Investigation launched into sickness cases at WOMAD Festival

Holly Humberstone brought out Arlo Parks during her Reading Festival 2023 set today (August 26). Watch a clip of the moment below.The pair performed a surprise duet of Humberstone’s ‘Room Service’, a track from her upcoming debut album ‘Paint My Bedroom Black‘ which is set for release on October 13.Recently speaking of the slow strumming track, Humberstone said that she wrote it “a little while ago when I’d just started touring full time” adding that she’d found herself stressed out at the time even while having fun.“I was really missing home and my friends,” she said.

Fyre Festival 2 – the second version of the disgraced music festival – have sold out.Earlier this week, the festival’s founder, Billy McFarland, announced on TikTok that the first 100 pre-sale tickets were up for grabs. Each retailed at $499 a piece with ticket tiers marked as “coming soon” ranging from $799 to $7,999.Despite the fact that the festival has no lineup, venue, or dates lined up for the event, the first 100 pre-sale tickets have sold out.

Holly Humberstone has announced details of a short, intimate UK tour to celebrate her upcoming album – find details below.The singer will release her debut album ‘Paint My Bedroom Black’ on October 13, and head out around the country in the days before.The UK tour will begin on October 1 in Liverpool and end five days later in Southampton.See the tour dates below. Tickets will go on sale here from Thursday (August 24) at 10am BST.OCTOBER 20231 – Liverpool, Jacaranda2 – Leeds, Crash3 – Nottingham, Rough Trade5 – London, Banquet6 – Southampton, ViniloSpeaking to NME backstage at Lollapalooza 2023 last month, Humberstone explained why rushing her creative process on her upcoming debut album did not work for her.“I did try to rush and write stuff but it just didn’t really work,” explained the singer.

Fyre Festival is making a comeback following its controversy.

video posted to YouTube on Sunday that Fyre Festival II is officially a go.“This is a big day. It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here, and it really all started during a seventh-month stint in solitary confinement,” the convicted con artist said in the video.“I wrote out this 50-page plan of how it would take this overall interest and demand in Fyre and how it would take my ability bring people from around the world together to make the impossible happen.”McFarland, 31, said he worked with the “best partners in the world” who have allowed “me to be me, while executing Fyre’s vision to the highest level.”In deciding where the big comeback should take place, he allegedly spoke to people “as far away as the Middle East and South America” before ultimately deciding on the Caribbean — again.“In the meantime, we’ll be doing pop-ups and events across the world.

Fyre Festival 2 – the second version of the disgraced music festival – are now on sale to the public.First developed by Billy McFarland six years ago, the botched festival Fyre Fest was originally set to run over two weekends on a private beach in the Bahamas but was revealed to be fraudulent once punters arrived on the scene, with inadequate conditions and a lack of food and water. The debacle was then captured in the now-iconic Netflix documentary FYRE.The festival’s creator was released from prison in 2022 after he pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud and has taken to TikTok to share his plans for the revamped Fyre Fest.

Back in 2017, a new music event called Fyre Festival launched. Billed as a luxury two-weekend getaway on a remote island in the Bahamas with A-list musical talent, Fyre Festival actually delivered destitute accommodation, terrible food, no bands, and — for the influencers who found themselves stranded on the island — no escape. As photos and video emerged from the festival, the world watched with captivated schadenfreude; on the first scheduled day, Fyre announced its cancellation.

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— filed legal documents in Tennessee court requesting it terminate a conservatorship after alleging Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy lied about adopting him and tricked him into making them his conservators shortly after he turned 18.Oher, whose story was first documented in Michael Lewis' 2006 bestselling book of the same name, claimed the Tuohys made millions off his name while he never received a dime, after the film — starring Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Tim McGraw, Lily Collins and Kathy Bates — earned more than $300 million at the box office. The book and film are centered around the Tuohy family taking in Oher and helping transform his life on and off the field.The Tuohys have since responded to the accusations, calling Oher's claims «insulting.» Now that one of the best feel-good stories of all-time is marred with accusations of impropriety, ET takes a look back at how we got here and what comes next.Michael Lewis — the author behind hits like, and many other bestselling books — teases the book on his personal website this way:«When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read and write.

, Bradley Cooper embodies Leonard Bernstein, the first American conductor to receive international acclaim and the composer of operas, symphonies, and the beloved Broadway musical The film, co-written and directed by Cooper, and produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, centers on Bernstein's marriage to actress Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan. The pair, who married in 1951, had a «strong connection,» which is evident in the teaser — though flashes to moments throughout their relationship reveal the emotional roller coaster it truly was.

— starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron. The film is based on the 2006 book of the same name and centered around the Tuohy family taking Oher in and helping him both in school and in the classroom.In documents obtained by ET, the 37-year-old claims Sean and Leigh Anne tricked him into making them his conservators less than three months after he turned 18 in 2004, allegedly telling him there was no consequential difference between being adopted and entering into a conservatorship, giving them legal authority to make business deals in his name.Oher only learned in February that the documents he was asked to sign by the Tuohys, under the belief that it was part of the «adoption process,» were actually conservatorship papers that would strip away his legal rights, the petition says.The 14-page petition, filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, alleges that the Tuohys used their power as conservators to negotiate a deal with 20th Century Fox that paid them and their biological children — Collins Tuohy and Sean Tuohy Jr.

Michael Oher is making some shocking claims.

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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The wide reach of Clarence Avant, who was widely known as “the Godfather of Black Entertainment” and died Sunday at the age of 92, was evident from the range of people paying tribute to him on social media after his death was announced Monday morning. His influence spanned music, entertainment, sports, politics and beyond. Within just a couple of hours, former President Bill Clinton, the Rev.

after small number of cases of diarrhoea were reported after the event, which was held in Malmesbury from July 27-30.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) launched an investigation but it has now come back as inconclusive.Dr Alasdair Wood, told BBC News while the agency had “considered different potential causes”, including food, water, toilet and hygiene facilities, and results of samples from people affected where available, the tests carried out did not identify a “singular cause”.“Given the time lapsed from the event, it is unlikely further testing will reveal any additional information,” he added.The UKHSA said it had not identified any ongoing public health risk from the illness reported at the festival and “the number of people that have reported illness are small as a proportion of the total number of festival goers”.Following the investigation, WOMAD organiser issued a statement to NME saying: “After the UKHSA considered different potential causes and results of samples from people affected we are greatly relieved to learn that the outbreak was both limited in its reach and that there is no evidence to support any concern that illness may have been caused by actions taken onsite either by WOMAD as festival producers or any of our partners including food traders.“This does not diminish in any way our concern for any of the people affected and we wish them a speedy recovery.

James Hawes’s drama One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins as Holocaust rescue hero Nicholas Winton, will make its European debut at the London Film Festival in October as part of its gala program, following the film’s TIFF world premiere.

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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Philadelphia’s long-running Made in America festival has been canceled for 2023, organizers announced on Tuesday, citing “severe circumstances outside of production control.” The festival was to feature Lizzo and SZA as headliners, along with a stacked lineup featuring Ice Spice, Miguel, Latto, Coi Leray, Doechii, Metro Boomin, and others, with a joint set from veteran rappers Mase and Cam’ron. It was scheduled for Sept.