Universal Pictures announced this morning that Fast X, the tenth main installment in its long-running action saga Fast & Furious, will head to Peacock September 15th following a theatrical run that kicked off in May.
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The VOCES8 Foundation presents its latest Live From London digital festival this weekend which, among other things, will include the premiere performance of a new piece composed by Ed Newton-Rex that features lyrics generated by artificial intelligence.Composer and entrepreneur Newton-Rex has been involved in generative AI in the music space for more than a decade, having founded the music AI start-up Jukedeck that was subsequently acquired by TikTok owner Bytedance. He is now VP of Audio at Stability AI.For his new composition – called ‘I Stand In The Library’ – he used OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate a set of lyrics which he then set to music.
It will be performed by the VOCES8 Choir in a Live From London concert that will be available to stream on-demand from Saturday.Newton-Rex spoke to CMU’s sister media ThisWeek Culture about the new composition, explaining: “When OpenAI’s GPT-3 was released to initial testers, I heard about it and signed up for early access. In the early days lots of people were sharing poetry it had written them, some of which was surprisingly good – so it wasn’t a great leap to think perhaps I could use it to write a text for my [next music project]”.He initially prompted the generative AI with the line “below is a poem about music and solitude”.
He goes on: “When I hit ‘enter’, it immediately came out with the line ‘I stand in the library, where a voice soars’, which I loved”.With a little more work, the AI generated a complete poem which Newton-Rex then set to music. “The generated text directly influenced the music in a major way”, he says.
Universal Pictures announced this morning that Fast X, the tenth main installment in its long-running action saga Fast & Furious, will head to Peacock September 15th following a theatrical run that kicked off in May.
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More than 11,400 people from across the UK have signed an online petition calling for the concessionary bus travel scheme to include free country-wide train journeys. In Scotland, people over 60 are eligible to apply for the National Entitlement Card, it’s the same age in Wales and those living in London.
Freddie Mercury exhibition featuring personal possessions of the late Queen frontman have gone on show at an exhibit in London.Back in April, it was revealed that 1,400 items from Mercury’s London home – which had gone untouched for 30 years – would be put up for auction by Sotheby’s this September.The extensive collection of items, including handwritten lyrics, personal Polaroid photos and costumes, have now gone on show in London.“This summer, we invite you to step into Freddie’s Mercury’s personal world in an extended takeover at Sotheby’s London,” the website reads.The Queen frontman, who died in London on November 24, 1991, left his home, Garden Lodge in Kensington, and possessions to close friend Mary Austin, who is now sharing them with the public.Highlights of the ‘Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own’ exhibit include the crown and cloak ensemble Mercury wore on ‘The Magic Tour’ in 1986, his red kimono covered with fans and his Yamaha grand piano on which he composed ‘We Are The Champions’.
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Liam Gallagher and Adidas have released a brand new colourway of their previous shoe collaboration, the LG2 SPZL.The shoe marks Gallagher’s third release with the brand. According to a press release, the creation of the new shoe came from former Oasis frontman and the Adidas Spezial founder Gary Aspden, after they reunited to create a second colourway of the LG2 SPZL.The new LG2 SPZL features the same hybrid silhouette the duo created, loosely based on several different historical Adidas footwear references, along with three bottle green stripes, a gum outsole and Gallagher’s portrait on the tongue.
Turnstile and BADBADNOTGOOD have collaborated on a new EP, ‘New Heart Designs’ – listen below.Released today (August 11), the collection comprises alternative, jazz-orientated re-workings of three songs from Turnstile’s third studio album, ‘Glow On’, which came out in 2021.Toronto alt-jazz ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD assisted the hardcore punk outfit on the updated versions of ‘Mystery’, ‘Alien Love Call’ (ft. Blood Orange) and ‘Underwater Boi’.Additionally, Turnstile have shared an accompanying 10-minute video that features each reimagined track.
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Queens Of The Stone Age have added a new UK show to their upcoming tour of the UK and Ireland.The update follows the announcement that their ‘The End Is Nero’ tour will arrive in the UK and Europe later this year – kicking off with a now-sold-out show at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on November 4.After making stops across Luxembourg, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Dusseldorf and Antwerp, Josh Homme and co. will play a series of live sets in the UK, including a spot at the O2 Arena in London on November 15.Now, it has been announced that an extra UK date has been added to the scheduled tour for the end of 2023 – a gig at the International Centre in Bournemouth on November 16.The show will take place just after the rock veterans play in the UK capital, and two days before they head over to Glasgow for a slot at the OVO Hydro arena.
Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag It's not unusual to see Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio surrounded by a bevy of beautiful ladies, and when he took a trip on a luxury yacht in Ibiza this week, it was no different.The star enjoyed his sun-soaked boat trip with none other than former Love Island star Arabella Chi, and a gaggle of other pals. Arabella, 32, appeared on the fifth season of Love Island, when she was coupled up with Danny Miller, but the pair split soon after.
Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Christine McGuinness is reportedly set to launch a huge new business venture that could see her compete with Kylie Jenner. The Real Housewives of Cheshire star, 35 who was previously married to Paddy McGuinness, could be launching a number of products under her brand, Lifestyle by Christine, including her very own make-up line.
Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood have announced a new London art exhibition.The show, which is titled ‘The Crow Flies Part One’, is due to run at the Tin Man Art gallery at Cromwell Place in South Kensington between September 6-10.It’ll feature a series of new paintings that long-term friends and collaborators Yorke and Donwood created together over the past two years.Per a description, the works began as cover artwork for ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’, the 2022 debut album from Yorke’s side-project The Smile, whose line-up is completed by Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet‘s Tom Skinner.“The wider series will be presented alongside a Flemish woven tapestry commissioned by the artists in London to celebrate the album’s one-year anniversary,” the official listing reads.“This exhibition marks a significant moment in a 30-year artistic partnership for Yorke and Donwood, who worked on it together in Oxford and Brighton between 2021 and 2023. It takes its name from Ted Hughes’ poem Crow (1966-69), from which the band name The Smile is also derived, and draws inspiration from the Bodleian Libraries’ collection of Islamic pirate maps and 1960s US military topographic charts.“The works comprise a mixture of gouache, tempera and powdered mushroom on canvas and feature an extensive language of signs and symbols developed by the artists and codified via supporting imagery.”Tickets for the exhibition are available free of charge – you can book yours here.Donwood has created the art for all of Radiohead’s albums and promotional materials since 1994, as well as all of Yorke’s solo records.
Sophia Scorziello editor Jess Search, producer and co-founder of U.K.’s Doc Society, has died. She was 54.
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Mark Labbett enjoyed a lavish night out with his girlfriend Hayley Palmer as they celebrated her birthday.
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew López, who won the Best Play Tony Award in 2020 for his drama The Inheritance, was at the BFI Imax theater in London’s Waterloo on Thursday night for the premiere of Prime Video’s romantic comedy feature Red, White & Royal Blue, which he directed and adapted from Casey McQuiston’s bestselling novel.
Nearly four decades after Back to the Future hit movie screens, the original cast reunited to celebrate the film’s brand-new stage adaptation.
Ethan Shanfeld Just over a year after her latest studio album “Laurel Hell,” Mitski has returned with new music. On Wednesday, the beloved and hermetic indie rocker released the acoustic ballad “Bug Like an Angel,” which serves as the lead single to her upcoming album “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We,” out Sept. 15 via Dead Oceans.
The cast of the new Back to the Future musical is receiving support from the cast of the original movie!