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Stargazers will be in for a treat as the current Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak this weekend.

Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble has shared his new solo single as Almost Nothing, ‘Instant Love’. Check it out first on NME below, as Woomble also tells us about his new project, supporting The Walkmen, and what’s next for the Scottish cult rockers.After launching his new “genre-fluid” electro-tinged project under his new moniker with the new single ‘Anything Whatever’, now Woomble has shared the elegiac but “positive” next taster of his next album with ‘Instant Love’.“It’s not a song that defines the record but is a really good indication of what’s to come,” Woomble told NME.

The Streets have added two new live dates to their 2023 headline tour – find all the details below.The Mike Skinner-led group are due to hit the road this autumn in support of their sixth full-length album ‘The Darker The Shadow, The Brighter The Light’, which comes out on October 20.Last month, The Streets announced a run of UK shows in support of the upcoming record. Skinner and co.

Charlize Theron celebrated her 48th birthday by seeing Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour with her daughters.The actor shared a video on Instagram of her dancing to Swift’s hit ‘Shake It Off’ during the singer’s show at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Monday (August 7).In the clip, where she’s seen dancing in unison with her daughters August, 7, and Jackson, 11, Theron wrote: “Thank you for the best birthday ever @taylorswift!!! We had such a great fucking time.”A number of celebrities attended the same show in Los Angeles, including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seth Green, Cameron Diaz, Tiffany Haddish and Zoe Saldana.A post shared by Charlize Theron (@charlizeafrica)Swift recently sent a note to Alicia Keys’ son after they both attended an ‘Eras’ tour show on Saturday (August 5), which was later shared on TikTok.Swift’s card to Genesis, 8, read: “Gen, Hi my friend!! I was so excited when I heard you were coming tonight!! I hope you have so much fun at the show. I’ll be waving at you.

Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) head Kate Taylor has put together what she describes as an “eclectic and lively” mix of titles for her first year at the helm. 

As Princess Beatrice celebrates her 35th birthday today (Tuesday, August 5), she can surely expect a lovely day surrounded by her young family. As well as husband Edoardo and their daughter Sienna, the couple are co-parents to Christopher Woolf Mapelli Mozzi (better known by his nickname 'Wolfie').The seven-year-old is Edo's son with US-born architect Dara Huang and has been fully embraced by Princess Beatrice - who has lovingly referred to him as her "bonus son". Wolfie's mum previously spoke about her young son on social media and expressed her thoughts on why she is so pleased he is educated in the UK, rather than in her native U.S.

Roland Emmerich’s upcoming gladiator series Those About to Die has been picked up by Prime Video across Europe.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Prime Video has acquired the Ancient Rome gladiator drama series “Those About to Die” in multiple European territories. The show is directed by “Independence Day” helmer Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner. The 10-episode first season will debut exclusively on Prime Video in Germany, the U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, Andorra, Monaco, Luxembourg and Belgium.

everything in common — for example, a love of one of his mother’s favorite pastimes, stamp collecting.The dear-departed monarch gained a reputation as quite the philatelist during her lifetime, leaving the family collection with a total value of about $127 million in American dollars, The Sunday Times and Guardian have both reported. Elizabeth, who passed away last September at the age of 96, was the fifth royal family member, according to The Daily Express, to put her stamp on the Royal Philatelic Collection.

2023 Emmys have even been postponed, possibly until early next year. Nevertheless, amidst the chaos, the show must go on, and there are still many TV offerings on tap for the sultry long days of summerFrom a new prestige TV mystery series to a star-studded cooking show, an LGBT rom-com and a new reality dating series, August offers something for viewers of all ages.Here’s your handy guide.“The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”Sigourney Weaver stars in a family drama miniseries based on a book of the same name. The story arc spans decades and follows an orphaned girl (Alicia Debnam-Carey, “Fear the Walking Dead”) with a troubled past who must move in with her grandmother, who lives on a flower farm.

Thania Garcia In the hours leading up to the Chicks’ headlining concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, the group has postponed the show citing illness. In a statement shared on the Chicks’ social media, the band stated they were working on rescheduling the show and advised Nashville fans to keep their tickets for a newly scheduled date.

EXCLUSIVE: Filming on the second season of Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller Silo has entered an indefinite hiatus amid the Hollywood strikes.

Benjamin Field's defence relied upon admitting a string of reprehensible things. By doing so he hoped to get off with his most heinous crime - the murder of former Manchester Grammar School teacher Peter Farquhar.

This month marked the 45th anniversary of an event that saw Mancunians of all colours and classes stand shoulder-to-shoulder against racism.

It feels like an eternity ago when plans were first announced for a new bowling alley inside Trafford Palazzo.

EXCLUSIVE: Noah Hawley’s Alien FX series has started production in Thailand but without its stars who are SAG-AFTRA members — including the two leads — due to the ongoing strike.

Stormzy and RAYE teamed up for the sultry and 2000s-reminiscent collaborative single, ‘The Weekend’. Check out the track and the video below.‘The Weekend’ is the second collaboration from the two south Londoners have together – following the Norbury grime star hopping on the R&B singer’s single  ‘Ambition’ back in 2016.Yesterday (July 19), Stormzy and RAYE dropped their new London-produced single.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International When “World on Fire” premiered on the BBC in September 2019, no one could have known that the World War II drama would be one of the last major scripted debuts on the public broadcaster before the pandemic. The PBS Masterpiece co-production — which follows the interconnected lives of British and European families during the outbreak of war — confirmed it would return at the end of its Season 1 finale, but the onset of the COVID-19 crisis just four months later and its impact on global production made the prospect of setting up a continent-spanning war drama all the more unlikely. Yet with some heroic scheduling, rewritten scripts and clever location and CGI combos, Season 2 returned to British screens on Sunday after a four-year hiatus, premiering to an audience indelibly changed by a global and life-altering event of their own.

As the master of the gritty sonnet, the man himself would have appreciated where the idea to honour him was hatched - in a backstreet pub off Chapel Street in Salford.

Former Netflix TV boss Cindy Holland has joined Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone’s Sister as Global CEO.