'It was the size of my child's hands... it gives me shivers just thinking about it'

Rapper Jay-Z and singer Beyoncé are one of the biggest celebrity power couples in the world, and on Thursday, 4 April, they will celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary. The couple met in the year 2000, when Beyoncé, now 42, was just 18 years old.Their meeting came when they sat next to each other on a plane while both attending the 2000 MTV Spring Break festival. It seems that Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, who is 12 years Beyoncé's senior, always knew she was 'the one' as he rapped about it in his 2018 song Everything Is Love.

Slowdive have spoken to NME about how TikTok has impacted their audience, the ongoing shoegaze renaissance, their unexpected place on the line-up of Las Vegas heavy festival Sick New World and much more.This year marks a decade since the Reading shoegaze stalwarts undid their post-‘Pygmalion’ break-up with a reunion show at Primavera Sound. Since then, they’ve released two albums, including last year’s ‘Everything Is Alive’.Still touring the record to multigenerational audiences and many younger fans who fell in love with the band through TikTok (where ‘Souvlaki’ track ‘When The Sun Hits’ went viral), the band will soon hit the road in the US – supported by Drab Majesty – before heading back to the UK and Europe for another slew of headline shows and festival dates.Hours before their sold-out show in Singapore, NME caught up with vocalist and guitarist Rachel Goswell and drummer Simon Scott to talk about TikTok virality, whether they’d work with Slowdive fan and acclaimed video game designer Hideo Kojima (of Metal Gear and Death Stranding fame), and more.NME: Hello, Slowdive. I don’t know if you saw, but there are already kids sitting outside the venue.Simon Scott: “Are they teenagers?”Yeah, they seem young. Teens and young adults.Rachel Goswell: “Yeah, that’s been pretty standard on this tour.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s hit conspiracy thriller The Night Agent has added three for guest roles in Season 2: Marwan Kenzari (Black Adam), Elise Kibler (The Sunlit Night), and Dikran Tulaine (The Blacklist).

Michaela Zee Olivia Colman got candid about the gender pay disparity in Hollywood during a recent appearance on CNN’s “The Amanpour Hour.” “Don’t get me started on the pay disparity, but male actors get paid more because they used to say they drew in the audiences,” Colman said. “And actually, that hasn’t been true for decades, but they still like to use that as a reason to not pay women as much as their male counterparts.” Host Christiane Amanpour then asked Colman if she has experienced pay disparity herself, despite being an Oscar winner. “I’m very aware that if I was Oliver Colman, I’d be earning a fuck of a lot more than I am,” “The Crown” star said in response.

Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu is breaking her silence and revealing what caused her to skip attending the Celebrity Big Brother UK finale on Friday, March 22.

The Kills have added new shows to their upcoming 2024 UK and Europe tour.The indie duo consisting of Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince will return to the UK this spring to tour their latest album ‘God Games‘. The pair have just wrapped up their US leg touring with support act Heartworms.Now, The Kills have announced some new dates to add to their upcoming UK/EU tour.

Interpol have spoken to NME about 20 years of their classic second album ‘Antics’, and their plans to celebrate the anniversary on a UK tour this winter.This week saw the NYC indie veterans announce plans to play their second LP in full at dates across the UK in November. The album, following on from their seminal debut ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’, contained the singles and indie disco staples ‘Slow Hands’, ‘Evil’, alongside fan favourites ‘C’mere’ and ‘Narc’.

has been caught out again—this time for a picture that was released nearly a year previously.After the British Mother's Day photo Kensington Palace released in March was pulled from major newswires, including the Associated Press, because it was found to have been misleadingly edited, the palace posted a statement to social media in which . “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” the statement read.

The War On Drugs have added more shows to their upcoming UK and European tour. Find ticket details below.News of the live shows broke last month, when the Grammy Award-winning Philadelphia band confirmed that they would be heading across the pond for some 2024 tour dates.Now, due to high demand, frontman Adam Granduciel and co.

A British family is living mortgage free in their dream home - after buying the property for just £7,000. Laura Phoenix, and her husband, Anthony, migrated to Bulgaria amid spiralling housing costs in the UK.

It’s never a good thing when even other royals are laughing at your scandals!

EXCLUSIVE: “Quite a can of worms,” observed a British casting director of a scandal that, until February, was unknown to his profession. The 30-year industry veteran was talking about the practice of agents sending clients fake invitations to record self-tape auditions.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds have today (March 15) announced details of a UK and European tour – check out the full dates below.The tour will take place this autumn and follows on from the recent announcement that the band will release a new album this summer, ‘Wild God’. The band will kick off their tour on September 24 in Oberhausen, Germany, and will end in Paris, France on November 17.

Selome Hailu In Alex Garland‘s “Civil War,” the Western forces of Texas and California hardly remember what they’re fighting for. At least, Garland doesn’t say outright what they’re fighting for. The film, which had its world premiere at SXSW on Thursday, depicts a near-future U.S.

Three hundred and fifty people gathered to acknowledge a fearless adventurer dedicated to helping those wronged. The funeral of former British paratrooper, Daniel Burke, took place earlier this month.

The Eric Andre Show Live Tour to the UK and Europe this spring – check out the full list of dates below.Andre is known for Adult Swim’s hit series The Eric Andre Show and is also seen regularly as a panelist on ABC’s The Prank Panel, alongside Johnny Knoxville and Gabourey Sidibe.Andre also recently launched his first podcast ‘Bombing with Eric Andre’.The American comedian and actor will arrive in the UK this spring.

doctored post-surgery family photo.Elliot Higgins, the founder of the Netherlands-based Bellingcat investigative journalism group, demonstrated on X on Monday why it was highly unlikely that the Princess of Wales’ image from the June 2016 issue of British Vogue had been recycled for her viral UK Mother’s Day snap.“There’s so many minor differences, like the reflection of the light in her pupils, the light and shadow on her face, the teeth visible, wrinkles, etc. etc., that it’s clearly just a photo of the same woman from about the same angle, not the same exact photo,” Higgins explained.

forced to issue an apology after releasing a doctored family photo for UK’s Mother’s Day on Sunday.After eagle-eyed social media users noticed a myriad of editing mishaps in the image, the mom of three reportedly felt “awful” about the backlash it has caused.Sources close to the Princess told the Telegraph that Middleton tried making the photo “the best it could be.”Another insider close to the Palace told the Mirror that the Princess is no doubt “deeply upset by the furor” and media frenzy the “innocent family photograph” had caused.On Monday, the Princess was spotted leaving Windsor Castle with her husband, Prince William, just hours after her photo-related clarification.Middleton was pictured in a black Land Rover to accompany her husband on the ride to Westminster Abbey, where the prince will attend the annual Commonwealth Day service without her.It was the royal’s first public appearance in more than two months following her surgery, with her last appearing on Christmas Day while attending church in Sandringham.She is not expected to return to her public duties until sometime after the Easter holiday. Kate’s absence from the public eye had stirred up conspiracies over her health, which were only exacerbated by the release of the edited family snap.“Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” Middleton wrote on X.

ZDF Latest To ‘Race Across The World‘

Paramount+ may have culled a raft of international originals last month but UK commissioning appears to be continuing apace.