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Fontaines D.C.‘s Conor ‘Deego’ Deegan III caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2022, telling us that they might be heading in a “lighter” direction for new material and giving us the lowdown on hanging with Sam Fender and his McDonald’s preferences. Watch our video interview above.Yesterday (Saturday August 27), the Irish post-punk heroes – and winners of The Best In The World at the 2022 BandLab NME Awards – made their Reading & Leeds debut on the main stage, inviting a fan on stage to play guitar on ‘Boys In The Better Land’.Before they hit the stage, bassist Deego spoke to us about the evolution of the band.Asked if the new textures and sounds of their acclaimed 2022 album ‘Skinty Fia’ had changed their chemistry as a live band, he replied: “I don’t really know about that.
I think that we wanted to make that was very concrete and organised. We did it for the most part with the third album, moreso than the second one [‘A Hero’s Death‘].“That really elevates our live show more, because the second one was a lot of slow songs and a lot of melancholy.
Now we’ve finally got something that brings it up again like the first one [‘Dogrel’].”And will that energy be having an impact on any new material?“Yeah, I think we’re always looking forward and back,” Deego replied. “This one’s a bit slower tempo but kind of groovy and stuff like that.
We want to move away from total darkness and obsession with cynicism and stuff like that – to try to move towards something a bit lighter. Not necessarily pop-y or anything, but lighter in spirit.However, fans could be waiting a little while before the fourth album emerges.“We’ve been trying not to write really, because we’re trying to take a break from it so we don’t end up making generic
.Angel Olsen has recruited Sturgill Simpson for a new version of her recent single ‘Big Time’ – check it out below.‘Big Time’ appears on Olsen’s new album of the same name, which was released back in June.“It’s crazy to write a song and then watch someone else you really admire sing your words; kinda turns the whole thing on its head.” Olsen said of the new version in a statement.“I loved the song already, but hearing Sturgill’s take on ‘Big Time’ made me smile ear to ear, he made it come alive on a different level.”Listen to Olsen and Simpson’s ‘Big Time’ collaboration below.After the release of her ‘Big Time’ album, Olsen has spent the summer touring the United States with Sharon Van Etten and Julien Baker as part of ‘The Wild Hearts Tour’.Last month, the tour wrapped up with two shows in New York’s Central Park and saw Baker join Olsen and Van Etten to perform the latter pair’s joint single ‘Like I Used To’.Olsen and Van Etten had performed the song together across the entirety of the North American tour – a triple-headliner stint that spanned 20 shows over the past month – appearing in the encore during either of their individual sets. They played it with Baker as part of Van Etten’s set in the park – it was the first to see Baker join in.Olsen will head out on a UK and Ireland tour in support of ‘Big Time’ in October.
Streaming platform and burgeoning theatrical distributor Mubi is at the Toronto Film Festival this year with Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave, which marks one of its costliest acquisitions to date.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Following the world premiere of “My Neighbor Adolf” on the Piazza Grande in Locarno, Beta Cinema has sold the dark comedy to Vendetta Films, which will bring the Udo Kier and David Hayman starrer to cinemas across Australia and New Zealand in the first quarter of next year. Prior to Locarno, Beta Cinema sold the film to Hungary (Cinetel) and Switzerland (Praesens Film), while deals for North America (Cohen Media Group), U.K. and Ireland (Signature Entertainment), Italy (I Wonder), South Korea (Lumix Media) and Japan (Tohokushinsha Film) had been revealed before. The film is set in Colombia in 1960, just a few days after the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann was caught by Mossad agents in Argentina. Polsky, played by Hayman, is a lonely and grumpy old man, living in the remote Colombian countryside. He is a survivor of the Holocaust. He spends his days playing chess and tending his beloved rosebushes. One day, a mysterious old German man – played by Kier – moves in next door, and Polsky suspects that his new neighbor is… Adolf Hitler. Since nobody believes him, he embarks on a mission to uncover the evidence. In order to gather it, however, he will need to come closer to his neighbor than he would like – so close that the two could almost become friends.
Caitriona Balfe has penned a sweet tribute to her Outlander character.
Meghan Markle and Spotify are hitting pause on upcoming episodes of, followingthe death of Queen Elizabeth, ET has confirmed.The podcast premiered last month and debuted on the top charts in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. releases new episodes every Tuesday. So far, the Duchess of Sussex has had conversations with Serena Williams, Mariah Carey and Mindy Kaling. Additional guests scheduled to appear are Constance Wu, Issa Rae, Lisa Ling, Margaret Cho and Ziwe. Markle is currently by her husband’s side in the U.K.
Meghan Markle and Spotify are hitting pause on upcoming episodes of “Archetypes”, following the death of Queen Elizabeth according to a report from People.
Meghan Markle and Spotify are hitting pause on upcoming episodes of, followingthe death of Queen Elizabeth according to a report from . The podcast premiered last month and debuted on the top charts in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. releases new episodes every Tuesday. So far, the Duchess of Sussex has had conversations with Serena Williams, Mariah Carey and Mindy Kaling. Additional guests scheduled to appear are Constance Wu, Issa Rae, Lisa Ling, Margaret Cho and Ziwe. Markle is currently by her husband’s side in the U.K.
The Story of Film: A New Generation opens at two dozen theaters this weekend — Laemmle Royal in LA, Museum of the Moving Image in NY, Music Box Theatre in Chicago and Brattle in Cambridge. It’s a mix of arthouses, cinematheques, museums and even a few multiplexes for Mark Cousins’ follow-up to his 15-hour, 2011 opus The Story Of Film: An Odyssey. (This one clocks a relatively brief three hours.)
Dry Cleaning have shared new single ‘Gary Ashby’ and announced details of a world tour in support of forthcoming album ‘Stumpwork’ ahead of its arrival next month.In an accompanying statement, the band said the new song is “a lament about a pet tortoise, escaped as a result of family chaos”. It was written in late 2020, and was one of the first new songs to be written after sessions for the band’s debut album, last year’s ‘New Long Leg’.Listen to ‘Gary Ashby’ below:Dry Cleaning’s world tour in support of ‘Stumpwork’ will kick off at Solana Beach in California later this month, with dates in Europe and Japan in November.
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Arctic Monkeys have announced an intimate show in New York for next month – find all the details below.The Sheffield band, who are set to release their seventh album ‘The Car’ on October 21, will take to the stage at the 3,000-capacity Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on September 22. Per a post on AM’s social media pages, the gig is “a phone-free” event.Tickets go on sale at 10am ET tomorrow (September 1) – buy yours from here.The forthcoming concert will follow Arctic Monkeys’ dates in Europe, the UK and Ireland, and comes ahead of their scheduled South American tour.
Fans of Harry Styles will be able to see him live next year in a brand new tour. The As It Was singer has added extra UK and European dates to his Love On Tour in 2023.
Fontaines D.C. have added another date to their UK and Ireland tour.The post-punk band will now play Nottingham’s Rock City on November 22, which is half way through their 24-date tour this autumn and winter.Tickets for the new show go on general sale this Friday (September 2) from 10am BST here.
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.
Harry Styles has extended his ‘Love On Tour’ into 2023, adding new UK and European gigs with Wet Leg – see the full list of gigs below, and find tickets here.The singer is currently on tour behind third solo album ‘Harry’s House’, and playing multi-night residencies across North America. Tonight (February 26), he plays the fourth of 15 nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden.Two new gigs (October 3 at Austin’s Moody Center and October 15 at Chicago’s United Center) have now been added to that run of dates, with new shows in Lima, Peru (November 29) and São Paulo, Brazil (December 13) also added to a subsequent South American tour.In early 2023, he will then head to Australia and New Zealand, before beginning the newly announced UK and European tour in Horsens, Denmark on May 13.Five new UK gigs have been announced for the tour, including two new dates at London’s Wembley Stadium (June 13-14), a venue Styles already played twice this summer.Support for the UK and European gigs will come from Wet Leg, with Inhaler also joining at a huge Irish show.Tickets for the new UK and European shows will go on sale on Friday, September 2 at 10am local time.