Kevin Bacon had to destroy a “haunted” house on his farm to avoid getting “possessed”

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Thirty Seconds To Mars have responded to a recent viral drum video, which saw Chad Smith nail a performance of one of their songs.The moment came last month, when the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer went viral after expertly playing along to the band’s 2005 song ‘The Kill’ as he listened to it for the first time.The challenge was presented by Drumeo as part of its For The First Time series, and Smith soon turned heads by seeming to know instinctively where the song was going next even though he didn’t know it, nor the artist who first played it.“What the fuck was that? Is that like My Chemical Romance or something?” he asked after wrapping up the cover. He also confirmed that he had never heard the song before, but guessed that it was “some kind of emo thing”.Now, following the clip amassing nearly five million views in just two weeks, the band behind the track have shared a response to the online hit video, and described Smith’s efforts as “incredible”.Sharing a video to their official TikTok account, brothers Jared and Shannon Leto offered a silent but enthusiastic reaction to the original video.Frontman Jared mouthed along the lyrics to the track and gave numerous ‘thumbs ups’ to the clip, while drummer Shannon air-drummed along to Smith’s take.

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BBC has released a series of first look images of This Town, the new drama series from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.Set in 1981, the six-part series centres on a band’s formation against a backdrop of violence, and is described as a love letter to Birmingham and Coventry, featuring fierce new music.The cast is led by a number of rising stars, including Levi Brown (Loss and Return), Jordan Bolger (The Woman King), Ben Rose (Line of Duty) and Eve Austin (You) as its four young leads.This Town also stars Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Nicholas Pinnock (Marcella), and David Dawson (My Policeman).In the first look images, the one above shows leads Ben Rose as Bardon Quinn, Jordan Bolger as Gregory Williams and Levi Brown as Dante Williams walking down a street.Another image shows Brown as Dante Williams in a record store, and in a third photo he’s pictured sharing a moment with Austin’s Jeannie Keefe in a dressing room.Dockery’s Estella and Pinnock’s Deuce Williams are also pictured getting ready to perform. Meanwhile, another images shows Rose, Parks, Brown and Austin together in a warehouse.This Town will be co-produced with Mercury Studios, which is part of the Universal Music Group, who is set to bring in high-profile musicians to “help lay the backdrop for Knight’s incredible story” (per the BBC).Mercury-nominated musician, novelist and poet Kae Tempest and producer Dan Carey wrote the songs performed by the band on screen.Of the series, Knight said: “It’s about an era I lived through and know well and it involves characters who I feel I grew up with.

Here’s your first look at This Town, the latest TV drama from Peaky Blinders and SAS Rogue Heroes creator Steven Knight, starring Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey, Anatomy of a Scandal), Nicholas Pinnock (Life, Marcella), and David Dawson (My Policeman, The Last Kingdom). 

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Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon has shared a surprising confession with fans, as he revealed he had been forced to destroy an abandoned house on his farm over fears that it was haunted.The Footloose star purchased the property back in 1983, but one of the conditions of the sale meant that he had agreed to knock down the outhouse on the property, or else the previous owner wouldn't sell the home to him. Explaining the situation to listeners on Rob Lowe's Literally podcast, Kevin said that over the course of a few years he had been buying parcels of land in the hopes of owning a horse, but one of the pieces he purchased had come with a very spooky caveat.

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith was challenged to play along to Thirty Seconds To Mars‘ ‘The Kill’, having never heard it before.The challenge was presented by Drumeo as part of its For The First Time series, and Smith took it on with ease, seeming to know instinctively where the song was going next even though he didn’t know it, neither who the artist was.When he’d finished, Smith asked: “What the fuck was that? Is that like My Chemical Romance or something?” When the host asked him if he knew the song, Smith shook his head “no” and responded, “It’s some kind of emo thing.”He had heard of Thirty Seconds To Mars, however – “Ahhh! Jared’s band. Jared Leto.

Literally” podcast last month.Bacon said he bought the “turn of the century” rural farm in 1983 to buy a horse with an ex-girlfriend.He bought up plots around his property every few years to keep the area private.The “Mystic River” actor said the previous owner, who he didn’t name, “went back and forth on it for a while” about Bacon buying the plot with the exclusion of the building.“Eventually, I said, ‘Listen, you can’t sell me a piece of land but not sell me the house that’s on it. Like, that’s just weird,” Bacon said.After much persistence from Bacon, the land owner revealed his horrifying reason for hesitating to sell the plot to the actor.“He said, ‘I can’t sell it to you because it’s haunted, and I’m afraid that you’ll get possessed and, you know, do some serious damage,'” the “Apollo 13” star recalled.Bacon and the owner later came to an agreement but under one condition.

Kevin Bacon had to make a strange deal to buy his farm.

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