Johnny Marr announces two concerts in Manchester with 30-piece orchestra

Beyoncé has confirmed that a ‘Renaissance‘ concert tour documentary is on the way.The pop star shared a trailer for the documentary style concert film on her Instagram today (October 2), with text on screen at the end reading: “A film by Beyoncé.”Across vignettes of backstage and onstage ‘Renaissance’ tour performance footage, shots of her family, her travelling, members of the audience and more, Beyoncé is heard saying: “When I am performing I’m nothing but free.”She then explains that the goal for the world tour in support of her seventh album, 2022’s ‘Renaissance, “was to create a place where everyone is free…no one is judged”.

Former Coronation Street star Nicola Thorp has announced she is pregnant with her first child.

Earlier this month, Disney+ users scrambled to get their monthly subscription price slashed to £1.99 as the streaming platform launched a flash deal. Usually costing £7.99, the flash discount saw the monthly subscription price slashed to £1.99 - a saving of £6 - and cheaper than competitors Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hayu.

The weather is set to be mostly dry with some sunny spells today - before Storm Agnes batters Greater Manchester with heavy rain and strong winds tomorrow.

Fans were left emotional during Peter Kay's opening night of his Manchester residency after a touching gesture. The hit comedian pledged that a portion of the ticket sales would be donated to a charity in memory of a beloved daughter and campaigner who died from cancer.

Johnny Marr has announced a new compilation album ‘Spirit Power: The Best Of Johnny Marr’ and shared new single ‘Somewhere’.The former Smiths guitarist will release the new collection on November 3 via BMG, which will spotlight “the breadth of musicality across the first ten years” of Marr’s solo career, according to a press release – you can pre-order/pre-save the album here.The record will also include two brand new tracks produced by Marr along with co-producer James Doviak – ‘The Answer’ and ‘Somewhere’. Listen to the latter below.The musician wrote ‘Somewhere’ while on tour with The Killers and Blondie in 2022.

UK production duo Jungle have announced a huge outdoor show at Castlefield Bowl next summer.

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Apple has announced the iPhone 15 Pro with a phone-filmed music video for Olivia Rodrigo‘s song ‘Get Him Back’.Directed by Jack Begert and shot on the iPhone 15 Pro in collaboration with Apple, the music video for ‘Get Him Back’ features multiple Rodrigo’s walking around and trashing an apartment as well as her walking a car-packed street with their windows exploding.It also features photography direction by Xiao “X” Liu, who used the “crash zoom technique” with the 15 Pro’s 5x Telephoto camera.Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 about the song, the pop singer said: “We wrote a song that I didn’t like and I had a total breakdown. I was like, ‘God, I can’t write songs. I’m so bad at this.

Drake has seemingly announced a new collaborative single with SZA.The Canadian artist is due to release his eighth studio album ‘For All The Dogs’ next Friday (September 22), as he confirmed last week. It’ll serve as the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Honestly, Nevermind’.Last night (September 13), Drake took to Instagram to share an image of Halle Berry getting slimed at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in 2012.The photograph contains a ‘Parental Advisory’ logo in the bottom right-hand corner, suggesting it is artwork for an upcoming song. No further information has been provided in the caption, but Drake did tag SZA’s account in the post.The ‘SOS’ singer also uploaded the cover to her own profile, tagging Drake.

Olivia Rodrigo is hitting the road.

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Small has been set to direct the buddy comedy Happy V-Day and actioner The Raid, under a two-picture deal with Winter State Entertainment. Prep on both titles is underway, with production dates to be set upon the resolution of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Two towns in Greater Manchester have been recognised as being amongst the best places to buy your first home in the UK. A report from The Times has named 12 locations that are ideal spots for first-time buyers, taking into account factors from good-value properties to future prospects and investment in the area.

Geese have announced details of a new EP called ‘4D Country’ and released its first single – listen to ‘Jesse’ below.The release follows the band’s second album ‘3D Country’, which was released earlier this year via Partisan/PIAS.‘4D Country’ will be released on October 13 and feature a re-working of the title track from their recent album.Of its first single, which you can hear below, frontman Cameron Winter said: “‘Jesse’ started as a really fast song, then morphed into a slower, psych-ier, more soulful track.“It got left off of the album because we didn’t feel like there was a good place for it, but we’ve always really enjoyed playing it live.”Geese are currently midway through a UK headline tour, and play Glasgow’s King Tut’s tonight (September 10).See the remaining dates below.SEPTEMBER 202310 – Glasgow, King Tut’s11 – Dublin, Academy 212 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club13 – Manchester, Band On The Wall14 – Nottingham, BodegaReviewing ‘3D Country’, NME said: “This is an album made by young people who’ve – quite literally – watched the world burn before their eyes.

Kendall Rae Knight has announced she is pregnant with her first child five years after finding fame on Love Island.The 31-year-old entered the villa in 2018, but was unlucky in love and became the first islander to be dumped from the villa on just day six. But now, Kendall has revealed she is expecting a little one with partner Andrew Hughes as she shared the happy news on Instagram.

Robin Roberts and Amber Laign said “I do” nearly two decades after they started dating!

Billy Joel is in a New York State of Mind.It’s just that this time he’s headed to a different part of the state.The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer just announced that he’ll be performing a New Year’s Eve concert at Elmont, NY’s UBS Arena.This one-off gig will be the Piano Man’s first show at the Long Island venue and first in LI since 2018.We are thrilled to welcome Long Island’s own Billy Joel to UBS Arena at Belmont Park,” said UBS Arena president Kim Stone. “We look forward to ringing in the New Year with him and our guests later this year.”Need tickets to hear “Vienna,” “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant,” “Only The Good Die Young” and so many more of his smash hits live in LI today?No sweat, Uptown Girls and Piano Men.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, Sept.

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More than 50 Wilkos stores are to close with the loss of 1,016 jobs, administraors have confirmed.

Work has begun on several Greater Manchester schools affected by dangerous crumbly concrete as 'mitigating measures' are put in place.