them once again to play the rock-y version of the pop hit, which featured pyrotechnics on stage.The band were playing a co-headline slot at the festival tonight ahead of Arctic Monkeys, and will travel to Leeds tomorrow (August 28) to do the same.Elsewhere in their set, they played tracks from across their discography, opening with ‘Can You Feel My Heart’ and closing things out with ‘Throne’.Watch Bring Me The Horizon and Ed Sheeran perform ‘Bad Habits’ at Reading below, alongside the band’s full setlist from the gig.can you make some noise for

Fontaines D.C. invited a fan to play guitar with them on stage during their Reading Festival set tonight – see footage below.The Irish band were playing on the festival’s Main Stage this evening ahead of Arctic Monkeys, and spotted a fan named Dexter in the crowd holding a sign aloft asking to play guitar with them.Granting the request, the fan then hopped on stage and joined the band for a rendition of their hit ‘Boys In The Better Land’.Elsewhere in their set, Fontaines played hits from their three studio albums, opening with ‘A Lucid Dream’ and ending with ‘I Love You’.See footage of the fan joining them on stage for ‘Boys In The Better Land’ and their full Reading Festival setlist below.A post shared by Andrew Trendell (@andrewtrendell)And then they brought on this legend to rip guitar for them.