EXIT Festival welcomes over 42,000 music fans as it returns for 2021 edition

IDLES have announced that they’ll be making 2,000 tickets available for free to local NHS workers for their show at Bristol’s Clifton Downs on September 3.“We know it’s not much, but it is a gesture of our thanks to you for your incredible work and selflessness over the last 18 months in treating and caring for people at the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic,” the band said on Instagram.NHS workers in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire will be contacted shortly with a sign up

Love Island has been slapped with more than 1,000 Ofcom complaints concerning the addition of contestant Danny Bibby.The 25 year old entered the villa on July 15 as a bombshell, however, fans of the ITV2 dating series immediately called for him to be removed after discovering he had used a racial slur in an Instagram comment from 2019.

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Steam Deck consoles are already being listed on Ebay, with scalpers charging in excess of $1,000 (£726).Announced last week, the Steam Deck will provide PC gaming on the go in a device that can be connected to a display like the Nintendo Switch.Preorders for the console went live on Friday at 6pm BST, but the demand for the Steam Deck quickly proved too much for Steam’s servers, which crashed.

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Charlie Amter In Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War,” the author advises that “in the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” Organizers of Serbia’s Exit Festival took that message to heart over the weekend, as they pulled off a largely successful (and, they hope, safe) music festival, the biggest in Europe since the pandemic began.Held every July in and around Novi Sad’s sprawling Petrovaradin Fortress, Exit Festival drew around 180,000 people spread across four nights (the event wrapped up in the

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Covid-19 continue to rise with the latest figures showing an increase to 10,185 detected cases. It comes as UK cases of the variant have risen almost four-fold in less than a month.Public Health England figures show a total of 161,981 confirmed and probable cases of Delta variant have now been identified in the UK - up by 50,824, or 46%, on the previous week.

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COVID-19 restrictions.The festival, which was set to take place in Pikehall, Derbyshire between July 30 and August 1 and be headlined by Blossoms, Bombay Bicycle Club and Stereophonics, said they had “no choice” but to delay their return until 2022.In a statement posted to their social media accounts, Y Not said: “It breaks our hearts to tell you that we have no choice but to delay this year’s Y Not Festival until 2022.“It has been the hardest decision to make and we were hoping that by this

Mike White returns to HBO on July 11, eight years after the end of his brilliant “Enlightened,” with the tropical dramedy “The White Lotus,” an engaging 6-episode series that has a great cast, smart dialogue, and just enough laughs, even if it feels a little unable to transcend its set-ups every now and then.

Coronavirus infection rates have gone up in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, the latest data shows.

After having to cancel an in-person 2020 edition due to the Coronavirus pandemic, one of Europe’s great summer fests, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, will return this August for its 55th edition. The festival announced that this year’s edition will feature 32 world premieres .

COVID-19 restrictions.The festival was set to be held on Saturday July 24, and announced its intention to go ahead back in March following the unveiling of the UK’s road map out of lockdown.Now, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed last week (June 14) that the date to drop all coronavirus restrictions will be delayed from June 21 until July 19 in light of the spread of new COVID variants, the festival has announced it is unable to go ahead as planned.“Following Wednesday’s announcement